Could this Kirstie Allsopp be any more irritating

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Imagine posting this. Get a life Kirsty.

https://www.dailymail.com/tvshowbiz/article-15940595/Kirstie-Allsopp-rages-BAFTA-coverage-death-absolute-national-treasure-Dame-Penelope-Keith.html#comments

This reminds me of my embarrassment when I had recently moved areas. I asked after someone and was told they had 'gone on'. I expressed my sympathy before finding out that it just meant 'had already left'.

At least 'dead' avoids misunderstandings.

I think she's right. The family statement used "died" and BAFTA should have reflected that.

Not worth "raging" about, but right. On the other hand, did she really "rage", or is that just an offensive, misogynistic DM interpretation of it?

Quite agree, I remember ringing social services to say my dad didn’t need a visit and when they asked why I was factual and said because he’d dead . It seemed to be the wrong thing to say, almost like I needed to soften the language even though it was my bereavement not theirs!

i am sure for that paper a woman expressing an opinion is raging to them!

The key question is whether PK's family was bothered. Kirstie Allsopp might not like the perfectly normal 'passing' or 'passed away', but it's not her loved one and not appropriate for her to express her opinion at this time on how a third party describes the death of someone she is not closely linked to. Time and place.

I was trained by a bereavement charity years ago and told to mirror whatever language was used by the family. I think that's been updated now - any human response is okay.

I would be happy to see Kirstie Allsop (and Phil Spencer) never on our screens again. The programmes they front have probably increased property prices to such an extent that thousands if not tens of thousands or more people are unable to start buying a home for maybe years.

RIP Penelope Keith.

Not read the post. Nor the comments. Nor the article. But I love Kirsty allsop. Love her shows. She's genuinely funny and has great taste.

Visiting a local cemetery and a headstone referred to the person as having “went to sleep” and this was the 1920s.

I was a funeral director for many years and we hated passed, passed on, passed away We even had fell asleep on a few occasions. Just say died.

If people who are bereaved feel more comfortable saying passed on or passed then let them. If you hated people expressing their loss in that perfectly normal way then you were in the wrong job.

My gran is buried with her child who died not long after birth, and it says "baby" went to sleep on... I think it was probably written like that so it didn't read that a little baby suffered.

What is really tone deaf is her response to a comment on her comments.

Someone points out that 'pass' sounds better because 'death' sounds like a 'brutal dark finality'.

Kirstie replies: 'which it is'.

Ouch! Who knows - PK (or family members) might have had a faith, or a belief that perhaps death is not so brutal, dark and final. I'm surprised someone of Allsops's breeding is so lacking in tact and grace. Perhaps she is a bit thick.

I do agree that 'passing' makes it sound like they have taken their driving test.

She is and always will be an entitled, clueless Muppet.

I've always found her insufferable.

It doesn't matter. She just wants to be relevant.

I don’t like KA much but I agree with her on this. Passing is such a pathetic euphemism for died.

When one of my siblings died I couldn’t say that they died for a couple of years. I would use any word but that.

Obviously I can say it now but do we really have to be so constantly superior and smug about things, even the language people choose in grief? Does it really matter?

I can't watch her, she's always sniping at the very kind and sweet natured Phil Spencer. Its a pity because I enjoy property shows.
I agree 'passed' is an awful euphemism. As is 'lost'.

I agree.

She was previously okay dispensing useful pointers in amongst her dire negotiations on LLL but she believes a man with a penis is a woman so clearly not very bright.