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Which "National Treasure" do you not like so much?

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SereneGoose · 29/08/2026 18:34

Sandi Toksvig...I mean she's ok..but personally she itches my tits.

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CJFJ1 · 29/08/2026 22:20

Coronation Street.

KatyaKanani · 29/08/2026 22:20

Violetparis · 29/08/2026 22:10

Nigella Lawson - makes me cringe
Stephen Fry - twee and pompous

I find Nigella unbearable. So smarmy.
It's a shame because I love Bake Off.

Iriseee · 29/08/2026 22:20

Olivia Coleman. I don't think she's that good an actor.

Hotafternoon · 29/08/2026 22:21

Graham Norton mainly because he seems to love Miriam Margolies and shrieks with laughter at everything the vulgar old bag comes out with.

KatyaKanani · 29/08/2026 22:22

Hotafternoon · 29/08/2026 22:21

Graham Norton mainly because he seems to love Miriam Margolies and shrieks with laughter at everything the vulgar old bag comes out with.

God, he absolutely loves her and her ghastly stories, all which have the same theme

saraclara · 29/08/2026 22:23

Whats the issue with Elaine Page? I don’t listen to her show as it’s not my sort of music, I’m just curious.

Oh jeeze, that awful giggle/laugh. And you get the impression that she's does it deliberately.

Pipsquiggle · 29/08/2026 22:23

Tim Minchin
Russell Brand - although it looks like he will have his comeuppance

AInightingale · 29/08/2026 22:23

Gloria Hunniford. I heard she could be quite unpleasant, that's just what some people say and it may not be the case, but we always found her 'naice' accent excruciating in our house. It's not a crime to have a regional accent, Christine Lampard is from NI and speaks without that horrible affectation.

bigballofanxiety · 29/08/2026 22:25

KatyaKanani · 29/08/2026 21:54

Same here

He was the sleb guest star doing the send off for the Moonwalk in London a few years ago. He was so pervy and obviously loving all the women in their bras

Fizbosshoes · 29/08/2026 22:26

Another non-fan of Miriam Margolyes
Trying to embarrass people or seem outrageous the entire time.
What is Mary Berrys crime, though?

SleepingisanArt · 29/08/2026 22:26

Rowan Atkinson. I met him at a charity fundraising dinner. He arrived late and was incredibly rude to the poor waiting staff. Didn't make a donation like everyone else at the table did and left early because he thought the event was boring (not all about him).

I also dislike Paul McCartney, didn't like the Beatles or Wings or anything he's done since. It's that stupid look he always has, the need to be 'young', and his thin weedy singing style. His lyrics aren't all that either.

Joanne Lumley and Edward Fox are two of the nicest people I've met and Ian McKellen was hilarious.

OnlyFrench · 29/08/2026 22:27

Olivia Coleman
David Tennant

CJFJ1 · 29/08/2026 22:28

Martin Clunes

FKAT · 29/08/2026 22:29

I don't really understand why Miriam Margolis is famous. Does anyone have a favourite Miriam Margolis performance? Is there some brilliant seam of work she has done that I have missed?

As far as I am aware she was a cartoon bunny in an advert in the 80s and gurned at a turnip in Blackadder. I quite enjoyed that but it's hardly a filmography to rival Dame Judi. She also read the Barbara Pym books on Radio 4 but I don't think she was very good. Joanna David and Penelope Wilton did it much better.

Fizbosshoes · 29/08/2026 22:30

saraclara · 29/08/2026 22:23

Whats the issue with Elaine Page? I don’t listen to her show as it’s not my sort of music, I’m just curious.

Oh jeeze, that awful giggle/laugh. And you get the impression that she's does it deliberately.

And shoehorning her own songs/stories into her show every 10 minutes, followed by fake laugh. On international women's day she made lots of "jokes " , as in "and us women would know about that, haw-haw haw-haw" all the blinking time. (I was on a long and convoluted journey, and should have switched stations! )

dustabsorber · 29/08/2026 22:32

Why do people hate Olivia Colman?

KatyaKanani · 29/08/2026 22:33

bigballofanxiety · 29/08/2026 22:25

He was the sleb guest star doing the send off for the Moonwalk in London a few years ago. He was so pervy and obviously loving all the women in their bras

🤮 🤢

PurpleYarnivore · 29/08/2026 22:34

SereneGoose · 29/08/2026 18:34

Sandi Toksvig...I mean she's ok..but personally she itches my tits.

I met her in the 90s on a Hebridean island … we were students on a field trip and she was sailing around Britain for a tv show … we all spent the evening in the pub , she bought everyone drinks and was hilarious .

JeanSimmons · 29/08/2026 22:35

Cloverroll · 29/08/2026 22:06

James Corden. Didn't like the way he put George Michael down in one of his car interview things. He tried to hide it with 'being funny' but it wasn't funny.

He's vile, but I don't think anyone thinks otherwise. I doubt he counts as a 'national treasure'.

4Tornot4T · 29/08/2026 22:35

Alan Carr
Richsrd Osman
Prue Leith
Stephen Fry
Martin Clunes
Dawn French
Claudia WInkleman

That seems quite a lot - maybe I should try and be more tolerant .......

StrathSellsFlats · 29/08/2026 22:35

Fizbosshoes · 29/08/2026 22:30

And shoehorning her own songs/stories into her show every 10 minutes, followed by fake laugh. On international women's day she made lots of "jokes " , as in "and us women would know about that, haw-haw haw-haw" all the blinking time. (I was on a long and convoluted journey, and should have switched stations! )

I’ve just had a google… I wonder if she would have had so much stage stardom if it wasn’t for the Tim Rice “special relationship” going on at the same time🤔

Purplebunnie · 29/08/2026 22:35

I only consider Attenborough, Lumley and Dench to be NT, and I like them all. The rest really haven't reached the status or whatever you want to call it

But I do agree with a lot of the dislikes on here especially Margyoles, she really is quite disgusting but of course she would love that I think that of her

Casualuser · 29/08/2026 22:36

Heard from a couple of people that lorraine kelly is a piece of work. Think she admits that she plays a character on screen, lots of these people do, thats why they come across as totally false. Mine are the prince and princess of wales, we know nothing about them apart from gushing media spin that is peddled out in exchange for photo opps.

JeanSimmons · 29/08/2026 22:37

David and Victoria Beckham. They really think they're something special, which they're not (apart from his talent at football) She has no talent whatsoever, an awful singer and has a really horrible sense of style.
Alexa Chung, she just gets on my nerves. She is only famous because she is skinny.

HexInductionHour · 29/08/2026 22:38

@Hotafternoon ’vulgar old bag’ sums her up 👏🏼

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