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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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ToWhitToWhoo · 29/08/2026 23:44

Right at the moment, John Cleese.

GreenCaterpillarOnALeaf · 29/08/2026 23:52

Bruce Forsyth. He always creeped me out. Definitely a lot of darkness within him.

Basil Brush - he’s a puppet but he’s always just given sleezy sex pest of a puppet.

Oooonoooot · 29/08/2026 23:54

Alan Carr…sorry but I cannot stand his voice.
My BIL flew next door to him first class and was very entertained but I would have shoved my ear plugs in. Think it was free booze all the way to LA 🤦‍♀️

goingtotown · 29/08/2026 23:55

lifeinthemidlands · 29/08/2026 23:29

Lisa Tarbuck. When she does her show on radio 2 she's like the really annoying person at work who just witters on, chatting shit about things and people you don't know or care about.

Lisa Tarbuck left her show on Radio 2 in March.

ScruffMuffin · 29/08/2026 23:56

What has John Cleese done?

RhannionKPSS · 29/08/2026 23:59

Miriam Margoyles is a crude , unpleasant, nasty woman

Wowwee1234 · 30/08/2026 00:01

Why has noone mentioned Giles Brandrith. He's intensely irritating

springhasspringed · 30/08/2026 00:03

I can't stand Monty Don, he gives me the creeps, literally makes me heave. I don't know why though.

SocksAndTheCity · 30/08/2026 00:04

ScruffMuffin · 29/08/2026 23:56

What has John Cleese done?

Various recent xenophobic and Islamophobic comments including anti-migrant remarks and the risible claim that London is 'no longer an English city', despite it being in England (and I'm sitting in the middle of it - it definitely hasn't moved).

He ought to sign up here; he'd feel right at home at the moment.

SocksAndTheCity · 30/08/2026 00:05

I also loathe both Stephen Fry and Stephen Graham Smile

BigBadBun · 30/08/2026 00:06

As someone whose son was killed by the NHS and whose grandmother had her wrong hip replaced by the NHS and whose sister is a fantastic NHS nurse I completely agree with this. I hate the NHS and how we all have to pretend it’s so marvellous when the Emperor has no clothes. The inefficiencies alone are mind-blowing.

janespantrydrippers · 30/08/2026 00:08

Claudia Winkleman

ScruffMuffin · 30/08/2026 00:10

SocksAndTheCity · 30/08/2026 00:04

Various recent xenophobic and Islamophobic comments including anti-migrant remarks and the risible claim that London is 'no longer an English city', despite it being in England (and I'm sitting in the middle of it - it definitely hasn't moved).

He ought to sign up here; he'd feel right at home at the moment.

Thanks.

Urgh, that's horrible.

SnowdropDazzle · 30/08/2026 00:10

Mylifehasimploded · 29/08/2026 20:05

Going to get slaughtered……Joanna Lumley.

No slaughtering from me… I never loved her but I heard some of her dismissive comments about exams and education based on her own experience of succeeding in life. Well, forgive me if I don’t take careers advice from a well connected woman who went to finishing school. Same comment goes to Jeremy ‘you don’t need A levels (went to public school)’ Clarkson.

and yes, to whoever said Sally Phillips - the woman was ubiquitous at one point. Her views on screening for Down’s syndrome were retrogressive and got way more airspace than they deserved due to her (unconnected) fame as an actress. She seemed to require everyone else’s right to choose to be withdrawn in order to validate her own life and that of her son. Damaging to other people making hard decision and quite unnecessary to ‘justify’ her son’s life at all.

i don’t think I’ve heard the name Paula Radcliffe mentioned… but that is another one for me.

SameNonsenseDifferentDay · 30/08/2026 00:13

i absolutely cannot stand Peter Kay or Elton John.

I’ve loved Stephen Fry since his ‘A bit of Fry and Laurie’ days - disappointed to hear he’s a bit of an arse.

I didn’t mind Sandi Toksvig until I saw her programme celebrating women and her guest was Eddie Izzard - she plummeted to the depths of hell in my view that day.

FFSItsTooHot · 30/08/2026 00:26

gingercat02 · 29/08/2026 18:40

Jonathan Ross always hated the slimey fucker.

But is he honestly regarded as a National Treasure? I certainly don't think he is! But maybe it's just me.....and you!

HonestGoldAnt · 30/08/2026 00:29

Gregg James

Ken Bruce

Mary Berry

Floatlikeafeather2 · 30/08/2026 00:30

Steve Coogan. It's not so much that he's irritating, more that he makes my flesh creep in the way that Ricky Gervais used to.

PussyGaylore · 30/08/2026 00:43

Miriam Margolys, Stephen Fry both very self satisfied.
David Tennant
Lorraine Kelly

ToWhitToWhoo · 30/08/2026 00:56

ScruffMuffin · 29/08/2026 23:56

What has John Cleese done?

Made posts on social media expressing support for Rupert Lowe and Restore.

I always really liked him, so this is a real disappointment- maybe he's turning into Basil Fawlty!

Norwaygirl · 30/08/2026 01:00

I hate Mary Berry. The fact she thinks she is the nation's sweetheart makes her even more unbearable.

TickyTacky · 30/08/2026 01:09

Sad to see Olivia Coleman mentioned. She supports a special healthcare facility and was so kind to my very poorly relative. I thought she was brilliant before though, that just utterly confirmed that she's a gem.

patooties · 30/08/2026 01:17

All of the above removing Attenborough, and and dec, Osman, and the Beckhams.

Dawn French is my worst though - some terrible views.

SinisterBumFacedCat · 30/08/2026 01:18

Lorraine Kelly

apparently she “plays a character” of herself to avoid paying taxes

Jane379 · 30/08/2026 01:20

thefourthbeatle · 29/08/2026 21:15

Fiona Bruce
Dawn French
Sandi Toksvig (sp.?)
🖕

Why Fiona Bruce and Dawn French?

Toksvig I dislike due to her cowardly stance on trans issues.

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