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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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TheTwerkingDuchessOfMonteshitshow · 30/08/2026 10:08

Bibs23456 · 30/08/2026 09:53

She refused to speak to them. Said they were beneath her

Can you link to what she did.

Norwaygirl · 30/08/2026 10:09

I don't dislike Olivia Colman but she can't act for toffee so I am baffled as to why she keeps getting acting awards and offered roles.

shhblackbag · 30/08/2026 10:12

Ant and Dec. Annoying af.

shhblackbag · 30/08/2026 10:14

Kenneth Branagh, no you are not Laurence Olivier.

Accurate.

Lench · 30/08/2026 10:28

Can’t understand the continued defence of Stephen Graham.

Screamingabdabz · 30/08/2026 10:32

TheBrunswick · 30/08/2026 09:04

Kate Winslet.
Maureen Lipman.
Peter Kay.
Billy Connolly.
Emma Thompson.
Kenneth Branagh, no you are not Laurence Olivier.
I never liked Sean Connery.

Agree on Kenneth Branagh - he ruins every film he’s in.

AInightingale · 30/08/2026 10:40

Grayson Perry yes, and Izzard. Creeps hiding in plain sight. Celebrated. Mainstream icons. Just why?

HobgoblinNorFoulFiend · 30/08/2026 10:43

“National Treasure “ is such a BBC concept, isn’t it?

Lench · 30/08/2026 10:54

PinkMagpie · 30/08/2026 10:07

He’s not liked so much anymore, you’re right. At one stage he was held up as some sort of great thinker and voice of reason

I think that was in the Brexit / Post-Brexit aftermath. Around the time he got away with that amazingly arrogant book title.

PinkMagpie · 30/08/2026 10:56

I loved Kate Winslet until she used all her pull to get her son’s film that he wrote and directed made and then furiously denied that he might be a nepo baby. Predictably the film was not good because he hadn’t earned the experience to make it. She would have done better to let him earn his own opportunities

Betterbeingdead · 30/08/2026 11:00

ruffler45 · 30/08/2026 07:35

I cant think of anyone that has been left out at the moment😂

Matt Baker ? Insufferably smug

PrancingPanda · 30/08/2026 11:02

Miriam Margolyes comes across as unpleasant and I'm not quite sure why
Stephen Fry
Lulu (!!!!) In the middle of a comeback?

WecanbeheroeslikeBowie · 30/08/2026 11:30

National treasures? Most are ordinary people who act or present shows for a living and who get paid for it. What is so special about fannying around in front of a camera on television?

celebagent · 30/08/2026 11:30

Screamingabdabz · 29/08/2026 23:22

Why doesn’t Chris Packham’s ‘sense of humour’ come across then? He always seems charmless and slightly irritable on tv.

It does to me🤷‍♀️

We all have different tastes

therealduchess · 30/08/2026 11:30

StrathSellsFlats · 29/08/2026 21:50

I think Davina McCall would just love to be a NT!

All the more opportunities to shout her private business at you! Turn the volume down love, they can hear you on Mars!
We have to hear the entirety of her private life, day in day out - no! just stop it!
My Ddad would have called her common and uncouth.

She's just too much, isn't she? I turn the tv off when she appears!
Your dad would be quite right imo

therealduchess · 30/08/2026 11:44

Jane379 · 30/08/2026 01:22

Why shouldn't old musicians perform? I agree not if they can't hit the notes, but if they can it seems ageist to say they shouldn't.

Your Rod comments really tickled me! Bet you're glad you aren't Penny then lol!

What do you think of Sir Cliff and his 'dancing' 🫣

BeardySchnauzer · 30/08/2026 11:44

I think maggie smith was a national treasure but I really struggle to think of others

ImogenBrocklehurst · 30/08/2026 11:47

Yellowsubmarine55 · 29/08/2026 18:37

David Attenborough 🫣

What’s not to like???

thefourthbeatle · 30/08/2026 11:57

ToWhitToWhoo · 30/08/2026 00:56

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!

on the contrary, i always loathed J.Cleese but these pro-Restore Britain posts on X have made me warm to the chap 😧

ImogenBrocklehurst · 30/08/2026 11:58

Ilovemyshed · 29/08/2026 19:29

Mary Berry

Oh come on!! This must be rage bait.

thefourthbeatle · 30/08/2026 12:11

Jane379 · 30/08/2026 01:20

Why Fiona Bruce and Dawn French?

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

they are both insufferably smug & fake; looking down their noses at the unwashed masses; smirking to themselves having raked in a few million via the dupes who fell for their bogus 'schtick' (yet in private chaos as their own ineluctable vapidity eats them away) 🤔. Toksvig used to live near me in East Dulwich. i never encountered her but she was a notoriously rude bully to strangers who approached her for so-called 'selfies' and so on.

thefourthbeatle · 30/08/2026 12:19

PinkMagpie · 30/08/2026 06:09

His comedy might not be to your taste and that’s fine. But objectively Billy Connolly is one of the most talented comedians to ever perform. Anyone who knows comedy and works in the industry holds him in huge respect

William Connolly is an utter prick & deeply unamusing into the bargain.

thefourthbeatle · 30/08/2026 12:21

PinkMagpie · 30/08/2026 06:17

I think as a culture we are moving away from having deference to the National Treasure/ BBC machine celebrities because we realise they are not our betters.

I watched the Chris Packham documentary on the climate emergency recently. I am fully on board with the urgency of the cause and I was interested to watch the film. Even as someone who completely agrees with the message I was turned off by their delivery and approach. The film had a load of C list celebs lecturing the audience on climate change. Why on earth would I listen to Konnie Huq/ Deborah Meaden/ Jennifer Saunders pontificating to me on a serious issue.

it is something that was satirised so well by Chris Morris in Brass Eye. As a public we no longer think that celebs are wise, all-knowing, better people than us

the 'cause' is nonsense as is the stool Christopher Packham.

thefourthbeatle · 30/08/2026 12:29

David Attenborough
Fiona Bruce
Dawn French
Melanie Giedroyc [sp.?]
Stephen Fry
Lenworth Henry
Ian Hislop
Edward Izzard
Matthew Lucas
Paul McCartney
Paul Merton
Christopher Packham
Susan Perkins
Jonathan Ronson
Philip Spencer
David Tennant
Sandra Toksvig
🖕🏾

RogueFemale · 30/08/2026 12:34

Siobhan McSweeney

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