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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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thefourthbeatle · 30/08/2026 12:37

stepping across the pond, the wretched:

Bruce Springsteen
🖕🏾

Triptomatic · 30/08/2026 12:40

Witchlite · 29/08/2026 19:09

NHS

really badly run, wasteful and often barely mediocre.

i think it needs a complete reformation with funding agreed - then voted for by the public. I think NHS v2 needs to happen soon, so people who are ill can be treated.

I was with you until ‘voted for by the public’. I agree that whoever is chosen to make decisions for it probably won’t be brilliant either but the public en masse are idiots

SinisterBumFacedCat · 30/08/2026 12:42

StrathSellsFlats · 29/08/2026 21:53

I saw Paloma Faith on a game show once - Wow! She was a bloody menace.. kept interrupting, squealing for attention, shouting over people, just dreadful.

Paloma Faith - school bully apparently. Bullied Sonja from EastEnders.

Norwaygirl · 30/08/2026 12:49

Why is Mary Berry rage bait? She is incredibly smug and patronising yet thinks she is the nation's sweetheart. I turn channels when she appears on telly because I hate her so much.

RaraRachael · 30/08/2026 13:15

Alan Cumming.

Used to love going to Pitlochry Theatre every year but knew we'd never return once he was in charge 😪

UniquePinkSwan · 30/08/2026 13:17

David Attenborough

Gall10 · 30/08/2026 13:18

Sometimessmiling · 29/08/2026 20:46

Is it? I didn't know that

Yep! It’s just called that so that people don’t show up expecting to see his garden, or disrupt filming! It’s somewhere in Herefordshire…look at Pigeon House, Ivington on Google maps… think that might be it!! That’s only my guess from looking at his info on companies house…heavens is nothing private these days 🤣🤣🤣

Lifelover16 · 30/08/2026 13:18

IndigoBabble · 29/08/2026 22:40

Cliff Richard. Gives me the ick

I agree.
very sinister

Gall10 · 30/08/2026 13:22

godmum56 · 29/08/2026 20:38

why is that bad?

No more ‘bad’ than having an unfounded opinion of most of the celebs on this thread!

thecatdidit · 30/08/2026 13:25

Miriam M, crude
Angela Rippon says nasty things with a smile.
But James O' Brien is a fantastic broadcaster, I won't hear anything bad about him.

Gall10 · 30/08/2026 13:25

TomatoGlut · 29/08/2026 20:29

The house is called Longmeadow and has been since Monty and his wife bought the house in 1991. The garden was a long narrow plot laid to meadow...hence the name.

Ok… I stand corrected!

Arran2024 · 30/08/2026 13:29

RaraRachael · 30/08/2026 13:15

Alan Cumming.

Used to love going to Pitlochry Theatre every year but knew we'd never return once he was in charge 😪

I chose him too. Used to love him as well.

JeanSimmons · 30/08/2026 13:31

Pipsquiggle · 29/08/2026 22:57

Lulu is meant to be horrible

She comes across as very mean and stuck up. That said, I don't think anyone really thinks of her as a 'national treasure'. More as an old bat with delusions of grandeur.

Marellain · 30/08/2026 13:32

I agree with the key players on this thread! Johnathan Ross is tawdry and yuck. Miriam M is ghastly, incredibly smug and vulgar. Alan Cumming is nails dragging across à blackboard, so grating. Paloma Faith is just unbearable. Alan Carr the shrill voiced one …omg no. Stephen Fry creepsville, Sandi Toksvig is the gym mistress you were in dread of. David Tennant looks desperate and haunted, eek. Dawn French, I would cross the road to avoid.

1009998979695A · 30/08/2026 13:32

William Roache (Ken Barlow)

Greenlawnbrownlawn · 30/08/2026 13:38

Anyone mentioned Bradley Walsh yet?

Just so bland... and how does he get to be paid millions (not an exaggeration) to say exactly the same lines on every programme? He can't ad lib a single word. The contestants and chasers are far funnier than he is.

JeanSimmons · 30/08/2026 14:05

Also, the late unlamented Cilla Black. Apparently she was appallingly rude to airline cabin crew and anyone else whom she deemed beneath her. She was another professional Scouser who apparently had a cut glass RP accent when the cameras weren't rolling. Not that there is anything wrong with that, of course, but the accent was put on to make her seem warm and down to earth, when she was anything but.

JeanSimmons · 30/08/2026 14:06

Arran2024 · 30/08/2026 13:29

I chose him too. Used to love him as well.

What's wrong with him?

Casualuser · 30/08/2026 14:07

JeanSimmons are you me? i saw Lulu do a live PA on a cruise. Flippin awful, still attempting to sing, spouting a load of AA tosh. Somewone i met there approached her as they used to know her in the 60's, she was totally dismissive. However Martin Kemp was a total gent.

ErrolTheDragon · 30/08/2026 14:44

BeardySchnauzer · 30/08/2026 14:40

https://apple.news/A0ZyXHlB5Tgy_jWnT_NsSbg

I feel this is pertinent. Makes me like John Cleese tbh!!

Margolyes doesn’t come well out of that incident re Bill Oddie.

LabubuTERF · 30/08/2026 15:38

It was me who said Paddington.

He’s just not talented, is he? Expects everything for free too!

6ate9 · 30/08/2026 15:43

LabubuTERF · 30/08/2026 15:38

It was me who said Paddington.

He’s just not talented, is he? Expects everything for free too!

”A wise bear always keeps a marmalade sandwich in his hat in case of emergency,”

MyGallbladderIsAFucker · 30/08/2026 15:53

Ant and Dec. Awful imo

gingercat02 · 30/08/2026 16:25

Casualuser · 30/08/2026 14:07

JeanSimmons are you me? i saw Lulu do a live PA on a cruise. Flippin awful, still attempting to sing, spouting a load of AA tosh. Somewone i met there approached her as they used to know her in the 60's, she was totally dismissive. However Martin Kemp was a total gent.

So glad MK was nice I still have a crush on him since Spandau. He's done a 3 part Irish series with Roman recently very funny. We went to his 80s night recently abd pretended we were teenagers again.

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