Which 'national treasure' type celeb do you really not like?

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I cannot bear Bruce Forsyth. I suspect I won't be alone in this on Mumsnet, but he seems to be viewed as some kind of wonderful old trouper by the general population and by the press. I suspect he is a nasty old git.

Please say that your mum has got Val confused with some other Irish singer - maybe Van Morrison who is really grumpy? I know they are different generations and one is North and one South but clutching at straws here.

Definitely agree about Bruce - how vile and patronising was he to "ordinary" people on The Generation Game?

Terry Wogan has been brilliant on Eurovision but has been useless on Points of View.

Graham Norton is fab - very funny and I met him before a gig in a small theatre about 12 years ago and had a chat with him. There was also some story I read about him where Oxfam wrote to loads of celebs asking them to donate some piece of clothing which they could then sell and he was about the only person to respond. Have heard other similar stories as well.

I loathe Bruce Forsyth.. What a bitter arrogant old man.

I feel the same about Cliff Richard.

Oh and dear god Cilla Black. That hair! That dodgy ahmster cheeked facelift!

I have an irrational dislike of Twiggy too, but can't quite put my finger on why.

right heres mine

Shane Ritchie- he ISNT funny

Gail "Hamster" face off corrie

Lee Evans -sooooooo sweaty and NOT funny (and i have to sit thru endless reruns of his shows cos both DH and DS find him hilarious)

Jimmy Tarbuck-boring,needs new jokes

Jim Davidson-do i really need to explain?

The Cliff Richard fan club, ie Cilla Black (what a lorra lorra crap) Gloria Hunniford and her grinning husband and the cliffster himself.

but
i lOVE brucie,wogan and jonathan ross (sshh i have a secret crush on JR !!!)

Parky
Andy Murray

Frost

I do like Paxman but is he 'national treasure'

not yet, but he's on his way, surely?

He has to take over from Robin Day

Cheryl Cole. Let's not forget she decked a nightclub loo attendant so hard that you'd think the poor woman had been punched by a professional boxer. Chavvy little lowlife

Cliff Richard - immobile upper lip and sanctimonious smug git face.

Tom Jones - his hair looks like it would be all stiff with dirt and I can't work out why women throw pants at him, unless nowadays it's to get him to shut up.

Ricky Gervais - He used to be funny a very very long time ago and now he's just an egomaniac.

I do like the Dimblebys

Never liked that Terry Thomas fellow

not mad on old Kenneth Williams

John Humphries (not as good as he thinks he is)

I agree about Julie Walters - everyone thinks she's great but I dont.

Also cant stand Lenny Henry.

Ben Shepherd (not really in this category though)
Cilla
Lulu
Wogan
AntnDec
Fearne Cotton
Davina McCall
Tess Daly
Alan Hansen
Fiona Phillips
John Barrowman
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Gok Wan
Trinny and Susannah

Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders.

Is Val Doonican still alive? (DH and I were discussing this only the other day....don't ask why).

Another vote for Billy Connolly (can't stand the way he toadies round the Royal Family and has been 'analysed' by Pamela Stephenson).

Cilla.

Urgh!!!!

Drives me mad the way she deliberately emphases the lorra lorra thing. Nobody talks likr that. Grrrr

Or even like that!

Arghhhhhh!@Chris Moyles. What a horrid turd that man is!

Many mentioned on here are too recent to be considered treasures; awful though many of them are.

I'm going to add Prince Charles..the man who likes to tell us all how to live worthy lives while he lives in unparalleled luxury.

I'm not sure she's a national treasure but I can't stand Myleene Klass, she's on every channel these days.

Ahh yes and Moyles, thanks for reminding me MrsMattie, not sure how I could have forgotten him on my post yesterday.

Ria Parkinson; You like the Dimblebys? I don't, going back to the days when I worked on a local paper in Surrey. The Dimbleby family owned the Richmond and Twickenham Times and I knew some of the journalists on it. They were paid slave wages - well below the wages other local papers paid and those were pretty low. Staff were always asking for a pay rise and the Dimblebys always used to say they couldn't afford it as the paper was losing money. Eventually, the Dimblebys sold the paper for millions and not one penny did they share with the staff.

I always think of that when I see either David or Jonathan spouting some phoney moral outrage.

Ria Parkinson; You like the Dimblebys? I don't, going back to the days when I worked on a local paper in Surrey. The Dimbleby family owned the Richmond and Twickenham Times and I knew some of the journalists on it. They were paid slave wages - well below the wages other local papers paid and those were pretty low. Staff were always asking for a pay rise and the Dimblebys always used to say they couldn't afford it as the paper was losing money. Eventually, the Dimblebys sold the paper for millions and not one penny did they share with the staff.

I always think of that when I see either David or Jonathan spouting some phoney moral outrage.