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Irrational Celebrity Hatreds?

411 replies

perfectstorm · 17/12/2010 05:33

The Kylie thread got me thinking about annoying celebrities who aren't really doing any harm. They aren't Mel Gibson, or Pete Doherty, or even Kanye West. Yet they raise my bloodpressure, just the same.

Am I being unreasonable to hate:

Kirsty Alsopp. Her home shows did it - I was never bothered when she did Location Location Location. But now she trills on about how you can do all these things on the cheap, before she calls on some artisanal craftsman for the stars (Little Venice Cake Company, anyone?), gets them to give her one-to-one tuition, then fecks off back to her country manor until they turn up a few days later with her own slightly inept offering... and a complete set of stellar ones they put together as a gift, which would ordinarily cost the national debt of a developing nation. It's like Marie Antoinette offering cake recipes to the plebs, while chummily declaring that taste requires no cash.

Bruce Willis: because of the way he purses his lips. No other reason. It makes me shudder.

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noddyholder · 17/12/2010 09:37

Amanda holden

thesecondcoming · 17/12/2010 09:40

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fatlazymummy · 17/12/2010 09:41

Carole Malone.
Danielle Lloyd.
The cast of Friends ,apart from 'Phoebe'.
Tyra Banks
Janice Dickinson
Rachel Zoe.
Oprah Winfrey
Michael Parkinson.

1percentawake · 17/12/2010 09:41

Another one for Fearne Cotton - urghhh definitely top of my list!

Also:
Tess Daly and her poncy husband
Fiona Bruce
Davina McCall
Simon Cowell (although probably not an irrational hatred as there really could be nothing rational about liking the man surely?)

festivecoatgate · 17/12/2010 09:42

For some reason I used to have an irrational loathing of Meryl Streep. I think I am getting over it, but then again .......

BrigitBigKnickers · 17/12/2010 09:42

Tara Pomkintomkin whatsername- who exactly is she? What is she for?

Any talentless child of a celebrity- Geldofs, Osbournes etc.

Fearne Cotton- talks to everyone like she is a Blue Peter presenter who has just contructed something from toilet rolls and sticky back plastic.

Tom Jones- I will be forever traumatised by a picture of him I saw many years ago on the front cover of the Radio times wearing a pair of black speedos- nasty wirey haired little welshman- Yuk,yuk yuk boak

MerrilyDefective · 17/12/2010 09:46

Victoria Beckham
Ricky Gervais
Amanda Holden
Caroline Quentin(in the M&S ads)
Frankie Boyle
Russel Howard
God it's never ending
Simon Cowell
Harry Hill
Nicole Kidman
Gwynnie and Chris
Phil Collins

Animation · 17/12/2010 09:46

Dave and Dom.

Much more so than Chris Moyles.

meandmybub · 17/12/2010 09:47

Kelly Osbourne - we get it, you've lost weight, well done. In fact all of the Osbournes, they're a bunch of potty-mouthed idiots, how come so popular?

Bucharest · 17/12/2010 09:47

Festive- me too. I hated her. When she was there, in every new blockbuster with her accents.

Now she just plays bonkers old women I don't mind her so much. It was the earnestness I couldn't stand. And the predictability.

LeMarron · 17/12/2010 09:49

Bucharest, we had the misfortune to be involved with NK for an entire afternoon, and I came away with a feeling of disgust.

My boss though was rendered weak kneed by her though, and opined that she was like a true old fashioned movie star.... or just a diva.

BootyMum · 17/12/2010 09:50

thesecondcoming - it has been occurring to me more and more that so many of our "up and coming stars" are the progeny of famous actors and singers - Coco [Sting's daughter], Freddie Fox [of the Fox acting dynasty], Jaime Winstone [Ray Winstone's daughter], Alfie and Lily Allen [Keith Allen's kids], etc, etc, etc. I am sure it makes good media copy but it annoys the hell out of me. These kids may be talented but not necessarily anymore so than those without famous parents.

Scuttlebutter · 17/12/2010 09:50

Steven Fry. I tolerated him up until about a year ago, and even liked him in some stuff, and then somehow the overexposure just got to me. Constant smug bloody tweets, and then acting as an unpaid PR for Apple. Grr. And all those twee sayings -"Well, my lovely barnacles, I'm just going to roger the cat, in a warm, furry, solipsistic kind of way" Aaargh.....!

Morloth · 17/12/2010 09:53

Bono from U2. He can sing, I love the music, we just went to the latest concert, but he personally makes me want to punch him in the face.

I have no idea why, he just gets right up my nose, I should have remembered that before spending a fortune on the concert.

Oh and Bono if you are reading this (and lets face it who doesn't) pulling a 18 year old girl from the crowd and laying your head in her lap while you sing is cute if you are under 30 years of age. When you are 50 it is creepy.

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BearCrimble · 17/12/2010 09:55

I can't stand James Corden. He is so fucking smug. Being fat is not a satisfactory alternative to being funny. He's not a nice person, you can just tell.

I agree with the person who said Helen Baxendale.

Also Denise Van Outen. She did so many photo ops with the baby, even having it at an angle in the pram at few days old so the paps could get a better shot when it should have been lying flat. Also came out with some ridiculous guff about formula feeding only because she couldn't bear to be photographed with her boobs out. Give you a clue love, maybe don't tell the photographers where you're going or use a scarf.

pyrowall · 17/12/2010 09:56

Katherine Jenkins!
I wish that she could pronounce things properly! when you sing people are suppose to be able to understand you!!! i recall her singing the words 'remember me' as remaarrrmmmbarrrr maaarrrr' eh!?!!

MYLEENE KLASS!!!!
the only woman ever to have a child!!

badcoverversion · 17/12/2010 09:56

Paul McCartney
Jude Law
Sadie Frost
Sienna Miller
'Jools' Oliver
Pearl Lowe
Jo Whiley
Chris Martin
Gwyneth Paltrow
Vinnie Jones
Damon Albarn
Jools Holland
Dennis Leary
Meg Ryan
Julia Roberts
Cameron Diaz
Julia Stiles - Slightly redeemed herself following Dexter S.5
Dido
James Blunt
Mika
Pink

I could go on...all fucking night.

badcoverversion · 17/12/2010 10:00

The Geldof offspring are fucking odious. My OH called Peaches a cunt when we ran into her in Hoxton square many moons ago. He was jazzed off his kite on disco biscuits like.

BootyMum · 17/12/2010 10:02

Remembering more celebrities I hate - Keira "wooden acting" Knightley, super smug Tess "I am so hot in a bikini after giving birth" Daly and her twat husband...

Really must get on with something else now...

Bucharest · 17/12/2010 10:02

Oh Katharine Jenkins=fingers scraping down a blackboard.

badcoverversion · 17/12/2010 10:03

Tom Jones is a massive fanny.

Animation · 17/12/2010 10:05

Keira's pout.

TheSmallClanger · 17/12/2010 10:20

Bear, totally agree about James Corden. He has the same aura of nastiness, which he tries to hide, as Ricky Gervais.

John Humphries is quite punchable. His curmudgeonly persona is just an excuse to be rude, miserable and reactionary. He was on that Celebrity Art School programme a few years ago, and was so rude and dismissive to the art teachers. It wasn't him being a loveable old git, standing up against rubbish modern art. It was a whingey old man being awkward.

All of the Osbournes need to disappear soon.

HarleyQuinn · 17/12/2010 10:22

I agree with whoever said Sean Lock and Ricky Gervais I would never get tired of slapping them.

Keira Knightley

Hayden Christensen - Gets out acted by scenery because hes so wooden.

Harry Hill

Sean Connery - Only ever does one type of accent, his bloody own.