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Irrational Celebrity Hatreds?

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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.

OP posts:
countless · 17/12/2010 10:27

badconversion- your OH sounds v unpleasant!

sarah jane (but how dare anyone hate chris n puy or justin 'saintly' fletcher?)
the 'i can cook' woman
that horrible man on 'take me out'
keith lemon just shouldn't be on tv so vile
jez kyle of course, nasty povo baiting bully
patsy kensit
trisha
robbie williams
the hoff
caroline quentin
gordon ramsey- agghhh so despise him
that dickinson bloke
kirsty allsop in her home show mode, particularly Envy her lovely moncler jacket and LR defender

Kevin McCloud..with his to camera monologues make me want to smash the tv

Quenelle · 17/12/2010 10:27

Keira's chin.

Honestly, when she grins she looks like Bruce Forsyth.

countless · 17/12/2010 10:34

hmm quenelle so do i..even my mum used to call me brucie..

Animation · 17/12/2010 10:40

Countless - are you Keira?Xmas Blush

MardyQuickFollowThatStar · 17/12/2010 10:43

Clicked on this thread to say Keira, but I see I'm not alone.

Really. Can't. Act.

mickeyjohn · 17/12/2010 10:45

Keira Knightley
Myleene Class (aarghhh!! the whole baby book thing!!! Like she's the only woman to have a baby! and her HIDEOUS Baby K range!)
Ditto Jules Oliver - though less annoying than she was
AManda Holden (does anyone actually like her?)
Dawn French (sorry, am sure she's v nice, but I hate her anyway. She's just not funny)

Re Gwyneth and Chris Martin - my best mate's husband is his cousin. They recently had a family get together and she was sat on a tabler with them and their kids. Apparently Gywnnie was really rude and didn't even say hello at all and the kids were vile and played on their iPhones the entire time (and they are about 6 and 8? Not very old) and she ignored my mate's gorgeous baby girl the whole time. And had firzzy hair. HA!! Take that Gwyneth!

mickeyjohn · 17/12/2010 10:45

Frizzy hair! Hands so cold I can't type!

AKMD · 17/12/2010 10:46

I think a better thread for me would be 'Celebrity Likes' - might be able to fit the names in one post. I can't stand the foul-mouthed, "can't you take a joke"-type, self-important, self-obsessed 'slebs' that the media sees fit to inflict on the public. I refuse to watch the trash that passes as TV entertainment anymore (halo emoticon :)), however I do still know that I can't stand:

  • Any child-of-sleb who talks in the media about 'finding themselves' and 'not liking media coverage'

  • Female presenters or columnists who use the word 'divine' to describe something good. Whatever they are describing is inevitably not 'divine' but an over-priced piece of tat that they will slag off the next week or some sort of edible item that you just know they will take one bite of and then surreptiously spit into a hanky so as not to ruin their cosmetically-enhanced figure. Punch in mouth needed.

  • And specifically:

Russel Brand
Chris Moyles Angry
Peaches Geldoff
Pixie Geldoff
Simon Cowell
Whatever the guy's name is with an orange perma-tan and dark hair
Robert Kilroy-Silk
Can I put George Bush? Please?

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GetOrfMoiLand · 17/12/2010 10:48

Keira looks like the evil devil child from hell when she smiles.

Kelly Osbourne is horrible. Smug. I hope she gets fat again.

That bulldog chewing wasp faced girl from Eastender, Stacey iirc.

countless · 17/12/2010 10:49

oops i've been outed..

keira is awful though, when she does that foul grimace/smile/gurn thing..good lord she shouldn't do that in public

nadia swahlia or whatever her name is
trinny n susanna and all their ilk, posho somebodies, tamaras etc

MardyQuickFollowThatStar · 17/12/2010 10:51

Julia Roberts with her big hair and pouty smile, playing dodgy parts like a prostitute or a husband-stealer, where you're supposed to like her.

UnquietDad · 17/12/2010 10:52

Everyone in Sex and the City.
Jordan.
Russell Brand.
Ashley Cole.
Jay Kay.

Not really irrational though. They are all twats, after all.

MardyQuickFollowThatStar · 17/12/2010 10:53

All the blokes on Top Gear, but especially Clarkson with his jacket and jeans.

OhWesternWind · 17/12/2010 10:54

I can't believe no-one has said Jo Brand yet - the only person who makes me instantly change channels. How anyone so talentless can have a twenty year career (it seems that long even if it isn't) based on two not-funny-even-when-they-started jokes about 1) being fat and 2) having periods is absolutely beyond me. Foul woman.

CaveMum · 17/12/2010 10:56

Personally I hate Russell Crowe - I can't watch anything he is in.
Also all members of the Spice Girls, Westloife & Boyzone.

To sort-of quote Joey Tribbiani "They make me want to rip of my own arm just so I've got something to throw at them" Grin

DH can't abide Ewan McGregor to the point that he will change tv channels if he appears on screen and mutter expletives under his breath.

CaveMum · 17/12/2010 10:56

"Rip OFF my own arm"

[forehead slap]

dinkystinky · 17/12/2010 10:57

Tom Hanks - dont know why but he just really annoys me.

Tom Cruise - his smug selfsatisfaction sets my teeth on edge. Katie Holmes also now sets my teeth on edge.

Any of the judges off reality tv shows - for being permatanned wankers/wankresses

AKMD · 17/12/2010 10:59

I forgot:

Tracey Emin AngryAngryAngryAngry What a nasty, crude, horrid...

messylittlemonkey · 17/12/2010 11:01

Definitely Sarah-Jayne from CBeebies. Just so OTT, with her jazz hands and eager face.

wallababy · 17/12/2010 11:11

Probably going to offend the whole nation here but..,
Bruce Forsyth.

I can't stand him.

I have to record strictly, so that I can fast forward his bits.

badcoverversion · 17/12/2010 11:13

Thanks countless, I'll let him know that you send your regards. It's badCOVERversion by the way...but don't let that hamper your sanctimonious remarks.

FWIW, Peaches was acting like a prize plum as per usual and drawing as much attention to herself as possible...she was coked up beyond comprehension and hanging off the equally obnoxious Fred Les of Les Incompetents 'fame'. Add to that the fact that she started droning on (very loudly) about her tuneless tinker-cum-professional beggar of a Father and her hideous siblings for reasons unknown to us all and well...I'd say that under the circumstances, my OH kept his tongue remarkably restrained.

It was also about 4 in the morning, following a godawful scenester warehouse party and we'd drank a heroic amount of booze and ingested mild altering substances of one kind or another.

Oh and also, she is a cunt.

CheeseChomper · 17/12/2010 11:13

Peaches Geldof- stop stealing things and get a JOB! PS You are NOT bohemien, dark and original.

Myleene Klass - Smugtastic NB you do not need to cradle your bump whenever a photographer is present!

James Corden - resident celebrity bloke 'best fat mate'- fat does not equal funny!

Sadie Frost- sober/not sober/sober/not sober- who cares?!

Kelly Osbourne- Yes i'm pleased you're clean and have lost weight- stop banging on about it!

Lily Allen- Like her songs, hate her mockney-style and faux 'street' attitude. You went to Bedales school and lived in Primrose Hill, you ARE posh, face it!

Bruce Forsythe- So unfunny, should've retired a decade ago. Watching strictly when he tells his 'jokes' makes me cringe.

Miley Cyrus- Not sure why... annoying.

Taylor Momsen- You are NOT rock n roll, you're a brat, grow up and smile for once.

Most of the women on Loose Women- They are everything I DON'T want to be in 20 years time! Particularly Denise Welch- vile!

ElfPantsAtMidnightMass · 17/12/2010 11:16

What can you mean, GetOrf?

Too many of the people on here are totally rational hatreds. Russell Brand, Jeremy Clarkson, Chris Moyles, Amanda Holden etc are all so obviously crass, twatty, smug, self-loving-for-no-discernible-reason, barely-disguisedly-nasty arseholes of Satan that you would have to be frankly mad (hello, TV execs) to even think about putting them before an innocent public.

My only totally irrational hatreds are:

Jeremy Irons - for radiating pure evil through face and voice. Can't watch Brideshead because he is in nearly every scene oh my god, Lolita at least made sense in that he clearly IS a dangerous immoral sick pervert who brings foul pestilence wheresoe'er he goes.

Phil Collins - actually not irrational in the sense that he is a bad singer, but he also makes me feel a total visceral loathing that cannot be explained by his cruel murder of "Can't Hurry Love" alone. He has a voice like the smell of hot metal and I feel that he probably whips peasants and does all manner of unsavoury things.

And finally: The Grand Old Duke of York. What a fucking stupid thing to do. Up or down - make up your fucking mind you blue-blooded time-wasting TWAT.

badcoverversion · 17/12/2010 11:19

Cavemum,

I know somebody who has met Ewan McGregor on several occasions (she works for a independent arthouse cinema) and she says the man is just an absolute arrogant, sourfaced wanker of the highest order.

She also told me some tales about Tim Roth being a mondo sleazeball that really put me off him.

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