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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.

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UnquietDad · 17/12/2010 13:00

Onedge - Paul Heiney?

Dermolrry annoys me by the way he says his name. He is better these days as he speaks a bit more clearly and looks at the camera. When he used to do BBLB he looked down all the time and gabbled.

Quenelle · 17/12/2010 13:02

Dermolrry has started whispering on his Radio 2 show. Sounds very pretentious.

donkeyderby · 17/12/2010 13:05

2 categories:

Annoying....

Julia Roberts' mouth - can't watch her eating
Holly Willoughby - also an annoying mouth and patronising to the max
Cat Deeley - mouth really annoying and everything else about her. What is she for?
Michael Buble - I don't mind his mouth but loathe his saccharine smaltz.

Straighforwardly hateful...

Frankie Boyle
Anne Widdecombe
Chris Moyles

JintyMcGinty · 17/12/2010 13:11

Daniel O'Donnell - makes my flesh crawl, he is so creepy with his loathesome warbling and asexual jumpers

William Roache/Ken Barlow - they are interchangable - it's not an 50 year acting career playing one person, it's nearly a lifetime of Schizophrenia. Put a kitchen chair next to him and he's more wooden. The extent of his acting is a raised eyebrow and a grimmace smile, coupled with a sort of "tutting" motion with his mouth and head.

Christine Bleakley - a smile on a stick. She's so vapid and thick.

Fearen Cotton - argghhhhh!

restingkitty · 17/12/2010 13:16

My DH has long held an intense hatred of Lisa Snowdon. No idea why, but must have rubbed off on me - soon as the M&S advert comes on I have to change the channel to get away from her smug pouty pose face

OTheHugeManatee · 17/12/2010 13:24

I'd say Katie Price, but that's an entirely rational celebrity hatred so doesn't belong on this thread.

DandyLioness · 17/12/2010 13:34

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GlitteryBalls · 17/12/2010 13:34

Myleene Klass

Tess Daly

Bland and unbearably smug.

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countless · 17/12/2010 13:46

jonathan ross's wife and i fear soon to be overexposed offsprings

nigella, horrible smug smiley making crap food-bloody marmite and pasta water spaghetti, although i do love her books

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IWouldNotCouldNotWithAGoat · 17/12/2010 14:12

JAMES CORDON! I loathe him
Lenny Henry
Amanda fucking Holden
Martine MCutcheon

IWouldNotCouldNotWithAGoat · 17/12/2010 14:13

Christine Bleakley - fake fake fake

MissRead · 17/12/2010 14:16

So many, but mainly:

Chris Martin - smug, pretentious dickhead
Richard Hammond - has made a career out of the fact that he nearly died
Jo Whiley - so right on and 'down with the kids', a real DJ cliche
Martine McCucheon - talentless with the most irritatingly childlike/chirpy cockney voice I've ever heard
Kiera Knightley - just irritating
Claudia Winkleman - needs a bloody good haircut
Christine Bleakley - vacuous, annoying and looks like a Muppet (the actual 70s ones not the Jamie Oliver 'you muppet' type)
Kirstie Allsopp - unbelieveably patronising on Homemade Home, as though no-one has ever considered making their own jam or knitting a scarf until she came along
Fearne Cotton and Holly Willoughby - sickmakingly girly
Mariah Carey - revels in being a 'diva', can't sing
Ricky Gervais - just such a punchable face
Sadie Frost - famous why?
David Tennant - if I see him do that wild-eyed
expression one more time...
Anna Friel - got lucky with a raunchy Brookside storyline, never done anything worth mentioning since yet always spoken of in the press as though she's an Oscar worthy actress
Pearl Lowe - eeking out a career as a minor celeb on the coat-tails of her once famous boyfriends and semi famous (and also rather annoying) daughter
Jools Oliver - just something about her. Also for 'presenting' Jamie's Xmas shows with him, why do famous people think we are in any way interested in their families?
Alexa Chung - dresses like a child, stands like she's wet herself, yet regularly get voted as 'best dressed' etc
Liz Hurley - gets her legs and boobs out too often
Sienna Miller - another one famous for bugger all apart from who she sleeps with
Most people who've ever appeared on the X-Factor, Big Brother, I'm a 'Celebrity' etc etc
Anyone from Loose Women
Most celebrity offspring eg the Geldofs, Jamie Winstone etc

Most of these are not that irrational though, I think it's perfectly reasonable to dislike talentless idiots who get pad a fortune for doing very little and still manage to moan about it.

5GoldenFimbos · 17/12/2010 14:18

Amanda Byram.

I agree with William Roche, watched C Street last night, wtf is going on with his hair? Is he trying to look like a rocker?

Lord Sugar. Love the programme just not him.

lal123 · 17/12/2010 14:19

Barbara Windsor - have never forgiven her for refusing my brother and I an autograph when we were about 11 - Bitch

IWouldNotCouldNotWithAGoat · 17/12/2010 14:24

"I hate Kelly Osbourne. I hope she gets fat again"

SuePurblybiltbyElves · 17/12/2010 14:28

Lorne wotserface from daytime telly (just discovered her this week so not sure of name). The one with an annoying voice and a very, very dubious dress sense. Makes me clench.

loujay · 17/12/2010 14:37

Belinda Carlise

Just because (and I know this is bad) her song was playing in the background when my first boyfriend broke up with me..........and she seemed at the time irrationally smiley Blush

pointissima · 17/12/2010 14:37

Hatred of all of the above is entirely rational. Almost all other celebrities are equally appalling. Do you think that if we just ignored them they would go away?

Join me in my boycot of all celebrity endorsed products (although quite hard these days to buy a saucepan without its being "Nigella's" or "Jamie sanctimonious patronising git Oliver's"), starting with Martine's McCutcheon's Activia.

Suggestions for list of banned products

KERALA1 · 17/12/2010 14:46

With you all on Barbara Windsor. Reminds me of the head secretary at my old office - flirted with all the partners, had the cockney sparrer act down to a fine art - utterly poisonous to all the female lawyers.

To the person who nominated Judy Dench - apparently in real life she is lovely so have to disagree with that one.

Quite like Kirstie due to being female on TV over 40 who is not a stick insect.

Currently detesting Donna Air. What a bimbo saw her on Matthew Wrights show (I know I know dd was off ill) saying she loved the X Factor porn show. Seems the sort that giggles along to whatever neanderthal men say in a sad effort to be liked. Tess Daly also of this ilk.

GlitteryBalls · 17/12/2010 14:54

Helen Mirren! Everyone/she thinks she is so sexy, but she just look slike a wrinngly old bag to me and has done for about the last 20 years! x

GabbyLoggon · 17/12/2010 14:56

what this site is proving is that all famous people are disliked by someone

What about IRRATIONAL LIKING of celebrities? (because we dont know them

Tolalola · 17/12/2010 15:03

Cheryl Cole. Don't get the point of her.

Sarah Jane from Cebeebies.That voice!

Natalie Portman. Smug.

That one with the giant chin...Reese Witherspoon.

Jim Carey. Almost unbelievably unfunny.

TheSmallClanger · 17/12/2010 15:04

Helen Mirren has SO had work done, and yet denies it constantly.

Agree with Barbara Windsor - the equivalent of Sienna Miller and her ilk in the 60s, mysteriously still has a career. Non-mysteriously, still has no talent.

Kelly Brook winds me up. You can't criticise her without someone pointing out how beautiful she is, and you'll normally be accused of jealousy. However, despite her claims to be an actress, I cannot name a single one of her films or TV shows. And she has a smug face.

Alan Sugar also annoys the hell out of me for reasons I can't adequately express.

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