which famous people do you IRRATIONALLY LIKE?

[GabbyLoggon]

So please to be different. Tell us all which famous people you irrationally LIKE
or even worship?

I will kick off...I sort of like Mariella Frostrop, Gabriella Logan, Nicky Campbell and
Dennis Skinner...but I dont really know any of them

I love Nigella Lawson even though I can see she's a bit annoying.

Kelis, she was very mumsy and normal on BBC breakfast a few months ago.

Jeremy Paxman, I would love to be that gobby in RL.

David Lynch, Vincent Gallo and Lars Von Trier all have reputations for being "difficult" and it just makes me love them all the more.

Chris Morris, Alan Bennett, Tom Waits, Nick Cave and Louis C.K. would also elicit a slightly hysterical fangirl response from me.

Victoria Wood, in her stand-up days. I know her style of comedy isn't fashionable any more, but her routines still have me falling about laughing.

George Bush,

I know he's an idiot, but if he were a neighbour or a friend, I think he'd be great

Simon Cowell

Ulrika Jonsson. Pretty, clever, gutsy and so bloody what who she shags, it's got sod all to do with me!

Paxo is just God, Meglit. :o

Helena Bonham Carter. She used to live near me and once when I was stressed she gave me a massive smile for no reason. Have really liked her since then. Also she always looked abit bonkers when out and about so is the antithesis of amazing well groomed film star. I felt quite up together next to her.

Mariah Carey. She has a lingerie room in her apartment and her walk in wardrobe is bigger than my house. . (Secret MTV Cribs watcher)

Simon Cowell, me too. I heard he gives a lot of money to charity.

I love Mariella Frostrup. Nothing irrational about that.

Ben Fogle. It's like having a faithful labrador running round the TV screen

Fiona Phillips. I know that loads of people think she is annoying but I think she is very warm and approachable looking.

Vanessa Feltz. I bet she is a good laugh, and she seems very clever despite the lowbrow career.

Piers Morgan. I am very ashamed of this but I do like him.

William Hague. He seems a nice bloke.

Kate Middleton's mum. Called all sorts of vile disparaging names such as jumped up, pushy, but I admire someone who started as a air hostess, built up a business and earned her money rather than inheritied it.

Michael Winner. I love him

I am with you on Kate Middleton's mum, GetOrf. I always thought that the nastiness around her was basically misogyny... you never hear about KM's dad being crucifed in the same way.

The stuff that came out of Prince W's cronies sniggering 'door to manual' really anoyed me. I mean, at least she HAS a job.

I like hague too.

i love Angelina Jolie.... she is sexy plus. I love Isabella Rossellini too in a major way. Sigh. wish I looked like that.

Jon Snow I'm fond of

[edited to add that the comment about KM's mum having a job was not intended to insult anyone on MN who may be job seeking. But to insult those smug bastard cronies of Prince W who have inherited their money but feel they can criticise a woman who has earned an honest crust.]

[needing to explain in case causing unintentional hurt emoticon]

sorry.

Sophia Loren - she's a crap acress. Her 'almond' eyes are due to makeup (the thing that makes here 'beautiful' etc) but she's such a showbiz oldie and her experience makes her just absolutely brilliant in her 'old' age just giving interviews.

Don't want to be her at all, but just love her for what she is today.

GetOrfMoiLand - your love of Michael Winner is truly irrational. He makes my skin creep.

So ashamed to admit this and will probably need a therapist in due course but... Alec Salmond!! Don't agree with his politics or that cocky swagger he puts on and he's certainly no oil painting but ... help... I can't help liking the man.

YY to Alan Bennett. And the other person I always feel is a real, genuine, intelligent, lovely person is Sheila Hancock. She did a great 'Who Do You Think You Are'. And on R4 the other night she was superb reading her old teenage diaries - really brought a tear to the eye.

I like Dennis Skinner too. I struggle to think of another politician who I like.

Also: Vanessa Feltz, Mariella, Mariah

I have quite irrational fondness for sluts and drunks misunderstood and emotional people.

Kate Moss
Pete Doherty
Snoop Dogg
Lindsay Lohan
Sienna Miller

I will forgive Michael Winner everything for that TV exchange where he ripped the shit out of Richard Littlejohn.

Sheila Hancock seconded - Mum is a Quaker and knows her a bit, and says she is one of the most thoughtful and kind women imaginable. Also I think Emma Thompson is a genuinely decent person - she really seems to walk the talk in terms of her commitment to the things she believes in. Adopting an adolescent as she did is a great thing to do, and I really like the way she plainly feels she was the lucky one, that he's enriched her life more than vice versa. She does a lot for homelessness charities as well as HIV ones.

I think Keanu Reeves seems lovely as well, and not just because he's incredibly beautiful. He's apparently given away millions to behind-the-scenes film crews, through signing away some of his profit-share rights. And according to a local paper when I was in LA, he scared some kids who were racially abusing a till worker in a supermarket. He intervened and told them to show her some respect; they stared and said, are you Neo? So he agreed that he was, and that they might want to piss off before he gave them a demonstration.

Oh and Jane Lynch - Sue on Glee. I know absolutely nothing about her to make me have such a huge soft spot, but I do. I love her.