to wonder if MN can actually agree on there being a person in the public eye who we all admire?

[ChaosTrulyReigns]

Is there any celebrity well known person that is admired/deemed acceptable by the whole of MN?

I doubt it.

I'll start by throwing Lauren Laverne and Timmy Mallet into the mix.

Tony Benn yes oooh Denis Healey

Alison Steadman sets my teeth on edge. I think she's an appalling actress.

Don't you ALL love Catlin Moran?

Whose that blonde woman always on grumpy woman I ADORE her

Jane Moore

oh and Arabella Wier

Yes Caitlin is my hero.

What about Claire Balding? There can't be a person alive who can't like her?

No to Lauren. She shagged my ex boyfriend so nowt to admire there.

Yes to Brian cox and David Attenborough. Michael Palin a good contender. I also have a sneaking admiration for Gail Porter.

belligerent - yes type cast too

oooh ooh ooh got one a fab one

Maggie Smith

Dec from Ant and Dec. Or Ant.

YES to Jamie Oliver
Gordon Brown
Tony Ben
Caroline Lucas
David Attenborough
Prof Cox
Don't think James Blunt have and Mathew Wright have been mentioned yet MW has so many fans on MN!

and Vanessa Redgrave

These women could almost almost muster a wincy bit of pride in me to be British ...just a little wincy bit mind

Stephen Hawking?
Bruce Willis - he even saved the Earth...

Claire Baldwin is a cunt.

Don't belittle someone's looks (ie a jockeys teeth after a monumental win) when you look like a sack of shit yourself.

Yes to Ms Lumley & Mary Portas.

Like Dolly, Alison Steadman, Sue Johnston and lots of the others but can't say i admire them.

No no no to Trevor McDonut. He lives up the road from me and is a miserable bastard.

Sarah Waters?

Nooooooooo to Jane Moore. Horrible woman

Ooo, yes to Packham

Tony Benn is a good choice

No to Sarah Waters for being A Not Very Good writer imho.

I like Sarah Waters books.I like the lesbian element

Her last book was awful though.

Dolly Parton
Desmond Tutu
Rolf Harris

Can't stand Joanna Lumley, or Helen Mirren or Stephen Fry. I wouldn't admire anyone who is vehemently anti-religion, so no Tim Minchin, nor even David Attenborough.

I would personally choose to add Emma Thompson and Jamie Oliver.

jamie Olivier > mr spitty mouth

Pass.

Not Brian Cox, he always strikes me as such a grinning idiot

Helen Mirren and Tony Benn yes, Mary Beard probably yes, Mary Portas no, annoying reality-ish TV programme, at a push I prefer the one from the Hotel Inspector who has such nice bags :)

I think I could actually do Gregg shapps

Claire Baldwin?

That's a NO

Maggie Smith ???

OP yanbu to wonder but yabvvu to expect MN to agree on anything...

So no, there is no one. And maybe that's the reason why we have spook many slebs: for each to have at least one :)

No no no to Cerys Matthews - the woman CANNOT hit a note properly.