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.

Michelle Obama?

Dolly.

oh come on Davina? nicely shrieky on telly but that is about it.

Lembit Opik?

...only joking!!

Bill Gates ???!!! Don't say that to anyone in computing.

How about David Attenborough?

Moira Stewart ? - didn't you see that episode of Extras? Drug baron! (joke, please, you know it's a joke don't you?).

Charlie Brooker?

jelly when the best you can say about someone is that she is unthreatening and nice, you haven't exactly got a world-changer there, have you?

zillions of people are unthreatening and nice. on and off the telly

yy to Julie Walters

Oh blimey, I think she's a great role model for women, tits notwithstanding.

Everything she's ever achieved, she's done by herself, for herself. She's made it in a man's world, all by herself.

And I get the impression the tits are for her, I've never seen her as a pinup for men.

Just ace.

David Attenborough, surely?

DOLLY.

I like (whispers) Stephen Fry...

oh pgpg everyone in computing would admit his colossal achievements, even if they personally had a beef with microsoft/windows/etc

and i say that as someone who set up a software company using java and parlay

Stephen Fry didn't do himself any favours with his "women only have sex to catch/keep a man" comments a few months ago.

{stamps foot}
David Attenborough.

David Attenborough's a good one.

I don't think Davina is worthy of admiration - even if you find her entertaining, it's all just froth. And her hair adverts are extremely irritating.

David Attenborough is TRULY a national treasure.

David and Dolly so far?

Virtually every single one of those people sets my teeth on edge. The extracts printed from Sarah Brown's diary in the DM read like a Private Eye parody, tbh. No ta.

Everyone loves Joanna Lumley, don't they? Although I am willing to accept Dolly. The dumb blonde who isn't dumb or blonde.

Bill Gates - yes, but not so much for Microsoft but for his charitable foundation. Make a fortune, invent software that transforms the world and spend the money doing really good work - what's not to admire?

Dawn French
James Cordan
Phillip Scoffield
Davina Mc call (even if she was a druggie ages agoO
and Julie Walters

Whaaaaaat?

Was he serious?

A definite no to James Corden.I can't stand him.

What about Emma Thompson. Good actress, adopts kids, not too pretentious and her dad invented the Magic Roundabout.

YY to Dolly.

David...hmmm. Brian Cox in 40 years. Not convinced.

But YY to Dolly!!

Ooh yes, David Attenborough. And Dolly Parton