to think that two fat ladies were callously replaced

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by two hairy bikers. why aren't they called two fat as fuck bikers?

I like the hairy bikers.

Funnily enough I'd just said to DH that I'm getting sick of seeing those fat fuckers on my telly. They're always on.

I wonder how all the broadcasters [we pay for] manage somehow to get the heads-up way way in advance about the way the economy/tax advantages/changes are going, so that they can commission progs like this to make the nation feel good??

Trinny and Suzannah must be eating off their kaffir til the nextboom!

It's a mystery Not

BBC Guidelines:
It's good to be show fat people having major fun on telly during a major recession (sign that the good times are still here and you can actually eat your way out of poverty) as less people will string themselves up, hence more retained license fee payers.

when the country is booming again, if it ever happens, no fat people will be on telly.

To be fair, one of the fat ladies died. Still they could have had one fat lady and a hairy biker, that would have been worth watching.

I think that Two Fat Ladies were ditched off because the BBC finally realised that, for two people presenting a food programme, they used to make most peoples' stomachs turn.

I think some of the comments on this thread are appalling!

Perriwinkle, what an intelligent, enlightened thing to say

I used to really like the two fat ladies.

The hairy bikers have good chemistry together and are fun to watch.

I'm sure that those who had low standards of personal and kitchen hygiene themselves wouldn't have been remotely offended by them.

Clarissa is thin now, and haggard :( I was heartbroken when I saw her recently, live on something on telly - she looked so ill. Her autobiographies are wonderful, especially Spilling the Beans, she has had a fascinating life. She says in it that the BBC only put her and Jennifer together because they thought they'd hate each other and fight all the time!

they weren't really replaced though were they? didn't one of them die?

i mean, they weren't really going to do another series after that were they?

The Two Fat Ladies were wonderful. Really miss them together .

Loved the Hairy Bikers baking series a couple of years ago.

wow i just looked clarissa up to see a recent pic

she has NINE middle names!

sorry. make that ten

Her family put the fun in dysfunctional! Her mother took her to "meet a lady" when she was five, told her she'd be back in a bit, and left her there for five years - it was a boarding school!

Much prefer the Hairy Bikers to the Fat ladies.

she says she went to boarding school when she was 11

I don't have a TV.

Every time I go round to someone's house that has one, it is a fucking cookery show on. Wall to wall cookery.

If it isn't that smug speccy twat in the River Cottage, making stews from soil it's Jamie Olive's ludicrous flappy mouth telling us that all the kiddie widdies are going to die from a bag of crisps and the odd Wham! Bar. Flick over it is Masterchef with some Aussie and refuge from a Right Said Fred tribute act.

Why? TV is a shit medium for food. You can't smell it or taste it? Just stare at it. Why TV execs? Why? At least in the old days you could at least watch Keith Floyd gets a pissed as a newt and insult the camera man.

We were watching the Hairy Bikers recently and they were cooking some sort of vegetable thing. DD (10) pipes up with, "for as much as they say they like their vegetables they sure don't look like they eat many!"

They're not fat. They're just big boned.

(Great big fat wobbly bones in the stomachal regions)

Wasn't one of the two fat ladies coincidentally also a hairy biker? Seem to remember them roaring round the countryside on a sidecar contraption.

The Hairy Bikers are lovely Especially Si (reminds me of DH yum) the food they make looks nice, they are not condesending, and i would rather watch them than any of the up they're own arse cooks like Hugh Fernley Whittinstall.

I like vegetables and fruit Btw and i'm fat, it can happen

HFW may be up his own arse, but I do like his food. We have his veg cook book and it is very good.

Yeah. You all leave Hugh alone! He is GOD! so there

But at least you know they eat their food. There is nothing worse than watching some former model or stick thin waif trying to convince you that they are keen on food and ingredients are bought in chi-chi little delis down their road ...