To think the Duchess of Cambridge has no place in sports personality of the year

[Nishky]

Martina Navratilova made a moving speech about female role models so who do they roll out to present it?

If she has no place what about Stringer Bell? Why was he there?

Oh, but her hair looked lovely. How does she get it so shiny and nice?

Her hair looked terrible. Too volumised and out of control. Maybe to hide her face? Who knows. But did anyone see idris??

Yea YABU.
She's a royal, and it is a great honour to receive the award, so they need someone deemed highly important to present it.
She was an ambassador as everyone else said.
There's no pleasing some folk is there. I watched the prog. and thought things like -
-what a great programme.

-I'm glad Bradley Wiggins won it for his phenomenal achievements even though he's somewhat lacking in the personality part
-Bit of a shame for Mo Farah - in any other year, he'd have been right up there, but this year, nothing!
-So glad that they gave Seb Coe the lifetime achievement award. He was such a great athlete, and has always been such a great ambassador, and the way he won the bid, and then built the Olympic Games to such a huge success, when, lets be honest, none of us thought Britain could really do it, was just incredible.

Good night's tele, IMO

I don't like her hair, it looks so unnatural. She's going to have to watch that parting like a hawk when she goes grey!

The only thing against Seb is that he doesn't know when to shut up. Someone should tell him he has a boring voice and to keep it short.

"So glad that they gave Seb Coe the lifetime achievement award. He was such a great athlete, and has always been such a great ambassador, and the way he won the bid, and then built the Olympic Games to such a huge success, when, lets be honest, none of us thought Britain could really do it, was just incredible"

Backforgood - seb did not Win the bid. A lot of people and organisations were involved. And he certainly didn't build the stadium. He deserves some credit but not too much.

He has said that over and over, but he had to appoint the right people to the team, and to the top posts, and to the contracts for things like getting the stadium built, and the opening ceremony right. Others involved - like Princess Anne and David Beckham on the prog tonight, and others I've seen in other interviews - said that yes, they were all on the team, but it was Seb Coe that was the Leader

She was there so David Beckham could experience having a smiling woman by his side for once!

Seriously, like everyone else said she was an ambassador for Team GB. I thought she looked quite poorly, TBH.

I was a bit - I'd have gone for Princess Anne myself.

But I missed Idris . I saw his name in the credits and was ? What was he doing there?

Oh ffs, some of you sound like bloody miseries, quite frankly.

Aren't you glad she feels better and looks fantastic? She was at nearly every sport going during the Olympics - in amongst the crowd in a private section next to Seb Coe cheering and looking genuinely excited and happy to be there. Yes, she was an ambassador for the games, as was the delicious David Beckham.

Sheesh, give her a break!

Ladyisabellas you have missed a treat. He was doing a talking performance. He looked fit.

Poor Kate, she can't win can she.
She has so happened to to fall into a role where she'll have a lifetime of these sort of gigs.
Just because she fell in love with a future king, she doesn't seem to get any empathy at all.
None of us know how ill she was feeling but she did come out and do her job.
I do believe she missed the Hobbit premiere as she was too ill to attend.
FFS leave her alone, her pregnancy has already caused so many repercussions, if I was her I'd be having a breakdown.

YANBU. Did she do anything, apart from standing in the background?

Idris Elba was fantastic, wasn't he?

Yes. She presented the award...

I think she is a complete waste of space, is hardly a role model for anyone having achieved nothing with her very expensive education other than marry a prince, and just spends her time prancing about on the back of tax payers money. I understand that may seem harsh, but really, she is hardly 'inspirational'.

Couldn't agree more scarlettsmummy2

I love Kate.

But aside from that, oh my word, Idris! He's well stacked and packed!!!

YANBU. The whole idea of sports is about hard work and achievement. Why on earth do they have any 'royals' involved unless they are talented athletes in their own right?

And why would an athlete at the top of their career and talent want to receive an award from someone who has really achieved nothing, except being born and getting married?

She is super dull

She and her husband looked like they really enjoyed the games, thought it was perfectly fitting that she was there. Particularly in a Jubilee year (which was also amazing)

She didn't look particularly well so I felt a bit sorry for her, brave of her to do it really.

Give her a break. She looked like she didn't want to be there either, but I imagine had been told to show up. I don't think she has much choice in these things. The poor woman looked ill, like she was about to throw up. I've never seen anyone look so thin at 2 months pregnant so I believe she is suffering from extreme morning sickness even if half of the population doesn't. She's never been a drama queen about anything.

Hmm, I was wondering what she was doing there because I didn't see her do anything but stand silently at the side of/slightly behind David Beckham like a spare part. I was only half-watching though, so didn't notice if she actually gave the award to Bradley Wiggins (I thought it was Sue Barker who did that).

She and her husband looked like they really enjoyed the games, thought it was perfectly fitting that she was there

So is the criteria, if they 'enjoy' something, they should be ambassadors, regardless of their qualifications. You are bring tongue in cheek, right?

I think the sublimal message to everyone watching, including children, is that hard work, talent and achievement is less important than birth and connections. That is why someone with no talents or achievements was presenting the awards. We are danger of becoming a dinosaur nation, locked in an archaic way of thinking