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To wonder how on earth Kay Burley is still on the TV?

104 replies

Sparklingbrook · 24/07/2013 10:27

She is dreadful, and yet she's still there. So many crimes too. Angry

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Ledkr · 24/07/2013 11:45

Oh my goodness!!
How was she not sacked?
She's foot in mouth personified.

ShadeofViolet · 24/07/2013 11:47

Maybe they keep her around to deflect from Eamonn Holmes, who is a mega twat.

motownmover · 24/07/2013 11:54

Ok I was completely wrong - didn't realised she asked that question!

Owllady · 24/07/2013 11:54

rofl at the confusion over bingo lindo wing and wings on this thread!

Owllady · 24/07/2013 11:55

haha at she doesn't speak english she is brazillian
I am crying here Blush

LeGavrOrf · 24/07/2013 11:57

Oh my god she she really say Bingo Wing?

I a going to start watching sky news now, I stuck to BBC news yesterday

Owllady · 24/07/2013 12:04

I watched itn and I loved that the bingo wing was right next door to Buckingham palace!

and when they said the future king is coming through the door and some old geezer came out in a suit

Then i had commentary off my 12 yr old who said his English teacher looked like Prince William. i said 'why is he bald?' and he said 'Shock NO! he has haior at the back and at the front with a round circle of baldness that he spikes his hair to cover up'

I thought this was a very unfair description of someone

limitedperiodonly · 24/07/2013 12:08

I saw the Brazilian women. They looked at her like she was deranged.

She interviewed one of those attention-seeking mentalists who you always find at these things wearing a Union Flag suit and talking twaddle.

I was thinking apart from the suit I can't put a cigarette paper between you.

LeGavrOrf · 24/07/2013 12:15

Were you there in person limited?

OhTheConfusion · 24/07/2013 12:25

She was interviewing a man yesterday and completely ignoring him and looking somewhere else... terrible!!!

limitedperiodonly · 24/07/2013 12:34

No, I had one eye on a piece of work and Sky News on in the other room.

I escaped from that kind of duty a long time ago. I look back with wistfulness about the camaraderie.

But in reality you either get sunburned or frozen but more usually wet, you become obsessed with finding a toilet, the news editor insists you call him constantly even when nothing's happened only to scream at you for wasting his time, a policeman tells you where to stand and then another one tells you to move, photographers shout obscenities at you for getting in the way and there's the constant fear that you'll be having a wee when it all happens and you will be sacked.

Or that you'll be there and a 15 stone photographer will crush you. Or Kay Burley will throttle you.

LeGavrOrf · 24/07/2013 12:44

I always think those massive crushes of photographers and reporters must be scary to be amongst (and even more so to be in front of). I watched the bit with the Middleton parents and it looked a bit overwhelming, all the people shouting Carole etc.

quesadilla · 24/07/2013 12:44

YANBU.
She isn't the sharpest tool in the box.
Anyone remember on 9/11 she told viewers the "entire Eastern seaboard of the United States" had gone up in flames....

Would have been laughable had it not involved the deaths of thousands of people.

She is (or was) in a relationship with The Sun's political editor and I think this goes some way towards explaining her durability despite endless foot in mouth episodes... Call me cynical.

tobiasfunke · 24/07/2013 12:45

I figure she must know where all the bodies are buried otherwise why else would they still use her - they can't actually think she's an asset. I can't watch Sky News if she's on and normally I couldn't tell one newsreader from another.

LittleMissGerardButlerfan · 24/07/2013 12:45

I saw her the other day and she was awful, no eye contact and kept interrupting people.

I had to turn over she was embarrassing!

limitedperiodonly · 24/07/2013 12:58

You have arguments with other reporters and there's pushing and shoving. If you hate someone from TV or radio you can always ruin their interview by muttering obscenities.

It's unlikely you'll be in front of the photographers. They'll scream at you if that happens.

I was outside a party where Princess Diana was expected. Claudia Schiffer arrived and was posing just when Diana's car pulled up. Suddenly the photographers started shouting: 'Fuck off, you stupid cunt.'

I don't imagine that happens to Claudia often.

LeGavrOrf · 24/07/2013 13:01

Oh my god! Do they really shout stuff like that! Bloody hell I have lived a sheltered life.

ComposHat · 24/07/2013 13:06

Sky News - does anyone actually watch it?

Adam Boulton is a pissed up Tory toad. Kay Burley is a disgrace.

I have no idea how they've both remained in lucrative employment for so long. I can only assume they both give terrific blowjobs.

LeGavrOrf · 24/07/2013 13:08

Was Adam Boulton the one who Alastair Campbell had a massive row with after the general election results? That made me laugh.

ComposHat · 24/07/2013 13:11

Yep that's him.

I'm no fan of Alastair Campbell, but he knew what buttons to press and Boulton obliged.

Watching the footage again, Adam Boulton looks like he has had a drink or two.

mam29 · 24/07/2013 13:12

i thourght she was bad birth day going on about how she had hers at lindo wing, annoyed as hopital wouldent tell her how many cm dilated as everyone wants to know.

missed the brazilian thing and bingo wing hilarious.

yesterday pre baby appearance she walked along street with paul doing most of talking.. then when charles came she got overly exited im sure paul hates her,

whats was throttling thing?

anyone notice she appeared to have same outfit 2days in a row?

she suppost to be 2-5 so why shes had so much air time im dont know.

wonder if she camp outside kates parents house and bug them next.

I like anna she always seems nice and i did think myself thats a big afterbump.

squoosh · 24/07/2013 13:12

Sky News is like some spoof news show.

I never tire of seeing the drunken Adam Boulton rising to Alistair Campbell's baiting.

I think Adam must have had a 'refreshing' lunch.

Sparklingbrook · 24/07/2013 13:14

Hahahaha Kate and William have left Kensington Palace and Sky News don't know where they have gone. Bet Kay Burley will be furiously trying to find out in time to break it to us at 2pm.

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Sparklingbrook · 24/07/2013 13:16

Hahahahaha (again) Harry has been to visit them and Sky missed that too.

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squoosh · 24/07/2013 13:20

I can't help thinking there was a missed opportunity when Kay Burley was on Dancing on Ice.

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