my ears my ears - i can't stand Elaine Paige on sunday

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aibu

I always think Elaine sounds like she's been at the gin. Her laugh is excruciating. The break-a-legs have got progressively worse over the years.

And Lily Allen yesterday - her and that bloody woman from Vogue talking about how they wished designers designed for non-stick-thin-model-types. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

Her laugh makes me cringe but if we get rid of her they might put Barbara Windsor in permanently and she is worse. She reads every single word off a script. It's like listening to school children read. Lily Allen yesterday was awful.

The way she refers to herself as EP! Dreadful. Like Liza tarbuck though, when is she on?

Agree agree agree. Her laugh cannot possibly be real or someone would have gone for her long ago and the break a legs who sing are a particular pet hate of mine. And the EP's whatever the other two initials are, I'm too annoyed to remember...

Agree agree agree. Can't bear her laugh and she plays her own stuff.

I have to switch off French and Saunders when they're on Radio 2. They're just awful.

Mum and I were drying up the lunch things as she was finishing last week and she was "laughing".... Mum looked at me and said "I know you said she had a funny laugh dear but oh gosh she really does doesn't she!!"

Oh, god yes - French and Saunders! I thought I was the only one who didn't like them on Radio 2. Thankyou doctorsnoddy

And Lily Allen yesterday was appalling - all 'smug girls together'. Yeuch!

I realised I was becoming of an age when I switched to Radio 4 for a while.

Awful, awful show! And the alternative on radio Scotland is just as bad with all the fiddle de dee folk stuff. Roll on Johnny Walker, I love Sounds of the 70s.

Her laugh and her voice are both totally fake sounding. She just doesn't come across as natural at all. Drives me nuts, especially as I like musicals. WHile the 'Break a Leg' section can be cringey, I take issue with the idea expressed by a PP that they are adverts for crap productions that nobody would want to see. There is a lot of really good amateur theatre out there (and a lot of rubbish, too, obviously) - you should ask around and try it.

I LUFF Johnnie Walker. I got to speak to him for half an hour on the radio once! Was fab!!

I can't stand her.

Nasal voice, shite delivery and crap music.

She's a tit.

YANBU - she sounds like she's fake-smiling all the time that she's talking. Tony Blackburn is on Saturdays at similar time and has the same effect on me. I avoid and listen to radio 6 instead if I can.

I agree about Elaine Page.
The show is just excruciatingly dreary. I would love to be able to afford to go and see a West End musical but if her show is anything to go by, I'd be throwing my money away.

Those songs just do not stand up to radio play.
Dreadful.

Yadnbu she makes me feel positively murderous

YANBU at all. The laugh is put on .... surely..? DH won't listen; gives him the rage.

soverylucky I'm with you on the 'not letting real people on the radio', it just makes me cringe for some reason - I can't listen to phone ins or quizzes for that reason.

Aaaaah, I've found my people. :)

Elaine Page is painful to listen to, and along with Steve Wright reminds me why I didn't like R2 for so long.
At least they're in the minority now, and she's the only one bad enough to make me switch off.

Every time she says 'E.P.O.S' in her self-congratulatory way my first thought is always Electronic Point Of Sale, not Elaine Page On Sunday. Thank you years of working with retail

See, to me EPO is that drug that naughty Tour de France cyclists have been known to take...

They need a Night of the Long Knives at Radio 2, fo'sho'. Imagine EP chasing Steve Wright through the corridors with a carving knife, and that laugh...Then, cut to a bloodied pile of corpses, with the only bloodied and dazed survivors being Simon Mayo, Whispering Bob Harris and Mark Radcliffe.

Roll on DAB for the car, I say. Instead of listening to Elaine Paige on the way to the allotment, I could have switched over to 6 and listened to Iggy Pop. Yes. Iggy actual Pop.

urrgh! I loathe Elaine p and I can confirm I have meet her and she is an utter cow bag. Probably the most unpleasant, self obsessed ' celebrity' I have ever had to work with.

This thread is making me smile!
At the risk of outing myself, I have a dotty aunt, who met EP in a social setting a few years ago. ... She was telling all about it, when she announced that EP said ' that she (my aunt) had a beautiful singing voice' to which I said' you sang for EP ??? Really?' ... Her response ' no, I hummed!' :0

I secretly wonder if Jilly Cooper's Hermione Harefield is based on her. Her or Leslie Garrett.

My dh, who moans like mad if I put anything other than Radio 1 on in the car, is drawn to Elaine Paige because of her laugh.

She sounds like she is being throttled.

She's the only one on Radio 2 who makes me turn to another station. Awful laugh, it sounds so fake.

My DH and I call her Krusty the Clown! The laugh is awful!! Do lov my showtunes, so get Michael Ball in (or John Barrowman for me!!)

Hate Steve Wright and cannot listen unless it is someone else. Love Ken Bruce, especially Popmaster!

EP cackles like a witch, the only good thing about her is that as soon as she comes on the radio DH looks at me and says "pub?" and off we jolly well go!