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To ask who irritates you on TV?

255 replies

sweetgrape · 19/06/2015 14:12

There are a few who just really grate, including two off Loose Women, Andrea McClean, the way she say,s okayyyy when responding to someone's opinion. Sherrie Hewson is another, one minute acting all daft and dizzy then when talking about something close to her heart talking eloquently and intelligently. Lots of people in soaps are annoying too.

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Sparklingbrook · 20/06/2015 20:38

Creme he appears to be on my tellybox right now. Angry

Sparklingbrook · 20/06/2015 20:40

aargh now it's Gaby Roslin Angry remote on the other settee....

RackofPeas · 20/06/2015 20:47

Frankie Boyle
Most sport 'personalities' because they usually don't have one. They might be good at their sport, but they're not TV presenters.
Whatever happened to Mark Lamar? He was annoying.

AmberNectarine · 20/06/2015 20:54

There are two people I can't BELIEVE haven't been mentioned yet.

  1. Rachel Riley - the personification of smug. Unbearably pleased with herself.
  1. Bill Turnbull - insufferable arsehole
KatieScarlettreregged · 20/06/2015 20:59

Eamonn Holmes, wanker
We Lorraine Kelly off the telly, her shtick is so old and fake
Lizardy "your lady" Kyle, fuck off you repetitive bullying sleaze
The Orange exploiter
Barbara fake chuckle Windsor

DueInFebruary · 20/06/2015 21:06

Miranda Hart, literally have to change channel when the stupid Vacuum advert comes on!

ButtonBoo · 20/06/2015 21:14

Charlie in Casualty (on right now!)...why oh why can he not look anyone in the eye when talking to them. Infuriating!!! Angry

Sparklingbrook · 20/06/2015 21:20

He only seems to have that one quizzical expression Button. Grin But Lee Mead is in Casualty and he's lovely.

vienna1981 · 20/06/2015 21:42

Jeremy Kyle and every single person in that studio who isn't employed on his programme. Fucking peasants, the lot of 'em.

Curtesytome · 20/06/2015 21:49

Jason manford and Ruth off Victorian farm, they both grate on me!

dannydyerismydad · 20/06/2015 21:49

How is Barrowman and his horse teeth grin not on this list? He is now.

Bettyboophead · 20/06/2015 21:50

Amanda Holden

ByeFelicia · 20/06/2015 22:54

Not an exhaustive list by any means:

Dom from Cowboy Builders
James Cordon
Ashley Banjo
Davina
Andrew Neil
Jo Coburn
Jack Whitehall
Jamie Redknapp
The female voice over on all benefit shows
Denise Nurse
Nicki Chapman
Jasmine Harman
Myleene Klass

DogWalker75 · 20/06/2015 23:29

Jamelia and Myleen Klass
Matthew Wright - too aggressive when somebody disagrees with him (like wise for Janet Street Porter).
Richard and Judy
Loads of the ex T4 presenters (apart from Nick Grimshaw, love him)
Keith Lemon
Jeremy Kyle and his mate Graham
Simon Cowell

I do like Judge Rinder and Phillip Schofield; they are quite entertaining. I don't mind Denise Welch, I think she's very candid about her own MH issues.

bubblegirl67 · 20/06/2015 23:45

Kirsty Allsop, Amanda Holden,Simon Cowell, Cheryl was Cole don't care what surname she uses now, Kay Burley. That's All.

SunnyBaudelaire · 20/06/2015 23:54

Nick Helm - noisy, egotistical, aggressive, not funny

Jeremy Kyle - smug judgemental twat making a living of other peoples misery

anyone with the surname Carr - idiots

Chloe Madeley showing off her shaven parts on twitter....OK not tv but still, she is welcome in my hatefest.

GingerLDN · 20/06/2015 23:54

Kay Burley, Ruth Langsford, Tess Daly, Jamelia, Coleen Nolan, Konnie Huq, Eamonn Holmes

JoffreyBaratheonFirstofHisName · 21/06/2015 00:54

Alex Jones. Mouthbreather. She seems so monumentally thick.

Clarkson, goes without saying.

The vile weatherman on Look North who tries desperately to create a personality cult round himself and takes credit for it if the weather is good - as if he made it. But if it's bad he acts all defensive and weird, like "WTF, bitches, why are you blaming me for the fecking weather?"

Er... I wasn't. But now I will.

Barry Scott.

I would agree with Loose Women only I am never annoyed by them as I don't watch it. But the rare occasion I have seen it... Ew. All toy boys and handbags - really confirms every misogynist ever's view of women and has put feminism back maybe 1000 years. Saw the fake blonde one that used to be on Corrie filming, when I was in the Lake District the other year. She acted like Jupiter Descending On A Cloud. Talentless twonk.

The unprepossessing girl who pees herself from Geordie Shore.

Mouthbreathers, generally.

JoffreyBaratheonFirstofHisName · 21/06/2015 00:57

Oh yes James Corden - my biggest hate figure of all. How did I forget him? Ah yes - he is forgettable.

And Jimmy Carr - that laugh is so fake. Fine him every time he laughs. That will soon stop it.

Freddie Flintoff. Pretty to look at but just too 'sporty PE god' for my liking. He looks like he's slap your arse if you were a waitress.

CoffeeAndOranges · 21/06/2015 08:36

I think I must be made mellowing - I can't muster up as much rage for most of these as some pps! I think I manage to avoid the worst offenders though - talent shows, daytime telly, celebrity things don't get much airtime in our house.

I do hate it when politicians get asked questions then don't get given the chance to answer them before the interviewer leaps in again, twisting their words and accusing them of saying all sorts they never actually said (cos they didn't get chance). No wonder politicians never seem to say anything concrete. They are really bad for this on radio 4, makes me switch off.

Stephen Fry and Brian Cox seem to think that between them they know everything there is to know about everything - I used to love Stephen fry but I think he believed his own hype a bit too much and has fallen into the smug trap along with Prof Cox. And I don't find Jimmy Carr funny in the slightest, he comes across as being quite nasty and vindictive.

But whoever said George Clarke can send him over here, I think he's lovely Smile

CoffeeAndOranges · 21/06/2015 08:37

made mellowing?! Er just 'mellowing'!!

Wearit · 21/06/2015 08:50

Keith Lemon
Peter Andre
David Walliams

sashh · 21/06/2015 09:16

Also, TV impressionists that can't do impressions! I'm looking at you, John Culshaw, Alistair MacGowan and Rory Bremner!

And insist on doing impressions on everything they are on. Even if the impression has nothing to do with the show they are on.

Christine Blakeley particularly when she was doing breakfast TV with bloke that does football.

The entire programme was him complaining it was early and being 'miserable bloke' and her looking directly in to camera and giggling. And she is so thick! She was doing something interviewing someone about the world cup in South Africa and made a comment about being able to hear the crowd, not realising she was talking to someone in a different city!

Brian (I'll just pause and give a smug smile to camera while you wallow in how brainy I am) Cox.

Sparklingbrook · 21/06/2015 09:18

I am always meh about impressionists. Everyone is going 'ooh that sounds just like him' when it really doesn't. What is the point? Confused

MurielWoods · 21/06/2015 09:19

Kate Humble (sorry, I know she is probably considered to be a bit of a darling in the TV world but she irritates the hell out of me)

All that faux sincerity (bleaurgh!)

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