Alexander Armstrong

[IcedVanillaLatte]

Seriously man. What were you thinking?

Every time I hear you singing "Golden Brown" I feel pain.

YABU. Stop it.

Just stop.

Stop.

[MitzyLeFrouf]

No, is he on Grand Designs? I saw the TV ad a couple of hours ago. Good old Bill pottering around his house with a cup of coffee smiling appreciatively at Bach's Cello Suite No.1 Prelude.

Kerching!

[FrickOnAStick]

Lol, no. The Bill advert was on in the GD ad break, literally 30 seconds before you posted it.

[OrcaWhale]

He makes me feel so awkward when he sings. Zander!!! Stick to pointless.

[MitzyLeFrouf]

I haven't been lucky enough to see Armstrong's album ad. But this snippet of him earnestly singing Scarborough Fair whilst sitting astride an old oak gave me an attack of the giggles.

[MargotLovedTom]

Cold Turkey by John Lennon.

I had absolutely no idea he sings. His BIL is Giles Coren; the readings on the SmugOMeter must be off the scale when they get together at Christmas.

[peardropz]

He always comes across as a right smug twat on pointless. This singing stuff is hilarious, so non self aware.

[FrickOnAStick]

God, I want to push him in the sea. Who will buy this rubbish? It's petrol station bargain bin fodder, surely?

[WouldHave]

But he's a Tory so I hate him.

I don't think he is, is he? He's on record as saying he's voted for all three of the main parties. At one point he was mildly pally with Cameron but I read somewhere he'd got over that in a big way.

[phoenix1404]

I adore AA, he can do no wrong. The ads make me cringe myself inside out though.

[MitzyLeFrouf]

Give into it Frick. Think how happy you'll be sitting in your country kitchen, sipping from your Emma Bridgewater mug, listening to Xander crooning away on the gramophone.

You'll have to skin a hamster every so often to avoid a toxic build up of twee, but you'll be so content.

[derxa]

the readings on the SmugOMeter must be off the scale when they get together at Christmas Can you imagine it? Xander and wife, Giles coren and wife and the Coren-Mitchells. Yuck

[FrickOnAStick]

[DonaldStott]

Mulligan & O'Hare

Yes x 1bazillion

[SeaWitchly]

The readings on the SmugOMeter must be off the scale when they get together at Christmas Can you imagine it? Xander and wife, Giles coren and wife and the Coren-Mitchells. Yuck

Derxa

[IcedVanillaLatte]

How dare you. One day Victoria Coren-Mitchell will realise she's too good for him and we shall be true soulmates.

[growapear]

Also by the stranglers, Don't bring Harry. Can't imagine the line in Dead Flowers about being in the basement sounding anything other than hilarious in his voice.

[BertrandRussell]

He's a more than competent singer. You may not like it, but it's ridiculous to say he can't sing.

[BertrandRussell]

Even if he's no longer a Tory voter, he's still involved in the Countryside Alliance, so I can hate him for that instead.

[Housewife2010]

Could he add JJ Cale's "Cocaine " onto his Addiction album?

[pictish]

Just because you can doesn't mean you should.

[taxcalculator]

I keep waiting for him to reveal that he's been 'acting' as a quiz show host and crooner as some sort of TV Challenge - a programme perhaps called 'Strings to my Bow' where celebrities challenge the credulity of their adoring public by stretching their talents into areas that they are clearly unfit for. Has he written a book yet or bought out a relish? I found him so funny as a comedian and really can't take his quiz show host persona or his 'jazz man' persona. Mind you his former sidekick is doing those AWFUL Tesco ads with her from Gavin and Stacey. I feel the same about former Central News reader Anna Soubrey who is now in the Tory cabinet - you what??!

[PlayOnWurtz]

Alfie boe makes my ovaries twitch, he's lovely. I love his speaking and singing voice

Alexander Armstrong has a beautiful speaking voice and a mediocre singing voice.

[PlayOnWurtz]

lrd choral and organ scholarships are bloody hard to get and usually have a lot of competition depending on the university or school

[chatnanny]

I'm intrigued at a PP reference to his family being champagne importers. I heard him interviewed the other day and he said his father was a GP. Did his mother import champagne? As for why he makes records - which aren't my cup of tea - he has four sons. I would, wouldn't you? I also agree with PP that Trinity college Cambridge doesn't hand out choral scholarships to mediocre singers.

[DonkeyOaty]

I really thought he was going to exemplify a pub singer, Russell Watson style, so was mightily relieved to discover a slightly reedy warble not dissimilar to Colin Firth on your link, Mitzy. Phew.