Grant Shapp's bookshelf and 'Zoom' background

[chomalungma]

Honestly.

He has an open 'Red box' - is it supposed to be a Government red box?
Then he has several books on the bookshelf possibly deliberately facing outwards so we can all see what he may be reading.

Plus the Union flag as well.

I wonder if he spends a lot of time preparing it for interviews?

People's kitchens are fascinating me too. There's a GP who does her interview from her kitchen sometimes and it looks very sleek. (I'm supposed to be choosing a new kitchen for next year and i'm all at sea with so much choice.)

This just proves the point that a shelfful of books, no matter how they are placed, does not reflect your intelligence.

@Serin

Lisa Nandy appears to be in a weird empty attic. I'm worried she is being kept against her will.......

I thought that too! Or imagined her pulling up the ladder hatch and shouting down “Look, I’ve gone as high up as I can without a Skyhook, so DO NOT DISTURB!”

That's so nauseating. Do they have someone employed as a TV set designer equivalent for homes/office spaces? Is all that there too distract us from what he's actually saying?

I have bookshelf in the office behind me. It just worked the best with table/window placement. So I imagine it's like that for many of them too. But at least I don't advertise books like this

Giles Brandreth (onThis Morning) has a huge tidy bookcase, lots of old encyclopaedia type books but it all looks real and typical of what I would imagine him to have

I like being able to see in peoples homes, one wall in our living room is a floor to ceiling bookcase, so if I’m on the sofa people see my book collection (and all the cobwebs and dust). It has a ladder, its like being in beauty and the beast.

The only quiet place is the utility room so I sometimes do zooms from there, the walls are all tiled and as I was sat at the end my colleagues thought I was sat on a toilet.

There was someone on TV, I can’t remember who it was, their decoration was awful, but they has lots of mirrored furniture and not a single one had a fingerprint, how is that possible?!

@ElBandito

Any of you on Twitter may enjoy this account twitter.com/BCredibility which covers a wide range of politicians, celebrities and their bookcases.

Ha! I was scrolling through to see if anyone had shared this! Heartily recommend!

Andrew Scott is apparently in prison.

I'm sorry op, but I do think Grant Slacks' bookcase is reflective of who he is (a duplicitous ego-maniac).

He is showing us just how very special he really is.

Also, what's the red box/screen thing that looks like it has a tiny erection and a n the back ground?

I'll admit I tidy up the sofa cushions behind me so it looks less like an explosion of child, dog and husband in DFS if I'm on the sofa, and I've removed the bags of crap on top of the bookcase in the conservatory that's usually behind me now we're in the era of endless fucking zoom calls.

I tend to get asked what the hell the situation is with the cushions on the conservatory sofa as they're very odd looking if you're not a total geek (they're final fantasy themed cushions) a fair bit though - people do notice your background.

I should say that my home workspace is a table crammed in where we could fit one to do craft/painting/homework etc, so it's next to a flat-type book shelf (the tidy books type for small children?) filled with picture books fairly sure my colleagues know they're not my reading material!
Nice and colourful though. If I've wiggled my laptop they get a view of the paints/felt tips/pencils/glue/paper/card instead.

@LightAsTheBreeze

Giles Brandreth (onThis Morning) has a huge tidy bookcase, lots of old encyclopaedia type books but it all looks real and typical of what I would imagine him to have

Giles was on tv earlier. And his book case was amazing. The whole thing screamed Giles Brandreth

I’d guess he’s just removing or covering personal Items for privacy as teachers generally do. That’s all

Think it's a RAF flag. DD's boyfriend's parents have one like that in their living room. I admit my bookshelves look like that, the forward facing ones are extras that didn't fit!

I think Mel Giedroyc did a One Show interview from her wardrobe. She then crawled through the back of it into the loft space 😂

Thanks for the Twitter link. He/she is underrated!

My workplace is the dining room table on the side which means I see out into the garden rather than the kitchen. It means there's a row of bookcases behind me, though to be honest other than the kitchen and bathroom, there are not many places in the house without bookcases.

@MinorArcana

That’s a weird way to have your books unless you happen to live in a bookshop and are doing zoom from the shop.

I struggle to believe that anyone would have books facing out like that at home if there wasn’t a camera pointing at the bookshelves.

Ones facing front like that are often to hide what is behind - trashy novels perhaps

We need photos of things seen like this !

i joined a zoom and hadnt realised that ds's background was displayed. Clearly the other people were not Dr Who fans as they asked "whats that?"...tardis with a self portrait of a grinning ds superimposed!!

I love the actors/ musicians who give interviews or live stream in front of their awards- John Legend is a master of this

@megletthesecond

Shapps is odd. Didn't he pretend to be someone else for a while for a business. Seriously dodgy IMO.

He used a a fake name for his "second job", which was basically a ponzi scheme, and somehow it's deemed irrelevant by Tory HQ that he lied and lied and lied about the second job and even threated a constituent with legal action for saying he had a second job. He is a an absolute charlatan

I think some of you may enjoy this twitter account

twitter.com/BCredibility?s=09

My absolute favourite was Simon Calder's, at the beginning of lockdown.
Behind him was a massive basket of clothes waiting to be ironed. I thought Mrs C will not be happy.
Ever since then he's had an ordinary background