'Wine expert Philip Schofield'

[Ihavethesecret]

This has just popped into my inbox in a Waitrose mailing. Are, not sure when he became a wine expert instead of a slab. AIBU that experts should actually be just that?

I think M&S won on this one with wossisname Siriex. He told us what kitkats were made of, ffs!

He's also very good at football skills on roofs, and he is an expert at selling cars, and now I do believe he is interested in Gin as just a few of his many interests.
I can't stand the guy, and to be honest never have done.

Whether or not he knows about wine , I am completely fed up of his face popping up on everything on tv , give someone else a chance , please

Slimey slippery weasel.

I liked him in the broom cupboard but to be fair there wasn't a lot of choice in those days, I was young and not to terribly discerning, and Andi peters was better.

That advert where Philip appears on your shoulder is deeply creepy.

Trying to work out the OP descriptor “slab” so many autocorrect fail permutations

Pisspot Phil.

@NonCisWoman me too!!! I might have tried their Christmas gin but because it is actually branded “Scofe’s” it just gives me the rage. Every time the advert pops up on Facebook I want to comment but everyone else seems to adore him. His over powdered face is on everything.

I think we're just told people adore him tbh. Like Ant n Dec. I certainly don't adore the drink driving one. Good agents and PR presumably

Most of the presenters on ITV are awful.

@ShedFace

He is just a terrible human being. I feel they should put this before his name always.

"terrible human being, Phillip Schofield (....)".

I like it. Sums him up well.

It's been shown repeatedly in blind tests that wine 'experts' can't tell the difference between cheap and expensive plonk anyway.

I preferred it when wine experts were just posh alcoholics who were wheeled on to spout semi-drunken nonsense about oak and blackberries from a wine aisle in Sainsbury's and no-one took them seriously.

Jilly Goolden and Oz Clarke were the ones back in the day. They were the first wine experts I remember. Lots of swirling it about the glass and having a sniff.

Hop, excellent post and yes I agree

@Sparklingbrook

Jilly Goolden and Oz Clarke were the ones back in the day. They were the first wine experts I remember. Lots of swirling it about the glass and having a sniff.

Have you seen Oz and James May doing it - it's hilarous www.amazon.co.uk/Oz-Jamess-Big-Wine-Adventure/dp/B000KP7N50/ref=pd_lpo_74_t_0/261-0762559-2407320?psc=1&pf_rd_p=7b8e3b03-1439-4489-abd4-4a138cf4eca6&_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_wg=t5LmZ&pf_rd_r=NDYQ1CWRTQPBJPJ87CF6&pd_rd_i=B000KP7N50&pd_rd_w=dj81E&tag=mumsnetforu03-21&refRID=NDYQ1CWRTQPBJPJ87CF6&pd_rd_r=e2669734-8eb5-4849-845c-5b3a07159799

@CottonHeadedNinyMuggins, oh I had forgotten about that. Didn't they get sloshed continually?

Yup Now THEY are wine experts