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To want to ‘cancel’ Paul Hollywood?!

194 replies

Switch82 · 19/11/2021 14:39

I am just absolutely just so angry with Paul Hollywood. The way he as a man thinks he knows better then Prue. The way he ‘lords’ it over others. The bullying handshake. Just his tactics. I don’t like him on television. I don’t think a lot of people do. He flirts like a lech with the younger female competitors in GBBO.

I just don’t think people like him should be on our televisions anymore. He a bit of a Jim Davidson.

OP posts:
IntermittentParps · 19/11/2021 16:34

What puts me off Prue is the 'worth the calories' shite.
What a cliché of how women think about food.

givemushypeasachance · 19/11/2021 16:42

If you don't like watching Paul Hollywood, don't watch him.

I think Simon Cowell and his "Mr Nasty" persona is wank, so I never watched any of the talent shows he was on as it just annoyed me. I still acknowledged that millions of people seemed to enjoy watching his pretend insults and tantrums, so didn't call for him to be "cancelled"... What would that mean anyway, be sacked and banned from presenting shows on TV full stop?

Gooseysgirl · 19/11/2021 16:44

He is a dick. I cannot abide him, stopped watching it when it Mary B, Sue and Mel left.

SamDees · 19/11/2021 16:45

I agree OP. Prue Leith is treated as second fiddle on the show yet she has a much more successful career and reputation

Fluffycloudland77 · 19/11/2021 16:46

Like the Nazis tried to cancel the Jews? Because thats the result of cancelling human beings.

They don’t meet your standards so you destroy them.

TonyChestnut · 19/11/2021 16:47

Hollywood gives me the ick, but I don't think it's fair to compare him to Jim Davidson.

More like Nick Knowles?

Kanaloa · 19/11/2021 16:53

If you don’t like him don’t watch the programme. I think most people on television are irritating, especially ‘tv personalities’ like Paul Hollywood. I know he’s a chef, but his tv appearances are basically just personality based.

But at the same time, I can’t say let’s ‘cancel’ Gemma Collins because I find her aggravating. Other people like her, so I just avoid things she’s in, which luckily is quite easy.

Bluntness100 · 19/11/2021 17:30

Meh, Pru leith is a tough bird, she walks her own path, he doesn’t lord it over her, how patronising,

Pumperthepumper · 19/11/2021 17:31

@Bluntness100

Meh, Pru leith is a tough bird, she walks her own path, he doesn’t lord it over her, how patronising,
Not as patronising as calling her a ‘tough bird’.
Bluntness100 · 19/11/2021 17:32

Really? I think it’s complimentary.

GreyhoundG1rl · 19/11/2021 17:33

Tough bird is complimentary?

Pumperthepumper · 19/11/2021 17:33

@Bluntness100

Really? I think it’s complimentary.
How?
MyCatEatsPrawnCrackers · 19/11/2021 17:40

I'm sure I saw Stan Boardman attending his funeral in the Daily Mirror
😂😂😂

Durbeyfield · 19/11/2021 17:41

Just change to a different channel.

CommonRoom · 19/11/2021 17:43

Ha! Just 5 pages in and we got to nazis. In a thread about GBBO.

WonderfulYou · 19/11/2021 17:45

The way he as a man thinks he knows better then Prue.

I think he’s a bit of an idiot because he loves himself but ‘thinking he knows more than Prue because he’s a man’ is such a reach and simply not true.

I have found him better this season as he’s started taking the mick out of himself a bit more.

WildFlowerBees · 19/11/2021 17:48

He is a letch, a dirty old man who makes a bee line for the most attractive contestant. His handshake is ridiculous, who does he think he is?! I'd love to see Prue and Mary together judging bake off with a return of Mel & Sue.

IrishCharm · 19/11/2021 17:51

I’ve definitely gone off him in the last few series, especially this one - but not quite as much as you op.

Firebird83 · 19/11/2021 17:53

I don’t mind PH but Matt Lucas is awful. So unfunny.

IntermittentParps · 19/11/2021 18:11

@WildFlowerBees

He is a letch, a dirty old man who makes a bee line for the most attractive contestant. His handshake is ridiculous, who does he think he is?! I'd love to see Prue and Mary together judging bake off with a return of Mel & Sue.
I haven't noticed him flirting or making a beeline for anyone. Is he?
FlowerArranger · 19/11/2021 18:13

@WildFlowerBees

He is a letch, a dirty old man who makes a bee line for the most attractive contestant. His handshake is ridiculous, who does he think he is?! I'd love to see Prue and Mary together judging bake off with a return of Mel & Sue.
Oh yes !!!
Technonan · 19/11/2021 18:24

I don't think he's ever had a michelin star, either for himself or for his restaurant.

GreyhoundG1rl · 19/11/2021 18:28

@Technonan

I don't think he's ever had a michelin star, either for himself or for his restaurant.
Does he have a restaurant?
Thethreecs · 19/11/2021 18:36

SERIOUSLY Leave my Noel alone 😍😍😍😍😍😍🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

N0tfinished · 19/11/2021 18:42

I'm more bothered by Matt Lucas, I don't find him funny at all (and I still hate him from the vile Little Britain) Noel Fielding was good last year but don't like him with Matt L.

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