To be surprised to learn Adrian Chiles is married to the editor of the Guardian?

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Not sure why I'm surprised that he's married to Kath Viner but at least that may explain why he's got a weekly column. And there I was wondering why they were paying him to write such drivel!

That explains a lot. His column is dreadful.

I'm fascinated by his columns, mostly because of how inane they are.

Ah, that would explain a lot. I can only hope, for her sake, that he's more riveting in real life. This week's column was about drinking water.
Can't he just go and open a little shop selling expensive handcrafted lifestyle products like the spouses of most high achievers?

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He was married Jane Garvey and by all accounts was Odessa’s with Christine???? who didn’t give him the time of day and married Frank Lsmpard

Ohhhhh that explains a lot!!

Hr also dated Catherine Tate for a bit.

But yes, that column is not deserving of space, and I quite like him.

I've always wondered why his "light" column was in the Guardian. It's a bit like the ones you get at the back of Good Housekeeping or Homes and Gardens. "I really like a Persian rug and a wooden floor and gardening is my therapy - find me in the greenhouse" type of writing.

His column is dreadful so it made sense when I discovered this.
Also why Owen Jones bizarrely stated how good it was.

I quite like it!

It's a sad day when the Graun count Chiles and Owen Jones among their columnists and Hadley Freeman leaves for The Sunday Times...

He should call it Hygge Tygge and there must be scented candles.

He wrote an article about having a urinal in his flat. And I read it, all the while thinking 'why am I wasting 5 mins reading about Adrian Chiles' home urinal?'.

Ohhhhhhhhh. Imagine being so high-flying you edit the Graun and then you marry him. Does he have a gold-plated penis or something?

LOJ sucking up to his editor I imagine.
I heard this about AC recently and it made so much sense, I guess she put him on the payroll so he has to write about something...anything...no matter how boring and irrelevant.

Meanwhile many intelligent and hardworking journalists would give their right arm for a regular column in a national paper.

For ages I was baffled why they printed his tedious meanderings.

I saw this epic brown-nosing quoted in Private Eye and laughed for several minutes. Here's a screenshot.

I quite like Adrian Chiles but agree his column is rubbish. Owen Jones is odious

But Adrian Chiles was doing really well long before he wrote for The Guardian. He was earning over £1m a year when he was married to Jane Garvey.

“How can I drink enough water per day? I’ve got a weak bladder”

”Why is it I always manage to get the supermarket trolley with a dodgy wheel?”

”Police these days, huh! Why do they always look about 12?”

”I can only stand on one leg for 4 seconds these days..”

”My feet ache, - must be my age”

Does he have a column random generator or what?

I have been aware of him for ages and he is obviously successful at some things.
I don't particularly dislike him but I think his column is really bad.
Totally vacuous drivel which isn't funny or thoughtful.

Oh that's so pathetic, what a creep

It all makes sense now.

Exactly. This rather unpleasant little thread rather implies that he's a total nonentity in his own right.

I don't think it implies he's a nonentity. I've not read any of his Guardian columns and I've rarely seen him on TV or heard him on radio, but a couple of things leap out at me here. I don't care very much as I don't read The Guardian and confidently expect it to go bust soon if it doesn't introduce a paywall, but these things are at odds with its much trumpeted stance as an ethical newspaper.

1. He is a columnist on the paper his new wife edits. He says he had the column for three months before he first met Kath Viner, so he didn't get the column through nepotism, but as soon as he embarked on a relationship with the boss, it must surely have become very difficult for anybody at The Guardian to have the usual conversations about whether to go on with his column or not.
2. Being good at one thing on the media doesn't mean you're going to be brilliant at another. Hardly any trained journalists can write a decent regular column. Why would somebody famous for being a good TV presenter be likely to do better?