Am I the only Guardian reader who is fed up with all these no names presented like they are celebrities? Example: "Wouldn’t it be lovely if I could shut up?’ Meet Lola Petticrew, TV’s most fearless actor" - who TF is this person?

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Basically, as my title. Its not the first time I'm reading an article about some one I never heard of who is presented as someone famous. This article really took the bisquit. Who is this person? They? WTF? Why does it matter what THEY think, say or do?

Or am I being unreasonable and this is actually someone who IS famous?

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/dec/25/lola-petticrew-interview-say-nothing-trespasses

Good actors are rightly highly valued, but they don’t usually make interesting interviewees. They are chameleons - all their personality goes into creating a character.
Also they need to keep getting work, so will be terrified of saying anything controversial and tend to overpraise all their colleagues.

Yes Main Character Syndrome.

For being annoyed that a national newspaper has dared to cater to people that are Not Her.

The Guardian is my newspaper of choice but I agree that bits of it are almost beyond parody at times.

It’s got to the point where I mainly just read Grace Dent’s restaurant reviews.

The Guardian needs to figure out how to appeal to the masses, and this isn't how you do it. They are losing millions every year and their website is always begging for donations.

Um, what? I'm still in a sniffles-induced, sleep-deprived, chocolate-fuelled haze.
Is this parody?

They need to bite the bullet and have subscriptions. We have digital subscriptions for the Times, Telegraph, Spectator, London Review of Books, and others as well as reading the Guardian for free. Sounds expensive? Not if you get ultra cheap digital deals, then when they are about to run out you ring to cancel- they always renew under the same terms because they hate losing subscribers.

What makes me laugh about the Guardian is how they are always desperately chasing the youth market (or as they say, ‘Gen Z’.) Then if you read the comments below the articles, they are all written by people in late middle age, retired people, with lots in their 70s and 80s.

Very young people really don’t spend a lot of time reading traditional newspapers as a rule. It’s as if the Guardian staff find their own natural readership embarrassing in some way!

Is she the woman who randomly hated Jonathan ross in the celebs traitors??

😄😄

I agree that the Guardian has no future without full subscription. But I doubt it could survive on that basis for very long anyway. It’s just not a good enough newspaper of broad enough appeal.

The loyalty of a hardcore who mostly work in higher education or for the public sector unions won’t keep it afloat. And it’s because it has needed to keep these people happy that it’s become a parody of left metropolitan politics and social issues. It would just get worse.

No. She was called Ruth something.

It's just PR, they've got to fill the site with something.