AIBU to wish that Carol Vauderman would actually stop talking

[alypaly]

just watching a cookery programme with Gino etc and CV is a guest. She never shuts up, everything is about her and she has got such boring anecdotes. Does she love trying to be the centre of attention?

Uggh cant wait til she shuts up. Its put me off the programme

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and all poorly presented, badly set out calculations are known as 'vorderman maths' in most schools/authorities/organisations I've worked in!

Alypaly - was watching the same programme and she drove me so nuts that I had to switch over and watch a documentary about the plague!

Well I'm pretty sure it's not down to some green eyed monster in my case or the fact that she's a woman. I accept she's brilliant at maths and the numbers round was always my favourite in countdown, my problem with her appearance on QT (never really seen her on much else) was that it made it clear that she thought her celebrity status as an intelligent person has convinced her that her opinions on non-maths based subjects carry more weight because of this persona. I feel the same way when bono or any other celebrity starts banging on about whatever the current political agenda is when they have no qualifications or expertise in the area, it's the self-importance that gets me.
And aside from her undoubted mathematical talents I have seen little evidence that she is in fact overly intelligent.

mcBuckers...i love cookery programmes,but ended up on here having a healthy whinge as i couldnt stand watching it til the end. I normally love watching Ginos cookery.

She didnt get that good a degree,she's a bit like Liz,Hurley,past her sell by date and made a "career" out of very little,so in some ways I suppose you have to congratulate them.

iirc she has a third class degree in engineering.

It'd be harsh to knock her for making a career out of her looks and maths ability. And I wouldn't criticise her for having a mid-life crisis (I want one). But I do wish she didn't have one of those over-loud forced laughs. Like Lynne Bowls (sp???) - travel woman on Radio 2 - another over-loud forced laugher. Another side-kick who thinks she's a personality.

I'll leave the details very vague, but I used to work for someone that knew her very well irl. He said she was a horrid woman who only cared about herself. (He wasn't in love with her or anything like that, so not sour grapes.) Listening to her, I can believe him.

"past her sell by date" - oooh, lets hope you never reach the grand old age of 49 fallon. Ffs. Casual ageism - one thing I cannot abide.

bibbityetc...hate to tell you,I passed that ages ago!!!!.I just find them both intensely irritating and that laugh, as mentioned before....
And calling Liz Hurley and actress is case for trades description, surley, when you think of Judi Dench, Maggie Smith etc, now those are actresses,I also remember Liz, before her her dad was suddenly an Army major and the accent changed