to be utterly, utterly heartbroken that charlie brooker is going to MARRY konnie huq

[sallyseton]

www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1285111/Konnie-Huq-marry-Charlie-Brooker-unlikely-showb iz-wedding.html

sigh...I always thought he was the one for me!! sobs

I'm not sure if anyone else has said this yet...but is it possible this could be a stunt CB is pulling to highlight the utter wank of celebrity culture?

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Ah, women in low-cut tops can't be intelligent. I see.

Her 2:1 in Economics from Cambridge clearly outweighed by a single photo.

Just joining the general misery. But I think she's fairly OK, isn't she?

Wow. Things are going well for her at the moment!

That's funny, didn't he have a bit in his first TV series where he was like "I am secretly in love with Konnie Huq. Isn't she beautiful. Look." then abruptbly changed the subject?

She always came across as more intelligent to me than most of the modern BP presenters, especially the female ones

Fairy Liquid sent Konnie down to do craft stuff with a year 4 class at the school I work at after I entered the MN Fairy comp - she showed them how to make a bunny from a Fairy bottle and then answered their questions - she is very obviously not at all thick, she was great with the children - knowlegeable, patient and funny and absolutely lovely. I think Charlie Brooker is very lucky.

Oh drat? Oh bother? Oh lawks? No, none of them rhyme.

I have a 3 degrees, count them, 3. Nobody but nobody mentioned pert breasts to me when I was in the careers' office. Of course back then I didn't know that I wanted a career as CB's plaything. Oh well, I've still got high hopes for David Mitchell. He can see which side his bread's buttered. I know all about obscure gothic literature and the portrayal of children in said literature with a nod to psychoanalytical tropes. And I could buy pert breasts. I'd keep them in a box and bring them out on special occasions.

I think it's really, really sweet! And I'm only slightly burning with jealousy. Good luck to them, and CB call me if it all goes wrong...

SOH - can I just say, hand on heart, that I think your obsession with David Mitchell is quite unhealthy and that, infact, you should be seeking out some rl help with it. Just a few sessions of cbt or some hypnotherapy might help lovie .

I think I just need to get it out of my system tbh.

SOH do you want to come and live at mine? DM lives just down the road and have seen him once and we regularly go to the same pub as Robert Webb and his family. or would you rather admire from afar?

I've packed, what's your address?

I don't see it as obsession really. I mean doesn't everybody ask their dh to pretend to be DM in the bedroom? De rigeur I suspect.

Love The Show Wright's talking about it now.

She is bright and I'm sure they have a lot to talk about but I am still surprised that a) he's getting engaged to a 'celebrity' and b) he's getting engaged at all.

Kids next?!

I always thought it would be Aisylene (Sp) if anyone!

I think also the assumption that she might be an airhead if you don't know her background is because you can be a Fearne Cotton / Holly Willoughby / random ditzy type presenter without much substance between your ears, and indeed most of that type really are quite dim, and Konnie is clearly competing in the same field therefore can easily get lumped with them. She doesn't need her intelligence to be good at the job she does, so it is very easy to forget that she is intelligent.

As I said earlier on the thread, I did think "eh?" as I would never see CB with someone with fluff for brains, but then I remembered she went to Cambridge and I realised why he might have gone for her after all. And she is rather gorgeous.

And you can definitely wear low cut tops and have a 2.1 from Cambridge, Professor. I do. I just don't look as good as Konnie does

Well, if I looked as good as her I might be tempted to wear a dress like that, Cambridge degree or not.

I don't get why you all want to marry Charlie. He's fantastically witty and smart, I love his work and think he would make a great dinner guest. However, I've always thought he sounded like he would make a really CRAP bf/dh, sarky and grumpy, sitting on the sofa in the dark or in front of the computer ALL day every day getting crumbs all over the place, leaving empty beer cans and crisp packets/pizza boxes everywhere as he watches endless amounts of TV/plays computer games for HOURS on end or reads all the papers on the internet. All he would talk about is TV, computer games or politics (although I would enjoy the last subject).

I mean, what if you wanted to go cycling or hiking in a nice healthy forest with him, or for him to go with you on holiday to a hot country with beaches, drink cocktails, smile and laugh cheerfully a lot and dance salsa, huh? I think you could forget it!!

And can you imagine him mucking around with your future kids you've had with him in the pool on holiday with silly inflatable toys wearing garishly colourful swimming trunks? He looks like a ray of sun has never hit him in his LIFE

What about baking fairy cakes with them with a pinny on? Or standing at the changing table cheerfully cleaning up big mounds of shit while cooing gooily at your future baby?

Thought not! Anyway, I have to get a life and go do all the things I have to do...

SoH, I feel the same as you. In fact, when I first read that CB was engaged, and to a lovely young beautiful woman, my first thought was about David Mitchell Hopefully he will remain single forever so I can wallow in my fantasies....

I didn't know Konnie Huq dated Richard Bacon for several years.

I think Dara O'Braiian (? spelling) had a thing for her too...and leave David Mitchell alone you lot...he's too sweet for all that mucky stuff!

A pool on holiday wearing shorts and hanging off inflatable crocodiles? That's special hell right there. Believe me, when I think about CB, we aren't in Ibiza in a pool full of toddlers and their uncontrolled bladders.

Pfft, like your style.

David Mitchell isn't sweet. He's a ball of ranty angst and I love him for it.