Charlie Brooker's getting married?

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To Konnie Huq

Really?

I read that this morning - made my day. I like to think of grumpy Charlie all loved up, hope it works out for them both (if true).

Seriously? I thought he was saving himself for me (DH may have something to say about it though). Him and Konnie not a pairing that springs to mind in a 'aren't they made for each other' sort of way.

How random. Mind you I always suspect that Blue Peter presenters are actually quite badly behaved in secret.

Serious!? I like Konnie but he was supposed to be waiting for me!

oh congratulations

she was with Richard Bacon for ages...i served them once in Bentalls

Love how the daily mail is so outraged.

They sound like an elderly spinster aunt.

'But's he's a foul mouthed college drop out' and she's 'a lovely middle class cambridge graduate'.

PMSL at that article.

Her most famous relationship being with Richard Bacon - the one who had the cocaine scandal while she was dating him if I remember correctly while the daily mail seem to be looking back at it fondly.

The whole tone of it is really really funny

yes Armadillo how many times did they say 'foul-mouthed'

suspect he's directed a certain amount of criticism their way

haha yes but she also encouraged a group of men to have a communal piss together didn't she

it's quite sweet if true

"she was with Richard Bacon for ages...i served them once in Bentalls"

Really? But he's completely ghastly and she's btight and funny and pretty!

Utterly shocking that a Cambridge graduate should marry out of their league like that...

I was planning to marry CB until I met DP. I like DP a lot, so CB is free to marry where he pleases.

TheArmadillo I love it. They really hate the fact that he only went to a polytechnic

I am really pleased for them if true.

She always comes across as lovely and he always comes across as needing someone lovely and blue peter like to look after him.

Didn't notice the former polytechnic bit - arf

They really don't like him.

What an odd couple.
Good luck to them though.

Yes, DM attitude is rather "She is a fragrant snd lovely Cambridge graduate and he is the spawn of the devil and symptomatic of All That Is Wrong With This Country (TM)"

I love him

Whenever I see a photo of him I feel a little flicker of surprise that he uses words as a weapon. He looks so much like a man who would rather use a weapon as a weapon.

I hope they are very happy, I wouldn't have guessed that they were each other's type but they are both lovely in their own way. Well, perhaps "lovely" isn't quite the right word for CB, but he is very funny and I fancy like him a lot.

Me and my DH could be the Konnie and Charlie of Switzerland, he went to Oxford and I am foul mouthed with no qualifications

I wonder if she is a gamer then seeing as he is, used to be a games reviewer and also one of the founders/staff of CEX when they used to be that flea pit round the back of Tottenham court road. (CEX are rubbish now I wish they would go back to being the way they was).

Kreecher, sorry to break this to you, but you might be me.

Oh, except I'm not in Switzerland.

Thank God I'm not the only one to be just a leetle bit disappointed.

Strange how such a miserable, sour-faced man can be so attractive!

Congratulations! So that is why CB was not nearly as miserable as ussual lately.

It is great how the DM is gritting their teeth. Who knew you had to go to Cambridge to be intelligent?! the DM, obviously.

Didn't Ian Hislop describe CB as the most intelligent panellist they'd ever had in HIGNFY? Something like that, anyway...

I used to work with Konnie on Blue Peter and consider her a friend - I can confirm that she is indeed lovely -