Charlie Brooker engaged to Konnie Huq

[AnyFuleKno]

Simultaneously, wah! and 'eh?'

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment_and_arts/10275290.stm

whoops news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment_and_arts/10275290.stm

anyone?

I am gutted

what a strange combination they seem

oh well, takes all sorts, I suppose

she seems a bit like an airhead and he fancies himself as rather clever

< shrugs >

yes been some threads i think they're a super duper cute couple

She is not an airhead at all I think, I was reading an interview with her the other day. She's in her 30s now and seemed very intelligent and funny (so a good match!). Just because loads of blokes were drooling over her when she was a lot younger does not make her dim.

I hope it is the real deal for them.

I too was amazed. She annoyed me on BP, but it's nice, non?

err.... MI, I was not wishing them ill

just not a couple you would imagine together...maybe opposites attract, who knows (or cares, tbh )

has he been married before ?

Something old, something new, something borowed, something I made earlier

kh is really v nice and funny

I would never have imagined them together in a million squillion years. Maybe it's cos she was on blue peter. I can't imagine them tucked up in bed together wearing matching pyjamas.

Thread here

Sorry to have started duplicate thread, have just found the original one. Apparently I'm not the only one in mourning.

Stop the clocks etc...

i can't picture them together either really but there you go

she's not an airhead. she seems quite 'wholesome' though, & Cambridge degree. Perfect daughter.

I don't see why it's an odd match at all. He's successful, funny, not totally UNattractive! I'm not getting why it's supposed to surprise us so much.

I have met her, thanks to MN's Fairy Liquid competition, and she is definitely not an airhead - she was great with the kids at school, (pictures here) she answered all their questions seriously, even though she must have heard a lot of them hundreds of times, didn't talk down to them at all.

I didn't imply you wished them ill AF!

Touchy!

Plus if you don't care, why click on sleb twaddle threads (shouldn't this be in sleb twaddle?)

I care - in fact recently I was spending some of my few precious remaining brain cells wondering when someone was going to snare Brooker.

They seem such an unlikely couple, don't they? I mean, you wouldn't even think they'd get on.

Pretty wholesome ex-BP presenter and cynical TV critc who swears a lot. His column in the Guardian and his TV shows are quite amusing but my God he is a grumpy git!
(seems to have a permanent scowl as well) .. don't know why a lot of MNetters seem to fancy him really....

In fact, so unlikely do they seem that you have to wonder if the whole thing is some kind of sophisticated wind-up.

But people who work in kids' TV are not actually necessarily wholesome off-screen. I've met some very cynical and witty ones.

Oh come on I'll say it.

She is VERY pretty.

He is NOT AT ALL handsome.

Too right, BalloonSlayer!

He's sexy though on account of his wit. And it's hardly the first time a successful ugly man has pulled a hottie is it? He's a lot fitter than Salman Rushdie, for starters.

I don't think he's unattractive. I think his face is one of those blank canvases that a personality makes or breaks, and if she loves his personality, his blank canvas will appeal gorgeous to her.

Salman Rushdie is too ugly for this theory to work. There is a limit.

appear gorgeous to her I mean. NOt appeal.