Celebs you could quite easily punch in the face!!!

[Nutjob]

Come on, we've all got one that for some particular reason gets on your nerves. Mine is Jamie Oliver, I hate his spitty mouth and I hate the way he acts like his a bit of a geezer when he so obviously isn't. And those flippin' Sainsbury's ads - arrghhh.............

gosh, this is even more sordid than the Archers is at the moment

Hilary, Angela Rippon has that effect on me too. I think it started with the way she says "guerrrrrilla" (as opposed to gorilla like everybody else).

Also all the deeply sincere people who wave their arms about a lot on those accident insurance claim ("Mrs Jones fell off her chair and got 4000 pounds" ) and "clear all your debts with one low monthly payment" ads. Yeah, right.

Bundle, when do you think Jennifer is going to Discover All?

Janh, it's amazing how doolally Brian has gone over having a boy isn't it?. The way things are going, he is going to let the cat out of the bag himself although it does seem as though Simon is going to play a key role in it all.

And on the celebrity front, I know its not really very fair given all her charity work and so on but I do find Heather Mills (Mrs Paul Mcartney) really annoying. Quotes like "I am married to the most famous man in the world" and "If I'd wanted to marry for money, I would have chosen someone far richer" do little to endear her.

bells, I am hopping up and down waiting to see what happens, Simon will presumably have another go at getting back with Debbie but if he can't he's got nothing to lose by spilling, has he? But then there's Kenton - and Debbie was going to look for Siobhan's phone no in Brian's office - maybe it'll reach a crashing climax where they all turn and point at him going "YOU!"

re the new Lady Macca, from what I've read her new family (esp Stella) are none too keen on her either - shame really. When Linda was around they seemed amazingly non-dysfunctional for a showbiz family. (Anybody know what Linda's daughter Heather does these days?)

bells2, janh, part of me wants Jennifer to stay in the dark a bit longer..make it even more bittersweet when he's found out
but the b***d HAS TO PAY!!! and I CAN'T STAND SIMPERING SIOBHAN!!!
ahem. sorry about that rant. can I punch Siobhan even though I've never seen her?

janh isn't Heather the one who's a photographer? I think she's recently done some shots for Peta, the anti-fur lot, with Sophie Ellis Bextor..or maybe I'm getting my celebs mixed up !

I agree Bundle -I'm enjoying it too much for it to come to an end quite yet. Siobhan is exceedingly annoying. How can anyone be on their own with their first baby and be so relaxed, happy and non-complaining etc??

oh God, just realised that's MARY McCartney..sorry!

Never mind, bundle, Stella is the only one I feel confident about!

Form an orderly queue here for punching Siobhan. (Could stick a pin in Ruairidh too to make him cry once in a while? All he ever does is gurgle - Baby Ben Archer was the same, even when he had just slithered out on the kitchen floor.)

Just remembered Jennifer finally twigged recently that these meetings never used to be so often or last so long or end up with Brian pissed and muttered something about ringing Matt Crawford...whaddya reckon?

yeah Jennifer will have a go at Matt Crawford who'll have to defend himself & say there hasn't been a late meeting since Whitsuntide 1972, and dump Brian in the doo-doos. I do hope it involves Simon too though, after all it's nearly panto season, and we all love shouting "he's behind you" about the baddies

Have been listening to The Archers on and off for last few months but more off than on, so can anyone fill me in? Brian is the father of the bloody irritating Siobhan's baby right? But is married to Jennifer? Have I got that right?

yup www. and he's gone all gooey because the baby is a boy, unlike his other progeny, and dastardly Simon who was cheating on Debbie knows about even more dastardly Brian & Siobhan..so Debbie's chucked him out and it's only a matter of time...

Debbie chucked Simon out mostly because she caught him at it - kind of - in his office!!!! WELL!!!

Brian has always wanted a son, when his last child was born he was all agog and then really miffed when it was a girl, imagine how poor Jennifer felt about that - though she did have a quick fling herself, later, with that baby in its carrycot in the car with its nanny - is this real life?

Anyway, WWW, it is brill and dead gripping at the moment, after months of tedium, though if the scriptwriters drag it out much longer we will all have nervous breakdowns.

Yes, I can't wait for Jennifer to find out - love the way they're keeping us guessing as to how it's going to happen. I'm a big Chaba (is that how you spell it? ) fan, myself.

And YES YES YES YES I absolutely cannot stand Heather "so far up myself I can't see daylight" Mills/McCartney. I've hated her for years and years, and when I found out she was going with P McCartney (courtesy of my sister, who called me and told me the news with glee), all respect I had for him was destroyed. Not sure why I hate her, but I do. Punching would be too good for her!

Talking of archers, ruth needs a good t**ing IMO. How come she is always up and about to do the milking, etc? Does she leave the kids in the house on their own, or what? They can't use in-laws as sitters every day, surely?
She gives woman a bad name, that one, my DH is always using her as a stick to beat me with.
And what about Lizzie? She's supposed to be the mother of twins, but does she ever stress about them? No, it's always the job, again. What a misleading drama, making out that children stay on the periphery of life ....pah! Must be written by a bunch of blokes.

I blame perfect Hayley myself, Droile. As long as she's around all the mums can do what they want.

Form another line here for slapping Ruth and Lizzie.

Ooh, Archers thread revisited. hoorah! Yes, it will involve evil Simon and I bet they are saving it for Christmas because they know how we are gagging for his unmasking. Simon will want money, Brian won't give it and he'll end up with Siobhan and baby Rhiaarcghorgyrygogogoch and that'll teach him a lesson he won't forget in a hurry (oh, won't Debbie be in a sulk!).

Joy!

Ooo, yes, Heather Mills. Very much has something-of-the-night about her. She'll do a Richard Hilman, it's all part of her grand scheme to get McCartney's millions, you mark my words!!!

aloha, one can only live in hope that baby Ruaridhadjjshfsdh will develop terrible colic when Brian moves in with Siobhan, and jennifer takes him to the cleaners, converts all their land to farming organic parsnips and ruins the lot of them
oh and emsiewill Chaba is a cardboard cut out - i just can't get my head around who/what he's supposed to be. Joleen is my current fave

Did anyone else find the amount of hot sex that a/Siobhan was up to when heavily p/g and b/stuffy, sexist old Brian was up for with a heavily p/g woman, was highly unrealistic? It was all 'Oooh, Brian, oh,oh oh' and 'S-i-o-b-h-a-n... ugh, ugh, ugh' when it would really have been, 'mmm, a nice cup of tea, lovely. Oh, get off Brian.'

abso-bloody-lutely Aloha. pity you can't get those warning triangles on the radio

OOh!! This transformed into An Archers thread!! I'm not embarrassed about listening to Archers any more, given it's a darn sight better than being hooked on Emmerdale. DH & I are gripped at the moment. We only caught last 5 minutes of Sunday eve, & first time ever DH zoomed upstairs to find the website & read Friday synopsis on the 'puter.

I reckon when Jenny finds out she'll make an ultimatitum of her or Siobhan, and B. will choose Jenny. Either that, or the very opposite: Jenny will come to an "accomodation" about the whole thing, esp. when she sees the baby.

The Archers often gets the development wrong for the babies & tots, though. "Phoebe treats books like finger food because she's teething", said Roy, when Phoebe was about 21 months old -- hunh? The twins were always doing things either well behind or well ahead of DS, even though DS is nominally only 6 weeks older.

And much as I think breastfeeding is great, I'd love a mother on there to whine & whimper about pain and messiness, and chuck the baby on bottle after 2 weeks, more like real life.

Do you think Debbie will come up pregnant, now?

They get the children hopelessly wrong, don't they? The little ones who do talk sound as if they've been elocuted and if they don't talk they just babble until they're about 5! And none of them ever bicker and they say "yes mummy". Ugh.

Is Debbie preg? Bound to be I should think. More turmoil. I have managed to miss both episodes so far this week and I can't listen again because DH's laptop doesn't seem to have a`volume button so am v frustrated. Nobody better dare try to speak to me on Sunday morning!

Can't see Siobhan giving Jennifer visitation rights somehow...has the baby been registered? Did Brian get on the certificate? Will it come to DNA testing? Best of all, will it turn out to be Tim's all along???

I thought the conversation between B & S the other evening re the dastardly Simon was so heavy-handed ("Don't you think we're in the same situation?" "Oh no, ours is totally different, because of wee Ruiraidh here". What?) Not only does Ruiraidh seem to be the perfect baby, and Siobhan unfeasibly serene, she also doesn't seem in the least bit jealous of B's home life. I thought she might just be in it for the baby, but as someone else pointed out, she seemed to be up for it at 35 weeks of whatever, when she could have given him the push. It's a mystery what she sees in him.