who exactly is giles coran and why is he having a go

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in the daily mail about women comedians (or lack of)

i quite love Giles Coren.

and i don't know cos i don't read the DM

He's a restaurant critic

I think he's in love with Sue Perkins.

I love him, great sence of humor.

Son of a very famous writer.

He's Giles Coren. He's a writer and food critic. His Dad was the late, great Alan Coren. His sister is Victoria Coren of poker/Only Connect fame.

I quite love him.

No idea about the DM as I don't read it.

He's v happily married I believe but him and Sue have a lovely chemistry.

He says women are funnier than men

And he would be right

and his sister is that Poker player- Victoria Coren that sometimes gets a slating on here.

plus Sue is a lesbian isn't she? so he'd be out of luck anyway

yes she is a lesbian but I still think he's in love with her.

He actually makes me feel sick when he eats on tv,he comes across like a greedy slob.

he looks like a tramp but i like him

his sister is fab

I love Sue and therefore love him a bit by proxy

Giles Coren in period attire does something to me I can't express in mere words.

SoH I have the same problem. It is bizarre because in many ways he is slightly repellant.

I love him though, and always watch all his TV programs.

he can be a terribly self-important little prick, though

His sister came on here once to defend herself and was quite lovely.

I'm not that keen on Giles though, seems a bit up himself.

YY, I saw that exchange with Victoria, she was fab.

oh come now Edam... that letter was fabulous!

giles, for example, is a twat.

Oh no that letter was just brilliant. I loved him more for it.

Arrgghh, how gross is that letter to the Times subs? I agree with you Edam.

The letter was v. v. entertaining but for all the wrong reasons. Self-important little prick, as I said. Subs do edit copy, that is what they are FOR. All this fuss about 'a'! And his claims that it's vital - FFS, it's an article in a newspaper, hardly the masterwork of Tolstoy or Shakespeare. How many readers know or care about the difference between 'a nosh' and 'nosh'?

Am a freelance journalist myself. Personally as long as they pay me I don't care what they do to my copy. Although it is irritating if they introduce mistakes. (Guardian got my job title wrong - no idea why they changed it when it was there in black and white in the copy. But so what? None of the readers would give a toss - not worth getting in a stew about.)

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!

that is awful

what a pompous twat

I hereby retract my proxy in love status and change it back to Just Sue

the priciple of giving the large one to your minions? that's how it comes across to me

-I speak as one who gently once asked a typist, please, to reinstate my punctuation

she told me to fuck off

isn't it funny, though, how restaurant reviews in the broadsheets are the last refuge for the sons and daughters of the famous? GC, Nigella (a long while back) and Jay Rayner, off the top of me head

Giles- it's not the King James Bible. You arse