Did anyone else sob and sob through Natasha Kaplinski's Who Do YOu Think You Are programme tonight?

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Because I did, and dh was suspiciously silent. My god, how those people suffered
Her cousin was so charismatic too.

Uhu ... you're a fucking queen, alright

Tn - dh actually threw a very large book at Nick Robinson once. He hates him. He shouts at him ALOT. I think it might be his glasses.

Uhu is glue, isn't it!!

I know you aren't referring to me, Desi.

gobsmacked

LL, you crease me, girl, every fucking time!

Good for him, 100

I like the sound of your dh.

No, no, TnOgu. You're not a queen at all, but a likkle, ikkle princess

[barf]

I didn't think it was appallingly manipulative - I think her story was particularly moving and tragic and there was no way of telling it which would make it anything other than that. I also think it's perfectly credible that her family hadn't talked about it - as a child we had a close family friend who had lost his entire family at Auschwitz; he never talked about it. My Grandad fought in the Second World War and rarely talked about it, likewise my Uncle.

There have been other stories in past series of WDYTYA where the history of the family hasn't been so 'blameless' (that's probably the wrong word but I'm tired). And they did touch briefly on how (apart from her father) many of her displaced Jewish relatives who had escaped the Holocaust and settled in SA disapproved of his opposition to apartheid.

I didn't think it was manipulative, anyway - I thought it was genuinely moving.

But I didn't like her coat

You know who I hate? That weasle faced historian with HART in his name .. help me out here.

I throw two shoes at him

Adam Hart Davis.

I hate that whispering man who does "Coast".

I hate Nick Robinson too, I think it's catching.

Dh always shouts 'I don't want to know your farking opinion, tell me the NEWS.'

I quite hate Huw Edwards actually, while I'm working my way through the BBC news team. (NK included obviously, but I still have my hands in the air.)

Thank you, Martha. I'm sure he's very nice to his grandchildren, but I think he's a wanker and I don't know why. I need therapy.

And the whispering wanker on Coast doesn't just confine himself to the seaside. He reports on other things ... and that's a six-shoe event.

Robert Kilroy-Silk is my very very worst ever ever ever throw all my shoes, two suitcases and a coffee table at the TV jobbie, but thankfully he's not on any more. My telly is safe.

i'm quite looking forward (weirdly) to watching this now. i loathe NK but love WDYTYA? particularly the Paxo one. i deffo cried at that, when he was in the Mitchell Library and half-exploded into tears in that manly way.

I don't like Huw, either.

He has a habbbb...it of ma....kking things diffff................icult

for the listener.

And I also think he's terribly vain, with poor reasoning behind his decision.

Des, I love you because, equally you say everything I want to but in a much nicer way.

< barf >

Oh yes, we all loved Pax. He was in a corridor wasn't he? And he sort of sunk into a chair. He was indignant.

I love WDYTYA too. Hence my outrage I suppose.

HMC's post has started a very poignant reaction though.

Yes, it was glorious, wasn't it, Aitch?

I said it earlier on, but 'I wouldn't recognise her in the street, but she was mine, the bastards, has to be one of the top quotes of the 21st century.

To change tack on this a bit, a German TV company bought the rights of WDYTYA to do a similar programme on TV personalities in Germany but had to abandon it after a while as everyone they used ended up having a past they rather no one knew about!!

did he throw a book at the real nick robinson or him on the telly?

did he have nightmares?

I don;t like PlinksyPlonsky - said in Observer that it is an interesting programme apart form the fact that she is in it and she comes across as fake.

She shagged that bloke in the dancing programme so she needs to up her cred.