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Evan Davis. He's everywhere

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bakedpotato · 19/01/2005 15:46

and is he in the process of growing a goatee or has he always sported a barely-there one? i'd never noticed it before Monday night's news, when it made me laugh immoderately, but it seemed to have disappeared by Tuesday. however, it was there again last night on Dragons' Den. (which is great, no?)

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Davros · 19/01/2005 22:06

I like it when Paxo refers to him as the "resident pointy head", now he'll have a pointy chin too He is a bit love child of Andrew Marr & Peter Snow....

OldieMum · 19/01/2005 20:43

I agree that they need to explain things to people who don't know much about economics - the problem is when they mislead people in the way they attribute extremely simple motivations for economic behaviour, or use stupid, almost Thatcher-like analogies between national economies and household budgets. There must be a better way to popularise complex issues without doing this.

motherinferior · 19/01/2005 20:11

I fear I'd need someone to treat me as a reasonably bright but not exceptional pre-schooler

OldieMum · 19/01/2005 20:02

I take your point, but DH seems to find Evan particularly prone to doing this. However, he doesn't think much of the economics correspondent on C4 news, either, but for the same reason - the glibness. He certainly didn't react like a scalded cat to economics correspondents in the past. For a model of how to explain econonomic issues to the lay person, see Andrew Dilnot. He used to to be the Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies and is now Principal of St Hugh's. He is often on at Budget time and had a nice little series on economics in everyday life a year or so ago.

motherinferior · 19/01/2005 19:53

Does he feel like that about other economics correspondents, OM? I mean is some of it the inevitable oversimplification a popular medium requires (as well as a general dislike, of course)?

OldieMum · 19/01/2005 19:50

I'm not a fan of Evan's. I think he is a bit of a twerp, in fact. He can't seem to resist going for glib oversimplifications and cheap witticisms over real analysis. Even though I didn't have much time for his predecessor (Peter Jay), he did make much more of an effort to convey something of the complexities of the issues he spoke about. DH, who is an economist, can't stand him, either (switches him off, in fact).

motherinferior · 19/01/2005 19:15

Couldn't the makeup people assist with a spot of eyebrow pencil?

bakedpotato · 19/01/2005 18:08

oh anchovy, ROFL
no one has answered me about evan's goatee though. i must stay up late tonight and see if it's still there. i've noticed they're not showing him in closeups much at the moment, just gesturing in front of a big screen of busy graphics, which makes me think he is in the process of growing it and camerapeople have been told not to draw too much attention to it.

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Anchovy · 19/01/2005 17:09

But did you touch him on the arm? I'm still just thinking of it!

motherinferior · 19/01/2005 16:49

He was at St Johns doing PPE from 1981. They were a very high-powered and pretty close-knit bunch.

I was at a charity premiere of 101 Dalmations for work a few years back and saw a bloke I distinctly recognised. He's someone's boyfriend, I thought, I know him, she's obviously brought him round to a party because I know we've sat on my sofa drinking beer.

And then I realised that sofas, and beer, had indeed been involved but I'd been on mine drinking beer and he - being Martin Clunes - had been doing the same on telly

Anchovy · 19/01/2005 16:42

I have a very embarassing Evan Davis story - still makes me laugh and . I saw him at Earls Court tube station and I thought he was one of DH's friends: pretty much they all generically look like that. The tube doors just opened and he was there right in front of me. I said - as I jumped on the tube - "Great to see you. I'm so sorry I haven't been in touch. I'll give you a ring, ok". I think I also touched him on the arm as I said it in a sincere yet jaunty manner. That evening I was telling DH that I'd bumped into someone, couldn't quite remember who, but it would come back to me. Then the 10 o'clock news came on and it slowly dawned on me exactly who it was.... DH still refers to him as "my mate" on an almost daily basis.

MI - was he at university at the same time as us - don't remember him at all. Patrick Marber who wrote "Closer" was in my year doing the same subject. Pah!

motherinferior · 19/01/2005 16:29

Tell me, do newsreaders REALLY read the news wearing tracky bottoms, or indeed naked from the waist down?

bundle · 19/01/2005 16:26

have seen martyn davies' (the itv weather man) nipples, he didn't have a dressing room at tvs where i worked int he newsroom and frequently got changed in front of the whole office. also fern (britton) used to show off her bras, but they weren't quite as voluminous back then...

Frizbe · 19/01/2005 16:22

who?

motherinferior · 19/01/2005 16:22

Unfortunately no.

I should perhaps explain that we were all students at the time, and I'd gone round to see one friend (the future MEP) and Evan (who lived in the same student house) dropped by.

He took me to a 'brown rice' evening at the same college as well, a couple of months later. Being a rather cultured type - and also, at that time, a member of the SDP - he ordered a bottle of wine with the rice. Then I went off to a meeting of my CND 'affinity group' and ended up so drunk I had a two-day hangover.

bakedpotato · 19/01/2005 16:20

did you see evan's nipples?

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motherinferior · 19/01/2005 16:18

AND it was in the room of someone who subsequently became an MEP.

bakedpotato · 19/01/2005 16:18

to both Jolou and MI's input i should add. don't know where to start.

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motherinferior · 19/01/2005 16:18

I quite like Jeff R for some bizarre reason.

bakedpotato · 19/01/2005 16:17

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motherinferior · 19/01/2005 16:17

I would like, please, to tell you that the first time I met the very lovely Mr Davis he was wearing nothing but a dressing gown.

Andrew Marr

jolou1 · 19/01/2005 16:17

That sounds very familiar, but it may be apocryphal (sp?) However Evan earns his nickname from a pair of natty nipple rings I gather!

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bakedpotato · 19/01/2005 16:15

ooh, do tell, am i being stupid, jolou?
didn't declan once save someone from drowning while doing a piece to camera? he just ran off and leapt in and rescued them from a lake or something.

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jolou1 · 19/01/2005 16:15

Mean't to say DS1 has a soft spot...not DH! oops

jolou1 · 19/01/2005 16:13

Evan's nickname in the BBC is tinseltits! My DH1 has a big soft spot for Declan on BBC Breakfast. Very odd.

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