WHO is Charley Boorman?

[notnowbernard]

Have never heard of him. Is he just Ewan McGregor's mate?

His programme on BBC2 atm is utter drivel (and he is visiting some fascinating places, should be very interesting really)

HAs sent DP to sleep

[AuraofDora]

love the thread title, and the thread
he's dullsville
wouldnt do him either mid motorcycle or no..

[notnowbernard]

He's not offensive in any way, just v boring (IMO)

I struggle to work out how these sorts of programmes get commisionned

I mean, it's on at 9pm on BBC2. He's visiting some spectacular places which are culturally and environmentally massively different to our own... should make for interesting viewing, at least. Instead it's watching him piss about on a motorbike (again)

I feel a bit like this about James May as well. He's on every bloody channel you flick to these days wittering on about very dull boys things

[AnyFucker]

no sloppy seconds though...

[displayuntilbestbefore]

ditto

[AnyFucker]

like I said, I would do him...

[displayuntilbestbefore]

I agree - he does all the road trips for charity and to highlight the situations in countries less fortunate than our own and I think there's just a backlash against someone who seems to be enjoying life and has had some success but I can't quite work out why he's therefore someone to be despised! I've always thought he seemed pretty goodnatured and easy going!

[wintera]

Surely poor Charlie isn't that bad? He seems to be getting a heavy bashing on here. Not that I am a massive fan or anything, just a bit confused as to what he has done to wind people up so much. He's done a lot of good things for charities like Unicef. Plus some of you are talking like his Dad was a super successful director too. John Boorman is hardly Steven Spielberg!

[shelleylou]

ment even more that he did it to my bro and wasnt just RIP was more personal. I thought it was lovely. My db would love it

[displayuntilbestbefore]

nice that he signed one for you. Despite the Boorman bashing I always think he seems a decent bloke tbh!

[shelleylou]

it really is rather odd!!!

I asked him if he would sign a photo for my brother who was killed recently in an RTA to go in his coffin

[displayuntilbestbefore]

shelleylou what was your strange request? (I rather like Charley Boorman!)

[wintera]

OllieWollieWoo - Sorry I got the complete wrong end of the stick! You are talking about the Guy from the other progs aren't you? Sorry!

[Doodleydoo]

Sorry Ollie - saw your post after I wrote mine, glad I am not the only one to think Russ is a twat.

[Doodleydoo]

You think he's bad, what about the idiot producer in the long way round - usually seen with Charley Boorman and Ewan - but is a complete tosser too!

[wintera]

OllieWollieWoo - I think you mean Ken Russell but he didn't direct The Emerald Forest though. John Boorman (Charlie's Dad) directed it.

[canihaveapeeinpeacepleasebob]

he's an actor lovely, but not a very good or successful one!

[Prunerz]

lol at that clip
His dad directed it of course but I am sure he got the gig on merit.
I have met him actually (at his dad's house) and he is, really, a bit of a twat.

[Bambinoloveseggbirds]

He makes me want to vom.

[OllieWollieWoo]

Look at him a good few years back in a truely awful film called The Emerald Forest:
here

Its that Director guy that does my head in - Russ is it? Whittles on like an old woman!

[bruxeur]

"please act like a knobhead every time anyone points a camera at you"?

[shelleylou]

hes an actor aswell but more well known for his bike adventures. I quite like charley find him quite down to earth. My bro met him once and said he was really nice. I am quite biased though as he fullfilled quite a strange request i sent him

[crankytwanky]

I just cannot bear him, Fucker.

[AnyFucker]

lol @ cranky

such vitriol

me likey

[crankytwanky]

I can't stand the man.

Iam probably BU, but he'sjust a piggie-eyed trustafarian who is so far up his own arse he can see daylight. He must have got a BBC producer ripped on marching powder in Groucho's one night and convinced them to give him a show in exchange for him keeping schtum about the producer's pecadilloes with a mongolian throat singer while working on that Ewan McGregor thing.

Or something like that.

[AnyFucker]

nothing wrong with danny dyer....