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Who makes your flesh crawl?

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Greatnan Sun 18-Mar-12 20:42:27

For me, it would the late Jimmy Seville, Cliff Richards, John Redwood, John Prescott, the Pope, Noel Edmonds and Ricky Gervais and Putin and all the Republican presidential candidates.

glammanana Tue 20-Mar-12 11:34:46

Don't worry about George Anagram I was the other side of the fence to catch him !!!

jeni Tue 20-Mar-12 12:36:07

Anyone who's over obsequious! Reminds me of Uriah Heap!

shysal Tue 20-Mar-12 12:50:56

Jeremy Clarkson , Piers Morgan and most of the antique experts on Dickinson's Real Deal

Annobel Tue 20-Mar-12 13:01:33

How could I have forgotten Clarkson and Morgan?

artygran Tue 20-Mar-12 17:28:16

Sorry about Monty, chaps, but I'm he's just that little bit too smiley; like John Suchet on Classic FM - it's like being drowned in warm marshmallow! I like my gardeners with a bit more of a rough edge! Unfortunately, all the horny handed toilers of television yore appear to be dead now.

Annobel Tue 20-Mar-12 17:52:10

Most of the Classic FM presenters seem to have a smirk in their voices, if you see what I mean.

Greatnan Tue 20-Mar-12 18:35:40

I believe Alan Titchmarsh is still available!

Tosh Tue 20-Mar-12 18:36:15

A facebook post once asked which man/men would you like to keep in a cupboard. Deciding that they must be useful as well as eye candy , my 3 were;
Gino de Campo to do the cooking (but i pressed send before I realised I had left an 'o' out of cooking !!!!)
Diarmuid Gavin to do the Garden
George Clark to renovate the house !!!

and George Clooney is welcome any time !!!!

Greatnan Tue 20-Mar-12 18:40:51

David Attenborough, John Humphreys, Richard Dawkins.

Tosh Tue 20-Mar-12 18:50:01

Greatnan ...are the above the men who make your skin crawl ? or would you like to keep them in a cupboard ???????? wink

JessM Tue 20-Mar-12 18:51:03

why would you want to keep a man in a cupboard? hmm sounds sort of stalkerish and scarymovieish to me. Glad someone eventually mentioned the chief petrol head himself.
Those republican candidates - they look like waxworks of car salesment. Where do they find men like that? We just don't grow em over here do we.
Sticking up for Ed.M/ Rather cute in flesh. His brother too. Glad their dad escaped from the Nazis.

Anagram Tue 20-Mar-12 18:58:14

Shane Warne (now he's been done over!)

Jacey Tue 20-Mar-12 19:00:32

Jeremy Paxman and Jeremy Clarkson ...hmm there seems to be a link there!! grin
Sorry if your OH is called Jeremy!!

Gally Tue 20-Mar-12 19:03:22

All the above plus Melvyn Bragg

wotsamashedupjingl Tue 20-Mar-12 19:03:35

Jane Fearnley-Whittingstall. And anyone else who dishes out relationships advice based solely on their own privileged experience.

wotsamashedupjingl Tue 20-Mar-12 19:05:33

And Vanessa Feltz.

Jacey Tue 20-Mar-12 19:19:26

That woman who did a recent tv series on crafts around the country and has published some books on crsfting??

And that woman who is a news presenter and thinks she's really good at presenting history programmes??

See how much I loathe them!! Have managed to blank their names from my memory! grin

wotsamashedupjingl Tue 20-Mar-12 19:27:35

Good Granny Guide by Jane F-W. link

Handy if you want to know about school fees, nannies, etc.

Faye Tue 20-Mar-12 19:40:01

dorseptspent Nigella Lawson - Mrs Supersmug, very apt description. Australia's own Miranda Kerr, Ms Supersmug. Why oh why don't they give someone else a go, I get sick to death of seeing the same self congratulatory people all the time.

Annobel Tue 20-Mar-12 19:44:26

I know we have a fair degree of unanimity about J Clarkson. But Richard Hammond gets right up my nose too. Rather like James May though.

Faye Tue 20-Mar-12 19:47:27

I might add Delta Goodrem, I don't know if you have ever heard of this singer but I thought she was a lovely girl at first. Then I saw her on one of these Idol shows as a judge, she is nasty. Anyone who came on that wasn't up to the mark and she was a total bitch to then, rolling her eyes and laughing at them. I went totally off of her and don't normally watch Idol shows either but just happened to see one and saw what was behind Delta Goodrem's facade.

Greatnan Tue 20-Mar-12 19:52:08

Tosh, definitely cupboard men (actually I would prefer them round the table talking to me). I am interested only in a man's mind these days.

jack Tue 20-Mar-12 20:02:27

Back to George Clooney. He only pretends to by gay (he revealed this when we were having our little tryst the other day) because it puts women off and he hates being mobbed. I can assure you all he is very much a MAN.

As for ghastly creepy people I really can't stand Andrew Neil. And I agree about so many other names mentioned on this thread.

I will now stay awake all night (see insomnia thread) compiling a long list of people I'd like to stick a pin in ...

Anagram Tue 20-Mar-12 20:19:19

Ooh, yes, jack, Andrew Neil.

And Diane Abbott.

Carol Tue 20-Mar-12 20:24:59

Oi! jack I'm watching, you know! grin