You know it's rubbish, but you love it regardless......

I have to admit to loving Celebrity Big Brother. Didn’t watch the ordinary one but the celebrity one was a hoot. Plying them with alcohol so their real selves emerged. I loved it. Bring it back.

Jam doughnuts and bacon sandwiches. Not together, though.

Bought some licorice torpedos this week. They cost £1 but will probably cost me £100 when I next visit dentist.

Country and Western Music

Hello mag at hairdressers.

tickingbird I too love Celebrity Big Brother.
The series with Pete Burns, Barrymore, George Galloway et al was absolutely amazing TV.

My secret eating vice is Pot Nooodles, - but only the curry flavour... I just love it. And peanut butter,- although I've recently discovered Nutella and now that's the one I raid late at night.
There's a spoof horror film called Tremors with Kevin Bacon and it's trashy but hilarious. And the film "Bridesmaids".

GillT57 I buy Take a Break every week. I often don't read the editorial, I buy it for the crossword and quizzes.
I can spend a stupid amount of time watching videos on FB

I could easily eat a whole bag of Pontefract Cakes, but I haven’t seen any for ages. Maybe I need to look harder....

Chocolate crackles, those lovely cornflake and chocolate confections. DGD always makes some for me when we see each other, may be 8 or 10 times a year. Meanwhile I never buy them or make them for myself.

I love Flahavan's multi seeded porridge. Unfortunately I spoil the healthiness by burying a teaspoonful of Nutella in it to melt! I could just eat a bowl now.

All programmes about hoarders. Cheer me up no end. Eurovision song contest, can't imagine why we always get nil points!

Pimple popping videos on YouTube.

True Crime and Court TV

Bargain Loving Brits in the Sun
In for a Penny (just wish it was on longer than half an hour)
Dinner Dates - cringeworthy telly but oddly enjoyable
Gogglebox ( not the celeb one though)

KFC
Pink wafer biscuits - I could easily eat a whole packet in one go

I’ve just read my first Jeffrey Archer novel and was surprised at how much I enjoyed it.

Ooh I nearly forgot!
My guilty pleasure at the moment is Glow Up on BBC3. It’s brilliant.

mrswoo, there’s always been a lot of sneering at Jeffrey Archer, because he’s not ‘literary’. However he tells a cracking good story.

I was once at a writerly conference where an author whose books sell a minute fraction of JA’s was keen to tell us how he was a mate of hers, but went on to say in that kindly pitying tone, ‘...but he can’t write’.
Sheer sour grapes.
I’m not sure that author is even published at all any more.

I love coleslaw! And marmite. But I don't feel guilty about anything that gives me pleasure.

Hammer horror films. And another vote for instant noodles.

I'm enjoying "I can see your voice" which is very trashy Saturday evening entertainment. I also enjoy Facebook, chip butties and boy/girl bands! Lol.

Oh... and I love Love Island.

Dear God I cannot believe that anyone would willingly put money in the pocket of that appalling Murdoch by buying his dreadful paper! After using Fox News to prop up Donald Trump (the man who pushed the 'covid hoax' conspiracy theory. Murdoch pushed ahead of everyone to get his vaccine in the UK late last year. That paper promotes all the most loathsome tensions in our society. Don't forget how hard it worked to get us into the dungheap that Brexit landed on us!

They might be a light read, but there is nothing badly written about the Agatha Raisin books!!!

With me it's an unguilty pleasure - I love reading. I have a private library of several thousand books (many read multiple times) and generally read between 5-7 books per week.

I learned many years ago to take your pleasure where and when you find it - life is too short for anything else,.

Does anyone remember the coleslaw and Spike Milligan Story? He was on a flight somewhere and threw up into the paper sick bag. He then proceeded to eat it. It wasn’t vomit, it was coleslaw. I think the airline banned him for life.

Say Yes to the Dress - both American versions, the UK ones aren't nearly as good!

crazygranny this thread's is about guilty pleasures, not how loathsome Murdoch is, though I agree the man's a reptile and I can't stand his papers!!!

GrammarGrandma

I love coleslaw! And marmite. But I don't feel guilty about anything that gives me pleasure.

Exactly. That's why I didn't use the expression 'Guilty Pleasures' in the title. I don't like it either.

It used to drive me mad in the staff room, when women would say how terribly 'naughty' they were being by having a slice of cake.

'For heaven's sake Linda', I'd think, (her name is Linda - it's not a Karen thing),
'it's a lemon drizzle - not flipping crack cocaine'.

Re Hammer Horror, I saw the first Christopher Lee Dracula at about 14 and still remember how unbelievably scary it was.

At the time I had a very old edition of Dracula, which had belonged to a granny - a hardback with a dark green cloth binding and ‘Dracula’ in a black, creepy Gothic script.
I couldn’t even sleep with that book in the room, in case it somehow summoned him! Had to keep my bedroom window closed in case he crawled in that way, as a bat!
I knew I was being utterly daft, but still couldn’t help it.

A school friend who saw it at the same time could hardly sleep for days afterwards.