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nanna8 Thu 24-Jun-21 08:33:06

Are there any famous or well known people you just dislike for no rational reason ?
Nigel Farage is one for me
Simon Cowell another. Never met either of them and probably never will but even before I knew what they were known for,something made me dislike them.

FannyCornforth Sun 27-Jun-21 10:48:20

Molly there's loads of hate on this thread!
Of course you are right about 'filling your heart with hate'.
That's why I'm not keen on this thread.
I'm pretty certain that many of the most vitriolic posters are also members of the 'be kind' brigade (when it suits them).

Mollygo Sun 27-Jun-21 10:41:28

I get your reference, but hate is too strong a word. If you fill your life with hate, and constantly revisit that hatred, you’ll have no room left for love.
I can dislike people, places and things for good reason or just a gut feeling, but I don’t spend time maintaining that feeling.
Do you think the sometimes quite viciously reiterated comments on GN are expressions of dislike or examples of Orwell’s Two Minutes Hatred?

Alegrias1 Sun 27-Jun-21 10:41:11

Very apt observation Fanny

FannyCornforth Sun 27-Jun-21 06:30:50

Mollygo

This is a great thread. We’re allowed to say we dislike someone on sight, whether we’ve met them or not. If someone irritates us get it off your chest. It’s doing no harm, they don’t know and they don’t care.

Orwell's Two Minutes Hate springs to mind

TerriBull Sat 26-Jun-21 18:50:37

I think irrational hate on sight is rarely the case. Sometimes characteristics of high profile people can get on the viewer's nerves for various reasons, for example I don't like Stacey Dooley's voice, but she as a person, I have no idea,! possibly she's quite nice.

I once liked Jonathan Ross, but went right off him when he talked incessantly about himself, wife, children, dogs and often interrupted his guests...........and I thought he could be incredibly rude and sexist to some of the women he had on at times. I particularly went right off him when he and Russell Brand got involved in humiliating Andrew Sach's granddaughter, can't remember the finer details but didn't put the pair of them in a good light. I prefer Graham Norton as a chat show host. I never liked Michael Parkinson either. there were occasions when I thought some of the things he asked were intrusive.

John Barrowman sounds bloody awful, who in their right mind thinks exposing themselves is a bit of fun for heaven's sake.shock

Having read about Philip Schofield and his blubbing and his announcement of "coming out" on their ghastly show with the equally nauseating Holly Willoughby telling him how brave he is made me very glad I never watch them. Two overpaid very irritating people imo!

Gemma Collins just what does she do exactly?

I do think Ellen DeGeneres sounds anything but generous, mean spirited and horrible. A bit like Harvey Weinstein when that many people say the same thing, eventually the whiff about their behaviour becomes an overwhelming stench, they, the accusers, can't all be wrong. Similarly, Chrissie Teigan, who I'd only heard of recently, sounds another horror, having sent tweets to people she didn't like telling them to kill themselves, does make me wonder about the sort of person she must be to do that.

I don't like the Beckhams simply because I think they are unfair to their children and use them in promoting their brand. Allowing them to have very high public profiles from their earliest years, is not doing them any favours, particularly when they can't make an informed choice about that. Most young people making their way in the world make their mistakes, we all did, they need to be afforded the privacy that their peers have. Exposing the minutiae of day to day live, youngest child reading a book or making breakfast, ridiculous, particularly when it's accompanied by some dis ingenious caption of "rare insight into x doing whatever" It isn't rare it's relentless and obviously they have control over what they release to the media.

Mollygo Sat 26-Jun-21 15:51:20

This is a great thread. We’re allowed to say we dislike someone on sight, whether we’ve met them or not. If someone irritates us get it off your chest. It’s doing no harm, they don’t know and they don’t care.

Blinko Sat 26-Jun-21 15:44:51

Oh yes, I can't take to Neil Dudgeon either. Come back, John Nettles, all is forgiven.

Blinko Sat 26-Jun-21 15:42:24

I think I've been on the receiving end of 'dislike at first sight'. I bumped into a friend in a local garden centre, she was with another friend whom I didn't know. She introduced us. I said 'Hello, Maureen' or whatever her name was - she actually glared at me. Or I could be paranoid, of course.

tinaf1 Sat 26-Jun-21 15:32:56

Trinny Woodhall ( think that’s right) watched her do her make up advert this morning and for some reason took an instant dislike to her , think it’s something to do with her voice.

Have watched Jeremy Clarkson’s program on Amazon and really warmed to him he doesn’t mind taking the p**s out of himself , I would rather someone like that than someone who’s full of their own importance.

Chewbacca Sat 26-Jun-21 12:59:02

Reading here as to how many irritating people there are on television makes me glad I don't have one; at least with the radio, I don't have to look at them!

Alegrias1 Sat 26-Jun-21 12:43:09

So the people who Grans dislike range from a far right anti-Islamic thug, to a woman with an annoying fringe.

shock

olliebeak Sat 26-Jun-21 12:28:41

Gwenisgreat1

Danny Dyer irritates me, trouble is I'm a fan of Eastenders!!

Oh YES - I forgot about HIM. Not an Eastenders fan though.

olliebeak Sat 26-Jun-21 12:27:57

Nigel Farage
Gillian McKeith
Esther McVey
Tommy Robinson - or whatever he calls himself these days [anger]!
Piers Morgan
The 'new' Inspector Barnaby (sorry Mr Neil Dudgeon)!

Gwenisgreat1 Sat 26-Jun-21 11:59:04

Danny Dyer irritates me, trouble is I'm a fan of Eastenders!!

janipans Sat 26-Jun-21 11:02:57

Ant and Dec
and Jamie Oliver

Lucca Sat 26-Jun-21 09:47:34

FannyCornforth

Some of the comments on this thread are absolutely revolting.
Yorki, yours especially.

Agree. Horrible

Lucca Sat 26-Jun-21 09:18:22

FannyCornforth

Some of the comments on this thread are absolutely revolting.
Yorki, yours especially.

Absolutely agree.

harrigran Sat 26-Jun-21 09:16:57

Helen Skelton.
Stacey Dooley.
Dawn French.
Lenny Henry.

Mamma66 Sat 26-Jun-21 08:21:03

Callistemon

^Rob Dryden would have been on the list until I recently realised how funny he is in the programme with Steve Coogan.^

Did you mean Rob Brydon, Mamma66?
No, he's great, although Uncle Bryn is definitely a bit dodgy!

Yes Callistermon, I did mean Rob Brydon, if you have my seen the travelogues with Steve Coogan, they are definitely worth a watch ?

Calendargirl Sat 26-Jun-21 07:46:10

susieq3

I disagree about Rita Chacrabati (I also don’t know how it’s spelt).

I like her soothing, sensible way of reading the news. No matter how bad, it seems better when she reads it.

Huw Edwards and even George Alagaia seem to make it very doom and gloom.

FannyCornforth Sat 26-Jun-21 06:35:33

Some of the comments on this thread are absolutely revolting.
Yorki, yours especially.

Bridie22 Fri 25-Jun-21 22:57:42

oh and Jeremy Vine.

Bridie22 Fri 25-Jun-21 22:41:23

That supervet guy...creepy.
David Willams
Claudia Winkleman...her voice just grates on me.

Happysexagenarian Fri 25-Jun-21 22:00:37

Donald Trump - can't think of anything I like about him
Janet Street-Porter - as above
Laura Kuernsberg - rude, ill mannered and aggressive
Ant and Dec - it's about time they grew up

alltheglitterglue Fri 25-Jun-21 21:43:54

Intentionally haven’t read the thread because it would remind me of some that I do or don’t like.

Lots of politicians, past and present, though I realise that I may be swayed by their ideologies.

For some years I worked in a field that brought me into contact with a lot of celebrities, some, but not all of my list is my experience, some is based on opinion.

Chris Moyles (former radio 1 DJ).
Paul Daniels always used to make my skin crawl.
Jimmy Carr.
Mick Jagger.
Jo Wiley.
Zoe Ball.
Vernon Kay.
Piers Morgan.
Kiera Knightly.

I called the fact that Lance Armstrong was using drugs long before the news came out. When I observed his aggression towards his staff (I wasn’t one of them) was way over the top. A friend of mine was a huge cycling fan, we had a big argument about it. Sadly I was right.

Lots of the celebrities I worked with were lovely people.

Gosh, I can think of loads!