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I am feeling bored so just started this thread to have a little rant t.

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3nanny6 Sun 13-Jun-21 15:07:06

I expect most of you have much better things to do than watch Celebrity Gogglebox and my post is about the programme from yesterday evening. If you watched it were any of you
a bit angry over some of the remarks made about Bonny Langford?
The Celebrity people were given a short piece of television to watch, what they viewed was "The Masked Dancer" where someone is covered in a costume and they have to guess who it is.
Bonny Langford performed a truly energetic dance routine
and all the celebrities were guessing people in their 30-40s,
it got to the point where Bonny had to remove the top part of her disguise and everyone was completely taken aback that an older person could be so energetic and supple.
I was upset that Anne-Marie who was paired up with Tom
Jones just blurted out "Who the f**k is that I do not know who she is. I am not sure if Tom was embarrassed or not he just carried on the conversation.
Also many of the celebrities were using rather a lot of F----
words which really lowered the tone of the show so I switched off.
Just wondering if anyone else viewed it and what were your thoughts.

3nanny6 Sat 31-Jul-21 18:36:09

This thread is still on the go and still getting posts, that's good.

Tom Jones and Ann Marie worked together on the Voice so he knew who she was.
I saw a short preview of Ann Marie and she was with Ed Sheeran not sure but it might be for some new Celebrity Gogglebox.
I like the Voice it may come back on in the autumn.
I wish I had half the energy that Bonnie Langford has she is a lucky lady.

trisher Sat 31-Jul-21 18:49:14

OOh sorry it was the Masked Dancer.

Humduh Wed 01-Sept-21 18:54:25

Hard to avoid distasteful stuff in life as well as on the box. Low times before which was low with no work...and was told by ppl who work that they don't feel low and am confused are they lying about being at work or being silly...

welbeck Wed 01-Sept-21 18:56:29

don't understand that last comment.

Blossoming Wed 01-Sept-21 18:58:58

BlueBelle

Well you see we re all different I love Maureen lipman (not Giles Brandreth) but I don’t think they are at all good in celebrity google box quite boring
I don’t watch Celebrity gogglebox because I m totally fed up with ‘ celebrities’ getting their fingers in every pie it’s very boring
I think AnneMarie for the most part comes across as a nice person quite feeling with a good voice I very much doubt if Tom Jones would be shocked I didn’t realise AnneMarie had had Botox mind you I think Toms probably had plenty, still a good looking man and still a great singer

What you have to realise is language changes and fxxx is not a swear word at all to the younger generation it’s the equivalent of us saying ‘bother’ it’s a very normal exclamation nothing at all to be shocked about

Zombie? Spam for tea again?

timetogo2016 Wed 01-Sept-21 19:09:32

My thoughts exactly Callistemon.
And swearing doesn`t bother me in the slightest,being raised in the pub trade.
I love Giles B and Maureen L.

M0nica Thu 02-Sept-21 18:58:44

Having seen Margot Fonteyn dance convincingly the role of a 14 year old Juliet with Rudolf Nureyev at the Royal Opera House when she was around 50, and she continued to dance the part for some years after. her last performance on stage was in her 60s.

There are, and always have been professional dancers dancing well into old age. Angela Rippon comes into mind.

All I can say is that this Anne-Marie, who ever she may be, sounds rather ignorant and stupid

Blossoming Thu 02-Sept-21 19:12:51

I didn’t mean to quote Bluebelle, it should have been Humduh, who has posted strange comments on a few old threads and is probably not a person.

Esmay Sun 02-Jan-22 23:07:31

Just the word celebrity is enough to put me off any programme .
And when abbreviated to celeb my negative feelings intensify .