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

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Callistemon Sun 13-Jun-21 16:02:11

No-one has answered so perhaps no-one has a clue, Lin52

grin

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Lin52 Sun 13-Jun-21 15:52:45

AmberSpyglass

I don’t have a problem with swearing at all - and why would people automatically know who BL is?

About as much as many people in their older years don’t know who the f Ann Marie is.

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Callistemon Sun 13-Jun-21 15:51:34

I'm going to thkweem and thkweem until I'm thick!!

Who is Anne Marie?
Does she have a surname?
Is she well-known?

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Alegrias1 Sun 13-Jun-21 15:49:00

ps - Mr Jones is no stranger to the F-Word.

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Namsnanny Sun 13-Jun-21 15:48:13

I didnt watch it, but swearing is more or less the norm isnt it now?
Was it the swearing, or the fact that they were surprised by Bonny Langfords age or that the younger people didnt know her, that you found irritating 3nanny6?
Bonny Langford hasnt been on the TV for a long while has she?

I'm often surprised and dismayed at the amount of (ageist) anti bboomer feeling there is out there.

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Alegrias1 Sun 13-Jun-21 15:47:58

I love Anne-Marie, she's seems like a nice person. And she swears, c'est la vie. I don't suppose she watches East Enders.

I thought they were expecting somebody young because of the energy and suppleness of the dancer. And it was admiration when they realised it was someone who was 54 years old.

Same as Neil Oliver wink

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Callistemon Sun 13-Jun-21 15:44:27

No, I didn't see it, but who the f* is Anne-Marie?

I know who Bonnie Langford is and have in fact heard of Tom Jones too smile

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AmberSpyglass Sun 13-Jun-21 15:43:11

I don’t have a problem with swearing at all - and why would people automatically know who BL is?

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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.

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