celebrities who need to wash their linen in public

Try watching again Freeflyer the show has been dumbed down to a large extent, relies on knocking men a lot of the time. There would be a lot of complaints if there was a show with men doing the same thing to women. I watch now and again hoping it will improve.

I have no objection to celebrity gossip it has its place on television or in magazines, what really frustrates me is when the newspapers headline it as news. IMO it's not news,not when there are other more serious stories to report. I suppose its cheap to source and headline. I think it cheapens journalism. I know, I know I shouldn't buy those newspapers and mostly I don't. I've had to defect to the i but I miss the daily mirror. I now only buy it at the weekend as a guilty treat.

Well said Freeflyer.

I wonder whether their core audience is middle-aged women? It can be like a lot of things that certain programmes suit different age groups.

A bit too much condemnation going on here, it's sad. I haven't watched Loose Women for a while now, but now I want to go back to see what all the fuss is about!

As far as I can remember, this is a program by women for women about real life. So I can understand why some of the women talk about their private lives, or lack of, because this makes them just like the rest of us. While I have to admit that I don't talk about my own marriage, it's nice to find that someone else might be having similar problems as me (not that I, personally, am as after 50 years together we have both learned to like each other).

Nobody's marriage is perfect and finding out that someone half-way famous may have the same problem as we do helps us to accept that we're normal, doesn't it. For instance, if you were quietly putting up with an abusive partner, watching a television program where someone is talking about a similar situation, might make you realize that you don't have to suffer in silence. This would encourage you to do something like seeking help. How refreshing to find that some celebrity is having marriage problems and is prepared to face it head-on.

I rarely watch soaps where actors act out horrendous scenes that are totally fabricated yet based on real-life. At least on Loose Women these issues are real and can be faced and dealt with.

I hate Loose Women, I cant see how it does the cause of ordinary women any good at all.

This could all be fiction to drum up trade and interest.

If marriage is about building intimacy, how can sharing about it (if it is true and not a PR ploy) help?

I generally have TV on at lunchtime ,used to be Masterchef USA ,which was far better than our version but its finished so I tend to channel hop and Loose women sometimes has quite decent guests ,but a lot of the presenters are difficult to like ,not keen on Ruth who is also on This Morning,Kaye Adams ,or Colleen but I do like Janet Street Porter and Christine Bleakley .It was quite good in the start but is really going downhill....dumbed down.No real deate now

In the early days I saw it slipping very early on, now the bits I see when checking to see what is on tv just show how infantile it is, but no sorry that is unfair because infants would be entertaining. No not snobby, just telling it like it is. It appears as simple to put together, easy chit chat, not hard work no thinking of interesting areas to chat about or good questions to have ready when interviewing guests.

janea

And most of us enjoy a bit of gossip now and then don't we?

I don't watch Loose Women (or any daytime tv come to that) but that's just because it would probably be a slippery slope for me!

jalima <pedant alert>
We aren't common. Well I'm sure most of us aren't, anyway
We're commoners.

Vulgar, vulgaris, Latin: of the common people

We're all common unless we are royalty Lillie

They wash it in public because they get paid to appear on such shows, and because people are (infill gap yourself) enough to watch such programmes

I think all of this celebrity cult and the concentration on what people look like is all a smoke screen to deter us from considering the real problems of the world
Did I struggle so hard to stand up for women's rights to have young women become obsessed with such trivia? I think not. Maybe I've just become cynical?

Isn't she the woman who paid for her 16 year old son to visit a prostitute? It stuck in my mind as it's such a bizarre thing for a mother to even consider...

Loose Women is daytime television and like Jeremy Kyle is moving wallpaper for couch potatoes. Why on earth would I be interested in the marriage of a woman who once sang with her sisters ?

Well I own up to using the word "vulgar" under definition number 1. Lacking in decorum. Quite happy to be called a snob if that's the case.
Thank you janeainsworth. Interesting.

Cannot abide the very concept of celebrities:" have beens"/ "have never beens" whose public profile is based on selling themselves and their "stories" rather than on any talent or achievement.

Couldn't care less about Colleen Nolan or her private life.

They don't try very hard to make it work. Discuss their problems with each other instead of the public. I have been married 50 years and talked over problems and solved them

Ankers I see that GrammaH objected to posters using the word 'vulgar'.
The Oxford Dictionary gives two current meanings for 'vulgar'
Definition of vulgar in English:

vulgar
ADJECTIVE

1Lacking sophistication or good taste:
‘a vulgar check suit’

2Making explicit and offensive reference to sex or bodily functions; coarse and rude:
‘a vulgar joke’
I don't think it is snobbish to use the word in either of those ways, if it is an accurate description.

There is a third meaning, 'Characteristic of or belonging to ordinary people' and if this was used in a derogatory way I suppose it might be considered snobbish.
However this usage is 'dated' according to the OED and I doubt if that was the meaning intended by the posters on this thread.

Never seen it,never watched any of the soaps either,(except Dallas and Payton Place)
So called celebrities don't interest me in the least,silly old wanna bees or has beens.
Gullible people only help boost their bank balance.

But why watch them if they are like that, I accept I haven't watched for a long while and I used to to quite enjoy when Kay a Scottish lady used to be chairing it, however if it so irksome then turn over. I rather enjoy other ladies chatting learning other views but do dislike 'men hating' .

It's up to her what she to tells the public personally I wouldn't watch the programme it's four women who all talk over each other

GrammaH said which comments.

Could either GrammaH or dogsmother please say exactly which comments on this thread are 'snobby'.
Surely posters can express a dislike for a television programme without being denounced as snobs.
Unless you specify whose comments you are referring to, how can those you deem guilty of snobbishness respond to your criticisms?

Interesting to think about this in the week that Zsa Zsa Gabor has died.

Now - Zsa Zsa was more famous for being famous than for her acting skills - but she had a ready wit and came out with some famous one-liners. She may have been married several times but always seemed to conduct herself with class and in a ladylike fashion.

Perhaps some of these celebs who suffer with loose tongues could learn a thing or two from her example.