Annoying celebs

I dont like Mary Berry
My daughter was outraged and really cross with me, as she loved her, but i just can't take to the woman.

I don't like Mary Berry either.
I don't like
Carol Vorderman
Alexander Armstrong
Claudia Winkleman
Shirley Ballas

I imagine they’d all probably find you quite irritating too.

Jeremy Vine
Vernon Kay
Paddy McGuiness

Stef McGowan
Clare Balding

Basgetti oh yes they'd definitely find me irritating but I'm not being irritating on TV so I'm not 'out there' to be commented on.

I cannot stand Prof Brian Cox.

Susan Calmen, yuk.

Grandmadinosaur

A male I cannot abide is Paddy McGuiness.

Females it’s Lorraine Kelly and Alison Hammond.

I agree with all of these. Why do people from Yorkshire always say 'Yorkshire born and bred' - Paddy McGuiness overdoes the nowt but a lad accent.

Alison Hammond reminds me of saying 'an empty vessel makes the most noise.

Lorraine Kelly is another one, wee this and that.

I know she's never seen now but I have an almost allergic reaction to Lulu. Constantly changing her accent.

It's a delight when someone like Frank Gardener or Rory Stewart appear. Everyone seems to be either Geordie or Northern now. A loud cackle and wittering away about nothing drives me mad.

MissAdventure

I dont like Mary Berry
My daughter was outraged and really cross with me, as she loved her, but i just can't take to the woman.

Oh I agree.
She reminds me of a headmistress I once had, a tad too stern and stiff upper lip type for me, or at least that’s how she comes across imho.

Oh, MissAdventure, I'm with you on Stacey Solomon. I understand that she's a really nice person, but I cannot watch her, as her voice is like squeaky chalk on a blackboard for me - sorry, Ms Solomon!

Shr has a beautiful singing voice, too.

Ooh Winkelman.
Her with the fringe.
I don't like her at all!

Can anyone tell me why Robert Peston speaks the way he does?
One minute it’s a slow drawl as though he’s had one too many and then he suddenly speeds up before slooowing right down again.

Is there something wrong with him or is he just rubbish at reading the autocue?

Paddy McGuiness - I usually turn the radio off when he's on but I did catch a bit of his show recently where he was talking about an "ers" - I thought he must be talking about funerals and meant a "hearse". But it just didn't make sense.

Turns out he was talking about a house.

I don't like him either

Lovely to see you back MissAdventure

Ah, thank you.

Lulu and her habit of picking and choosing wether to use her Scottish accent or not.

Whilst I am thinking about it,
Denise Welch
Stacy Solomon
Claudia Winkleman
Alison Hammond, imagine her and Susan Calman doing a show together!
Paddy McGuiness
Robert Preston but i do think he talk the way he does as he must have a stutter but regardless can’t abide him.
Brian Cox i find creepy, my friend adores him though
I read Shelia Hancox book The Two of Us and was taken back at what a very high opinion of herself she has, referring to her beauty and lovely legs, really, think she talks a load of rubbish with her leftist views, she would not last a week without her wealth, another champagne socialist like Emma Thomson

I can't see the appeal of Brian Cox, i always turn over if he's on tv.

Alison Hammond because she's everywhere, even though she has very little talent or ability
Claudia Winkleman and her stupid fringe
Holly Willoughby fake, flakey and talentless
Stacey Solomon can't abide her screeching
Denise Welch too coarse and crude to be out in public let alone on national tv
Nadiya Hussain that "winning cake" she did on Bake Off was shocking and she's not stopped complaining about her unjustified 10 years of fame coming to an end
Amanda Holden shallow and utterly bereft of any talent or personality
Emma Thompson a patronising, self adoring luvvie who doesn't practice what she endlessly preaches

Jimmy Carr I think he's a creep
Simon Cowell dislike his sneering superiority towards others
Ant & Dec just sick of seeing them
Jonathan Ross something deeply unpleasant about him
Paul Merton such a boring "personality"
Russell Brand because he's confirmed my long held suspicion that he's an unwashed, loud mouthed predator who has only "discovered God" now that he's facing serious charges

I like Julian Clary. And Mary Berry.

merlotgran

Can anyone tell me why Robert Peston speaks the way he does?
One minute it’s a slow drawl as though he’s had one too many and then he suddenly speeds up before slooowing right down again.

Is there something wrong with him or is he just rubbish at reading the autocue?

Robert Peston has a speech impediment that he has had since childhood. That's why he speaks in that distinctive way

anna7

merlotgran

Can anyone tell me why Robert Peston speaks the way he does?
One minute it’s a slow drawl as though he’s had one too many and then he suddenly speeds up before slooowing right down again.

Is there something wrong with him or is he just rubbish at reading the autocue?

Robert Peston has a speech impediment that he has had since childhood. That's why he speaks in that distinctive way

He claims he hasn't.
He says it is a natural idiosyncracy.

To my mind, there is a big difference between saying that you find someone's personality trait(s) irritating or annoying, and saying that you hate that person.

It annoys or even upsets me when people say they can't abide someone for no good reason - I always want to jump to the defence of the disliked person- yet I could add a few names to the list myself, and really hate the shouty presenting and hysterical screechy laughter that many so-called celebrities do now. I also hate the fake faces that many must have spent a fortune on - to me, the artificial look is awful, and I can't help forming a negative opinion of them based on that alone!

That makes me a complete hypocrite, and I'm trying to work out why I feel like that.
Maybe a large part of it comes from my own insecurity and remembering how much it hurt me as a child to be shunned by people who didn't know me at all. Amongst other things, I remember a comment about the way I laughed, which certainly explains why I feel very defensive towards Elaine Paige.

I'm not keen on Stephen Fry.