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Post by auntieannie on May 25, 2023 8:15:53 GMT 2
According to the conversation in this video, there are at least two known gropers/horrible persons currently working in the British radio-television today...
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Post by auntieannie on May 25, 2023 8:36:18 GMT 2
There seems to be plenty of candidates to beurk of the year on UK channels...
- Jeremy Clarkson
- Pierce Morgan
- and now James Corden is coming back to the UK with a terrible reputation.
I definitely don't know the half of it, have heard that Philip Schofield, who's just been fired, was hated by many... and that his former compere isn't any better. I wouldn't know. I really don't care, really.
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Post by slowcoach on May 25, 2023 15:07:16 GMT 2
That video is in itself rather questionable. Very tabloid, very narcissistic. I suppose every barrel needs its bottom scraped.
Other than that he is dead, there is nothing new I need know about him.
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Post by Voy on May 25, 2023 15:54:40 GMT 2
actually, all I ever needed to know about him was that he did the brilliant, "I've been everywhere , Mate".
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Post by lumi on May 25, 2023 16:15:28 GMT 2
Dare I ask what Jeremey Clarkson did?
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Post by auntieannie on May 25, 2023 19:18:58 GMT 2
Slow, I really didn't care for the video, just that casual ... "I know horrible people and so do you"... was what got me to post it.
Lumi, Jeremy Clarkson has ruffled quite a few feathers, I think. If I understand well, many consider him like one of those embarrassing uncles whose presence you suffer at Christmas. I guess antiquated views, etc... I definitely don't put him at the level of Piers Morgan, who probably won dick of the year at least once on "The last leg". One of Jeremy Clarkson's last bad stunt was when he wrote a column in a newspaper calling for Meghan Markle to be paraded naked around towns and villages.. .or something like that. I don't remember why. Even his daughter posted against her dad on that occasion.
When I first moved to the UK, I used to find him a bit funny on Top Gear. But he has definitely not improved with time.
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Post by OnlyMark on May 25, 2023 21:02:43 GMT 2
Jeremy Clarkson wrote in his column paraphrasing an incident in Game of Thrones.
It's similar to saying he/she ought to be taken out into the desert and shot - a riff on what was said in WWII films.
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Post by auntieannie on May 25, 2023 22:09:37 GMT 2
Mark, not the first time he said something controversial and prolly not the last?
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Post by auntieannie on May 25, 2023 22:17:31 GMT 2
Going back to video in the OP: About that bed... isn't it the one on which Paula Yates was giggling with INXS lead singer Michael Hutchence when they first met? obviously not the same type of occurrence.
Vanessa Feltz is noting a couple times in the above video that she doesn't like to speak about that incident and that she was asked to talk about it. Although Rolf Harris did horrible things by many accounts, it strikes me as odd that several programmes would take the opportunity of his death to scrape that particular barrel. Wouldn't a simple "Rolf Harris, convicted sex offender, has died" suffice. and not mention him again rather than this display?
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Post by OnlyMark on May 26, 2023 7:52:31 GMT 2
Clarkson certainly can put his foot in his mouth. It's all a personal opinion though of what someone finds offensive. I'm not defending him but there is a difference between what is offensive and what someone finds offensive. I'm not actually too keen on Ricky Gervais but I agree with what he says about this - https://www.tiktok.com/@thegoldencircle_/video/7194187873061457158 |
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Post by auntieannie on May 26, 2023 9:12:08 GMT 2
oh, yeah! we're in agreement, Dr Only!
I do respect what Ricky Gervais expresses in many of his videos and interviews.
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Post by slowcoach on May 26, 2023 9:38:02 GMT 2
Yes, Paula Yates.
I agree, I see no need to broadcast anyone wishing to publicity bathe in the afterglow of a dead paedophile
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Post by lumi on May 26, 2023 13:25:31 GMT 2
I recently watched Clarkson'S Farm which I quite enjoyed. I don't follow the media with respect to any other stuff involving him (or anyone really) but totally agree that what offends someone isn't necessarily offensive.
I find it so annoying actually when someone instantly calls someone racist if they say something about them. I'm like, she called you out for pushing to the front of the line because you did, nobody else did, and you happen to be a person of colour/from a specific country/with a disability etc. Being in a minority group (or not) doesn't make everything you dislike racist/sexist/targeted negatively towards you.
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Post by Netsuke on May 26, 2023 13:54:09 GMT 2
Had I not watched the video and read the posts, I wouldn’t have known Rolf Harris was dead. Just googled his name, he died 10 May this year.
Good riddance.
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