[Closed] Inexplicably successful careers?

retro83 - Member
Naga, the BBC Breakfast presenter. Cocks up just about every link, mispronounces place names, talks over people during interviews, leaves awkward silences.

So, it's not just me then. She annoys the cr@p out of me when she links to the weather and she tries to pre-empt Carol's forecast. 🙄

She got her @ss handed to her by a medical expert the other week when she was trying to be clever on the subject of flu and winter colds. It was funny as hell seeing that woman shut her down on live TV. 😆

Susanna Reid and Sian Williams are sadly missed on that show IMO.

Lily Allen - waste of DNA

Alan Green. Commentators are supposed to inform and entertain, he does neither. Time for him to retire.

Stephen Hawking just a chancer.

Frank Skinner.
David Baddiell
Jonathon Woss & his mate with the beard. Gobshite is it?
The vast majority of politicians
A lot of public sector managers.

Some good suggestions but it's already been nailed. None of these approach the baffling rise of Esther McVey. Im sure it's a bet between Cameron and Osborne, trading places style.

What ?? No danny dyer ??

On our local BBC 1 news, we have a superb weather lady called Diane. Occasionally she's away and is replaced by a woman called Eno.
This so called weather presenter not only doesn't know a jot about anything to do with weather. Her spoken English is terrible, her accent, grammar etc. Remember this is the BBC.
I can only imagine she fills certain criteria for the BBC.

I remember being on a coach once and I heard a man talking about how incompetent this woman is.

Alan Green- he is impossible to listen to all he does is moan about his pet hates irrespective of what is happening in the game

What ?? No danny dyer ??

Most of these people are pretty good at being professtional trolls - Katie Hopkins, especially, is very good at it. Say something outgrageous, get flamed for it, get invited onto a talk show to talk about it, get paid. Job done.

In truth Hopkins is an empty vessel - she's someone who's happy to be and say whatever you ask her to. The purpose of reality shows like the apprentice isn't to find the 'winner' - its an open audition for wind-up dolls. News, current affairs and magazine programmes have presenters and 'real people'. The problem is finding a 'real person' who'll say what you expect them to - its a nervous business and someone who can seem both knowledgable and articulate on the phone and suddenly reveal themselves to appear to be neither when you point live TV camera at them.

So there a constant search for 'contributors'- someone with something to say on an issue, who can also say it within the constraints on live TV. And its hard work finding contributors and its terrifying for reasrchers and producers to put them on TV. But if you have someone who will say [i]what you tell them to[/i], rather [i]what you hope they will[/i] thats lazy TV gold dust.

Its fraud really, on the producers part, and cowardice. TV channels have quotas to create factual content between the drama and light entertainment - educate as well as entertain - Hopkins is really an entertainer, her public persona is an act, but she's entertainment and artifice presented where, contractually, there should be fact.

as someone who's career is inexplicable - Richard 'n' Judy. The ability to bring television to total halt, talk over each other then both stop, then both say 'no, you go on then' then both say nothing - Richard looking autistic, Judy looking drunk.

Its amazing how quickly they went from primetime to obscurity but not as amazing as to how they got on TV together in the first place

Bunnyhop - Member

On our local BBC 1 news, we have a superb weather lady called Diane. Occasionally she's away and is replaced by a woman called Eno.
This so called weather presenter not only doesn't know a jot about anything to do with weather. Her spoken English is terrible, her accent, grammar etc. Remember this is the BBC.
I can only imagine she fills certain criteria for the BBC.

I remember being on a coach once and I heard a man talking about how incompetent this woman is.

Eno forged her first career not in broadcasting, but in fashion. She was one of the first designers to produce concessions for Topshop nationwide and she also showed collections at London Fashion Week.

She made the move into broadcasting after watching Trinny and Susannah and thinking “I could do that!” The first steps into this new world were taken with a community radio station before placements at the BBC’s Local websites in Manchester and Lancashire.

Eno’s first job with the BBC came at Radio Leeds where she worked on the breakfast show, doing everything from producing content to presenting.

Coming back over the Pennines, Eno was then North West Tonight’s autocue operator for a short spell before she applied for the late weather presenter position.

She now works as a multi-platform weather presenter, which involves producing forecasts for TV, radio and online. Eno says she enjoys her job because “it’s a subject matter that affects everybody everyday.”

If she produces forecasts, then surely she must be qualified ? (But I don't think so)[/i]

The irony of her start in fashion is her truly hideous wardrobe, that's my wife's comment BTW who has a textile design degree.

Claudia Winkleman for me-invariably struggling to follow the autocue whilst squinting uncomfortably through far too many layers of eye-liner,her presenting style's more of a plea for forgiveness rather than anything comfortable or reassuring

MacDonalds. Them and their 'competitors' have created a very unhealthy high street obsession copied by many. Ban them from the high street I say.

Oh and alot of those previously above!

Alex Zane an complete and utter tit, can't wait for someone he's interviewing to just punch him for that annoying false laugh.

Aww it's not Macdonalds fault that some people can't help stuffing crap into their gobs...

it's wot maccruiskeen says anyway about contributors - there's so many channels (and other media) that have to be filled with something or someone and unfortunately the majority of it is crap or me too copies and they need bodies to fill this up. 🙁

Claudia Winkleman....her presenting style's more of a plea for forgiveness rather than anything comfortable or reassuring

She's capable of taking the pi55 out of herself and the programme and I once dated a look-a-like briefly. Odd but very nice! Forgiven for that alone!

Chris Moyles,
Greg james plays records on radio 1, and his male partner.
bbc breakfast time presenters,
local radio station presenters,radio merseyside,
most of the alledged comedians of today,
any conservative politiician,
nigel farage,
claire baldin,
the two women judges off x factor
the whole lot of dancing on ice in the jungle,
ant and blooddy dec
all soap stars.
weather forecasters, my cat could predict the weather better than you lot, if she went out it was going to be warm if she stayed in it was going to rain.

Northernmatt: Do you honestly think that or are you just following the trend? Now I'm no U2 fan, far from it, but even I can see that he and his band have talent and have written some iconic music over the years.

Once again this is turning into a "those I don't personally like" thread.

I'd venture the following:

Anyone in those Chelsea/Essex programs.
The Kardashians
Naga (as previously mentioned from the BBC)

Got to be another vote for piers from me.

Mikey74 - +1

cheekyboy - Member
Stephen Hawking just a chancer.

Nicky Campbell & Eddie Mair
oh and Bill Turnbull

'just a chancer'?
Words fail me.

He's a chancer, with a phoney american accent.

(I think Cheekyboy was joking CZ)

I can't believe nobody's mentioned the talent vacuum that is Fearne Cotton.

Zane Lowe
Mark Chappers Chapman
Lorraine Kelly

I think CountZero might just be the most literal member of STW.

Richard looking autistic, how does one do that maccruiskeen?

Surely this thread finished once Piers Morgan was mentioned?

@mikey74 - sorry that picture should have been in the "inexplicably still got a career" thread. Yes U2 have produced some good material, however that was all about 20-25 years ago, how they are getting by rehashing the same old crap again and again recently is beyond me. Doesn't help that Bono is a monumental cheb end.

@mikey74 - sorry that picture should have been in the "inexplicably still got a career" thread. Yes U2 have produced some good material, however that was all about 20-25 years ago, how they are getting by rehashing the same old crap again and again recently is beyond me. Doesn't help that Bono is a monumental cheb end.

I could add the Chilli Peppers to that thread.

Richard looking autistic.

In no particular order -

George Osborne
Nigel Farage
Piers Morgan

I just don't understand how any of them have got where they are.

James Corden , not funny and not a great presenter just dont get why he is popular.

Mine. inexplicable. not entirely successful. Thems the breaks.

Steven Hawkin, worst ventriloquist act ever, that shitty robot can't even make his mouth move.

[mods - spare me the madness, greenfathers]

Alan Green. Commentators are supposed to inform and entertain, he does neither. Time for him to retire.

Oops, should have read page 2.

One word, Beckams.

Sometimes I'm convinced that we're living in the matrix and most of these celebs are dumb rich kids from the future playing out some fantasy sim. Or lizards.

Sam Allerdyce -"stick the big lad up front, that'll be £2m please. Plus severance"

Will-i-am

could somebody please explain him?

Brian Blessed - just has a loud shouty mouth.

Katie Hopkins
Katie Price
Kardashians
Tulisa
Wand Erection
Piers Morgan
David Cameron
Nick Clegg
Ed Milliband

I can understand how Farage is making a career as a politian although it will be, thankfully, very short lived and he will fade away. All the above mystify me.

I could add the Chilli Peppers to that thread.

I agree. At least people that like U2 appreciate that Bono is a nob. People that like the bland MOR dross served up by RHCP fancy themselves as people that actually *like* music 😯

Shaun Keaveny.....no musical taste beyond Led Zeppelin and the Stone Roses, no humour beyond a 15 year olds irritating impressions. A lazy 'self deprecating' egomaniac bellend milking 6 music.

Richard looking autistic.

+ 1 it is not acceptable to use that as an insult

Well thats an inexplicable typo/autocorrect combo. I'm not sure how to [i]look[/i] autistic, I'm also not sure of the combination of keystrokes to get from 'enthusiastic' to 'autistic' - although I was corrected again because i mis-typed as I typed that.

So for clarity - 'Richard looking [i]enthusiastic[/i] and Judy looking drunk' He would keep talking over her, she's stop then he'd try to gee her on like someone trying to teach a dog a trick and she'd just roll her eyes , exhale and slump.