The Most Boring Person in Showbiz Page 3

Quote: Griff @ August 7 2008, 9:51 AM BST

No contest.

Agree with everyone about Davina. She is nice looking but also the most appalling person in the world.

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He was quite good 20 years age on Radio 1.

Quote: David Chapman @ August 5 2008, 9:50 PM BST

He supports Manchester United, he likes John Wayne films and loves Elvis Presley.

Talk about cutting edge and adventurous.

I'm talking about Eammon Holmes.

I bet he also likes U2 and Dire Straits.

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It's hard to dilke some one who likes pies as mcuh as Eamon Holmes.

Quote: Frankie Rage @ August 5 2008, 10:00 PM BST

He is pretty boring.

But is he the most boring?

As a duo I think Richard & Judy are probably the most boring.

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Richard and Judy are quite good. I think they're really good interviewers.

As for Paul O'Grady, I think the death of his partner, a couple of years ago, seemed to have a big effect on him, and he hasn't been the same since.

Andi Peters.

Quote: Griff @ August 7 2008, 1:33 PM BST

*resolves never to speak to Sooty again*

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Sid the Manager, Llama man ? Comedy gold they were on the way home from school.

Ok I was about 12 but it seemed funny then.

Quote: sootyj @ August 7 2008, 2:57 PM BST

Sid the Manager, Llama man ? Comedy gold they were on the way home from school.

Ok I was about 12 but it seemed funny then.

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I'm with sootyj on this one. You were probably too cool to listen in those days, Griff, but Steve Wright was a breath of fresh air in the midst of a daytime Radio 1 schedule of Bruno Brookes and the Hairy Cornflake.

Quote: Griff @ August 7 2008, 3:11 PM BST

Hey I've paid my Shitty Radio One DJ Smashy And Nicey dues. You're talking to someone who once interviewed Peter Powell for the Sheffield University magazine.

And I was a devoted Radio One listener in my youth. I even went to a Radio One Roadshow (most boring day I'd ever had, and my teenage years had a lot of boring days in them). The highlight of my school day was listening to Oooh Gary Davies's Bit In The Middle at lunch break while smoking menthol cigarettes in the shopping centre etc. inbetween bouts of petty shoplifting and swapping Marvel comics.

(NB I am proud to note that the shopping centre I used to bunk off to eventually became the location for Rose Tyler's council estate on Doctor Who.)

But Steve Wright has always seemed slightly creepy to me. And nowadays his Radio Two show is the most terrible thing ever broadcast. Every single second makes you want to swerve your car into an oncoming lorry just to end it all before Wrighty makes another mind-crushingly banal observation followed up by a deafening jingle to blot out the tumbleweed silence, as not even his brain-dead studio posse can summon up a laugh.

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I don't listen to him anymore, but he's not that bad. Somebody like Chris Evans is worse.

I haven't listened to him for years, as I hardly listen to music radio (BBC Nazis won't tell me what I should listen to).

For all I know he stabs cats, and frightens choir boys whist playing the Birdy Song and Deutscheland Uber Alles on a loop.

I mean I was wathcing The Man From Auntie and the degeneration of Belton was shocking.

Pemy Doherhouse. Oh look, what a surprise. One or the both of them has been caught with drugs. Every shitting week. Predictable, boring twats pumping out mediocre, whiny indie music (almost without exception). Why are these people not rotting in jail?

Yes, his Radio 2 show isn't very good.

Peter Powell, eh? But what was he really like?

And TFI Fridays when it was good, as amazing, same with The Big Breakafast.

Most talents burn out.

Quote: sootyj @ August 7 2008, 3:15 PM BST

And TFI Fridays when it was good, as amazing, same with The Big Breakafast.

Most talents burn out.

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TFI was never that good. Big Breakfast had it's moments.

TFI's time in the sun was a short one.

BB seemed to have some longish periods of quality.

Quote: sootyj @ August 7 2008, 3:18 PM BST

TFI's time in the sun was a short one.

BB seemed to have some longish periods of quality.

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Ironically, Johnny Vaughn was only ever any good on the BB. Outside of that, he fell flat on his face.

I think Chris Evans suffers from the "ginger equals twat" stereotype (cf Catherine Tate, Mick Hucknall). But for a brief shining moment in 1995-96 he was the coolest man in Britain.

Quote: Graham Bandage @ August 7 2008, 3:26 PM BST

I think Chris Evans suffers from the "ginger equals twat" stereotype

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To be fair, that's bald fact not a stereotype.