Why don’t breakfast TV presenters wear pyjamas, asks Clare Balding.
The BBC presenter says she’s fed up of female presenters dressing up “as though they are going to a cocktail party”, and puts forward another idea: pyjamas. But just once a week.
Balding told the Mail on Sunday she’s had enough glamour at that time in the morning. “Who is putting pressure on women, on TV breakfast shows particularly, to dress as though they are going to a cocktail party?” she asks.
“Why do you have to do that? Why would it be wrong to sit there in trousers? Why don’t they wear a dressing gown, present the show in their pyjamas once a week, maybe every Friday?”
Well, one answer is probably the obvious one – they don’t want to go in front of the cameras looking like a slob. The other might be that as I do, they, er, don’t wear pyjamas. Now, that would make matters very interesting…
Oh, and grammar pedant alert – shouldn’t that be “fed up with?”
There are too many illiterates using of instead of have as well. Could of instead of could’ve. It really, really annoys me.
Less, when they mean fewer, tow the line…
I could go on…
That’s a mute point. Hello, can anyone hear me? Oh, sod it, I’m off. Sniff sniff.
Don’t loose your mind over people hearing you – I’m sure there out their somewhere. Lot’s of them.
Heh!
Who is putting pressure on to have women in breakfast shows? The whining of Naga Munchetty (… too piercing man!) is hard to take at that time of day.
Might be nice to see some ‘pressure’ put on the male scruffs that show up on Newsnight
😯 😯
Well actually, despatching several hundred or maybe just a few thousand might well save the Earth.
Providing it’s the right several hundred or few thousand…
For the life of me I cannot think of Balding as being even remotely capable of looking “glamorous”, whether in a cocktail dress or anything else. Her horse might look glamorous in such attire, but only by comparison
They shouldn’t wear pyjamas at work because they are, in fact, at work.
Even a right-on BBC gay-girl should be able to understand that.
And at work, people expect to be dressed professionally.
Quite so.
“Balding told the Mail on Sunday she’s had enough glamour at that time in the morning”
She may well have, but then it’s not the sort of thing she’s into, is it? OTOH, TV execs going back decades have seen the benefit to their viewing figures of having a saucy looking weather girl, for example.
DON’T BOTHER
This is TV, right?
Pathetic waste of time, the whole thing.