Claudia Winkleman has sparked fury among BBC staff after sending a round-robin email asking workers – including those facing redundancy – to film themselves dancing just 24 hours after her £369,000 salary was revealed.
The email, which was sent by Winkelman and her Strictly Come Dancing co-host Tess Daly, asked colleagues to take part in the ‘Dancing with our staff’ promotional video.
But it is understood to have ruffled feathers at the corporation after being sent to staff who are facing job uncertainty and redundancies.
This is fairly typical in that it shows just how out of touch these vacuous celebrities really are. But, frankly, this was tame compared to Gary Lineker.
Oh dear. Thoughts are with the haters at this difficult time. https://t.co/r41naocRcI
— Gary Lineker (@GaryLineker) September 15, 2020
Seriously, just how detached from reality do you have to be to respond to people like this? He has no idea why there are haters, nor for a nanosecond does he appear to consider that his behaviour might just be a contributory factor. There was a time when he was merely on the periphery of my consciousness and I thought nothing about him one way or the other. He kicked a ball about for a living, which from me gets at best a “meh”, but now all I see is a pompous, smug, virtue-signalling twat who is living off the fat of people being forced to pay for his sumptuous lifestyle and his response is to mock them when they dare to complain.
Yes there are haters out there Gary and you have just added a damned sight more, because, frankly, you are a deeply nasty individual and every time you spill your branes on Twatter you demonstrate a deeply unpleasant core. Hating someone who is hateful is pretty rational, I’d have thought.
But here we are with the BBC facing terminal decline and while the ship is sinking and the bows start to dip into the ocean and the stern rises into the icy night, these twats are busy chucking lumps of shit at the potential rescue ships.
Jesus!
The TV licence is pretty much the issue here. If he was on Sky his generous enumeration would be totally fine by me. We have the sports channel and if I did object we could cancel it. To be honest, if subscribing to the BBC was voluntary and reasonably priced we might consider subscribing anyway. The issue is one of choice. Of course, if there was a choice, the BBC would have to be a lot more aware about what their viewers wanted to see.
That’s precisely the issue. When he was waddling in the mud kicking a ball about and shitting himself, no one was being forced to pay for him. Now that force is involved, those being forced have every right to despise his smug self-righteousness and call it out for what it is.
I watch Match of the Day for the football. Lineker does a good job of hosting the show but he isn’t the reason we watch. The BBC needs to realise that we watch Match of the Day for the football. We don’t need Lineker, we’d watch it no matter who presented it.
Clare Balding hosting might make you stop watching
Get you’re point though. I don’t watch football, but there was a pair who who were amusing iirc Jim x and – Scottish
As for the nepotist hag – sack her
Presenter positions are low-skill jobs and should be paid accordingly, more so on BBC where they don’t care how few listen/watch
I stopped listening to Radio 2 years ago. In our workshop at work we used to listen to Absolute Radio or Planet Rock. The adverts are a pain but I understand why they are needed. The warehouse would have Radio 2 on, the music was always tired old Smashy and Nicey stuff that I used to like before I’d heard it a thousand times. Now I have spotify, infinite choices, really easy to search out new stuff, no adverts. Don’t listen to radio at all now.
I only listen to the BBC radio randomly, normally when I have no other choice such as in the car but I find that I can flick between radio’s 2, 4 and 5 and the output is either corona scaremongering or lefty propaganda. I’m thinking of fitting one of my spare short wave receivers and a DAB+ adaptors into the car so I can have some choice that isn’t the BBC.
I grit my teeth and watch the mandatory genuflection to violent career criminal George Floyd I’m sure I could do the same for Clare Balding.
By the way, the clips of the genuflection seem to be shorter and more tightly framed these days. Is that to cut out those who refuse to bend the knee, I wonder?
Plank Of The Week with Dawn Neesom: Lewis Hamilton (for breaking F1/FIA rules again – no politics)
https://youtu.be/mA-Pnvz7aXk?t=847
Good one Dawn
Sadly 11/19 still scared of offending Hamilton. Last GP no-kneel:
Antonio Giovinazzi, Carlos Sainz, Charles Leclerc, Daniil Kvyat, Kevin Magnussen, Kimi Raikkonen, Max Verstappen and Sebastian Vettel
Gary Lineker – the man who’s flange on the end of his penis is in constant use stopping his hand flying off.
They’re mostly all narcissistic fuckwits with a complete lack of empathy. So no great surprise that they offend with their lack of consideration, but the latter isn’t a requirement for your average narcissist let alone those living in their gilded towers at arms distance from the great unwashed.
The BBC though, what can is way, TV in general just don’t watch it anymore. When we had 3/4 channels , 70s 80s etc, you could almost always find something to watch. BBC1 for mainstream, BBC2 arts/news/documentaries, ITV anarchic kids shows, not mainstream, and when it arrived C4 some really good left field comedy. Not exhaustive by any means that, it was a few years ago.
Now, I’m laughing at how irrelevant they’re making themselves. Lack of consideration aside from the presenters, the diversity push will alienate even more viewers.
I don’t have an issue with diversity in the sense that people are diverse, that’s the human condition, but mass entertainment is produced for a majority, and I have no interest in watching same sex couples dance.
I don’t have any interest in watching mixed gender couple dance either, though that does beggar the question how many combinations of gender their could be by current standards (I’ll only dance with someone that uses the pronoun xir).
But all that aside, I have zero interest in watching much at all involving same sex relationships. I have seen Brokeback Mountain once, and did watch the recent Elton film, and really didn’t see that gender preference should play much part in the latter, but that’s by the by.
When TV is trying to reflect reality they really should cater towards the understanding of reality that the majority have I and for most of us, it means that anything other than male/female is rare. I know one person who identifies as gay, and known only 2 in my life, different circles I guess.
Others of course may have a different experience but most of my peers are very much silently against the diversity nonsense, and nonsense it is. Diversity is rarely good, And think it’s enough that it’s tolerated. If I wanted a political opinion I know that Stalin, Hitler and Corbyn aren’t going to be particularly helpful. I need a narrower range, and everything seems to be pushing to an acceptance of almost anything.
There are minority TV production companies that can produce TV of interest to a minority, of course production values would be crap because very few people would watch, so there would be little money involved but there’s no sense in diverting funds towards an insignificant vocal minority that I think few people have interest in (though I’m prepared to be corrected on that, I don’t get out much, could be wrong)
Haven’t paid a TV license in nearly 20 years now, one of the best choices I made was.cutting the cord. Thinking of ditching the box entirely now, did have a thing for films, but rarely watch anything new now, mostly all pre 2000, films have just gone the same way as have the TV seroes.
I am relieved that with every woke tweet the BBC alienates a few more viewers and causes a few more license payers to cancel.
I cut the cord in 2008 after spending a considerable amount of time in Switzerland, Germany and the Netherlands and simply getting out of the habit of watching television at all. For me though, the trigger was having the BBC’s TV Licensing goons visiting my empty house in the UK (pending sale) demanding that I pay them their dues.
These people will never learn. Hopefully, the 2027 Royal Charter review will see the TV Licence terminated, since it no longer serves the needs of the nation as a whole.
Maybe then they’ll understand the meaning of “Get woke, go broke”.