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Celebrities you hate but didn't always dislike

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  • #242
    Girly Gal
    Registered Users Posts: 2,810 ✭✭✭Girly Gal


    Holly Willoughby, she comes across as very insincere and fake


  • #243
    Risingshadoo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 82 ✭✭Risingshadoo


    Graham Norton.


  • #244
    FHFM50
    Closed Accounts Posts: 165 ✭✭FHFM50


    This is a random one but Ken Jeong (Actor from Hangover movies, Community, etc,..)

    Just always got the feeling that he thinks he's hilarious.


  • #245
    Tom Mann Centuria
    Registered Users Posts: 10,902 ✭✭✭✭Tom Mann Centuria


    Simon Pegg.

    Oh well, give me an easy life and a peaceful death.



  • #246
    Galwayguy35
    Registered Users Posts: 16,269 ✭✭✭✭Galwayguy35


    Odhinn wrote: »
    Bob Geldof. Thought he was the dogs bollix when he first appeared. Now I wouldn't piss on him if he was on fire.

    In fairness Geldof hasn't really changed his opinion on things since he first came to public notice over 40 years ago with Bananna Republic.


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  • #247
    TheDavester
    Registered Users Posts: 3,202 ✭✭✭TheDavester


    Muahahaha wrote: »
    Amy Huberman, never really minded her when she first became famous but now I see her as smug and untalented

    this but RTE feels like it has to shoehorn her (and others get the same treatment not just her) into things and give her show after show when her level is a supporting/recurring character and not the lead...The indo has a thing for her too by giving nonsensical articles on her and her take on things...


  • #248
    Archeron
    Registered Users Posts: 6,160 ✭✭✭Archeron


    Alan Davies. Used to think he was funny in the olden days of QI but then he went and ruined the show with his shouty LISTEN TO MY JOKES shtick.


  • #249
    McGinniesta
    Registered Users Posts: 4,402 ✭✭✭McGinniesta


    Robbie Williams.

    At the start I thought he was going to fade into obscurity rather quickly but the f*cker is still around.


  • #250
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,729 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Another one for Ray D'arcy. Seemed entertaining enough before he disappeared up his own bum and became the conscience of the nation.

    Blindboy boatshoes or whatever. Found the lads mildly amusing until one of them discovered preaching.


  • #251
    Muahahaha
    Registered Users Posts: 19,610 ✭✭✭✭Muahahaha


    Girly Gal wrote: »
    Holly Willoughby, she comes across as very insincere and fake

    I dont watch her show so wouldnt know anything about her sincerity. But I always think its funny the way in the UK the tabloids have to have a female celebrity who they label as "our national sweetheart". They all do it in unison, its like a memo goes around Flleet Street on who theyll title as being the "nations sweetheart ". At the moment Holly Willoughby holds that title and she can do no wrong, they always describe her with gushing praise ("hard working mother") and she can do no wrong. But what they are really doing is building her up and putting her on a pedestal in the hope someday of a spectacular fall.

    Previous iterations of the UK tabloid medias "national sweetheart" have included Nigella Lawson, Cheryl Cole and to a lesser extent Caroline Flack. As soon as there was a whiff of scandal the tabloids gleefully took them down. If Willoughby even puts a foot out of line theyll be right there with the knives to take her down. And then theyll find another "national sweetheart" to lionize and the cycle continues.


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  • #252
    CrankyHaus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,281 ✭✭✭CrankyHaus


    Any of them that jumped on the mental illness bandwagon to extend their flagging career.

    I had a close friend take his own life a few years ago and it's bad enough not having him around without having to listen to a shower of z-listers monetising his, and every other suicide victim's, death because they've run out of jokes to tell or songs to sing.


  • #253
    [Deleted User]
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    Galwayguy35 wrote: »
    In fairness Geldof hasn't really changed his opinion on things since he first came to public notice over 40 years ago with Bananna Republic.

    Is that not kind of tragic?..


  • #254
    Girly Gal
    Registered Users Posts: 2,810 ✭✭✭Girly Gal


    Muahahaha wrote: »
    I dont watch her show so wouldnt know anything about her sincerity. But I always think its funny the way in the UK the tabloids have to have a female celebrity who they label as "our national sweetheart". They all do it in unison, its like a memo goes around Flleet Street on who theyll title as being the "nations sweetheart ". At the moment Holly Willoughby holds that title and she can do no wrong, they always describe her with gushing praise ("hard working mother") and she can do no wrong. But what they are really doing is building her up and putting her on a pedestal in the hope someday of a spectacular fall.

    Previous iterations of the UK tabloid medias "national sweetheart" have included Nigella Lawson, Cheryl Cole and to a lesser extent Caroline Flack. As soon as there was a whiff of scandal the tabloids gleefully took them down. If Willoughby even puts a foot out of line theyll be right there with the knives to take her down. And then theyll find another "national sweetheart" to lionize and the cycle continues.

    There is an element of the media building her into the national sweetheart, but, I think Holly is different than the others you mention, as she's part of the media too, the others relied heavily on the media for their careers.If anything did come out about her I think it would be spun in a positive light a bit like when Philip Schofield came out, his wife and family's feelings were completely ignored and he was portrayed as being brave.


  • #255
    Galwayguy35
    Registered Users Posts: 16,269 ✭✭✭✭Galwayguy35


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Is that not kind of tragic?..

    I don't know, it might have been easier and more profitable for him to keep his mouth shut over the years both here and across the pond but although I wouldn't agree with a lot of what he says he stuck to his guns even when it made him unpopular.


  • #256
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Well, apart from Aung San Suu Kyi..

    But no, I meant like, to be in his 60s to still think the same thing as he thought at 20.. anyway..

    He pains me..

    Wonder how he's getting on with those Syrians he was going to take in..


  • #257
    frozenfrozen
    Registered Users Posts: 7,878 ✭✭✭frozenfrozen


    As has been said in the thread Rachel Riley. Very disturbed woman on twitter trying to get people fired by tweeting their employers if they get into an argument with her. Thought she seemed to be good craic on 8 out of 10 cats does countdown, clearly not.

    blindboy as well... Hard to believe hes the person from the Joe Duffy call standing up to him. He's nearly turned into Joe Duffy now


  • #258
    Church on Tuesday
    Registered Users Posts: 3,858 ✭✭✭Church on Tuesday


    Tubs.

    Actually didn't mind him too much back in the day when he had his Saturday night show, seemed like the perfect antidote to Pat the Plank but alas he turned out to be a proper pompous condescending boring prick.


  • #259
    student7890
    Registered Users Posts: 248 ✭✭student7890


    Love these guys

    Beam me up Scotty.



  • #260
    Hangdogroad
    Registered Users Posts: 4,883 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    Catherine Thomas. Didn't have a strong opinion on her previously, enjoyed No Frontiers. Now can't stand her.


  • #261
    Kaizer Sosa
    Registered Users Posts: 369 ✭✭Kaizer Sosa


    Definitely Bressie. Seemed like an okay guy a few years ago and I thought the Blizzards were half decent but then somebody took this moderately talented handsome fella and decided the country needed him everywhere from being a judge on the voice to being interviewed on chat shows. I just find him very dull and inauthentic - like a nerd trying to pretend he's super-confident and over compensating.


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  • #262
    TheDavester
    Registered Users Posts: 3,202 ✭✭✭TheDavester


    Kaizer Sosa wrote: »
    Definitely Bressie. Seemed like an okay guy a few years ago and I thought the Blizzards were half decent but then somebody took this moderately talented handsome fella and decided the country needed him everywhere from being a judge on the voice to being interviewed on chat shows. I just find him very dull and inauthentic - like a nerd trying to pretend he's super-confident and over compensating.

    charging schools a grand (some say it was 5grand) to talk about mental health...the neck of him...now he's doing a podcast on the topic....wonder if he's charging to listen to it...


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