Times Radio seems like a total disaster. It has a tiny number of listeners despite the incessant advertising for it on Talk Sport. Flora Gill is also a Times Radio presenter. It may as well be called Nepotism FM.
Giles Coren - offensive, diminutive, entitled
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I loathe Giles Coren. Don’t feel that strongly about his sister but I don’t like her much. She comes across as smug and thinks she a whole lot funnier than she actually is. Very annoying on panel shows like HIGNFY. Read David Mitchell’s autobiography and liked him a lot less than I did before reading it. Not least because of his pathetic hanging around for three years waiting for VC to try out potentially better options before she eventually settled for him. He also came across as quite Snobbish and his ridiculing of RSPCA adverts and donors did him no favours either.
Wonder if the late great Alan Coren boasted about his son or his daughter?
I really enjoyed the wry learned wit of Alan Coren, his offbeat ordinariness that cloaked a sharp perceptive mind.
Somehow his children are cast from a different mould, generational distances aside.
Victoria clearly has a sharp intelligence & goes about her business.
I do not warm to her but she doesn’t piss me off. I can take her or leave on the side of the plate.
Whereas Giles...there is something essentially unloved & unloveable about him, almost pitiful yet he is so unnecessary so why bother?
Putting on my armchair psychologist hat I think Giles Coren probably hates himself more than anyone else. The furious way he reacts to any suggestion that he only got his media career because of his father suggests to me that he believes that’s true. If he was confident of his own abilities those comments wouldn’t bother him so much. He will never have an iota of his Father’s talent and respect and he knows it.
I 100% agree, @Amelia99. He strikes me as totally empty.
I think Giles Coren is just totally embarrassing and cringey - he’s in his 50s, he lies about being 5 ft 9 and he abuses dead women. And the podcast he does with his smug wife is just pointless. He’s become a joke and people are mocking him on Twitter and in Private Eye. I can’t imagine he’ll get any more TV commissions - maybe GB news? He did a prime time quiz on ITV a few years ago but it was cancelled after four episodes. https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www....et-to-end-after-itv-wields-the-axe-again/amp/
Nepotism is everything in the media, but the newspaper world is off the scale. Bella Mackie’s father Alan Rusbridger edited the Guardian for 20 years. I’m not surprised she uses her mother’s maiden name. Then there’s Ellie Mae O’Hagan, daughter of Sean O’Hagan, both of whom write for The Guardian. I’m sure she got her foot in the door on talent alone
Hereditary pundit FM
To be fair, they have a few decent presenters. Carole Walker, Hugo Rifkind, Phil Williams and Michael Portillo are good.
*Is suddenly reminded of Max Gogarty*Nepotism is everything in the media, but the newspaper world is off the scale. Bella Mackie’s father Alan Rusbridger edited the Guardian for 20 years. I’m not surprised she uses her mother’s maiden name. Then there’s Ellie Mae O’Hagan, daughter of Sean O’Hagan, both of whom write for The Guardian. I’m sure she got her foot in the door on talent alone
I liked Michael White’s alliterative description of Giles as a “hereditary humorist”, which elicited him being called an “old bleep” and accused of being a paedophile.Hereditary pundit FM
OMG, I remember that!
Link, for anyone interested: https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/guar...victim-of-all-its-very-own-max-gogarty-54388/
Didn’t do him any harm though. 13 years later he’s a commissioning editor at the BBC.
This article made me feel quite sorry for Max Gogarty:
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Hate mail hell of a gap-year blogger
Cyber-bullies who attacked young author have been accused of creating 'tsunami of hate' by his father. By Caroline Davies
Not sure that Sean and Ellie Mae are related?
I like Matt Chorley too. I find myself listening to Times Radio quite a bit because 5Live has become so dire. I will never listen to Coren though and didn't know Flora Gill had a show. I don't read articles by her and I wasn't keen on her father.
If they’re not then I stand corrected. I’m sure I once checked for a connection but I could well be barking up the wrong tree
I think that 'hereditary columnist' should become part of Giles Coren's name, to be used every time he is mentioned, much like Stormzy is 72 years old.
Thanks for posting that. I used to buy Private Eye for the Street of Shame column but stopped as all the articles about government corruption and injustices were too depressing.
Years of reading it though and the way journos carry on on twitter made me realise how utterly horrible a large number of them are.
Years of reading it though and the way journos carry on on twitter made me realise how utterly horrible a large number of them are.
An obituary of Dawn was posted today on the Guardian website.
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