Davina McCall

[Alph]

Can't frickin' stand the woman!! The way she presents programmes like she's your personal friend. Oh Davina, you're just the typical girl next door type!

'Cus she's a gibbering idiot anorl.

Anyone who snorts when they laugh wants drowning.

My missus has made me sit through that million pound drop ***** tons of times.

"I'm certain the answer is Michael Buble"

"How certain?"

"99%"

"Lets put £500,000 on Buble and the rest on Bono"

"Ok"

"You were so brave with that last question *snort* says Davina

No, they were stupid. Tell them they're stupid. Somebody needs to tell them they're stupid. Or step down, go flirt with Chris Moyles and let a proper presenter take over. Like the Schofield. Or Holly Willoughby. Or Emma Willis. Even Noel.

Actually not Noel, he's worse. Rolf Harris ain't got much on

[TigerTedd]

Nah, I won't - Davina Mcall has been complaining all the time she's done what she's done.

Alex Jones has been climbing some mountain somewhere...not round here, coz we don't have mountains here.......

Davina has been crying - her marriage has been under a lot of strain - she's knackered....etc etc

Alex has had to go to some other country - Utah - to climb some rock.

Sorry, I won't donate - I donate to some other charities - and I won't be bullied.

Pissed me off a couple of years ago when Chris moyles and Cheryl Cole climbed Kilimanjaro for comic relief. I would happily pay good money, and I know people who have, to have that experience. But they get it all paid for, moan all the way, and then get sponsored for it.

How about they take the money it cost to fly a group of about 8 of them to Africa, and donate that to charity.

Annoys me as well when people come round with sponsorship forms saying, 'if I raise £3,000 I'll walk the Great Wall of china or the Inca Trail.' How about you raise the £3,000, then you refuse to go on the trip and save the charity the £1,500 it costs to get you there. Imagine how many poorly kids that extra £1,500 could help. If you want to walk the Great Wall of China, get your own wallet out and pay for it like everyone else who goes there does. Then do the fund raising stuff just for the reward of knowing you've done done good.

People don't have to do ridiculous or impressive things to make me donate to anything. Like you say, they're bullying you into it. If I want to donate, I'll donate because it's the right thing to do. If Jo Whiley falls off her treadmill it doesn't make me any more or less likely to donate.

Rant over.

[Boycie]

Pissed me off a couple of years ago when Chris moyles and Cheryl Cole climbed Kilimanjaro for comic relief. I would happily pay good money, and I know people who have, to have that experience. But they get it all paid for, moan all the way, and then get sponsored for it.

How about they take the money it cost to fly a group of about 8 of them to Africa, and donate that to charity.

Annoys me as well when people come round with sponsorship forms saying, 'if I raise £3,000 I'll walk the Great Wall of china or the Inca Trail.' How about you raise the £3,000, then you refuse to go on the trip and save the charity the £1,500 it costs to get you there. Imagine how many poorly kids that extra £1,500 could help. If you want to walk the Great Wall of China, get your own wallet out and pay for it like everyone else who goes there does. Then do the fund raising stuff just for the reward of knowing you've done done good.

People don't have to do ridiculous or impressive things to make me donate to anything. Like you say, they're bullying you into it. If I want to donate, I'll donate because it's the right thing to do. If Jo Whiley falls off her treadmill it doesn't make me any more or less likely to donate.

Rant over.

Fantastic rant mate.

We need a rant thread I think.

[AndyinLiverpool]

I have to say, I didn't know who she was. Perhaps she should be referred to as 'TV's Davina McCall'.

[Boycie]

She's a rich girl, who had a drug problem (because she had rich parents and could afford the lifestyle) and hung out on the celeb scene and coped off with a producer of some sort no doubt.

Must have shagged Chris Evans along the way.

[AndyinLiverpool]

Is she an actress or some such? Off a soap opera?

[Boycie]

Is she an actress or some such? Off a soap opera?

youve never watched big brother either?

I wish I was you.

[Day]

Edinburgh to London in 7 days on a bike, running and swimming, couldn't give a toss about her presenting skills, drug problems, how she rose to fame, who she's banging, what it was for, if she has enough money to give to charity whatever. That is some achievement for someone that had little training. Not many would have been capable of that, what a woman.

[AndyinLiverpool]

youve never watched big brother either?

I wish I was you.

 

It's easy enough to not watch it. 

[SSD]

To be honest, I'd rather just spend my £5 on the stalls at a local school to help them raise money. At least it wouldn't go on the cost of paying for a physio, fitness trainer, health specialist and whatever else Davina had for her challenge. 

[Mafiabob]

This thread is what's wrong with this world. A great human achievement should be acknowledged. Not discouraged because she's a celebrity. Don't get why people are being bullied into giving to charity? And I would happily live in my house than a shack in some third world country. I'm not big on foreign aid and agree we should raise more for over here. But what does that say about successive governments, cynical press and above all else a sad society who have to whinge about a great human achievement. Rant over

[Day]

Take away the money, what it was for...just look at what she actually achieved. Yes she had the physio , trainer and other specialists but it's still a huge achievement for someone that had never ran 5 weeks before going ahead with it.

 

It's not like she was an athlete before doing it either.....massive achievement and not one many would be capable of.

[TigerTedd]

Edinburgh to London in 7 days on a bike, running and swimming, couldn't give a toss about her presenting skills, drug problems, how she rose to fame, who she's banging, what it was for, if she has enough money to give to charity whatever. That is some achievement for someone that had little training. Not many would have been capable of that, what a woman.

 

Can't deny that, fair play to her for the effort. David Walliams and a few others have done some really impressive feats for Sports Relief. I think the most important thing is proving that you don't need that much training to do these things, just a ton of will power and motivation.

 

I've been told I'll be kicked out of the army if I can't run a mile and half in 11 minutes. I thought there's no chance, I'm not a natural runner, my fastest ever time was 12:30, and when I started training 8 weeks ago the time was recorded at 13:30. But now my time is already down to 11:40. I missed sports relief because I was running laps round my works car park at 8 o'clock last night. No ****** sponsored me for that though.

 

Although I still say nothing can beat Eddie Izzard, I'm not sure anything will. That was properly Super Human. And, as per my previous rant, as fund raising efforts go, a pair of trainers and camera crew are very cost effective.

 

I was also thinking the other day, when I was listening to Jo Whiley do her treadmill thing, (and I know this isn't a Jo Whiley thread, but that's one I happened to listen to - nothing against Jo Whiley, by the way, good effort) whereas she had a foot massage to look forward every couple of hours, Eddie had to run for 8 hours or more a day, and then had nothing to look forward to but an ice bath at the end of it, and another marathon tomorrow.

 

Proper legend.

[ladyram]

This thread is what's wrong with this world. A great human achievement should be acknowledged. Not discouraged because she's a celebrity. Don't get why people are being bullied into giving to charity? And I would happily live in my house than a shack in some third world country. I'm not big on foreign aid and agree we should raise more for over here. But what does that say about successive governments, cynical press and above all else a sad society who have to whinge about a great human achievement. Rant over

Post of the thread.

[ladyram]

To be honest, I'd rather just spend my £5 on the stalls at a local school to help them raise money. At least it wouldn't go on the cost of paying for a physio, fitness trainer, health specialist and whatever else Davina had for her challenge.

How do we know they aren't donating their fee to the cause?

[AndyinLiverpool]

Post of the thread.

 

This thread is what's wrong with this world. A great human achievement should be acknowledged. Not discouraged because she's a celebrity. Don't get why people are being bullied into giving to charity? And I would happily live in my house than a shack in some third world country. I'm not big on foreign aid and agree we should raise more for over here. But what does that say about successive governments, cynical press and above all else a sad society who have to whinge about a great human achievement. Rant over

It's not a great human achievement. It really isn't.

[Mafiabob]

It's not a great human achievement. It really isn't.

point I'm trying to make is that we live in a very cynical world where people are willing to knock others down because they've achieved something, be it whether they've stayed silent for an hour at school to climbing forty mountains. Raising money for charity is a great human achievement and I'm glad some people still try and help others. Including the many great volunteers

[BondJovi]

Raising money is great, but raising awareness is another. I have no clue what all this money has actually been raised for, yet I know all about what these various celebrities have done. That is not right.

[MrsRam]

I donate a lot of my time and money to many causes that mean a lot to me - I just don't ram it down peoples throats.

 

I won't be made to feel guilty for not donating and before you start 'that's what's wrong with the world business' just take into account the many people that do things voluntary and sometimes to their own cost and just get on with it.  

 

Never assume and never judge. Bloody pious lot you are sometimes. Sheesh.

[AndyinLiverpool]

point I'm trying to make is that we live in a very cynical world where people are willing to knock others down because they've achieved something, be it whether they've stayed silent for an hour at school to climbing forty mountains. Raising money for charity is a great human achievement and I'm glad some people still try and help others. Including the many great volunteers

I think a lot of the cynicism is born of the hyperbole around such events. You yourself called it a 'great human achievement'. When I think of this phrase, it con jours images of the eradication of small pox, the building of the pyramids or landing on the moon. Not a sponsored walk / swim etc from one city to another. When the BBC trumpet all this, it looks self-serving and patrician and its presenters self-important. What are the true motives of these people?