The receiving end of a Z-List TV chef's wrath
In a previous life, one of the duties of my job involved wrangling studio guests for a large radio station.

I was to meet-and-greet, usher them into the studio, let them do their talky bit and help them find their way home again. More often than not, these guests were mere members of the public, and the few celebrities we got - being a regional operation - were those who were unwilling to go up to London.

"Uhh...", I said, referring to a scrap of paper, "Mr Worrall-Thompson, would you like to step this way?"

The small, ginger, bearded man with a not-unpleasant smell redolant of a compost heap, followed me through the maze of corridors toward the studio.

In the awkward silence, I felt it my duty to make conversation with this stranger.

"So, what do you do?"

"I'm a CHEF"

I took in these three words, spoken - I thought - with undue tetchiness.

"That's ...um... interesting. Are you any good?"

There was a long, distant rumbling coming from inside the small man's torso, like a volcano about to destroy an island in the Pacific. Which, at that time, was exactly where I wanted to be.

All the words ran into each other, but I'm pretty sure one of them was "Don'tyouknowwhoIam?"
( Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 8 Oct 2009, 13:49, 3 replies)

Clicks ...
Brilliant - put the bearded, ginger munchkin in his place!
(Biff..., Thu 8 Oct 2009, 14:49, closed)

"Hey,
weren't you in Simply Red?"
(Seance Trumpet has got no beef with a man enjoying a croissant, Fri 9 Oct 2009, 7:49, closed)

I'm not one to..
dislike anyone of a mildly famous nature, especially if I've never met them myself, or seen them anywhere other than their respective telly productions - I'm usually open minded about stuff like that.

But for some reason, this guy makes me angry, and I really don't know why.

Saw him on that Hells Kitchen with Ramsay (who I'm sure a lot of you on here will find equally annoying), he was one of the guests - and I did'nt even get any of the dialogue on the program because all I could think about was "you complete and utter twathead.."

I think it's that smarmy expression that he does with his mouth when he talks.

Wierd is'nt it, how people on telly, with whom you never meet in person, or know what they're really like, can anger you so much, for no apparent reason..
(danniekavanagh did nothing constructive on, Sat 10 Oct 2009, 12:17, closed)