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LE
Lester Founding member
Brekkie posted:
FromtheNorth posted:
So we can expect a new GMTV logo appearing in lifestyle idents, burnt onto toast as it pops out of toaster as the family eat breakfast... Forming from the steam of a coffee pot.. falling from a cereal box... being delivered by on the side of milk bottles by the milkman... on letters with the postman... etc etc


... or rather than nicking The Big Breakfast's ideas they could just rename themselves GM:TV instead.


Why would they add a colon?? I thought they would want to move away from all references of anything anal

teehee...
LE
Lester Founding member
This from The Mirror so make of it what you will:-

Desperate Kate Garraway is begging television bosses for the GMTV top job after fearing the post was slipping away from her grasp.

And news that producers are considering former weathergirl Ulrika Jonsson for the sofa has left Garraway quickly moving to discredit the Swede as a rival.

"It's very unlikely she will get the job," she sniped. "She is not a journalist and the job needs someone that has those skills.

"Everyone else does. "I would really love the job, but I will stay on, whatever happens."

The 41-year-old is desperate to become the main female anchor on the show following Fiona Phillips's decision to quit at Christmas. Then in an extraordinary broadside at rival Fiona, 47, she said: "It's sad for me that she is leaving, but I think it is good for the company.

"It is time for a change, time for a shake-up."

The pair's competitive relationship came to a head last month when Fiona accused her of going to the "opening of an envelope".

Garraway has been at GMTV since 2000 and already presents the show on Thursdays and Fridays, making her one of the favourites to become Fiona's successor.

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Speaking at the TV Quick and TV Choice Awards at the Dorchester hotel on London's Park Lane, Garraway admitted bosses gave her no warning that the position was going to become available.

She said: "I wasn't told Fiona was leaving in advance, but I know that is how these things work."

Despite not being offered the role, mum-of-one Kate is also making demands for reduced hours.

"I have a two-year-old daughter so would need to negotiate the hours.

"I wouldn't want to be working 6-9.30am," she said.

Wearing a low-cut tight blue dress and matching high heel shoes - which she removed on her way out - Garraway was certainly not keeping a low profile at the Dorchester, and vowed that whatever happens she will stay in the public eye.

She added: "I have been in talks with the director and there will always be a place for me at ITV."
AN
anoilyrag
Lester posted:
This from The Mirror so make of it what you will:-

Desperate Kate Garraway is begging television bosses for the GMTV top job after fearing the post was slipping away from her grasp....
She added: "I have been in talks with the director and there will always be a place for me at ITV."


Pretty spot on
MH
miss hellfire
anoilyrag posted:
Lester posted:
This from The Mirror so make of it what you will:-

Desperate Kate Garraway is begging television bosses for the GMTV top job after fearing the post was slipping away from her grasp....
She added: "I have been in talks with the director and there will always be a place for me at ITV."


Pretty spot on
[I]

I saw that today. Loved her shoes.
Hello Oilyrag! So got any dirt to dish? I'm all ears.
Specially bout Pwincess fifi.
You might be able to get Carol Vorderman if you offer her the minimum wage. Ulrika? please don't. . Just please don't.
FA
fanoftv
miss hellfire posted:
anoilyrag posted:
Lester posted:
This from The Mirror so make of it what you will:-

Desperate Kate Garraway is begging television bosses for the GMTV top job after fearing the post was slipping away from her grasp....
She added: "I have been in talks with the director and there will always be a place for me at ITV."


Pretty spot on
[I]

I saw that today. Loved her shoes.
Hello Oilyrag! So got any dirt to dish? I'm all ears.
Specially bout Pwincess fifi.
You might be able to get Carol Vorderman if you offer her the minimum wage. Ulrika? please don't. . Just please don't.


Do you know, that could just work. Carol won't have the full commitment to countdown in the new year, and she may actually work. She may not be a journalist as such, but I've always like her interviewing and presenting techniques, its a shame that you haven't seen much of her except on Countdown over the past few years.

I do hope that Kate does get the top job. She does deserve it. I'd like to see them bring in somebody new to build them up in the role. Though I suppose the only thing is that by hiring a big name you can publicise it, even though it'll cost a lot more in the long run.
AN
anoilyrag
miss hellfire posted:

Hello Oilyrag! So got any dirt to dish? I'm all ears.
Specially bout Pwincess fifi.

Gosh, so little time. Not until she's gone, sorry.
LE
Lester Founding member
anoilyrag we like you with your interesting tit bits of information here, most welcome....

An email has been doing the rounds since Hunchback Fiona handed her notice in.

I do like her completely embarrassing quips she has made although I can understand why some don't.

Check these out:-

BEGINNING a David Cameron interview by asking: “Are you the Esther Rantzen of the 21st century?”

Once telling a woman whose life had been ruined by gambling addiction: “Don’t worry, no one won when I worked as a croupier either.”

Marking a freighter disaster by telling Billy Bragg: “I’ve been whistling your hit Shipbuilding.” (Which is by Elvis Costello.)

To Kate and Gerry McCann: “There are light moments, though. You’ve acquired this odd celebrity status.”

On the Monday morning after Princess Diana died: “It’s important to remember, at a time like this, that Diana backwards is ‘an aid’.”

Rounds off an interview with Labour’s Business Secretary, John Hutton MP, by saying: “You know why I believe you’re true to your word? You’ve got very nice socks and shoes.”

“Amanda Redman is real, as in she’s real. As in, a real person.”

“Many happy returns to Kate Middleton, who is 26 today. Remember last year? She turned 25.”

“We always tell the truth on GMTV” (shortly after phone vote scandal).

Tribute to World Cup hero Alan Ball: “Distinctive hair. Distinctive voice. Distinctive player.”

On GMTV’s LA correspondent Carla Romano: “Carla’s literally on fire.”
“Monday morning here, so that means it’s Tuesday night in Australia.”

Asks George Best’s surgeon: “What are his spirits like?”

She links with the words: “Putting your CSA complaints to David Blunkett in a minute – but first, your chance to win £10,000 with Keith Chegwin and Tony Blackburn in Orlando.”

“The Michael Jackson verdict is good news for Jimmy Savile because . . . (a nation holds its breath) . . . he can now work as a lookalike for Tom Mesereau, Michael Jackson’s lawyer.”

“Justin Timberlake’s wedding to Cameron Diaz is off. Can things get any worse?”

At 8.22am: “The competition closes at nine o’clock so you’ve only got, er . . . (pause) . . . 48 minutes to enter.”

Switches effortlessly from a woman guest sobbing uncontrollably about her ruined wedding to a Dr Who feature with the comforting words: “Well, that was almost as if she’d seen a Dalek.”

“The Holocaust actually began three years after Walt Disney made Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs. Which puts it in perspective really.”

Kicking off another faultless week by asking Dustin Hoffman: “Do you think you’ve made it yet?”

“What was the film where Harrison Ford was the fugitive on the run?”

“I don’t want to scare anyone – but, coming up, why a visit to the hairdresser could endanger your life.”

“Footballers’ Wives is beginning to insult my intelligence.”

Parting words of comfort for GMTV’s Inch Loss Island slimmers: “Yeah well, you need all the blubber you’ve got with this weather.”

“Phew. What a shock this weekend. Not Saddam Hussein’s capture — but Sam getting kicked out of Pop Idol.”

“Prime Minister, will you be getting Sting’s autobiography for Christmas?”

“Is one killer cancer cluster a cancer cluster too much?”

Pointing to Russ Abbot’s head: “What about your hair. Is that all your own?”

Laughing Laughing [B]
TO
Tom0
Another to add to that list

After interviewing a girl whos hair fell out: "Now over to a woman with a perfectly healthy head of hair, heres Penny with the news"
JO
Joe
So how many of those funny quotes are true then?
MH
miss hellfire
anoilyrag posted:
miss hellfire posted:

Hello Oilyrag! So got any dirt to dish? I'm all ears.
Specially bout Pwincess fifi.

Gosh, so little time. Not until she's gone, sorry.


Tsk! What sort of insider are you!?
EJ
EJNutz
miss hellfire posted:
anoilyrag posted:
Lester posted:
This from The Mirror so make of it what you will:-

Desperate Kate Garraway is begging television bosses for the GMTV top job after fearing the post was slipping away from her grasp....
She added: "I have been in talks with the director and there will always be a place for me at ITV."


Pretty spot on
[I]

I saw that today. Loved her shoes.
Hello Oilyrag! So got any dirt to dish? I'm all ears.
Specially bout Pwincess fifi.
You might be able to get Carol Vorderman if you offer her the minimum wage. Ulrika? please don't. . Just please don't.


Carol Vordeman was one of the original team of GMTV. I think she was the Science correspondent.
TO
Tom0
Jugalug posted:
So how many of those funny quotes are true then?


Most, if not all of them, shows how bad she is Shocked Laughing

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