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WH
Whataday Founding member
richard h posted:
They just mentioned about people saying Piers and Susanna never look at each other when they are arguing and people have suggested its because its scripted


I'm going to guess this is based on a Tweet I saw yesterday (as a GMB researcher retweeted it). The original poster made clear he didn't mean it's scripted word-for-word. He said the overall dynamic of "Piers v Susanna" was as genuine as professional wrestling.
RD
RDJ
It might be an apt time to post a video I posted in the YouTube Gold thread a few days ago of a very young Susanna Reid reading a BBC News bulletin 20 years ago. You can see she’s changed quite a bit!



Even through her BBC days she never was one to say boo to a goose. So I imagine upon being paired with Piers on GMB has had to take a bit of scripting/coaching to compete with such a divisive figure.

I do know from interviews she’d do in the glossy mags she found the pairing very hard to grapple with in the first few years.
paul_hadley and Spencer gave kudos
LL
London Lite Founding member
If anything moving to GMB did Reid's profile a huge favour. By the end of her tenure at Breakfast, I found her delivery and persona a hard watch.

Playing the moderate next to Piers has done her wonders.
CU
Custard56
London Lite posted:
If anything moving to GMB did Reid's profile a huge favour. By the end of her tenure at Breakfast, I found her delivery and persona a hard watch.

Playing the moderate next to Piers has done her wonders.


If I recall correctly, she was on the ascent during the latter stages of her BBC career - participating in Strictly and getting to the final that year (2013) and then going on to host the New Year's Eve fireworks playing out to millions, so it's not as if the BBC was holding her career back.
BR
Brekkie
Custard56 posted:
London Lite posted:
If anything moving to GMB did Reid's profile a huge favour. By the end of her tenure at Breakfast, I found her delivery and persona a hard watch.

Playing the moderate next to Piers has done her wonders.


If I recall correctly, she was on the ascent during the latter stages of her BBC career - participating in Strictly and getting to the final that year (2013) and then going on to host the New Year's Eve fireworks playing out to millions, so it's not as if the BBC was holding her career back.

Was nowhere for her to go though at the BBC with the main bulletins and The One Show all occupied.
NW
nwtv2003
Reid herself saying that the clip in question was her first national bulletin.



KA
Karl072
Why isn’t today’s GMB on ITV Hub?
JT
JackTheTellyFan
Karl072 posted:
Why isn’t today’s GMB on ITV Hub?


It was on there earlier, I Imagine it may have something to do with this...


KA
Karl072
Hmm. Wow. I mean it doesn’t offend me. But I’m not Chinese so I’m not going to be one of those people who gets offended on other people’s behalf’s. I didn’t find it funny but didn’t find it outrageous either. He shouldn’t have done it in my opinion but we all know nothing will probably come of it unless hundreds of complaints come flooding in. The hypersensitivity in this country now is just unbearable
DB
dbl
Super lazy borderline casual racism.
RN
Rolling News
nwtv2003 posted:
Reid herself saying that the clip in question was her first national bulletin.




Wow, she did bloody well for her first bulletin. Am I right in saying she didn't do many straight network bulletins at the BBC? Just mainly News 24, Breakfast and the Marr show summaries?
WH
Whataday Founding member
Just a shame she forgot to take her helmet off.

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