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Posted by auricula (U3244275) on Sunday, 6th May 2007
Does anyone know who will be presenting the TV coverage of the CFS this year?
I hope there will be lots of extras via the red button - anyone know who's co-ordinating that footage for Freeview/cable/satellite?
I'm keeping everything crossed that it isn't a certain presente but daren't name him as I'll get a barrage of abuse
I'll just say.....yaaawwwnnnnnnnn zzzzzzzz...
Say it auricula say it
I darent!!! oh alright then I'll whisper it..... monty don
Not my fault...sorry... bot pleeease let him not be at Chelsea
I have just heard the ´óÏó´«Ã½ have decided to let Brian Harvey (famous for running over his own head) and fronting boy band East 17 the job.
He is a Kew diploma graduate and well qualified for the job.
Lets all join together and wish him all the best.
Mycowaz.
Alan Titchmarsh is the presenter of choice and I understand Gavin will be a sidekick this year. I hope Joe still gets a go as he was very good last year.
Monty Don actively dislikes Chelsea so I can't see him accepting the job, even if it were going spare.
I never disliked Chelsea until I actually went there. Apart from chatting to the chaps at Fernatix (ferns — fabulous, but I don't have acid soil to grow them in) it was a dispiriting experience.
Anything nice was so off the scale financially that I left feeling thoroughly depressed until I got home to find my own peaceful garden waiting for me.
Good!!
I hope AT and DG don't go in for the silly, childish banter of previous years - I'd rather have Joe Swift than D Gavin personally
Sorry - my reply was to the previous post ( I didn't mean good that you didnt enjoy Chelsea )
I went in 2005 and absolutely loved it
I do have acid soil but don't like ferns as they grow like weeds around here - but the chaps at Fernatix were a joy, so funny and enthusiastic - they almost converted me to ferns ( but not quite!! )
We might have bumped into each other — but then I bumped into quite a lot of people — it was hard to avoid that year. London, 32ºC, thousands of people = my idea of hell.
But I found out the boys at Fernatix live quite near me so I won't need to go again.
gardens, tools, artefacts and plants are expensive at Chelsea but you don't have to buy. Just enjoy the plants and the gardens and chatting to growers and other punters. I saw metalwork at Chelsea last year at 5 time the price I pay around here.
I also saw plants and plant combinations I would never see here so I had a thoroughly good time - as well as meeting fellow boarders who turned out to be very good company and not mad axe murderers and we got to chat with CB.
It was hot - I'll give you that Talleyho!! My big ( only?) gripe was that there were hardly any places to sit down.If you went to the grassy bit you were knackered again by the time you got back to the main area - I resorted to going to the loo 3 times just to sit down!!!
I do hope Alan Titchmarsh will be presenting again. It would not be the same without him.
We professed great interest in a display of bespoke wooden garden seats (they were really nice, but the cheapest was £600…) I sat down while my husband endured the sales chat.
My exasperation with Chelsea reached it's height when I tried to pay for a pressie for my Mum in the RHS tent with some RHS vouchers I'd got for my birthday and it was a huge problem for the sales staff. They were their OWN vouchers!!!
Sadly not untypical of organisations like the RHS and the National Trust - I've had similar experiences with both!!
I think that Mr Gavin or Mr Titchmarsh would be fine but together they are excruciating.
It all seems so childish, a bit like a teacher and a naughty pupil.
I found myself channel flicking the last time they "presented" together.
I agree - it doesn't even seem to be natural banter and comes across as rather stilted/scripted.I hope they give it a rest this time - DG is too old to be an "enfant terrible"
and he mumbles terribly !!
Auriula, were there no queues ?
Myplot
Surprisingly the queues were not so bad - you were shepherded along by some rather fierce attendants!!!
, in reply to message 18.
Posted by upthegardenpath (U5327429) on Wednesday, 9th May 2007
You can be sure Jennie Bond will be imparting her horticultural knowledge to us all, or, failing that, toadying up to any celebrity within 200yrds of her. I would hope they spend less time reshowing bits from previous years/programmes during the week as there is more than enough to show in greater depth than they normally do eg educational displays, new gadgets etc.
I would guess AT,DG,JS,RdeT?? with JB and Wesley Kerr doing items that involve expensive trips to the Caribbean/Africa for WK in order to present about 5 minutes of footage - what a job to have!!
NOT Wesley Kerr!! We managed very well without him last year and I hope the Beeb has now also got the message about vacuous celebrity presenters used to front the daytime coverage. With any luck, JB has been permanently relegated to attics and kitchens!
Please not \rachel DT again,although she is perhaps a touch better than Jenny Bond.
She's a lot better than Jenny Bond - knows which way up a plant is and what to do with it and doesn't simper to minor celebs.
Anyone who is a gardener or garden designer must be preferable to Jennie Bond or Wesley Kerr - both are totally unsuitable !!
As i said Rachel may be better. but i have never found her to be a true gardener, her appearance is of a greater importance to her.
, in reply to message 5.
Posted by mysteryletterboxs (U1950653) on Wednesday, 9th May 2007
I understand Gavin will be a sidekick this year.Â
Gavin does for gardening what McEnroe did for tennis, he totally ruins it. Whether gardening or presenting, he/they are diabolical.
I though last year was really good and as a bonus that smug 'person' DG was not there (I see he is reduced to doing radio ads now - oh dear what a pity lol). I have seen MD doing TV work at Chelsea before and why not! at least he is not the dreaded DG!
Rachel de Thame's a lucky lady blessed with stunningly good looks, but quite why these should preclude her from being a 'true gardener' I'm not sure, perhaps you could elucidate?
Who the Eck is Wes Wotsname and Jenny Bond? I thought she was the 'royal correspondent'
JB has been relieved of royal correspondent duties for some time and has taken to popping up on Chelsea coverage, Cash in the Attic and Great British Chefs. I can just about cope with the cookery, don't watch the antiques and would dearly love someone to lock the garden gate before she gets in again.
There is no shortage of capable, intelligent gardening presenters so why import a fluffy non gardener?
Perhaps i was a bit over the top about RDT, but in my deffence after watching CK and SR getting right in the heart of their gardens, i have learnt a lot more from them both, but not a lot from RDT.
....MONTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!yehhhhhhhh
It appears I am the only one who gives not a dam who presents the program although R D T is much better than J B.
I drink in the wonderful gardens built in days and the plants or flowers in the main tent.
The show those plants people put on are fantastic. I do like C K talking about those plant shows as her knowledge and love of plants shows through.
As for the rest, the arm waving weak jokes and inane remarks go right over my head as I watch the spectacle and wish that some time in my 78 years I had made it to the show.
Maybe the Queen will invite me on my 100th we could both go round on one of those electric buggies, I should think we will need them then.
Frank.
Oh seapoppypink - you are a card
Anybody but Dirmuid, PLEEEEEEEEAAAASE!!!!
Instead of Jenny Bond, how about James Bond? I could frolick amongst the Hollyhocks with Daniel Craig all day!!!
Yes, I thought I missed an ealier thread... I think that we ought to give every presenter a bit of respect, even we we don´t agree with a certain style of presenting.
Anybody but bugeating Bond or Charlie Dimmock. Charlie is a great lady but straight/scripted presenting is not her forte.
I hope Diarmuid is going to have an on screen fight with Andy Sturgeon - that should liven things up!
Yes Alan Titchmarsh
NO Dirmuid Gavin
Yes Joe Swift
NO Wesley Kerr
Yes Sarah Raven
NO Rachel de Thane
Yes Carol Klein
NO Jenny Bond
Yes Monty Don
And what about Christine Walkden and her old neighbour?
No no no - Christine Walkden
No no no no no - old neighbour
Hard luck folks, if you listened very carefully last night at Malvern, R D T said she would see us at Chelsea and at the end of the show Monty said we would see them all at Chelsea.
It looks as if all is decided.
Frank.
Aw shucks.......you mean they don't read these messages?
Have just got todays weekly tv mag and it says that the presenters are:-
Alan Titchmarsh
Joe Swift
Carol Kline
Lorraine Kelly
Thats as far as i can remember.
According to the Radio Times this am Lorraine Kelly and a certain Mr Beardshaw are doing the lunchtime stint at 12.30. AT in the evenings and Carol Klein but I'm not sure who else.
Bet that means a large audience at lunchtime!!!
LORRAINE KELLY?????? LOVELY WOMAN I AM SURE, BUT IS SHE A GARDENER? IS JENNY BOND TO BUSY WITH THE CHEFS? WHAT ARE THESE PEOPLE THINKING.
I think they need a 'civilian' on the team to suck up to celebs effectively.
My favourite Chelsea celeb story was Michael Caine + family. His teenage daughter was getting bored and he turned to her and said, "Oh just shut up and look at the bloody flours!" (spelling to indicate accent).
Sorry to disappont all CB fans. Don't set the video's yet, but according to the listings on the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Website it's Andy Sturgeon and Anne-Marie Powell with Lorraine Kelly at lunchtime. (I just had to check) It also says Joe Swift is presenting the evening slot with Mr T ( So that's one blessing). I hope I am wrong but I would think the web is more up to date than the press. MP1
Anne Marie Powell...nice one, might be worth watching after all.
Not such good news about Mr Swift, he tries bless him, he just needs a personality.
Mycowaz.
Pity it will not be CB. He is so natural and eloquent. His knowledge just flows from him - a natural speaker.
Anne Marie Powell will forever be ingrained in my memory for a Garden Rivals programme with her design for a garden.
Bamboo poles across the garden like a maze supporting bright green plastic netting and (I kid you not) the meagre areas of 'planting' (solitary begonias) surrounded by lurid purple plastic chippings… it was so excruciatingly ugly that I had to turn the TV off.
, in reply to message 49.
Posted by mr naughty corner (U2456974) on Wednesday, 16th May 2007
I have an interesting AMP story after I ran into her in a health food shop in Richmond.
But like hell I'm telling you.
I'd hoped the ´óÏó´«Ã½ might be a bit more progressive in its selection of Chelsea presenters and go for convicted drink driving posh lad Otis Ferry and Celtic striker Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink. Elsewhere, I've suggested that a talking metal vulture and an Elk would also make interesting presenters - what do you all think then? ´óÏó´«Ã½?
Derek Pig
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