Why Dame Kelly and NOT Dame Jayne
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How come Kelly became a Dame and Jayne, who IMO done more for sport, not got one?
This goes for Christopher as well, not given a knighthood.
This goes for Christopher as well, not given a knighthood.
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Thesame reason Paula Radcliffe hasn't been mabe a Dame having broken countless world records. Also, Tessa Sanderson isn't a Dame though she has an olympic gold medal and still does lots of work for UK Athletics
I agree with you with regards to Torville and Dean, but then the same could be said for Sally Gunnel, Colin Jackson, Jonathon Edwards and a whole host of other sports people.
As for T&D, they are great. They really were the absoloute best at what they did and always used to beat the Russians and the Americans.
Dame Kelly hasn't been seen by millions taking a slash on the street.
Politically motivated, trying to be populist and bowing to the supposed views of the people. Especially right before an election. Good to see she’s taken it and done nothing else in athletics since.
It started under John Major's government: the 'dumbing down' of gongs to make it fairer to the public at large. This was followed by the Blair government's ultra-cynical ploy of dishing out gongs left right and centre to anyone in the medial who represented Cool Britannia, especially anyone not white or middle aged.
There's no reason to stop the government giving Torville and Dean a damehood/knighthood now, you don't have to have done anything in the last few months to merit one.
They could become a Baron and a Baroness in the House of Lords. All you have to do is give at least £25K to the Labour party and promise to turn up and back the government in every vote. There are over 100 Lords who got in that way.
There's not even any expectation any more the night before they are announced. All you need to know, is who has given Blair a free holiday, massive donation to the Labour party, or what films are on at the cinema and which pop stars have been to Downing St. And gosh I almost forget the important one: Who's doing Cherie's colonic irrigations.
The way the world is, I doubt there would be any difference whichever party was in Government.
Absolutely right
This was surely one of the most undeserved accolades ever bestowed - she is hardly a heroine by any standards & hasn't this show highlighted what an arrogant, nasty, mean-spirited, moody, talentless, pain-in-the-a*** she is!
I think Jason's comments were an insult to staffies
Seriously though, I agree with everything he's said - she does look like a man in drag & she's sheer agony to watch ice-dancing.
How she can still be in the show, when John, who I thought was the best performer there, was booted out, is a travesty.
If anyone knows Todd, who must be a saint to put up with her tantrums, please encourage him to whizz her round & round very fast, next week, & then let go - hopefully she'll end up stuck to the ceiling
And what on earth was that cheesey smile/grin/grimace thing she did at the beginning of their program :eek: