She's actually gone up in my estimation since this series started.

She's proved herself strong and hard working, and despite whatever's been thrown at her, she's risen to the challenge without a murmur and just got on with it.

I know I'd have run shrieking for the door by day two, so good on her!
[And good on all the others for surviving this long, for that matter!]

Why on earth would she be the "most hated woman in the UK" ?
Like most other "celebrities" who do these reality shows she's there to try and get enough positive exposure to rekindle a failing career. And to make some money, which it seems like she and Grant Bovey desperately need at the moment.
Unfortunately for them, I don't think they're going to be the next "Richard and Judy".
His request to Marco to "look after his wife" and her weeping and wailing, as if he was off to the front line, was cringeworthy.
They may be a very close and loving couple, but I just don't think they have any kind of "likeability factor" that would endear them in any way to the British public.

I liked her when she went on Big Brother, after wanting to hate her.

She seems ok, just trying her best to do the job. I have noticed the attention seeking things [that's what it look like] but if she was that on top of the papers and spin she would never have made that up?

I will give her the benifit of the doubt. Bovey came across as a right KNOW IT ALL, but knows nothing.

I had a pretty poor opinion of her before this series, but from what I've seen of her in this, she seems like an alright sort of person.
She gets on with what she's asked to do and she's not nasty to anyone else. If that's enough to make you the most hated woman in the country, then where does that leave Rose West and Maxine Carr?

Of course this is why the celebs do these programmes, either for the money or to try to resurrect their career. Does anyone honestly think they would let themselves be treated this way for the cooking?

You need to get out more if you believe this.

My vote goes to Kirsty Allsop (property porn queen) - patronising and responsible for promoting property as a money making scam and thus helping to ruin our economy. She deserves the award more - partly because she earned loads whereas Anthea lost it all.

Eamonn Homes once called Anthea Princess tippytoes when they worked together on a morning TV programme and he clearly couldn't stand her.
I don't mind Anthea at all. She wears her heart on her sleeve and I quite like that about her.

I think that award today would go to the girl on the sun's homepage. Nasty piece of work.

I won't add a link as it will sicken some animal lovers.

I think, ultimately, the response to Anthea is "meh!" The agencies to target hate at are the television companies who employed her at exorbitant salaries, throughout the nineties, for no real reason of mass appeal - they were foisting her onto us anyway via the lottery shows and 'Pet Rescue' etc.
She was one of the first big money presenters, way before Wossy and just before Evans I believe, commanding fees of millions of pounds purely on her "girl next door"-ishness.
She was talented at reading an autocue, lifting her chin up, grinning and rousing dads from their slumber during her GMTV tenure, looking like Eamonn Holme's defence lawyer when sat next to him, but quashed all suspicions she was an intellectual of any kind when she opened her mouth.
She is a relic of an age when TV "pressennahs" had never had it so good, but she is no great artist, actress or expert of any kind. It is this neutrality, her portrayed vaccuity that limits empathy for the woman. When she tears, tantrums and holds forth on 'Hell's Kitchen' we are left wondering "okay, interesting - but my mum could have effing done that for a hundredth of the fee!"
Anthea, Carol Smillie and a whole host of other attractive thirty-to-forty something women maintained the same role as a kind of Doctor Who assistant throughout the blockbuster reality and game show boom of the nineties. They scowled, frowned, grinned, whispered asides and pointed, translating the Handy Andy or lottery rep at their side for a generation. They were there to be dummies' guides, setting feminism back a couple of decades with the implication that they, ultimately, were the dumb leading the dummies.
This category of female presenter did themselves and their kind more harm than good, revelled in vaccuousness and made it a sassy talent. They gained pots of money as a result but cannot return to the well so easily to replenish their pots.
As experts move into the middle of the frame, as exemplified in BBC's 'Coast' or with the likes of Ramsay and Kirsty Alsopp, pieces of human set dressing like Turner become obsolete.

Yes, and for all those people calling her a homewrecker, don't forget that Holmes left his wife and kids for Ruth Langsford.

Is it really necessary for us to elevate a fellow human being to the status of 'most hated in the country' simply because some of us have found them irritating on a reality TV show?

As this programme is viewed by less than 5 million people, 'most hated in the country' will never be an accurate statement.

True, and Marco can hardly be described as Mr Fidelity.

I think with Granthea, it was how they seemed to revel in publicly humiliating their ex-other halves, who were clearly distressed by the break-ups. I seem to remember animosity over this at the time.

I find Anthea mildly irritating and very smug at time, but prefer not to think about her for the majority of the time.

Good grief. There seems to be a lot of disproportionate anger about. At the most, you could say she was a bit irritating.

Rather extreme to label her as 'most hated'.

Has she murdered someone?

She's an irritating 'jolly hockey sticks' kind of woman and very competitive. Is that a crime?

Me to sun i certainly will be voting for her if she gets to the final 4


If Grant had been happy at home with his 1st wife he wouldn't be with Anthea now would he? takes 2 you know

It is these people who know they are disliked by articles and how people refer to them, yet still put themselves into the forefront of TV.

They know they are reviled, yet do it time and time again.

Paris Hilton, Jade Goody, Peaches far too many to name but here they come with every z list reality show.

I really like her.

I want her to win.

Me too

Grant was sh*gging Anth behind his first wife's back when his 3rd daughter was just a baby. He went back to his wife, but returned to Anth as he couldn't keep away.

In my book that makes them as bad as each other. And as for her comment 'A standing willy () has no conscience', I expect that was her mantra all through the affair.

No he didn't. I'm no fan of Eamon Holmes but his marriage broke up before he met Ruth.

It broke down because they were spending too much time apart; Holmes in England, his wife in Belfast. His wife was unwilling to move the family to England inevitably resulting in estrangement.

Until then he was commuting to Belfast every weekend to be with his family and even after the split continued to commute to see his 3 sons.

As I said I'm no fan, but he was definitely a family man.

Like i said if he had been happy with his 1st wife he wouldn't of strayed happy men dont stray its not all anthea's fault it works both ways and her personal life has nothing to do with her being on Hell's Kitchen.

Ironic in the light of her remarks after Bruce resigned.

Seeing as the thread title is 'most hated woman in the UK' we're only discussing the reasons why.

I agree there. It seems that some people dislike her for no reason - they just have to have someone to get at.