There's a few, but my personal hates are;

-Asking Lydia if the wedding was still on, then shouting loudly when she confirmed it was despite there being no question as to it not being on.

-Constantly grabbing Emmas boobs, (gay or straight, its not ok for a guy to do this)

-Asking Conor to get his c*** out the first time he met him, (classy)

-Not listening to any answers that interviewees give him. E.g Brian: What did you think of Conor?

Arron: he's a great guy, my best friend in the house and I want him to win.

Brian: and finally, who do you want to win?

Arron: Conor.


Terrible, terrible presenter.

Alluding to Rhian that her boyfriend hadn't come down for her eviction because of her behaviour in the house, when in fact he had, he just didn't want to be on TV.

I'm guessing that this will end up being a very long thread.

Constantly badgering on about Speidi in everyone else's interview to play along with the show painting them as villains.

The confrontation with Tara Reid that he had got up and left when things got heated then tried to justify it saying it was a mistake on her part and not saying that he could have worded it differently.

Going on about his time in the house and how hard it is and how he won twice.

Gushing over the men.

Not being able to control the crowds properly.

Vangelina Jolie and crunch - We heard you the first time and nobody found it funny why keep going on about it?

His interview with Paula Hamilton was awful!

To be fair, I think he would have been told by the producers in his earpiece to end the interview. I doubt he would have just got up and left without being told to.

Hogging Davina's final goodbye at the end of the last Channel 4 programme.

If i would have been forced to hear that 'don't phone because you're toooo late nonsense' again just once more, i'd have put my foot through the tv, so annoying! I really hope that silly crowd don't pipe up again when Emma takes the stage.

Good riddance to him thank god he's gone, he was so excrutiatingly cringeworthy.

Conor had boasted about his amazing bendy penis in his VT, so it was fair enough to refer to it imo.

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Davina was worse though. She was constantly looking at her cue cards trying to find the next question and obviously not hearing a single word of the answer being given.

That was surely Ch 5's decision. The initial questions are all theirs; it is only what you might call secondary questions that Brian might think of on the hoof. They never tried to conceal that Speidi were their big stars, and apart from Rylan the others were only of interest as far as they impacted on them.

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Again, he is being blamed for something that was not his fault. You surely don't think he CHOSE to repeat the same phrase over and over again? Ch 5 were covering themselves against future complaints. Trying to turn it into a little catch phrase was not exactly a brilliant gag, but what could he do, really, with the order to repeat the same spiel 100 times in a row?

Emma seems to be from the same school of presenting as Davina, in that she'll have a laugh with the crowd when needed but on the whole she'll keep them in check or ignore them for the most part.

I was watching a clip of Davina presenting the other day and posted it, (this one) and it really puts into perspective how bad Brian actually was. She made it look so effortless.

What I also liked about Davina (and hope Emma does) but really disliked about Brian is that she never really bothered with the crowd during links whilst Brian tried to get the crowd involved too much. He tried to please them when Davina just let them get on with whatever whilst her focus usually remained on the viewer. The crowd soon got bored of chanting but Brian used to encourage them. Getting the crowd involved also disrupted the flow of the presenting and made Brian look wooden and amateur, whereas Davina was very professional as you can see from the clip (at least when presenting the first show).

Someone need's to make a video of Brian Worst Bits. That would be great

Hold on a second... I'm having flashbacks of Zezi's Worst Bits video on Youtube...

It would be a very long video...

Davina didn't keep the crowd in check at all. We had some appalling evictions where you could barely hear a word of the interview. Evictees had things thrown at them. Sometimes she openly encouraged the crowd to boo more. She even encouraged the crowd to boo Rachel Rice the year AFTER she had won.

He spoke to the audience like they were small children or mentally handicapped.

He seemed to think that being gay was by itself an entire personality, and leaned very heavily on that when his homosexuality had no relevance to what was happening at the time. The pink sparkly microphone and forced swishiness were strange and off-putting, as were the awkward sexual comments toward straight men.

He had a bad habit of being rude when interviewing the families of nominees. More broadly, he seemed to forget that he gained his popularity by being an unassuming, charming every-man, and started speaking as though he thought he was a big star.

Both times he was in big brother, he didn't come across as overly sexual or creepy, hence why he got a job on childrens tv.
But when he was presenting BB he seemed to pretend he was this horrible bitchy, creepy man.

He just seemed very false and if I'm honest, not a very nice person.
When he appeared in Big Brother, he seemed a nice guy, but he thought that he could win over the viewers by exaggerating his campness to the point where it was not true to him, and the sexual comments were not appropriate.
He didn't seem to ad lib, unlike Davina, who although criticised, at least looked as if she was moving away from the autocue and was serious when she had to be.

I think that in their efforts to rubbish Brian people are hugely overstating the brilliance of other people. Davina often got things wrong, was often bitchy, often seemed to lose her way in interviews, allowed the booing to rage unchecked in the least deserving cases and barely seemed to be watching the show in the end. Emma seems a nice enough person but the first series of BBOTS was beyond dire, and she never gave the impression that she cared about any of the things that were so obviously wrong with it. The only BB presenters who I thought was consistently professional were Dermot - a wee bit downbeat, but fair and thoughtful - and Russell Brand, and we won't be getting either of them.

I would far rather BB re-thought the presenting of the show altogether, as they did with last year's BBOTS. They should never have allowed the booing to become so dominant.

I really wanna see a video of his worst bits!

Gotta disagree there, his bias for Brian Belo was shocking.

Doesn't take much effort to rubbish Brian, his presenting was horrible and I cant actually think of anything good about it.

How do you know this about Emma, were you there in the production meetings and it was the first series so obviously a lot of stuff isnt going to come across well with the audience and its a bit unrealistic to expect Emma to publicly criticise production of the show she hosts.

I wouldn't criticise him so much on his negatives , but that he didn't really have any positives !
you're right - other presenters make mistakes all the time , with some of them it even becomes part of their charm .

But Brian had no charm , or wit , his personality seemed forced , he just wasn't a good presenter .

It is one of those cases of 'you've either got it or you haven't , Brian didn't .

I thought he was all right- not brilliant, but certainly better than Davina had been for the last three or four years.


Not at all, but a lot of the things that were so poor could have been better managed. She seemed arbitrary when she would challenge or not challenge comments, for example. For example she let the monstering of Maisy run when it should certainly have been stopped.

One point in favour of having an ex-HM as a presenter is that they know what it's like to be a HM and so might be more insightful (or at least more sympathetic).


But with Brian, what he "knows what it's like" is rather limited. He didn't come out to boos or hear himself being booed week after week. He never faced an eviction vote.

I know it probably isn't his fault, but opening every eviction interview with "Now, it's a vote to save... why do you think the public didn't vote for you", got really annoying.

I thought he was ok at first, if a bit nervous and wooden and would improve with time however, as others have said. his behaviour and comments towards housemates became increasingly inappropriate and uncomfortable to watch at times while his presenting didnt really improve since starting the show.

I agree Maisy got a hard time but more often than not I think she was pretty fair to most of the housemates.