Good for her because I totally agree. She also knows celebs inside out, it's part of her career.I question just how much the haters actually know about their hate figure. Worrying IMO.
She probably has the most successful and lasting career of anyone in the house.She's never screwed it up either unlike many of them.

Who then! Who are these truly happy people that Carol can't stand?

OK, but lack of tact and the way she stirs things up DO make her come across as bitter, resentful, negative and unhappy to someone who is only seeing her on the highlights and that's all they know about her.

Maybe she isn't like that, but it's how she appears to casual viewers of the show. Perhaps if she showed that she had a bit more empathy.

Well technically you can be a grandparent at 26. Though where I live, 34 year old grandparents aren't the norm.

I'm just explaining the type of person that she comes across as to me from watching the highlights show.

I also think, with Carol, people confuse/mistake a lack of sentimentality with a lack of empathy. And an unwillingness to people-please with a cold hard heart....

Ooh, I like that. Well put missus

i agree also the inability to detect humour/or someone playing

Yes I agree. Pity there aren't more people like her around is all I say. Her integrity is too much for so many.

I was talking about her "career". Random non-media employment is irrelevant.

What media work (beyond the one thing listed in Wikipedia) did she have before marrying Chris in 1991? All Wikipedia lists is "She started her broadcasting career in 1988 as co-host of the Chris Evans shows on GLR" (so there was already a Chris connection).

I haven't read her autobiography, but from the table of contents, it doesn't look like there's anything there either about any significant media work before the things Wikipedia lists.

Carol is very jealous of Courtney and the public will save her on Friday and Carol will just have to deal with it

I must be missing something, what is it that Carol is supposedly jealous of Sophie & Courtney for?

Carol imo is far too self assured & confident in herself to be even remotely jealous of those empty airheads.

ok, I have to ask. Are you Carol's PR people?

A lot of it comes off as mean spirited.

I don't think Carol can pull it off. She's hardly Frankie Boyle.

No I wish I was that highly paid. I only state facts that I have learned about her. I also know someone who is a close friend of hers.The wild speculation is too much for me that's all.

I'm missing it too, why on earth would she be jealous?

So why does she drink so much?

Everybody (on DS) knows that envy of youth and perceived attractiveness are the only valid reasons for a woman to dislike another woman

What's so successful about her career? The height of her career seems to be Loose Women.

Phyllis love that's way too deep and intellectual for old uneducated (of course) female me. Death where is thy sting LOL Have I any place in this world anymore? It's all just too darned clever now

If you REALLY want to know google it

Anne honey, I'd throw in the towel if I were you...unless you're under 25 with a DD cup it's game over.

Still the world will always need glue, we could contribute that way

Silly me, of course, I had forgotten that older women are always jealous of younger ones.

Simply because she likes a drink, nothing more.

Because she enjoys it

What a bloody silly response.