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Old 09-01-2016, 13:23
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Imagine a man acting and dressing like a strange little precocious boy from the 1950s. No TV company would touch him with a bargepole. Or maybe the BBC would. Who knows?
Worsley came across as fairly restrained compared to the presenter of the programme about Scottish art that was on before this one. Lachlan Goudie seemed to be driven to the verge of orgasm by everything he saw.
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Old 09-01-2016, 13:29
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I find this Lucy intensely annoying and I get depressed when she is given interesting subject matter which inevitably gets given passionless and tepid treatment. Same goes for Alice Roberts.
I can understand you not liking these presenters but I don't see how you can describe them as "passionless and tepid". Lucy is certainly not passionless but, to her credit, she doesn't tell us endlessly how amazing, stunning, fantastic etc. etc. things are, the way too many presenters do.
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Old 09-01-2016, 14:49
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I wonder how long before she is given a well-deserved OBE or something similar from the Queen?!
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Old 09-01-2016, 14:59
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I can understand you not liking these presenters but I don't see how you can describe them as "passionless and tepid". Lucy is certainly not passionless but, to her credit, she doesn't tell us endlessly how amazing, stunning, fantastic etc. etc. things are, the way too many presenters do.
Maybe I do her disservice. I remember she did a programme with Starkey about Hampton Court. Starkey was rather patronising towards her and she seemed to get through it with gritted teeth. Her forced smile come smirk put me off for life.
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Old 09-01-2016, 15:12
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Starkey has always struck me as someone who gets on better with dead people.
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Old 09-01-2016, 17:09
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Maybe I do her disservice. I remember she did a programme with Starkey about Hampton Court. Starkey was rather patronising towards her and she seemed to get through it with gritted teeth. Her forced smile come smirk put me off for life.
Starkey had previously made some stupid remarks (as he often does).

David Starkey attacks 'pretty girl historians who show off their looks on their book covers'

But he was complimentary about her when they worked together and they got on fine.

David Starkey and Lucy Worsley bury the hatchet
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Old 09-01-2016, 18:38
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Starkey is another controversialist, heard him been interviewed by Clive Anderson, asked a straight forward simple question tries to come out with something controversial, to work up column inches/click bait.

Didn't watch Lucy's Russian thing, didn't fancy it.
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Old 09-01-2016, 19:12
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Maybe I do her disservice. I remember she did a programme with Starkey about Hampton Court. Starkey was rather patronising towards her and she seemed to get through it with gritted teeth. Her forced smile come smirk put me off for life.
Hang on, how did his perceived patronising behaviour towards Dr Worsley put you off her and not him?
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Old 09-01-2016, 19:24
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Here's another household that loves Lucy. We enjoy everything she does.

I can understand people being irritated by her but I don't understand the hate.
So do we.
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Old 09-01-2016, 19:31
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A friend of mine used to work with her when she was at the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB).

Said she was an absolute bitch.
What I do think is that she's fiercely ambitious and that might come over as being a bitch to some people..
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Old 09-01-2016, 19:40
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A friend of mine used to work with her when she was at the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB).

Said she was an absolute bitch.
What I do think is that she's fiercely ambitious and that might come over as being a bitch to some people..
She has appeared many times with staff from the HRP and I never got any impression of bad feelings between them and her, I thought the opposite.
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Old 09-01-2016, 20:18
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Me neither. I love her, I think she's great at what she does and presents her programmes in an interesting and enjoyable manner.
Same here, I think she's a very engaging presenter who makes whatever subject she's presenting on interesting and approachable.
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Old 09-01-2016, 20:48
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She has appeared many times with staff from the HRP and I never got any impression of bad feelings between them and her, I thought the opposite.
Well they're on camera, they may also be people she has little to do with day to day, so had little chance to rub them up the wrong way, assuming she rubs people up the wrong way of course.
You'd have no problem finding people willing to queue up to call me a c***.

Hey ho, we can only deal with what we see on-screen, we're all different people depending on who we're with and the circumstances.
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Old 09-01-2016, 21:06
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Hang on, how did his perceived patronising behaviour towards Dr Worsley put you off her and not him?
I've always found him unbearable. He's like that bloke who everyone hates and tries to get away from and they don't even hide the fact that he's utterly repellent but he then goes about his business oblivious to it all thinking he's the bees knees.
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Old 09-01-2016, 22:22
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Well they're on camera, they may also be people she has little to do with day to day, so had little chance to rub them up the wrong way
If she has never allegedly punched a production team member because there was no hot food then she must be fine.
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Old 09-01-2016, 22:32
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I'm afraid I'm very much in the 'she's unbelievably annoying' camp. I find her manner a bit mimsy - but that's a subjective thing. The thing I really can't stand is her dressing up and dicking about. Similar to the way that recent documentary about music hall was ruined by Frank Skinner and his co-presenter dressing up and pretending to be music hall figures themselves.
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Old 09-01-2016, 22:54
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Would have adored her as my history teacher
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Old 09-01-2016, 22:55
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A friend of mine used to work with her when she was at the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB).

Said she was an absolute bitch.
What I do think is that she's fiercely ambitious and that might come over as being a bitch to some people..
I've read in tries with her and yes she is ambitious...
Nowt wrong with that and yes you're right about other people's perceptions of ambition
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Old 09-01-2016, 23:38
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Well I really like her and thats all that matters
So there!
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Old 10-01-2016, 00:01
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Worsley came across as fairly restrained compared to the presenter of the programme about Scottish art that was on before this one. Lachlan Goudie seemed to be driven to the verge of orgasm by everything he saw.
Goudie's superb series has much more depth than hers, to be fair.
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Old 10-01-2016, 12:26
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Well they're on camera, they may also be people she has little to do with day to day, so had little chance to rub them up the wrong way, assuming she rubs people up the wrong way of course.
You'd have no problem finding people willing to queue up to call me a c***.

Hey ho, we can only deal with what we see on-screen, we're all different people depending on who we're with and the circumstances.
No I refuse to believe it
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Old 10-01-2016, 13:46
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I love Lucy! I've learned so much while watching her programmes.

(And, borrowing a quote from Notting Hill, "I genuinely believe, and have believed for some time now, that we could be best friends." )
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Old 10-01-2016, 14:00
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After Lucy's first series, I was so impressed that I sent her an email to thank her for her extremely clear pronunciation, as I have hearing difficulties. I received a lovely reply which I printed out, and still have - almost a full side of A4.

I think that she is super, but as a man, I might well be biased in this respect. But it is obvious from previous posts that she is popular with both sexes, and certainly, Mrs Alycidon thinks so too.

Possibly not the sexiest woman on TV, but bags of charisma which more than compensates. I hope we get many more series presented by Lucy.
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Old 10-01-2016, 16:05
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I guess she is attractive in a tomboy-esq manner, but unfortunately she's just another over-exposed Oxbridge posho presenter. The BBC is full of them.
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Old 10-01-2016, 18:39
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I love Lucy! I've learned so much while watching her programmes.

(And, borrowing a quote from Notting Hill, "I genuinely believe, and have believed for some time now, that we could be best friends." )
Well, you will have to put up with me tagging along too! I think she's great, really brings things to life.
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