Krusty fan club...

*Louise*

chrisandanne wrote: »

Yes, watched it but don't know why I bother except to marvel at the ridiculous prices in London....did you see that REALLY grotty flat at £175k, they hadn't even bothered doing the washing up...and the telly people were coming :eek: . A x

It was minging, wasn't it?

How can anyone expect to sell a place in that state :eek:

jamescredmond

I've just had a dabble on-line.

when was this filmed?

last yr?

what made krusty say to james - in a very off-handish way - 'you won't lose money'?

if this was filmed last summer then the poor guy has allready lost some!

god in ye heavens! she makes me nauseous.

mizzbiz

she's a minga

neverdespairgirl

Krusty fan club meeting - coming soon to a phone box near YOU!:j

napoleon

I know the prisons are full but surely there must be room for another couple.....

nightwatchman

Kirstie Allsopp says she is not the one to blame.
A big girl did it and run away.

It is a newly minted British tradition to gripe that a terrible plague of property shows is ravaging television (I assume people are complaining about them during the ad breaks) - and I wouldn't disagree with the complaint.
But it's plain silly to point the finger at these programmes for puffing up the property market, forcing people into taking out massive mortgages or into negative equity. Blaming such shows and their presenters for the present uncertain state of the property market is akin to blaming TV chefs for the great bulge in obesity. Jamie Oliver, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and the rest recommend healthy eating and responsible shopping - yet many people ignore their advice and binge recklessly. Likewise, I hope that I give sound advice rather than inveigling viewers into “get rich quick” schemes.

Read it here: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article4353453.ece

BenL

I read that earlier today. "review stamp duty, review stamp duty" lol

jamescredmond

nightwatchman wrote: »

Kirstie Allsopp says she is not the one to blame.
A big girl did it and run away.

Read it here: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article4353453.ece

hoh ho! kirsty! is this really the best that you can come up with?

journo's talking the market down so they can make a few bucks?

and isn't there a world of difference between a chef who asks us to eat healthy and a tv prog that tells the public they can get rich on property? just at a time when things look iffy?

ftr, you make me feel nauseous, along with your follically challenged mate.

you didn't start the boom, but by God you fanned the flames of the bonfire.

and now you're running away, like the cowardly media type we always took you for.

I sincerely hope that your 'career' goes nowhere.

let's face it: no TV exec should've allowed you anywhere near a TV camera in the first place.

you have a personal agenda, you have misled people. you're a charlatan.

now sue me for libel.

go on I dare you!

Turnbull2000

Kirstie's defending herself on public forums now. Don't see why this is not genuine :eek:

http://boards.fool.co.uk/Message.asp?mid=11145324&sort=whole#11146746

Woah there guys, just a cotton picking minute. Fair enough if you want to criticise the things I have said on TV over the past few years, but the personal stuff isn't on.

What you guys need to remember is that I was making TV programs. Of course what I say is scripted, but you need also to bear in mind that everything is heavily edited. The media, all branches of it, tends towards the sensational and LLL etc are no different. The news we are reading about property in the papers today is exaggerated too. It appears to me, however, that you much prefer the bad news to the good.

I did once say that I would eat my hat if house prices fell (again this was edited), and perhaps I should eat a bit of hat and fewer of the crisps and biscuits that give me the fat bum you keep mentioning. But my bum, and the size of it, is very much my business don't you think.

I have followed this site for a while, and there's some god stuff here. But just remember not to believe everything you see on the telly - it's not real and the people presenting it are just doing their job. Me included.

All the best.

KMA

jamescredmond

thanks, kirsty (if it really is you) for coming clean at last.

pity, though, that you don't mention the 'none of this is real' thing at the start of every LLL prog.

you set your stall out as a property 'expert'. you are complicit in the gulling of the less savvy - or are these buyers just as fictional as LLL?

bleating 'not me, guv. it's that nasty editor/scriptwriter' is laughable (and cowardly).