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littlepieces · Joined: 10 Jan 2010 Posts: 1098 Location: Lowestoft

Vannesa Feltz is front runner for early morning slot. Please NO NO NO NO
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Helen May · Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 19335 Location: Cheshire

That would be disastrous. Shocked

I'll switch to Radio 4 although I'd much prefer music withoug ads.

H
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ruddlescat · Joined: 16 Sep 2010 Posts: 18010 Location: Near Chester

I met Vanessa in a night club in Belfast about 8 years ago
She came over as a really stuck up b---h who talked down to everyone there including members of her own entourage
She made some comment about under age people getting in and said
'You know you have to be over 18 to come in here'
I replied
'Vanessa are you talking about age or dress size'
Perhaps I should not have said it but I thought she was so patronising especially to the locals she deserved a kick up her rather large backside
I couldn't stand the thought of her on Radio 2 but I think she and Mr Evans would have a lot in common Sad

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Rachel · Guest

Blimey! She would be interesting, I like her.

NickSheffield · Joined: 22 Jul 2007 Posts: 508

How weird, I floated this when Sarah first went. She's actually not what you think - I've heard some of her London radio show, and she's really quite engaging.

Still... surely they aren't just giving her 5 to 6.30?? That seems like madness.

robertwk · Posted: Mon Nov 15, 2010 9:18 pm Post subject:

Can it get much worse?

Blondehedgehog · Joined: 16 Sep 2010 Posts: 286 Location: UK

Wonder how her gastric band diet is going?
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Blondehedgehog · Joined: 16 Sep 2010 Posts: 286 Location: UK

In the same newspaper report it quotes 'Vanessa Feltz will take the reins of Sarah Kennedy’s BBC Radio 2 show ' Then further on it says ' ‘Vanessa is indeed the front runner to replace Sarah.' Why prolong the agony....tell the public straight

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1330071/Vanessa-Feltz-reins-Sarah-Kennedys-BBC-Radio-2-show.html#ixzz15QlB3Vjt
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Rachel · Guest

Well, if we can’t have Alex Sad

and it looks like we can’t Sad

, Vanessa will do very nicely Smile

: She’s a woman I could have lunch with, or early breakfast as the case may be. Cool beans! Out of all the possible DJs for that slot, she never occurred to me but now that she’s popped up on the RADAR – she seems the obvious choice. ( I have tone! I have tone! Missile lock! Engage! Beeeeep Beeeeep Beeep Beeep Beep beeeeeeeeeeeeeeep Direct Hit! )It’s a funny old world where the old and familiar can be new and different.

RockitRon · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 7646

Can't understand the logic myself. I think I'd rather have breakfast with her than hear her on the radio at that hour. It depends what sort of show it's going to be; as I understand it she currently presents a three-hour vox-pop, phone-in programme on BBC London, and won the Sony award for Speech Broadcaster of the Year last year, and you would think that her intellect suits that better than a light, early morning one, reading texts and emails between the Bluebells and James Blunt.
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Clive55 · Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 1336

I can't listen to her for more than a few minutes on BBC London. Never use three words where twenty five will do
Having said that, she is the least bad of that awful breed, the Phone In hosts. LBC is abysmal. All those extreme right wing idiots (the phone in hosts) ranting off the usual bigoted rubbish trying to goad their listeners intop calling.
Venessa is not that bad & mayb e she would be calmer on a Radio 2 Early show where she is not necesitated to goad listeners into calling her.
Anyway, I wouldn't be awake to hear it.
Sarah Kennedy was perfect for that early slot where I'd lay half awake half asleep in bed as I prepared to get up & get ready for work. Sarah Kennedy's gentle humour, & her sometimes plainly barking comments, were perfect for that twilight time of day between sleep & waking

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mark occomore · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 9955 Location: UK

Another sort of Sarah Kennedy style. Would she continue on BBC London?

RockitRon · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 7646

Nothing like Sarah!

Vanessa Felz is bold and brassy! I like her as well, when she's not fronting some flaky or sensationalist piece of trash television for C4 or five, or doing something akin to Jerry Springer/Jeremy Kyle.

No reason why she couldn't keep the BBC London spot, surely.

Apart from all that, I can't see why, apart from £££, she would really want such an early start (curtailing her evening social life) to act as Lester/Evans warm down/up.
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Rachel · Guest

Like anything I suppose, some will like her, some won’t, although I have a feeling that, on here, as ever, it will be more one than the other- tis a good thing this is not representative of the real world, otherwise we’d be in big trouble. I hope she is as good as I’d like her to be. Smile

Mark Mayhew · Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 2897

I don't think this is going to play out as people suggest.

Why would the Telegraph have a head start/the inside track over everybody else.

I think we should wait for the official announcement.

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RockitRon · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 7646

It would be unusual for both the Daily Mail and The Guardian (which was first with it) to get it wrong.

They are both careful to indicate that perhaps the decision has not been made, though.
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RockitRon · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 7646

Four and a half hours... someone else will be driving the R2 desk... a quick sashay between studios (assuming Early Breakfast isn't going to Salford).

Hardly slave labour - why not?
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Gibbo · Joined: 31 Aug 2010 Posts: 117 Location: Wirral

Just confirmed on the 10am news that VF will take over the slot.

Clive55 · Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 1336

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/nov/23/vanessa-feltz-radio-21

"I'm utterly thrilled to be handing over to Chris Evans every morning – it's my idea of the perfect start to the day." Cool

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Ian Robinson · Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2010 11:05 am Post subject:

I know Radio 2 listeners are famed for their knee-jerk reactions to change... but this is a really rubbish appointment. She's quite a (deliberately) objectionable person.

Clive55 · Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 1336

I have nothing at all against Vannessa Feltz. I just hope she'll be alot calmer in her Early R2 slot than she is on BBC London. By calmer I mean less voluable.She just talks too much

ColinB · Guest

It's a joke, which proves that Shennan has a sense of humour, I guess.

Ian Robinson · Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2010 11:18 am Post subject:

Blondehedgehog · Joined: 16 Sep 2010 Posts: 286 Location: UK

OH DEAR.....................2 of them shouting in the mornig

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RockitRon · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 7646

I'm going to reserve judgment until I hear her - she might be good, she might not - depends which side of her we hear.

By the way...

"Vanessa will also become the regular deputy presenter for one of Radio 2's most popular programmes, Jeremy Vine's weekday lunchtime show."
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Helen May · Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 19335 Location: Cheshire

Don't think I'll go to the trouble of taping the Early Breakfast when she starts. Not keen to have her on the JV show either.

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kengeo · Joined: 21 Sep 2010 Posts: 278 Location: Gloucestershire

One remembers her neurotic performances on I think Big Brother, does this mean we can expect Gillian McKeith being offered a R2 slot in the not too distant future?

mark occomore · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 9955 Location: UK

I read on Digital spy that she will continue to present on BBC London as well. The callers will have to watch out with her being up even earlier. Laughing

Cherskiy · Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2010 12:25 pm Post subject:

Like Helen, I'll be sticking with Radio 4 in the mornings, well at least until KB comes on.

I hear you got a mention on Ken's show this am, H! Very Happy

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ruddlescat · Joined: 16 Sep 2010 Posts: 18010 Location: Near Chester

I think I'll be sticking with Smooth even though I'm not a huge fan of Simon Bates or I might give Classic FM a go depending who takes over there

Or I suppose I could just get up a bit later and not listen at all Confused

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Moonraker · Joined: 15 Sep 2010 Posts: 43

It's time to re-tune the last remaining radio in the house that is tuned to R2, my alarm clock radio. There is no way on this planet that I am going to be waking-up with Vanessa Feltz.

R.I.P. Radio 2.

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kengeo · Joined: 21 Sep 2010 Posts: 278 Location: Gloucestershire

....Every new appointment just seems to alienate me more, I wish I could understand their logic, but hey ho it is the BBC we're talking about.

Having said that nothing surprises me now.