Author Topic: Matt Lucas to replace Sandi Toksvig on The Great British Bake Off  (Read 561 times)

richmond62

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https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-51834511#

What I am about to write is about as politicially correct as handing someone a raw sausage
when they are blindfolded at a gay party:

I really wonder what signals are being sent to young people by replacing a lesbian with a homosexual.

I have nothing whatsoever personal against either Toksvig or Lucas, but that is not the
point I am making; it is that as homosexual people seem to have become mainstream
has this had an effect on young people, making many of them identify as 'gay' at an age
when they are too young to know whether this is the fact or not?

klondike

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Re: Matt Lucas to replace Sandi Toksvig on The Great British Bake Off
« Reply #1 on: Mar 11, 2020, 01:29:45 PM »
Bear in mind that this is the BBC. There is probably a very limited supply of straight presenters on their books.
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Re: Matt Lucas to replace Sandi Toksvig on The Great British Bake Off
« Reply #2 on: Mar 11, 2020, 01:31:47 PM »
it will all end in tears
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Re: Matt Lucas to replace Sandi Toksvig on The Great British Bake Off
« Reply #3 on: Mar 11, 2020, 02:19:12 PM »
I wouldn't think either of those two were particularly gay icons.  They have both been very funny in their time and they are obviously clever.  Their careers weren't built on their gayness [not like Rylan].  I never watch the programme but looking at that article I would say that gayness was the preferred state.  Although there was some dissent in the article, someone said they were disappointed it wasn't another woman, or a person of colour.  No-one apparently wished it was another straight woman ;D ;D
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Re: Matt Lucas to replace Sandi Toksvig on The Great British Bake Off
« Reply #4 on: Mar 11, 2020, 11:05:20 PM »
Last year the weather presenter for BBC North West Tonight, Diane Oxberry died at the age of 51.  She was a lovely girl and had been on NWT for 23 years.   Now guess who the BBC have replaced her with  ! He's gay, Welsh and very irritating.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uhtMHKzeYQ 
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Re: Matt Lucas to replace Sandi Toksvig on The Great British Bake Off
« Reply #5 on: Mar 11, 2020, 11:14:14 PM »
I liked Diane a lot. RIP.
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Re: Matt Lucas to replace Sandi Toksvig on The Great British Bake Off
« Reply #6 on: Mar 12, 2020, 07:45:59 AM »
Last year the weather presenter for BBC North West Tonight, Diane Oxberry died at the age of 51.  She was a lovely girl and had been on NWT for 23 years.   Now guess who the BBC have replaced her with  ! He's gay, Welsh and very irritating.


Ah that's Owaine. He used to occasionally be on Lincolnshire Look North which is what we get at the caravan. So glad to hear I'm probably going to be missing out on him and his ties and brooches which he seemed to think were of interest.
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Re: Matt Lucas to replace Sandi Toksvig on The Great British Bake Off
« Reply #7 on: Mar 12, 2020, 08:51:43 AM »



Does it really matter in the scheme of things...!!


Gay.. lesbian.. black.. Asian.. white.. fat.. thin..


There is always someone who will make a big thing out of it.. Or disagree with it.
 Surely it is the entertainment value that is important..
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Re: Matt Lucas to replace Sandi Toksvig on The Great British Bake Off
« Reply #8 on: Mar 12, 2020, 09:06:44 AM »
On the other side the advertising industry seems to have taken upon itself the cause of makeing the abnormal normal. But do we really want to buy the products sponsored by wierdos and foreigners? They tried it in Australia and sales went right down.

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Re: Matt Lucas to replace Sandi Toksvig on The Great British Bake Off
« Reply #9 on: Mar 12, 2020, 09:09:41 AM »
I mostly avoid adverts when at all possible anyway. They could have alien lizard people sponsoring stuff for all the impact it would have on me.
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Re: Matt Lucas to replace Sandi Toksvig on The Great British Bake Off
« Reply #10 on: Mar 12, 2020, 04:33:38 PM »
Does it really matter in the scheme of things...!!
Gay.. lesbian.. black.. Asian.. white.. fat.. thin..

There is always someone who will make a big thing out of it.. Or disagree with it.
 Surely it is the entertainment value that is important..

Well it's the BBC's limited supply of ' straight' presenters that was in question.  I just want to see the weather forecast, stuff the diamante brooches and skin tight pink kecks !  :)
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Re: Matt Lucas to replace Sandi Toksvig on The Great British Bake Off
« Reply #11 on: Mar 12, 2020, 06:09:00 PM »
i wonder how long  before its 'they' that are normal
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Re: Matt Lucas to replace Sandi Toksvig on The Great British Bake Off
« Reply #12 on: Mar 12, 2020, 06:16:21 PM »
and skin tight pink kecks !  :)
Poor Owaine must have upped his game a notch or two since I last saw him. Let's hope he finds a nice young man sooner rather than later.
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Re: Matt Lucas to replace Sandi Toksvig on The Great British Bake Off
« Reply #13 on: Mar 12, 2020, 06:20:10 PM »
Poor Owaine must have upped his game a notch or two since I last saw him. Let's hope he finds a nice young man sooner rather than later.

Let's hope he finds a nice job sooner rather than later, maybe there's a vacancy up in Raven's neck of the woods  :)
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