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There’s been at least 3 rounds of redundancies but Vicki wasn’t part of any of them (but was also made redundant separately following someone returning from maternity). The first round saw Katie Ho and Nick Davies be made redundant following GC reducing hours (as well as Faye Hewitt depart...

Steph is full time on one side with Kate, Rachel and Victoria sharing the other side (with Kate and Rachel additionally sharing one side of mornings (as well as Rosie and Vicki Carroll/Gordon) and Victoria also covering Ellis on Fridays).

She was a failed teacher before she went on Gemporia. According to linked in she has been selling kitchens since leaving Gemporia.

She used to present on one the secondary services that went during Covid.

Given that presenters will only be paid for the days that they are scheduled to work I see absolutely no reason why not to employ Victoria or anybody else for that matter on an extremely part time basis if that helps cover shifts that another presenter would rather not work. Lyndsey Vickers for...

Kate does appear to have largely returned to afternoons with the occasional morning thrown in. I suspect that on paper at least Kate is covering Jess on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays and weekends with Vicki Norris covering on Mondays and Thursdays (with Kate maintaining her Tuesday and...

Steph is meant to be taking over from Hattie on afternoons and I don’t see Vicki taking a full time role on the morning shift (given her Sewing Street and Jewellery maker roles such a move would only create a shortage elsewhere). The entire Gemporia group seems to be using less presenters more...

The sensible option would probably move Jim across to replace Hattie and bring Nick back to Gem Collector more permanently but there’s essentially no chance of that happening. Hattie and Jess (temporarily) will both be bigger losses than Lynn as they both regularly bothered to attend work...

So Kati presenting tonight and Dave this afternoon. Have they had to let the presenters go and rely on those with other jobs to keep the output going?

JM is actually fully staffed other than one show per fortnight as Carole Roache, they just have next to no holiday cover due to the smaller number of presenters on that channel so other people in the group often cover when Elle or Carole are away (in a similar way to Milly often covering leave...

I’m afraid you are incorrect in saying Lindsey Carr is scheduled for mornings, she moved to afternoons at the same time that Lynn moved to mornings and now shares the 3pm slot with Jess Foley. Whilst you are right in saying that Rachel and Zena have both been on leave it is also true that Rachel...

Even with Rachel back there appears to still be holes in the schedule. Rosie has confirmed that she is returning on a 6 shifts per month basis which might just about cover the days Rachel (who has not been full time in many a year) and Kate do not work but certainly won’t do any more than that...

There is a picture of Lynn and Steve with a big bunch of flowers on her Facebook page. Whilst I suppose this could be an archive photo I don’t see why she would make it look as though her departure had been handled better than it had if she was leaving on bad terms.

I suspect Matt is no longer a formal part of the channel as he was labelled as “Gem Collector Guest” in his very brief video message for the recent birthday celebrations and appeared to play no further role in the celebrations and didn’t appear live at any point. As you quite rightfully say it’s...

Matt definitely became the GC manager at some point but I’m pretty sure there was a period during and just after the first lockdown where his only involvement was occasional guest appearances on GC and a little bit of cover presenting and producing in the 11-3 slot which saw one particularly...

I suspect Gem Collector has simply moved in a direction that didn’t suit Alex’s interests and that he felt redundancy was better than appearing on a channel that wasn’t operating in the way he would like it to. In particular for a long period it felt like Alex was gem collector and that he had...

So Emily is claiming that £189,932 is the recommended price whilst reducing it to £17,999 (plus p and p). Quite clearly if it was actually worth anything like £190,000 they wouldn’t be selling it for less than a tenth of that as they’d be able to sell it in the trade for multiples of what they...

They are currently advertising a tanzanite for £189,932. Clearly it’s not going to finish at a price anything like that (if they actually want to sell it anyway) but you can literally buy a house for that amount in some areas and absolutely nobody who should be allowed access to money would...

One of the last times Matt was on air he essentially said he didn’t really care about the designs of jewellery being sold and it was only the gemstones that kept him interested in the company and there were multiple pieces shown that he openly suggested melting down and using the stone for...

Next week should be quite an easy week for them as long as Hattie is back. It’s not term time so Kate may well be on tomorrow and Lindsey is only due on air Wednesday and Thursday. It’s also Jim’s shorter week so he could well cover a show or two and Zena is back for HM and JM so Rosie is...