Just when you think it can't get any worse........

[Ostrichkeeper]

The presenter who's on with Katy has just described something as "A ******** in a bottle" before she realized what she'd said.Cue laughter in studio.

 

[Ant7t]

The presenter who's on with Katy has just described something as "A ******** in a bottle" before she realized what she'd said.Cue laughter in studio.

Wish I'd seen that I've got at least two risque comments over two channels in mind. That'd be the third. One said something was orgasmic. I think she was supposed to say organza. And the other was on TJC that was, to my mind borderline crude, albeit mistakenly.

 

[Ostrichkeeper]

Ant7t, the thing she was trying to say was that her hair looked as if it had been blow dried but came out differently. It took her a few seconds to realise it too, funny.

 

[Ant7t]

Ant7t, the thing she was trying to say was that her hair looked as if it had been blow dried but came out differently. It took her a few seconds to realise it too, funny.

I bet that was a 'job' and a half to keep a straight face

 

[Solent Warship]

Maybe was Debbie Cavill...? She was on with VN before Toby and Cherry Cavill. Mum, son and daughter in one day?

I wondered about that. To say Cavil & Co are supposed to be high class, those 3 look like market stall jokers. The mother has got cringy since marrying that guy (he looks definitely criminal).
They showed their wedding in the little white chapel in Las Vegas. Talk about little house on the prairie. Anyway they had Paraiba Tourmaline in a supposed £9000+ ring, it was so heavily included I wouldn't give them £90.
Gemporia is getting too much of my cat ran up your ginnel. They're all related and that's when it goes down hill. Too many chiefs and not enough Indians.
Steve Bennett needs to get a grip of these screamers, toss out the old baggage like Ellis and start again.

Debbie Cavill is a good looking lady.

All I can say to that is "specsavers"

 

[historymystery]

I wondered about that. To say Cavil & Co are supposed to be high class, those 3 look like market stall jokers. The mother has got cringy since marrying that guy (he looks definitely criminal).
They showed their wedding in the little white chapel in Las Vegas. Talk about little house on the prairie. Anyway they had Paraiba Tourmaline in a supposed £9000+ ring, it was so heavily included I wouldn't give them £90.
Gemporia is getting too much of my cat ran up your ginnel. They're all related and that's when it goes down hill. Too many chiefs and not enough Indians.
Steve Bennett needs to get a grip of these screamers, toss out the old baggage like Ellis and start again.


All I can say to that is "specsavers"

The channel needs to get back to the days when they actually had some presenters who were knowledgeable about what they were selling, could tell us the stories behind the gemstones and their origins, gave you factual information and could stay calm. Having someone pulled in off the streets chanting 'you'd pay this for the gold alone', 'it's drenched in gold', 'if you bought this in Van Cleef and Arpels you'd pay six figures' does not constitute knowledgeable presenters. It constitutes parrots. And in the background you can probably hear Van Cleef and Arpels wetting themselves laughing.

 

[Solent Warship]

I wonder, I wonder.

Have you ever wondered?

GOLD!

Sorry, the Gemporia ads have taken over my brain

That Ad is stolen from the cruising advert on TV. I wonder if they got permission and have paid royalties

 

[rubia]

That Ad is stolen from the cruising advert on TV. I wonder if they got permission and have paid royalties

Doubt it.

 

[AndyW]

...'if you bought this in Van Cleef and Arpels you'd pay six figures' does not constitute knowledgeable presenters. It constitutes parrots. And in the background you can probably hear Van Cleef and Arpels wetting themselves laughing.

Just on the Van Cleef point, Gemporia does sometimes get it right, I think.

First image is Gemporia, second image is VC&A. Both pendants only.

- Both are 18K gold - Gems is 2.57g, VC&A doesn't declare the weight.
- Gems has 57 SI G-H stones totalling 0.50 cts, VC&A has 12 IF-VVS D-F stones totalling 0.08 cts (yes, 0.08).
- Gems was £480 in 2020, VC&A is asking £3250
- Gems will have made a small run of these, VC&A appears unlimited

Personally, I think that the VC&A one is a huge brand name rip off and it would be one TV presentation comparison that would be fair, I think.
Gemporia has had a range of Alhambra jewellery with onyx, MoP, malachite and carnelian. VC&A does too. OK, so Gems is set in gold-plated silver but, as this lady points out in her review & regrets video of her pieces, black onyx etc are cheap stones. The single black onyx necklace she bought was $2,700 - VC&A will surely be wetting themselves laughing.

While we all agree in varying degrees on what we don't like about Gemporia today, I can't help feeling that people can swallow too much of the Kool Aid pumped out by the big names as well. (Something that is starting to move the luxury handbag market as well, where people are watching YT videos of skilled craftsmen literally deconstruct a big brand handbag to show how much leather, what its quality is, how much plastic is added to create the look and what the markup is.)

 

[Marietta]

The channel needs to get back to the days when they actually had some presenters who were knowledgeable about what they were selling, could tell us the stories behind the gemstones and their origins, gave you factual information and could stay calm. Having someone pulled in off the streets chanting 'you'd pay this for the gold alone', 'it's drenched in gold', 'if you bought this in Van Cleef and Arpels you'd pay six figures' does not constitute knowledgeable presenters. It constitutes parrots. And in the background you can probably hear Van Cleef and Arpels wetting themselves laughing.

The experienced presenters cost more money, that's probably why they let them go.