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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.
Just when you think it can't get any worse........
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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.- Joined
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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
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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"
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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.
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That Ad is stolen from the cruising advert on TV. I wonder if they got permission and have paid royalties
Doubt it.
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.)
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The experienced presenters cost more money, that's probably why they let them go.
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Your face has to fit too (and I've been told that by a reliable source that used to work at Gemporia).
They've had presenters that loved the job - but were given timeslots that didn't suit their lifestyle. Rae Carpenter was one of their best presenters - but she regularly commuted from south Wales (Cardiff I believe) to Redditch. They put her on Gem Collector for an hour from 7pm until 8pm straight after she finished a 4 hour slot on Gems TV - and she wasn't getting home until really late. She started to get sick of it.
They also moved Ruth Linnett to a night time slot - despite being another of their better presenters. Again, she became unhappy with the anti-social hours.
Lara De-Leuw was a good presenter - but she was messed about towards the end.
Jim has also been messed about over the years - going from the 3am until 7am slot, to 11pm until 3am, he was shoved on The Lounge for a while, back to 11pm until 3am, and then put onto Gem Collector - which was, effectively, a 'last resort' option. Jim is VERY popular with viewers - but, again, I've been reliably informed that he's never been given the best time slots, allegedly because his sales figures are lower than other presenters.
Meanwhile, you've got favourites like Angeline, Adina and Ellis that never seem to be shifted at all. In fact, Angeline and Adina have had their time slots for as long as I've been watching (13 years or so).
Whilst the better presenters have been alienated and eventually left, dross like Jess Foley and Lindsey Carr, arguably the two worst presenters on the channel, have been 'promoted' to good time slots and seem to be favourites with the powers that be.
What's with Victoria Norris pronouncing 'agate' as 'uh-gate', with the emphasis on 'gate'. Repeatedly, as if she knows better than 99.99% of English speakers? Bad enough Troth pronouncing 'cache' as 'cashay'. With all the shocking grammar ("there is less than" - endemic across Gemporia & GC), what's wrong people these days? 
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Reminds me of Angeline and her aDventurine lol. And they are jewellery experts?
How I did like Angeline and Ellis.
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Their lack of ability to pronounce the name of stones properly just weakens their credibility in my opinion (if they had any 'credibility' in the first place).
A few of them say Adventurine rather than Aventurine.
Labradorite often gets pronounced as Labradite (Hi Jim....)
Padparadscha often gets pronounced as Papradasha (Hi Lynn Jinks....)
And 'Paraiba' gets called anything from Pareeba to Paryayba from just about all of the presenters.
Then there's Yianni's Aquaiba Beryl - which seems to get called Aquayeeba (Hi Adina....). My understanding is that its name is a combination of Aqua - and the 'aiba' from Paraiba Tourmaline due to it's greenish-blue colour.
Anyway, must dash, I'm about to drive to Worcester (which is pronounced as Wusster) via Gloucester (which is pronounced as Glosster).
It all seems very unfair, imo. Of course, Angeline can choose whatever hours she wants, as she's part of the company and, in fairness, Adina has been with them for a very long time.
It's all part of the overall mismanagement. In truth, they haven't got a clue!
Well, to pronounce 'cache' as 'cashay' is just pure stupidity! And this from the man who knows it all!What's with Victoria Norris pronouncing 'agate' as 'uh-gate', with the emphasis on 'gate'. Repeatedly, as if she knows better than 99.99% of English speakers? Bad enough Troth pronouncing 'cache' as 'cashay'. With all the shocking grammar ("there is less than" - endemic across Gemporia & GC), what's wrong people these days?
No they haven't and it can only get worse imo.
