Ophelia

[Mam]

She said she was going to be taking some electrocution lessons - so she could talk proppa!

A couple of thousand volts hopefully!

 

[Stockton]

She said she was going to be taking some electrocution lessons - so she could talk proppa!

I quite like Ophelia.

 

[Grizelda]

I quite like Ophelia.

She has a following. I wonder what her sales ranking is compared to other presenters at QVC. I imagine Julia and Debbie sell the most products.

 

[FunkinHeel]

I think when they had to choose between Awfelia and Annaliese, it was a bit of a Sophie's Choicce for QVC: they couldn't get rid of both of their only black female presenters, particularly after 'losing' the equally rubbish Marverine, so they had to keep one of them. Awfelia was marginally better than Annaliese, thought that was a pretty low bar.

Jumping in here.

I had the feeling that Annaliese was either asked to leave, or, stop subtly (and one time I noted), mentioning the race thing.

The one time I mentioned above, shortly after she came to QVC, I saw a show the had her and Glenn C presenting fashion. She made some sort of comment about 2 black people presenting together. (Can't remember the exact comment).

I thought to myself, if she's this gung-ho about it on shows, what must she be like backstage?

That one incident I think revealed her true agenda & I'm sure there were more.

That aside, I didn't like her presenting skills. Barking at viewers like an army sergeant.

I don't mind Ophelia so much now. At least she keeps politics out of her job.

 

[Brissles]

Oh thought was own hair

Most ɓlack women on tv wear a wig. Gillian Joseph on Sky News - Nana Akua on GBN - even Michelle Obama when she didn't have it professionally straightened.Their natural hair is too frizzy so as wigs now have naturally looking partings they're ideal.

It's always easy to tell, as hair is not brushed behind ears or worn up, but hangs like a curtain around the face - look at some of the models. They've certainly improved since the 70s when I had several on different colours and styles.

 

[candycane]

I like Ophelia but all this dropping the"g"s at the end of words is seriously annoying for the listener. Sports presenter Alex Scott does the same and it sounds totally unprofessional. Talk how you want outside of work but if your job is talking to people you have to make them want to listen IMO.

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