Who is this awful, shouty woman?

[AndyW]

What’s with you karens, you have to bring The Duchess of Sussex into everything, what has she got to do with the price of fish?!
Take your knee off her neck!

Looking at American Riviera Orchard, I don't think she's flogging fish. Yet.

 

[historymystery]

What’s with you karens, you have to bring The Duchess of Sussex into everything, what has she got to do with the price of fish?!
Take your knee off her neck!

She's not price-fixing fish yet, but give her time and she'll get round to it (another day, another dollar, don'tcha know....). Knee on her neck? Hmm, is this something naughty from yet another Oomit Scooby-Doo book? There hasn't been one published for at least a month, so must be one due soon.

 

[Looby Loo]

She's not price-fixing fish yet, but give her time and she'll get round to it (another day, another dollar, don'tcha know....). Knee on her neck? Hmm, is this something naughty from yet another Oomit Scooby-Doo book? There hasn't been one published for at least a month, so must be one due soon.

I think it's an insinuation of racism

 

[AndyW]

I think it's an insinuation of racism

It is, you're right. Looking at this user's messages on this forum, there aren't many but a lot are race-baiting. Possibly US in origin, looking at the timestamps. So it's an ignore/avoid from me.

 

[TheManWithNoName]

to which Kate replied "Imagine what it's worth now?".

I'm imagining................

90% less than what she bought it for...................

 

[Calamity Gem]

I like Sarah Wait. She’s genuinely knowledgeable, she loves to drive prices down (as was her habit on the Outlet) and she genuinely has FUN with it…entertaining for viewers and the polar opposite of DT ( also in the fact she seems quite humble with it, though this sometimes means she’s a bit too obsequious when presenting with the channel’s “experts”). But I for one am glad she’s back.

 

[Calamity Gem]

PS Though, while standing by all the above, I’ve just seen SW hard selling a heart cut Bermainty ruby suite: far too much falling price mock-shock, hurry hurry hurry and no mention of treatments. So no current presenter is immune…

 

[TheManWithNoName]

PS Though, while standing by all the above, I’ve just seen SW hard selling a heart cut Bermainty ruby suite: far too much falling price mock-shock, hurry hurry hurry and no mention of treatments. So no current presenter is immune…

Exactly. It's obvious who/where the orders to do this are coming from.

Even presenters that were decent are now going OTT with this lark - such as Rosie Wells.

The channel has got worse since Colin Wagstaffe has gone - and that really is some achievement.

The company won't improve while Jake is running the show, and the on-air output wont improve while Troth is dominating the output.

I think if Jake and Troth were shown the door, the channel would improve drastically straight away.

 

[SnowMoon]

Just tuned in. New presenter? Blonde, glasses, very toothy, drops her aitches and shouts a lot. Another one with the patronising, faux enthusiasm of a budget-cable-TV children's TV presenter- just like Ellis (hello Ellis). I can cope with all of the preceding except being shouted at and being treated like a child.
Please make her go away.

I think Screechy Sarah might read her, if not someone has told her about this post. Yesterday, she was going on about how someone had said she was "toothy" and then she pretended to be a children's teacher. Hi Sarah! Please calm down a bit, better for your blood pressure and less exhausting to watch.

 

[Ant7t]

then she pretended to be a children's teacher.

Professional, much?

 

[TheManWithNoName]

Professional, much?

Perhaps she was giving Lindsey Carr a reading lesson afterwards?

 

[Carsc]

Perhaps she was giving Lindsey Carr a reading lesson afterwards?

I like to read the posts on here. I can’t watch Gems TV now, what on earth is going on with them ? I have spent thousands with them previously, and got some good quality pieces. For years now it has been on the decline, Steve has done nothing to improve the situation. For goodness sake why did they ‘keep it in the family’ when those appointed do not have the skills and personality to make it viable. What a complete disaster, such a shame. I notice they don’t do the balls anymore, and who is this Debs that keeps sucking up to them. Poor Mirabella.

 

[Ant7t]

I like to read the posts on here. I can’t watch Gems TV now, what on earth is going on with them ? I have spent thousands with them previously, and got some good quality pieces. For years now it has been on the decline, Steve has done nothing to improve the situation. For goodness sake why did they ‘keep it in the family’ when those appointed do not have the skills and personality to make it viable. What a complete disaster, such a shame. I notice they don’t do the balls anymore, and who is this Debs that keeps sucking up to them. Poor Mirabella.

Don't quote me, but I think the balls obviously stopped at the time of the lurgy. Then they began again. I think there was one last year (that's the don't quote me bit), but nothing this year.

 

[TheManWithNoName]

I suspect the balls stopped for 2 reasons:

1. They were organised by Ruth Linnett. They were very much her thing. As she's now left, there's probably nobody willing to do them.

2. Possible viewer decline. Is there any interest in them now? I suspect if they organised one, it would just be Debs and Christine turning up.

 

[TheManWithNoName]

Who is this Debs that keeps sucking up to them.

'Debs' is a weird one. Constantly changing her name so that it pops up on screen when she messages in. One day it'll be 'Debs loves Gems', another day it's 'Debs the negotiator'.

Mirabelle Mk2. Attention seeking by constantly wanting her name read out.

If its not her, it's Christine with another crap poem, or another odd woman they I've forgotten the name of.

The best name change I've ever seen was back in the Price Drop TV days when a viewer from Dundee changed their name to "Crocodile" - so that when they bought something, their name appeared on the bottom of the screen as "CROCODILE Dundee"

 

[Carsc]

'Debs' is a weird one. Constantly changing her name so that it pops up on screen when she messages in. One day it'll be 'Debs loves Gems', another day it's 'Debs the negotiator'.

Mirabelle Mk2. Attention seeking by constantly wanting her name read out.

If its not her, it's Christine with another crap poem, or another odd woman they I've forgotten the name of.

The best name change I've ever seen was back in the Price Drop TV days when a viewer from Dundee changed their name to "Crocodile" - so that when they bought something, their name appeared on the bottom of the screen as "CROCODILE Dundee"

 

[Sazza]

Don't quote me, but I think the balls obviously stopped at the time of the lurgy. Then they began again. I think there was one last year (that's the don't quote me bit), but nothing this year.

I suspect the balls stopped for 2 reasons:

1. They were organised by Ruth Linnett. They were very much her thing. As she's now left, there's probably nobody willing to do them.

2. Possible viewer decline. Is there any interest in them now? I suspect if they organised one, it would just be Debs and Christine turning up.

Yes there was one in 2023 but don't know who organised it as Ruth had already left earlier that year.

 

[TheManWithNoName]

Yes there was one in 2023 but don't know who organised it as Ruth had already left earlier that year.

I vaguely recall Ruth organising that still as she works/worked as an events organiser for Drew and Lucy Nicholls business - but Ruth has since appeared on QVC, so there's probably a conflict of interest there now.

 

[Sazza]

I vaguely recall Ruth organising that still as she works/worked as an events organiser for Drew and Lucy Nicholls business - but Ruth has since appeared on QVC, so there's probably a conflict of interest there now.

She started on Q before the last Gemporia ball

 

[TheManWithNoName]

She started on Q before the last Gemporia ball

According to LinkedIn, she started on QVC in August 2023 - so the ball would have already been organised way before she started on there.