The 10 least wanted faces of 20101. Jonathan Woss. It was wonderful to see the back of him on the BBC. Now pledges to continue his same brand of "
wacy"
, "
waunchy"
and "
wevealing"
non-entertainment on another channel. That's probably a euphemism for continuing to upset some decent, hard-working and genuinely talented entertainers like Andrew Sachs. Good widdance!!
2. Wayne Rooney. Sums up everything detestable about modern football: exorbitantly over-paid, spoiled and foul-mouthed. His most memorable strike this year? Probably kicking a ball to Bobby Charlton on the aircraft of a Turkish Air commercial. "
Thanks for your loyalty,"
he mouthed at crowds after a disappointing World Cup performance that earned him boos from the crowd. Thanks for your failure at the World Cup!!
3. Mel Gibson. His nasty obsessions and general racists outbursts show no signs of abating. Winona Ryder now reveals that Gisbon referred to her as "
an oven-dodger"
some years back. A lovely cocktail party guest indeed. More recently, caught on tape telling his ex-girlfriend that he hoped she was raped.
Hope we never see your jaundiced face and cynical smirk in Sofia. I don't think you'll a friendly welcome at Nu Boyana, somehow.
4. Eugene Terreblanche. Nasty death for a nasty man. This bigoted would-be Hitler used to stagger drunkenly round his home town of Ventersdorp attacking innocent blacks and anyone who dared to disagree with him. Ludicrously, he always tried to convince us that the three sevens, the symbol representing his "
political party"
(the AWB), bore no correlation to the swastika. Yet his funeral was attended by supporters bearing openly Nazi insignia.
5. Ed Miliband. There's something unsettling about a politician who refuses to recognise his own weakness. If Ed had had a shred of self-insight, he would have left the leadership to his infinitely more erudite and articulate brother. Instead, he will inflict his curiously clotted consonants and 1980s mindset on the hapless public until one of his shadow cabinet colleagues mounts a leadership challenge. This, knowing the general gutlessness of the British Labour party, will never happen. Looks set to make the late Michael Foot seem a dynamic leader.
6. Cheryl Cole. Just for being so damn ubiquitous over the year. Not her fault, I suppose, that she has come to represent everything vacuous about British culture. Blame the press.
7. Sarah Ferguson. Cementing her reputation as the least popular member of the Royal Family, the Duchess of York accepted payment for "
access"
her ex-husband and then went on the Oprah Winfrey show to indulge in grotesque self-pity about being caught. Also revealed to be hopelessly out of her depth (interviewing hoodies on a housing estate) and woefully ignorant - a mere question about her view of the National Health Service (of course she doesn't use it) stumped her on a radio chat show.
8. Sergei Stanishev. Should have quit ages ago but then again socialists always like to keep failures in power. They'd have probably kept the dinosaur going on the basis of compassion of whatever. Now totally irrelevant to Bulgarian politics.
9. Alex Ferguson. Ok, a talented football manager but that's it. The way this man is now venerated I'm surprised he hasn't become an official adviser to God. Football isn't that important - it's just kicking a ball around a pitch and chasing after it.
10. Bruce Forsyth. 'Nough said!!
Now you add yours and tell us why?