Noel Edmonds

[princesspoppy]

God this man infuriates me.
He is the presenter of Deal or No Deal in the U.K.
He is spectacularly into woo and has these stupide little tattoos on his hand, which he believes manifests good luck and positive karma...what a tit.

I really like Deal or No Deal, but this idiot utterly ruins it for me.
Every single contestant, he encourages to talk about woo and nonsense, asking them of "theyre spiritual".
Every single one of them seems to say yes. I am just dying for one to turn round one day and say " No, of course not, its a load of old ****"..

In fact, I may apply to go on, just to do this:p

What do other Brits think of Edmonds and his weirdness?

[Dragon]

IMHO Edmonds has yet to use up the credit he earned for his "Gotcha" of Uri Geller (where Geller was filmed bending a spoon with his hands under the table). I'm prepared to believe that the woo stuff in Deal or No Deal is just part of his schtick.

[Darat]

IMHO Edmonds has yet to use up the credit he earned for his "Gotcha" of Uri Geller (where Geller was filmed bending a spoon with his hands under the table). I'm prepared to believe that the woo stuff in Deal or No Deal is just part of his schtick.

I don't think so:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4908952.stm

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/showbiz/articles/22834933?source=Evening%20Standard

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/08062006/344/noel-s-signs-deal-cosmic-book.html

Deal or No Deal - still don't think it should be allowed under the current regulations dealing with gambling on TV shows, it is nothing more then a gambling show - there is no skill involved at all.

[Azrael 5]

No skill involved but plenty of silly wooness.
"I have high red numbers two games running,so dont pick me"
"I get a feeling the big money is in my box"
"everyone think blue"
Etc.,etc.
Its a game of chance and nothing more,maybe Noel could cosmic order a big win for a contestant! :D

[tkingdoll]

Noel Edmonds killed a man, too.

Not on purpose, I grant you, it was a TV stunt that went wrong, but I read that he really struggled with depression from the guilt. Perhaps his wooness is his way of dealing with that?

Background for those under 30 :)

On November 13, 1986, self-employed hod carrier Michael Lush was killed during his first rehearsal for another live stunt. The stunt, called "Hang 'em High", involved bungee jumping from an exploding box suspended from a 120ft-high crane. The carabiner clip attaching his bungee rope to the crane sprang loose from its eyebolt during the jump. He died instantly of multiple injuries, and the Breakfast Show was scrapped on 15 November after Edmonds resigned.

Although the inquest recorded a verdict of misadventure, the jury were informed of several failures on the part of the BBC. Graham Games of the Health and Safety Executive stated that the clip could have been opened by the weight of a bag of sugar, and demonstrated that the clip sprang loose 14 times in 20. David Kirke, a bungee specialist from the Dangerous Sports Club, stated that a similar stunt he had been involved with used three ropes and shackles in the place of carabiner clips, as opposed to the one rope used by the BBC. [6] There was no safety officer on hand, and no supervision or demonstration from a trained stuntman. There was also no way for Lush to contact the ground once he was in the air, and nobody in the air with him in case he changed his mind; the jury heard that he delayed for almost two minutes before finally being instructed to make the jump. Furthermore, despite advice against it, the BBC production team had insisted on the use of an elasticated bungee rope.

The BBC made an ex gratia payment of approximately £120,000 to Lush's family. While the coroner recommended that safety officers be available during any such future stunts, BBC managing director Bill Cotton stated that there would be no future programmes that exposed members of the public to risk. [7] After the inquest, Noel Edmonds was quoted as saying "If I was to continue my career at the BBC I would want to be fully confident about any production team I was provided with." [8] He returned to Saturday night television two years later, presenting Noel's Saturday Roadshow.



From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Late,_Late_Breakfast_Show

[Aardvark]

I outgrew him as a 13 year old schoolboy, unable to stand his jeuvenile humour and witterings, add to this a face you could never tire of slapping.

I am pleased to say I have never seen more than a microsecond of his show without my finely tuned responces hitting the channel change button.

For so many years he was in the broadcasting wilderness, why did this have to change.

[Mojo]

Noel Edmonds killed a man, too.

Not on purpose, I grant you, it was a TV stunt that went wrong...That segment of the show was based around getting members of the public to do dangerous stunts with virtually no training. What were they expecting?

I seem to remember him finding it hilarious when a co-presenter broke a leg on air. The clip was shown several times in the following week's show, as far as I remember.

[geni]

Its a game of chance and nothing more,maybe Noel could cosmic order a big win for a contestant! :D

You can work out a mathmatical optium course but most people don't take it.

[Carnivore]

I met him at my workplace. I dont know about his woo attitudes but he certainly did a good impression of a smug supercilious a**hole that day.

[Shrinker]

I met him at my workplace. I dont know about his woo attitudes but he certainly did a good impression of a smug supercilious a**hole that day.
I met him at work too. He didn't make many new fans that day. He's not at all the person you see on TV. And not in a good way! I also saw him on Jonathan Ross, I have a strong feeling he's planning to be the next L Ron Hubbard. Or David Icke.

edit to clarify: on Jonathan Ross' show, I meant...

[John Jackson]

I outgrew him as a 13 year old schoolboy, unable to stand his jeuvenile humour and witterings, add to this a face you could never tire of slapping.

Dare I mention Mr. Blobby?

Juvenile is the word alright ;)

As for Deal or No Deal, I haven't really watched it properly but it seems like a good lesson in fallacious reasoning and how to assign erroneous conclusions to random events.

Did I mention Mr. Blobby? Perhaps I shouldn't have - it's embarrassing as this went out as prime time viewing in the UK.:boggled:

[Cynric]

Dare I mention Mr. Blobby?

Juvenile is the word alright ;)

As for Deal or No Deal, I haven't really watched it properly but it seems like a good lesson in fallacious reasoning and how to assign erroneous conclusions to random events.

Did I mention Mr. Blobby? Perhaps I shouldn't have - it's embarrassing as this went out as prime time viewing in the UK.:boggled:

The funny thing about Mr Blobby (inasmuch as anything is funny about Mr B.), is that he started life as a spoof in the "Gotcha" segment of Noel's house party. He was supposed to be a character so inane, mindless and annoying, that we all had a laugh at the set-up celebrities who tried to do their job whilst this mental character in a pink suit shouted and gibbered and banged into them.
Somehow, from that, Mr Blobby went mainstream. I'm not sure whether the ironic, arch British public raised him to cult-status, or whether they were too thick to get the joke, and just thought "ha ha, look at the funny man."

[in my defence I was a child during this period and therefore cannot be held responsible for my appalling lack of judgement in watching that tripe]

I can't watch deal or no deal. I just sit there thinking "It's random! Shut up with the mad theories!"

[BillC]

Weren't there complaints over a stunt in the weeks preceding the fatal fall? I seem to remember they had some woman locked in a box underwater, and for a while it looked that she couldn't escape. Several viewers complained about the danger (including the reviewer Ludovic Kennedy?), but the BBC swept them aside, saying there had been no danger at all.

(I reserve the right to be wrong, of course.)

[Zep]

Positivity

Another term for a positive approach to life is Cosmic Ordering which I first discovered in a book by Barbel Mohr. However in my experience there is very much more to this whole subject of approaching life in a positive fashion which is why, later this year, I will be publishing my own book on this topic.
http://www.noeledmonds.tv/comment_more.php?id=176

Oh I see, Noel. It's about YOUR money.

[Capsid]

Noel Edmonds killed a man, too.

Not on purpose, I grant you, it was a TV stunt that went wrong, but I read that he really struggled with depression from the guilt. Perhaps his wooness is his way of dealing with that?

Background for those under 30 :)



From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Late,_Late_Breakfast_Show
There were other accidents, I remember watching a stunt in which a car leaped over a row of cars. The car flipped over and landed badly with the roof ripped off. John Peel was commentating and he said something to the effect of "I'm not dong this anymore!", and he didn't either. The car ended up very close to the camera and you could see the driver who appeared unconscious, before we were returned quickly to the studio and a nervous looking Noel. I couldn't find anything on line about it. So I'm not sure I remembered it correctly.

[YouBelieveWHAT?]

Surely Mr Blobby was the intellectual on "Noel's House Party"?

Though I did like the Geller "Gotcha", I have to confess.

Is it any wonder I left the country....

YBW

[John Jackson]

For those outside the UK this is (was) Mr. Blobby:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/ilove/years/1993/gallery/340/blobby.jpg

He started as a joke character, but ended up having a number 1 record and was a major feature of a theme park (? IIRC) based on the TV show.

This character was included in a prime time entertainment show on the BBC :blush: :blush: :blush:

[Soapy Sam]

What do other Brits think of Edmonds and his weirdness?
princesspoppy- I demand that you apologise for sullying the screen of my monitor with this moron's monicker.;) There are three people I would unhesitatingly strangle rather than be stuck in a lift with them.

This clown is two of them.

And I don't even have a TV!

[DreadNiK]

Dead Ringers did a great parody of DOND

[Azrael 5]

Dead Ringers did a great parody of DOND

Did Noel get scammed on the infamous Brass Eye mockumentary? I seem to recall his smug beardy face praising "CAke" :D

[GreyPilgrim]

Anyone wanting to see Noel Edmonds really put on the spot should click no further than :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IBC5udIBoA&search=noel%20edmonds

[Azrael 5]

Couldn't find the infamous Brass Eye clip but this is another from same series.
http://www.spikedhumor.com/articles/34736/Brass_Eye_Noel_Edmonds_Killing_Spree.html

[Mojo]

Did Noel get scammed on the infamous Brass Eye mockumentary? I seem to recall his smug beardy face praising "CAke" :DSurely he would have been against it, seeing as it was "a made-up drug"?

[Azrael 5]

Surely he would have been against it, seeing as it was "a made-up drug"?

Quite right.My bad.;)

[Dcdrac]

I don't think so:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4908952.stm

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/showbiz/articles/22834933?source=Evening%20Standard

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/08062006/344/noel-s-signs-deal-cosmic-book.html

Deal or No Deal - still don't think it should be allowed under the current regulations dealing with gambling on TV shows, it is nothing more then a gambling show - there is no skill involved at all.

I agree with you, it was a shock to find out Noel Edmonds was still alive

[sat556]

Did Noel get scammed on the infamous Brass Eye mockumentary? I seem to recall his smug beardy face praising "CAke" :D

Yup. I've got the dvd so if I remember I might watch it later and report what he said.

[Thing]

[from memory]: "Cake affects a part of the brain called Shatner's Bassoon, which controls the perception of time so that three seconds seems like twenty minutes. [insincere smile] Well, that almost sounds fun, doesn't it? [serious look] Unless you're the Prague schoolgirl who was run over by a juggernaut; she thought she had twenty minutes to cross the road. [concerned look]Take care, and I really do mean...take care!."

I'll be interested to see how much my memory has mangled it.

[princesspoppy]

Anyone wanting to see Noel Edmonds really put on the spot should click no further than :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IBC5udIBoA&search=noel%20edmonds


That video is comedy gold.... I love him trying to backpeddle... what a tit

[sat556]

That's one good memory, Thing!

There are a few lines such as "Can we leave out this thing about the slow crushing of his skull?", and the what cake is stuff, but the bit we want here is:

"It stimulates the part of the brain called Shatner's Bassoon. That's the bit of the brain that deals with time perception. So, a second feels like a month. *kind of sigh* Almost sounds like fun unless you're the Prague schoolboy who walked out into the street, straight in front of a tram. He thought he'd got a month to cross the street.
Sounds like a lot of fun doesn't it, if you want to be part of the Summer of death.
Thankyou for listening to me. Take care, and I really do mean, take care"

[Big Les]

For those outside the UK this is (was) Mr. Blobby:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/ilove/years/1993/gallery/340/blobby.jpg

He started as a joke character, but ended up having a number 1 record and was a major feature of a theme park (? IIRC) based on the TV show.


Yep, it was set up at Cricket St Thomas Wildlife Park (http://www.cstwp.co.uk/), near my then-home in Somerset. It was a lovely place before that buffoon got his hands on it. Thankfully some years later the Mr Blobby operation folded and it went back to being "just" a wildlife park.

[Euromutt]

"Now, Noel Edmonds, for instance, is the perfect example of why one should always try to kill Noel Edmonds." - Stephen Fry in a "vox pop" on A Bit of Fry and Laurie

I used to enjoy the radio show Edmonds had on BBC Radio 1 back around 1980 (from 1000 to 1200 on Sunday mornings, preceded by Tony Blackburn and followed by Jimmy Saville, and why I remember this is a complete mystery), but based on both my own observations and comments by others (including the aforementioned Stephen Fry, who in his persona of Professor Donald Trefusis described the content of the Late, Late Breakfast Show as consisting mostly of "puerile, banausic posturing," objectification of women and fawning over the Royal Marines), on television the man was pure poison, and the reason I assiduously avoided BBC 1 from 1990 onwards. And that was without being aware of Edmonds' wooish tendencies.