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I don't like any of them really. The person I come closest to liking is Alan Sugar as he's made his millions entirely by himself. Anne Robinson is just some mean old bitch who happens to have an overpaid job on the TV, and Simon Cowell is the man most centrally responsible for the farce that is the UK music industry today.

I like Gordon Ramsay but can't stand any of the others.

Given here vigorous defence of Capt Bob when she was a columnist at The Mirror (both prior to and after his death), will Anne Robinson now dig into her own millions to help out all her former colleagues fallen on hard times with no pensions to support them?

I don't see the objection to Anne Robinson. Surely no-one takes her "Weakest Link" personna seriously? Either you like her or you don't but she has a lot of fans stemming from her days presenting "Points of View". Those appearing on her show know she's going to take the piss, yet there was a waiting list to get on. A woman who got to the top on her own terms and still looks great for her age.

It's one thing to volunteer to risk humiliation from the likes of Robinson, Cowell and the comical Alan Sugar. But Gordon Ramsay bullying and verbally abusing some poor sod in a provincial hotel kitchen who's probably paid a pittance anyway, is surely out of order. In the objectionable episode I saw, a restaurant chef quit his job after a week or two of Ramsay. Pity he didn't pour the entire day's soup over this foul-mouthed aggressive berk first.

Marty McFly wrote:

>Problem with TV personalities is that in order to be on TV you need an image or persona.

True, they've all forged a cabaret act out of selective elements of their own personalities, but even on this level they represent success at the expense of manners and consideration for others. Perhaps, depressingly, that's how some people would like to attain success themselves.

All fantasy of course. In reality it would only be a matter of time before someone told Sugar to shove his job up his arse for that sort of conduct, and rightly so.