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radio one scott mills show

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? by gabrielle

Just heard the end of it ....they used to have a girl called laura who giggled to everything they said, she left and now there's a new, identical girl called becky who giggles at everything they say. It's very odd.
BBC/RADIO ONE RECRUITMENT
WANTED:
Giggling woman
£21,000 pa
necessary skills:
ability to simper
ability to laugh non stop at nothing
experience with giggling, followed by flirty comment, then giggling again
unbearable. They also have to say stereotypical things about liking shoes and puppies in an entirely serious way. Educational!

gabrielle | 14 May '08, 19:08 | Send note | Report this | Reply

welcome

to every single peaktime radio show since about 2 years ago

And to be fair, men hardly get much more in the way of anti-stereotyping

douchebag | 14 May '08, 19:12 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Do you think there was a law put in

that there must be a 'positive female presence' in high rated shows....maybe getting men used to simpering women

gabrielle | 14 May '08, 19:14 | Send note | Report this | Reply

sadly enough

i think such giggling women are put in place because they represent a large portion of society, or a large portion of young-ish women listening to drivetime radio. They're an easily relatable figure,and are probably put in place to stop populist radio shows from becoming malecentric ladfests. Demographics and all that

douchebag | 14 May '08, 19:25 | Send note | Report this | Reply

I sometimes listen to this on my dog walks

I do have to say, I have giggled in the past.

Pigfoot_ | 14 May '08, 19:26 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Argh

there's really nothing worth giggling about. I had to switch the work radio to Virgin Radio. Virgin Radio! Where they don't even let women read the news (that's the Virgin Radio slogan).

I don't understand how Scott Mills got his job as a radio personality. I mean Jo Whiley drops names, Chris Moyles is an idiot and Edith Bowman likes films. But what does Scott Mills have? Naatheeng.

mug_mug_mug | 14 May '08, 19:29 | Send note | Report this | Reply

he's gay

douchebag | 14 May '08, 19:30 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Oh

Fair enough. I suppose he watches Eastenders too and talks about it at length, but he stole that from Sarah Cox.

mug_mug_mug | 14 May '08, 19:32 | Send note | Report this | Reply