not only is her real name Michaela Ewuraba Boakye-Collinson but professionally she is known as Michaela Coel which makes her name one additional letter and two letters transposed from the aforementioned Windsor booklicker turned Al Fayed spokesperson.
reinstate Michaela ( before booting her out on equalily spurious but factually correct grounds)
Assuming the Gareth Thomas who has been picked is not the one off Blakes 7,but the rugby one, then the fact that he is known for that sport means he has to go. Replaced with Arundhati Roy
Arundhati Roy
Erich Muehsam
Kate Humble
Devi Sridhar
Bob Ross
Hang on, I got taken off cos of the team I support, and Sporting has taken somebody off whilst generalising about their nationality. What are the rules around here?
I have to agree - you can’t be booting someone off because of an unfounded assumption.
I've no doubt Michaela Coel is a wonderful person, but Channel 4 showed the adverts for Chewing Gum for months, and by the end of it I was sick of the sight of her, so she's out.
Anyway, Bob Ross seemed a very agreeable guy but most of those paintings are pure 'happy amateur', chocolate-box dreck. The kind of thing that's hanging in the guest room when you're staying at your auntie's. (Not as bad as Nancy Kominsky, but come on...)
Swap with Rosa Parks. (Good luck with that one.)
Arundhati Roy
Erich Muehsam
Kate Humble
Devi Sridhar
Rosa Parks
Anyway, Bob Ross seemed a very agreeable guy but most of those paintings are pure 'happy amateur', chocolate-box dreck. The kind of thing that's hanging in the guest room when you're staying at your auntie's. (Not as bad as Nancy Kominsky, but come on...)
Had to Google Erich Muehsam (I've had to Google half the people on here, it's been a great learning experience if nothing else), and found out that he did cabaret. Cabaret. I hate the idea of it, it's worse than music hall. So he has to go. Replace with Sarah Michelle Geller, because I'm re-watching Buffy.
Arundhati Roy
Sarah Michelle Geller
Kate Humble
Devi Sridhar
Rosa Parks
Oh gawd, his stuff. With all these guys, there always seems to have to be this high-contrast, garish colour and a propensity of sky-action (sunsets, etc). And no real balance between the detail - trees, mountains, etc - and the way that the light should be working.
These kind of mass-production artworks seem generally to be bought by people with little appreciation of painting, but they like the view/the location/'sunsets'. And it hides a stain on the wall, or similar. (Superficially snobbish, perhaps, but undeniably accurate.)
Thomas Kinkade used to have a gallery on Chiswick High Road, usually with a single canvas in the window, spotlit and resting on black velvet. It was weird to think that people might be going in and paying big prices for his stuff. Still, he was less creepy than Jack Vettriano, so that's something.
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