I’m backing Kaye all the way.. until she gets voted off this weekend
AS A firm believer in the old adage, “if you can’t take it, don’t dish it out”, I never get too upset when folk take a pop at yours truly.
Just as well, I suppose, as they take so many pops I sometimes feel like a big, fat roll of bubblewrap.
Oh yes, dear reader, if I had a pound for every time I’ve heard someone insisting I’ve got the perfect face for radio, well, I’d be able to fill my car with diesel and pay a portion of next month’s gas bill.
On second thoughts, I’d probably just fork out on plastic surgery for that big Halloween cake coupon at the top of the page. I hate it, though, when they have a dig at my friends or work colleagues.
Like, for example, Strictly star Kaye Adams.
When my BBC Scotland chum performed her first dance on the show last weekend, I got an email from an Off The Ball listener who said: “Tam, if you’ve got the perfect face for radio, I think it’s fair to say Kaye’s got the perfect FEET for radio…”
And I can assure you I didn’t laugh. No way. Not at all. As if.
Sure, Kaye’s the second worst dancer I’ve ever seen (remember Theresa May at the Tory party conference?) and, if she went to the discos in her home town of Grangemouth back in the day, a fiver says the handbags danced around HER.
Let’s be brutally honest, even Holly and Phil wouldn’t jump a queue to watch her in action.
But listen – she’s a pal, a colleague and I’ll be cheering for her all the way on Strictly until she gets voted off this weekend.
A word of support, too, for another Radio Scotland chum, Connie McLaughlin, who stood in for Kaye last week on the morning phone-in show.
Just before I switched over to Ken Bruce (well, you cannae miss Pop Master), the topic was Tourette’s Syndrome and Connie, presumably
Phil and Holly wouldn’t even jump a queue to watch our Kaye
hoping to be awarded the George Cross for bravery, spoke down the line – LIVE – to someone with the condition.
Take it I don’t need to tell you what happened next?
Let’s just say I thought the poor lassie – due to give birth next January – was about to go into early labour…
(For the first seven years of my marriage, I thought my wife had Tourette’s. Nope, turns out I AM a **** .)
Meanwhile, I’ve zero sympathy for yet another BBC mucker – top current affairs presenter Martin Geissler.
He let rip on Twitter this week after reporting on the Labour Party conference from a horse-box. Yes, look at the pics… a HORSE-BOX! Calm doon, mate. If it was good enough for Eddie “Mare”… I also wish Mark Lawrenson would zip it. The former Match of the Day pundit has blasted the “woke” BBC for dumping him because he’s “65 and a white male”.
Oh please! Can I remind you that Stuart Cosgrove’s 93?
Joking aside, what age is Sir David Attenborough? When the dinosaurs were wiped out, I bet he was looking for an alibi.
Finally, folks, a mention for one other (part-time) BBC pal.
Scotland goalkeeper Craig Gordon – a hero once again on Tuesday night – often pops into the studios for a shift on Sportscene and I’d like to