On 2007-07-30 08:38:37 +0100, TomTom  said:

> On 2007-07-29 16:30:21 +0100, "Stevo"  said:
> 
>> Mushroom wrote:
>>> Mick Tully wrote:
>>>> An intellectual featherweight with no authority whatsoever.
>>>> 
>>>> Utterly pointless.
>>> 
>>> Yet she has taken over from Eammon Holmes and the quality of the show
>>> has gone up 200%. Now...if you wanted to identify an intellectual
>>> lightweight them the rotund Irishman is your template. He was SO shit,
>>> it was unbelievable...f*cking "man U", "Man U" every other sentence.
>> 
>> He does the same on Sky News in the mornings. Which is why I now watch 
>> BBC News 24 before going to work.
> 
> At the moment he is nearly ruining This Morning on ITV but, thankfully, 
> his wife saves a disaster. Even the messages on Teletext page 143 are 
> complaining about how bored he looks. Last Wednesday, he was on Sky 
> News, This Morning and the BBC's Lottery Jet Set in the evening.

It's wosrse than I thought! From digitalspy.com

BBC pays £3K per week for Holmes' flights
Saturday, August 4 2007, 15:44 BST
By Daniel Kilkelly

BBC bosses are paying £3,000 every week to allow Eamonn Holmes to fly 
to the National Lottery Jet Set studio in Scotland.

The host fronts programmes for Sky and ITV in London every morning, 
which means that he must fly to Glasgow on a private jet to be able to 
arrive at the BBC Scotland studios in time for broadcast on Wednesdays.

A source told The Sun: "He could take a scheduled flight but they can 
be unreliable. So Eamonn arranges his own transport."

A spokesman for the BBC confirmed: "Eamonn is paid a fee for appearing 
on the show and that takes into account any transport costs he may 
incur."

On 2007-08-04 19:12:26 +0100, TomTom  said:

> On 2007-07-30 08:38:37 +0100, TomTom  said:
> 
>> On 2007-07-29 16:30:21 +0100, "Stevo"  said:
>> 
>>> Mushroom wrote:
>>>> Mick Tully wrote:
>>>>> An intellectual featherweight with no authority whatsoever.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Utterly pointless.
>>>> 
>>>> Yet she has taken over from Eammon Holmes and the quality of the show
>>>> has gone up 200%. Now...if you wanted to identify an intellectual
>>>> lightweight them the rotund Irishman is your template. He was SO shit,
>>>> it was unbelievable...f*cking "man U", "Man U" every other sentence.
>>> 
>>> He does the same on Sky News in the mornings. Which is why I now watch 
>>> BBC News 24 before going to work.
>> 
>> At the moment he is nearly ruining This Morning on ITV but, thankfully, 
>> his wife saves a disaster. Even the messages on Teletext page 143 are 
>> complaining about how bored he looks. Last Wednesday, he was on Sky 
>> News, This Morning and the BBC's Lottery Jet Set in the evening.
> 
> It's wosrse than I thought! From digitalspy.com
> 
> BBC pays £3K per week for Holmes' flights
> Saturday, August 4 2007, 15:44 BST
> By Daniel Kilkelly
> 
> BBC bosses are paying £3,000 every week to allow Eamonn Holmes to fly 
> to the National Lottery Jet Set studio in Scotland.
> 
> The host fronts programmes for Sky and ITV in London every morning, 
> which means that he must fly to Glasgow on a private jet to be able to 
> arrive at the BBC Scotland studios in time for broadcast on Wednesdays.
> 
> A source told The Sun: "He could take a scheduled flight but they can 
> be unreliable. So Eamonn arranges his own transport."
> 
> A spokesman for the BBC confirmed: "Eamonn is paid a fee for appearing 
> on the show and that takes into account any transport costs he may 
> incur."

Good grief!  He  was standing in for Alad Jones at 7am this morning on Radio 2.