I know about his Dad yeah, strange that you like Norton as well. I'd put them very much in the same catagory!
Not suprised EfE likes him
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I know about his Dad yeah, strange that you like Norton as well. I'd put them very much in the same catagory!
Not suprised EfE likes him
Easy 10
Brain dead MUG SHEEP
Matt Dawson
I don't mind him being on the tv shows on BBC (though whoever got him and Tuffers on QoS should be shot, surely nobody can put up with those two for half an hour) as I can avoid them but who came up with the idea to give him a cooking show on UKFood? I love cooking shows and especially those about fish so am always drawn to his show in full knowledge that I'm going to be pissed off by the smug **** and his massive ears, and that ain't right. His personality is enough to make one want to punch him straight between the eyes but add that face to it and it amkes me want to straight up KILL him.
Prick
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Matt Dawson has much bigger fish to fry
Giles Smith, Sport on Television
People scoffed in 2004, when Matt Dawson made his media ambitions plain by skipping an England rugby union get-together to honour a commitment to A Question of Sport. Four years on, though, with a Celebrity MasterChef title in the bag and with a creditable silver-medal finish in the fourth series of Strictly Come Dancing behind him, the only person scoffing is Dawson. And what he is scoffing is freshly caught and simply prepared seafood on Mitch and Matt's Big Fish.
The plan is for the former scrum half to tour Britain in a battered camper van, yank a few fish out of the water and prepare the catch for our delectation - all in the company of Mitch Tonks, a television chef specialising in seafood, who must regret living in the era of Rick Stein almost as much as Dawson must regret having danced in the age of Mark Ramprakash. In the course of the first episode alone, all manner of scenes arose that would have been hard to foresee while Dawson was on the books at Northampton. For example, the records are frustratingly incomplete, but surely this would have to be one of the only times a member of the England World Cup-winning squad of 2003 has been seen on the UKTV Food channel, sexing crabs (apparently, your “cock” crab has an altogether different flavour from your female).
The point of Mitch and Matt's Big Fish, as far as one can tell, is for Mitch and Matt to run up a rough-and-ready guide to the richness and potential appeal of the nation's indigenous seafood while calling each other “mate” as often as possible. They visit the quayside fish market in Brixham, Devon. (Mitch: “It's a pretty rock'n'roll environment, mate.”) They haul lobster pots out of Dartmouth Harbour. (Matt: “I'm chuffed to bits with that, mate.”) Then they get together round the cooker and make a simple, home-made hollandaise sauce. (Mitch: “I think we'd call that 'd' for done, wouldn't we?” Matt: “Good man. Cheers, fella.”)
There's a scene in the film Planes, Trains and Automobiles in which Steve Martin and John Candy become sleepily entwined with one another while sharing a motel room - only, upon waking, to explode out of bed and start talking randomly about football to convince each other of their unswerving heterosexuality. For some reason, the scene comes to mind a lot during Big Fish, while Mitch and Matt are bullishly shouting “mate” at each other while fussing over a teriyaki marinade. (Matt: “Like a bit of Asian fusion, me, mate. Not scared of that.”)
The banter and the bluffness would be easier to enjoy if they weren't so disingenuous. Dawson has proper culinary credentials. His Celebrity MasterChef victory, in 2006, was no flash in a non-stick pan. Indeed, the rugby man's thyme-roasted duck leg with sticky-onion marmalade remains a monument of the celebrity-challenge era and his crispy-skinned chicken breasts with garlic mashed potato and truffle cabbage are still fondly remembered wherever people gather to talk about food-related achievements by retired sportspeople in the televised context.
By those mighty standards, Mitch and Matt's Big Fish could be thought to represent a bit of a climbdown for Dawson - both in its execution and profile. (UKTV Food lies somewhere between Living and the off button.) But it's all television, one realises, and that's the main thing.
Perry Milkins
Just a quiet guy.
I know about his Dad yeah, strange that you like Norton as well. I'd put them very much in the same catagory!
Not suprised EfE likes him
Ermm
I thought I had said that I did not like Norton?
Mendoza
NSC's Most Stalked
Rav Wilding winds me up on TV too, all he does is stand on many TV shows, not saying much apart from how fit he is, whilst women tell him how amazing he is
Just stick to crimewatch!!
Just stick to crimewatch!!
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Yeah but have you seen him on the telebox? He's like a big cuddly indian robot.
Ermm
I thought I had said that I did not like Norton?
... right. and I said they are both similar so why like one and not the other? They are both talentless 'ohh look at me I'm outrageous and gay!' unfunny tossers.
Tooting Gull
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- Jul 5, 2003
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I could write pages on this.
But just on the Dawson-bashing for a moment my only two bits of remotely 'inside knowledge' of the bloke totally support the views expressed about him. On a golf charity day he f***ed off as soon as he knew he hadn't won (almost immediately), and I was told by a very reliable source that he had to have all his 'jokes' scripted on Question of Sport because he just wasn't funny (unlike Parrott and McCoist).
And for now we'll go with the ever-growing number of, well, just piss-average football pundits. Time was when to get on TV as an ex-pro you had to be football's equivalent of Stephen Hawking, with the PR and presentational skills of Max Clifford. Now, you just have to have, err, played, and on that basis can come up with any witless garbage and have all the producers swoon. Roy Keane had a rant about this in the week, and he was spot on. As usual.
But just on the Dawson-bashing for a moment my only two bits of remotely 'inside knowledge' of the bloke totally support the views expressed about him. On a golf charity day he f***ed off as soon as he knew he hadn't won (almost immediately), and I was told by a very reliable source that he had to have all his 'jokes' scripted on Question of Sport because he just wasn't funny (unlike Parrott and McCoist).
And for now we'll go with the ever-growing number of, well, just piss-average football pundits. Time was when to get on TV as an ex-pro you had to be football's equivalent of Stephen Hawking, with the PR and presentational skills of Max Clifford. Now, you just have to have, err, played, and on that basis can come up with any witless garbage and have all the producers swoon. Roy Keane had a rant about this in the week, and he was spot on. As usual.
timco
Well-known member
Jonathon Ross
Not on at the moment and its still too much
Not on at the moment and its still too much
Alan Carr, Graham Norton
Unfunny pricks the pair of them.
Unfunny pricks the pair of them.
