Petition to get Lesley Garrett deported

bartman100

Anyone fancy starting a petition? Surely we can get the 100k signatures required. Not really bothered where she gets sent.

Gladiator

Im in!

What a bint she was over-milking the national anthem and then prancing about for 5 minutes too long in a ridiculously huge Union Jack skirt to cover her fat arse. They practically had to drag her ego-driven frame off the podium, as she waved and smiled at anyone with a camera.

No darlin, we werent interested in a Z-list celeb luvvie for once, trying to hog the limelight, we had proper worthwile people to support.

Deporting her is a waste of money. There must be some ex Royal Marine snipers knocking about twiddling their thumbs?

RichN95.

She's OK. She was just the wrong person for that job.
Some bloke with the anthem on an i-pod and a cable was the right person for the job.

graniteway

Who the hell invited her anyway???
She absolutely spoiled the end of my TDF
As for the dress............WTF

homies35

In xfactor style its a no from me utter shite thought a cat was being strangled..

bartman100

RichN95 wrote:

She was just the wrong person for that job.

Understatement! Ok, fair dos, whoever booked her then, because it was a proper horror show at what should have been a moment of unadulterated celebration.

luckao

Katherine Jenkins must have been busy.

I was trying to see if there was a reaction from Nibali that might suggest he thought Pavarotti was spinning in his grave.

pb21

Kind of funny with hindsight!

onlyonearrow

pb21 wrote:

Kind of funny with hindsight!

No, just embarrassing. It was dreadful.
I'd feel sorry for whatever country she was deported to.

Gazzetta67

Why on earth did they just not play a CD - The french,spanish,italians have great anthems and we have that dirge......no wonder Billy Connolly once said they're playing our anthem and our athletes are getting lapped its that slow.

pottssteve

FFS don't send her over here.

OffTheBackAdam

Wiggo was well impressed by her!

Possibly an African potentate is looking for a trophy wife?

ddraver

I reckon Wiggo won over any remaining fans with his reaction to that - that photo aside his expression throughout the whole thing was priceless!

onlyonearrow

She's probably scuppered any chance of bringing the tour to Yorkshire in 2016.
Luckily it doesn't seem to have caused a diplomatic incident. :oops:

deejay

Gazzetta67 wrote:

The french,spanish,italians have great anthems and we have that dirge......no wonder Billy Connolly once said they're playing our anthem and our athletes are getting lapped its that slow.

Anybody worked in Germany and been out for a drink with the lads.
They sing to that tune with their own words (and I thought they were taking the piddle out of me) which means it's time to get the next round in, as they nominate the next guy to pay.
They wouldn't nominate me as a guest.
A couple of times later I did get to stand a round or two.

rodgers73

Good review/summary of her "talents" here -

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/9420 ... emony.html

Jambes de Fer

rodgers73 wrote:

Good review/summary of her "talents" here -

Nice, what's irritating is that there are plenty of really top-class British classical singers. Still, doing it a cappella was a terrible decision; It's such a god awful tune it needs backing to give it any kind of oomph.

Some bloke with the anthem on an i-pod and a cable was the right person for the job.

This. Or Paul Weller + band.

Le Commentateur

At least they had the right anthem this time. Who was it that had their moment of podium glory tarnished when the wrong track on ASO's national anthems CD got played?

seanoconn

A perfect day almost spoilt by Garrett murdering the worst national anthem in history.

nweststeyn

I think this was a clever ploy by the race organisers to take the shine off Wiggins win After all, he kept saying for 2 weeks that the show wasn't over til the fat lady sings!

Courage Monsieur

It was f--king awful.

My work paid her to do an after-dinner gig once. That was utter sh-te too. Not cheap either.

dave_1

just watched it. Horrendous tune, sung as badly. Wiggins doesn't look happy listen to it. It's comedy almost it was so bad.

Le Commentateur

I'm sure the French loved it.

jedster

My wife nailed it "I think that's treason isn't it?"

Pross

Seems it's not just cycling fans that have this opinion http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/9420290/Lesley-Garretts-ghastly-rendition-of-the-National-Anthem-at-Tour-de-France-ceremony.html

At least that bloke also realises that Katherine Jenkins is just as bad (vocally - obviously she is a cracker in the looks department). To be fair though, even Maria Callas would have a problem making the dirge that is our National Anthem sound respectable.

It's a pet hate of mine at rugby these days when they get someone in to sing the Welsh anthem, we don't need it as the crowd does a far better job with just a band to accompany them and all these singers like to show off my going high at the end when that isn't what the actual tune does!

rick_chasey

I like the idea of it though.

I mean, the TdF obviously put in a bit of effort to celebrate the first British victory.

crescent

All the times Bradley Wiggins must have imagined himself standing on the podium as the winner of the TdF, I bet none of those dreams featured her singing. Utterly dreadful.
I do agree that it was a nice gesture by the French organisers to do something special but they could have had the Grenadier Guards band on stage - it would have been more of a rousing rendition and they would have taken up less floor space than her dress.

Cheers