[Yudster]

Polly Graham, who writes for the Daily Mail and is a miserable excuse for a journalist, came up with this last week. With hindsight it makes hilarious reading.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1159434/If-Cheryl-Cole-makes-Killer-manjaro-Ill-eat-Chris-Moyles-bush-hat-says-POLLY-GRAHAM.html

I hope someone draws Chris's attention to this, and I hope he responds to this self-satisfied, smug, condescending excuse for a journalist with every ounce of his ranting ability.

[MK Chris]

Was she not one of the first 3AM Girls for the Daily Mirror?

Yep - miserable excuse for a journalist sounds very accurate and I will enjoy reading that article later, based on the information I can get from the headline.

[in4308]

Looks like she is eating Chris' Hat then......

[TIAL]

That's brilliant!
Of course, she'll never address it again. The papers are so quick to pick up on other people's mistakes but happily ignore their own every day.

[Yudster]

I think its her tone that makes me most angry - if it weren't for these people that she writes about with such scorn, and appears to so thoroughly despise, she wouldn't have a job at all - how dare she be so contemptuous? She should be shamed into writing a complete and grovelling retraction. Bitch.

[Johnny 1989]

Was she not one of the first 3AM Girls for the Daily Mirror?

Yep - miserable excuse for a journalist sounds very accurate and I will enjoy reading that article later, based on the information I can get from the headline.

Yep she was one of the "Three Absolute Mingers"

[Travis Bickle]

The most frustrating thing I have read in this post is the comment "I just don't see why everyone else doesn't feel the same". The idiocy of this comment is so monumental that to rip up all the spurious assumptions that lie behind it would take all day. It pretty much removed any credibility which had been built up by the poster, who up until then had made some perfectly valid points.

You are right there. I have just been reading back this thread and I stand by my other comments, but I did let myself down with that one. The only excuse I have is that it was a Sunday night and intoxication got the better of me at that point!

I agree with a lot of your post, by the way. I do accept the point about the advantage of the publicity that climb gained being of significant importance.

Anyway, I dont have anything else to say other than to confirm that my statement in the quote was bloody stupid.

[Sunny So Cal]

"In fact, I'll eat Moyles' post-trip underpants - or at least his bush hat - if even half of them make it to the top on Sunday." Wow, Polly Grahm must feel like a complete tit. PLEASE, Chris, can you mail Ms. Graham your underpants? I realize they're 25 quid a piece but how great would it be? "Thanks for the kind words, love. As you requested, here are my post-trip underpants. Oddly enough, I found them more supportive than your article."

[in4308]

The only thing that stands out to me is Garys trainers....

[Yudster]

The quality of the photos from the whole trip has been outstanding. I think I may have said this before, but whatever camera they are using, I want one. And the things that stands out for me in that picture is how gorgeous they all look.

[in4308]

One of the photos the other day had saved the camera information within it. If i can find it again, i will post the camera model, etc on here for you.

[Andy B]

Maybe it's cos Chris is cut off but he still looks so much skinnier. Not in the face so much but his body looks slimmer.

[Andy B]

Maybe it's cos Chris is cut off but he still looks so much skinnier. Not in the face so much but his body looks slimmer.

[TIAL]

Not that I have any problem with it - but surely Gary would have been aware that there'd be some backlash from the press for hiring a private jet?

[MK Chris]

I don't see the problem if he and / or the other climbers pay for it out of their pockets. Obviously if they had taken away donation money for it (and I absolutely do not for a second believe that would have happened), then you could understand there being an issue.

[Yudster]

I thought Gary paid for it himself as a thank you?

[Andy B]

Hasn't BT covered the whole cost of the climb anyway? So it's up to BT how they get back.

[TIAL]

The only people it's going to rile are those who think it's 'hypocritical' to spend money that could have been given to charity when there was a plane ready to take them back anyway. Or that's what I've read elsewhere this morning.

I hate that whole argument though. If you adopt that frame of mind, where's the line drawn? I think they deserved it.

Anyone know if the 'non-celebrities' who were on the climb also went home on the jet?

[jocky85]

Exactly Tial - £1.5million and a week without washing, climbing 19,000ft and experiencing -15 degrees - would you really begrudge them a comfortable flight home?!

I wouldn't

[foot-loose]

Anyone know if the 'non-celebrities' who were on the climb also went home on the jet?

Good question.

They could probably fill a small jet with the number of people that seemed to be with them!

[in4308]

Radio 1 Total (9.30am) - £,1,404,243
Complete Total (9.30am) - £1,596,161

[Yudster]

Exactly Tial - £1.5million and a week without washing, climbing 19,000ft and experiencing -15 degrees - would you really begrudge them a comfortable flight home?!

I wouldn't

Apparently the flight home wasn't all that comfortable - they went to Nairobi from Kilimanjaro, and from there to Amsterdam on ordinary planes - the private jet was just from Amsterdam back to England.

[Boboff]

Come on guys, please all change your vote to "No"

It makes me smile, as I know I have!

[MK Chris]

Polly Graham, who writes for the Daily Mail and is a miserable excuse for a journalist, came up with this last week. With hindsight it makes hilarious reading.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1159434/If-Cheryl-Cole-makes-Killer-manjaro-Ill-eat-Chris-Moyles-bush-hat-says-POLLY-GRAHAM.html

I hope someone draws Chris's attention to this, and I hope he responds to this self-satisfied, smug, condescending excuse for a journalist with every ounce of his ranting ability.

Having now read that, I'm not sure I've ever come across a more self-centred piece of writing by a journalist. It absolutely screamed "look at how well I did, those people couldn't possibly do as well as ME".

I also found this comment funny:

What an extraordinary individual Polly Graham is! I enjoy her showbiz reports - and this was frankly thrilling! She's not overly-modest, but that's part of her charm! Well done Polly - Mt. Everest next for intrepid Ms.Graham!

It's why Daily Mail readers are funny (or would be if they weren't so scary).

[Ed Pummelon]

Just listening back to the show, and CM has come the closest I can remember to directly naming and shaming the Daily Mail, for buying papp photos instead of the official Getty Images ones, and therefore taking money away from Comic Relief, scum that they are.

Regarding this particular piece, he has directly called out the hack who wrote it. I nearly cheered out loud.