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I never liked monty don anyway but has anyone else thought thast it is now an old fashioned rich mans garden progrramme with out of touch posh presenters [ except carol who couldn't be posh in a month of sundays] who know it all and expect gardeners to know it all also?

Big Al wrote:I never liked monty don anyway but has anyone else thought thast it is now an old fashioned rich mans garden progrramme with out of touch posh presenters [ except carol who couldn't be posh in a month of sundays] who know it all and expect gardeners to know it all also?

I like Monty, he is not just a posh bloke, he is more complex than that having been a drug addict. But yes this series is in danger of becoming out of touch, such a shame because I think Monty can connect with people and transmit a real love and enthusiasm for gardening.

Joe Swift ain't posh!

Millymollymandy wrote:Joe Swift ain't posh!

But does he know anything much about gardening

Seems to know his stuff, after all he's been a co-presenter on GW for years and years! Wasn't he originally a designer though?

Yes, he and his wife, Sarah, had a jewellery business which went a... over t... in the 80s. I like him, not as much as I liked Geoff Hamilton, who I would have willingly slept with - but I like his approach and he seems a genuine bloke. I just bought his book The Jewel Garden in a charity shop when I was back in the UK before Easter. I have another of their books, written with his wife, Fork to Fork, which is growing and cooking what they've grown.

Millymollymandy wrote:Joe Swift ain't posh!

He's a tit all the same..........

And my babe was extremely sexy which trumps very, very, very sexy...!

Did you know that Joe Swift's mother is Margaret Drabble the author?

And his Dad is Clive Swift that well known actor,who spends most of his life on the wing.

oldjerry wrote:And his Dad is Clive Swift that well known actor,who spends most of his life on the wing.

Hadn't realised that, yet when you look at him it's so obvious!

O - I didn't know that either. I've just googled Clive Swift and yes, you can certainly see the likeness.

OMG - ditto!

Actually Monty Don wasn't a drug addict (as someone stated previously), but he did do a project with offenders and drug addicts - it was a telly series and later a book. I think he suffers with depression though.