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[edit] Discussion

This article was proposed for deletion January 2005. The discussion is archived at Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Giles Coren. Joyous 17:47, Feb 5, 2005 (UTC)

I read a couple of news articles about Coren winning the Bad Sex award; I hadn't heard of him before. Basically, from the quotation that he used, I figured he had to be the worst writer of all time, or someone with a profoundly weird sense of humor. I visited this article to try to find out more, but I can't find anything to answer my question: was his book ACTUALLY bad, or INTENTIONALLY bad? This makes a big difference in the conception of the author (the difference between being a hack and being a witty humorist and cunning linguist), so IMO some examples, or at least descriptions, of his fiction writing should be provided. --IQpierce 9:19 CST, Dec 3, 2005

Just FYI - I believe the Bad Sex award is usually bestowed on books that are otherwise of fairly solid literary quality, but have awkward/bizarre/horrible descriptions of sex. It's not a literary equivalent to the Razzies. NickBurns 16:59, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] From the article

Removed from the article and copied here for reference, comments purporting to be from the subject himself: Badgerpatrol 03:49, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

"i just want to say that i never said anything of the sort about the fat duck or heston blumenthal, and have never heard of sporty thievz. do you think you could rub that stuff out? ta, giles and i have no idea what that `evil child' thing is about. i've never tried to kill a cat. nor has my old man written that i have. and the film programme is called 'movie lounge' not Film Review. and it's finished. and it's Gideon Garter not Carter. and i stopped doing that last year."

[edit] hes an idiot

on animal farm on channel 4, why is he so irrational!!! i think thats why some one put up a psyduck picture of him

haha, I don't think we're here to discuss if he's an idiot or not, I hold pretty similar views to him of that soft of genetic engineering, but this edit was pretty funny. I do love some of wikipedias 'vandals', it's good to see a sense of humour around here. Neverender 899 22:04, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] UK's Most Hated Man???

I can't find any reference to there being such a poll. In any case it needs references if it is true. Segat1 14:08, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Haha, you seriously don't believe that do you? Haha! beats tony blair by 11 thousand votes.. lulz. removed this two lines

  • He was voted "The UK's Most Hated Man" in both 2006 and 2007, beating out Tony Blair by 11,000 votes and being the only man to 'win' in two consecutive years.
  • He probably wrote this

still hilarious. Keep vandalising please! Neverender 899 20:23, 2 April 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Prose vs Bullet points

I have done my utmost to de-shoddify poor old Giles' page, but I have to say it was clearly much better in continuous prose, which was how I originally wrote it. It looks like a shopping list now. In fact, I found this so annoying I may have been forced to make some stuff up. Is there any way the old page can be resurrected, and the new info added in? Cheers. Erich von falkenhayn 12:59, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] moving a note from an anon......

here's a note that was on the article page;

giles coren here. listen, i don't want to sign up and have no idea how one goes about changing entries. but there's so much wrong stuff here, and it keeps appearing in pieces about me in the papers by lazy arse teenage work exp hacks who think everything on here is true. i've never written comedy for radio ro anything else, never met punt and dennis or guy debord. i've never acted in anything and wasn;t in this cushing film. i've never heard of paul london or eaten or reviewed his tacos. i'm not a fan of harrogate town. didn't even know they had a football team. it's not like it's important, but you might as well change it if you can. it's flattering in a way that some loon keeps putting wrong things up about me.


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...i'll make the changes mentioned above pending sourcing.... Purples 11:12, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] He's not gay

Guys, there is no evidence that he is gay - i can't find that article anywhere where he allegedly says it and there is no other online evidence. In fact, if you read his articles they really come across as not gay since he uses the term gay pejoratively all the time AND and in at least one he referred to a girlfriend, and in another that he wasn't gay:

girlfriend reference [last july]: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/giles_coren/article2072582.ece

not gay reference: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,1147-2306867,00.html

89.100.205.6 (talk) 15:29, 7 February 2008 (UTC) bren

My mistake - of course he cannot be gay - funny that him and his boyfriend snogging the face off each other in Vikkage Bar last week and signing autographs - yeah funny that (213.205.194.12 (talk) 23:56, 15 March 2008 (UTC))

yeah, that's hilarious. yawn. evidence needed, you know the rules blahblax (talk) 18:09, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

fact remains the link was there for his article where he mentions it but it was continually removed so find it strange when someone asks for evidence/link then when there is one it gets removed duh! yawn indeed - suggests sleep?(212.22.3.8 (talk) 12:58, 3 April 2008 (UTC))

the only link that was on it was to his column and section in The Times. Nowhere here did it say he was gay - show us any link or evidence and it'll go back in!!! YOU added in stuff about him seeing Lee Dennison, a casting agent seemingly. You have added this onto about six different profiles and I pointed out all six on your talk page. Either you know this Lee Dennison or you are Lee Dennison. Either way you live in a fantasy land. blahblax (talk) 23:30, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Married to Sue Perkins?

I think not.

Matthew, London E6

It seems very unlikely: while Google brings up lots of joint references to the two because of TV programmes they've hosted together, there's nothing to suggest they're married. And the Wikipedia page on [[Sue Perkins] says she's a lesbian. So I've reverted the edit. Barnabypage (talk) 17:54, 4 June 2008 (UTC)