{"id":2301,"date":"2017-08-13T16:00:15","date_gmt":"2017-08-13T14:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/08\/13\/vanessa-feltz-i-thought-the-bbc-pay-story-was-purient-voyeuristic-and-gross\/"},"modified":"2017-08-13T16:00:15","modified_gmt":"2017-08-13T14:00:15","slug":"vanessa-feltz-i-thought-the-bbc-pay-story-was-purient-voyeuristic-and-gross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=2301","title":{"rendered":"Vanessa Feltz: &#039;I thought the BBC pay story was purient, voyeuristic and gross&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>She has achieved great highs and suffered great lows \u2013 the most recent an antisemitic slur \u2013 and through it all has kept talking, talking, talkingIt\u2019s 7.15am and Vanessa Feltz is talking. Of course she\u2019s talking. Feltz is always talking. She\u2019s on the radio, challenging the deputy leader of Southwark council, which has just announced it will \u201cdecant\u201d residents from its tower blocks because of the risk of a gas explosion. \u201cYou\u2019ve chosen a very odd verb here, haven\u2019t you? To decant residents. People know the word decant when it\u2019s appended to a decanter which normally has sherry or brandy in it. I don\u2019t understand the word decant as applied to human beings, and I don\u2019t think the human beings it refers to do either. They don\u2019t know if you\u2019re going to pour them all out at once as you would with a large tumbler of brandy or whether you\u2019re going to pour a drop into a shot glass \u2026\u201dIt\u2019s Feltz at her best \u2013 passionate, clever, combative. She makes her point effectively \u2013 the council needs to learn how to talk human. Which is something she has always done well. Feltz can talk for England on any subject \u2013 from the political to the poetic (she loves to fling a verse of Pope at us), the inane (nothing like a good debate about pantaloons), the domestic (marmalade and its many virtues), the daft\/offensive (are white girls more attractive than black girls or vice versa?) and the surreal (asking a bemused Madonna whether, like Feltz, she had struggled with breastfeeding and stopped strangers in the street to see if they would help her baby latch on to the nipple). Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/2017\/aug\/13\/vanessa-feltz-interview-bbc-pay-prurient-voyeuristic-gross\" target=\"_blank\">Vanessa Feltz: &#039;I thought the BBC pay story was purient, voyeuristic and gross&#039;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She has achieved great highs and suffered great lows \u2013 the most recent an antisemitic slur \u2013 and through it all has kept talking, talking, talkingIt\u2019s 7.15am and Vanessa Feltz is talking. Of course she\u2019s talking. Feltz is always talking. She\u2019s on the radio, challenging the deputy leader of Southwark [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}