BBC TV "WDYTYA?" Series 5 Episode #2: Boris Johnson

[LizzieW]

Blonde hair, jewish ancestors?

Back to my original posting where I said my eldest son is as blond as Boris, whereas the ancestors are Spanish/Portuguese.  Although I haven't found the link yet, these ancestors were very probably Jewish as my dad's brothers definitely looked Jewish and my mum said that at her wedding, someone asked her mother if she was marrying into a Jewish family.

I still think genes are very funny things.

Lizzie

[Nick29]

I hate the fact that Boris is mayor of london.............

Why all the anti-Boris stuff ?   Given the choice of spending the day with either Boris or his predecessor to the job, I know which one I'd prefer to spend a day with.   Ken's droning would drive me mad in 10 minutes.  Funny how people call Boris with his Oxford degree a twit, yet seem to think that someone who left school with 3 O-Levels and the gift of the gab is somehow better.  Probably the same people who think Sir Alan Sugar is a genius too ?    Give me eccentric Boris every time.

[avm228]

Oh, no!  What's the world coming to?  I'm an apologist for Boris Johnson! 

LOL

Perhaps I was being a bit harsh.  I thought he came across as likeable overall - and a quite remarkable story.


Anna

[Emjaybee]

We are at the mercy of the programme makers, who will show us the story as they imagined it before they started.

Having been asked by a TV film crew to turn the pages of a diary at 4 or 5 different speeds, one wonders what the "directors cut" would disclose.

Good on ya Boris, an entertaining hour. Hey, what what, dont ya know old chap.


Mike
A mere commoner with a criminal for a gt gt grandad.

[Margarett]

I thought this was a great programme. As for the family history, well, you couldn't make it up could you?
Boris came over as a lovely, intellectual man who was having a whale of a time discovering his ancestry. I really enjoyed it.
Margaret

[brushbroomstick]

Well I think he is an extremely funny and well educated man. Did you notice how he read the documents in French and German. How many of us could do that?
I thoroughly enjoyed the programme - one of the best i have watched. Good for you Boris!

[Congenic]

I thouroughly enjoyed the programme. Have to agree it was one of the best. Its not everyday you're told an ancestor of yours was beaten and hung or that you are related to Royalty. I felt  he handled himself well and proved to be as human as the next person. Personally I thought him to be very funny.

[Abiam2]

I thought this was certainly one of the best!  In fact if the rest carry on like this it will be the best series.

I thought Boris was great and came over as I thought he would - a bit of a buffoon but with humour and a serious side to him.

And as someone else remarked he is far superior to his predecessor in every possible way and obviously with a wonderful education.  And it was an interesting look into a Family History of someone with such variations,

Abiam

[Rena]

I was mildly interested but just couldn't become emotionally or even intellectually involved in it. I suspect that if I was in the same room as the man for more than 5 minutes I'd probably want to shoot him! He also has remarkably cold eyes under all that 'cripes' and 'tosh' public schoolboy patter ....  (oops, I think that's my ag lab origins showing through). 

It was a Turkish history lesson followed by a jaunt around parts of old Germany but I found my attention wandering. It's probably because there wasn't one iota of relevance to my humble origins in this country (nor, I suspect, the vast majority of us).

Who's next? Someone a bit more down to earth, I hope.

Jill

Oops, I think that's your inverted snobbery showing through 

Rena