BBC TV "WDYTYA?" Series 8 Episode #2: Rupert Everett

[singingsusie]

What does Rupert Everett do, is he a celebrity of some sort?

[ankerdine]

"Navvy is a shorter form of navigator (UK) or navigational engineer (USA) and is particularly applied to describe the manual labourers working on major civil engineering projects. The term was coined in the late 18th century in Britain when numerous canals were being built, which were also sometimes known as "navigations", or "eternal navigations", intended to last forever. Canal navvies typically worked with shovels, pickaxes and barrows."
The afore-mentioned is the definition of "navvy" from Wikipedia.

I too had never heard of Rupert Everett.

Judy

[Plummiegirl]

Sadly, I too found this episode far from the entettaining episode I had expected..

Apart from not looking further into the Teague line, what happened to the wife in Hong Kong??

I think though that we all get too annoyed at the fact that the "celeb" turns up at archives to find the work has already been done for them.  As we all know this is a time consuming exercise and would not be good telly.  But would love for this to be explained at sometime during the programme.

I was also disappointed that we found out nothing regarding his "royal" lineage, albeit from the wrong side of the blanket.

The bit on the street with the ancestor of Rose Marie was uncomfortable only because the old gentleman probably had no idea who Rupert was, and did not understand his humour.

Love great aunt Marguerite though, especially the comment "do you bat for the other side?" so funny.

[RJ_Paton]

What does Rupert Everett do, is he a celebrity of some sort?

He is an actor once described as "The Gay Prince of Hollywood" -

http://www.starpulse.com/Actors/Everett,_Rupert/Biography/

[liscoole]

I found this one of the dullest episodes so far.  And somehow Rupert didnt "gel" with the screen- he didnt look comfortable with the whole thing at all.

The "cousin" he met looked horrified when he said "you owe me £1000",  it didnt sound like a joke at all to me!

His old aunt was the most entertaining part of the whole programme I think! She was a hoot! 

I hope next episode is better otherwise my love affair with WDYTYA may be at an end! 

[angelfish58]

I found this one of the dullest episodes so far. 
His old aunt was the most entertaining part of the whole programme I think! She was a hoot! 

I agree  , if this had been the first WDYTYA I'd ever watched I wouldn't bother watching anymore.

[mlrfn448]

personally, I found this episode extremely interesting.

So, Rupert was born with a silver spoon in his mouth, yet his grandfather spent the age from 3 to around 14 in a children's home for destitute boys.

His Grt Grandfather was a sailor who abandoned his family, married several times, and left his money to a female 'friend'.

Yet before that, his Grt Grt Grandfather was a stockbroker in Picadilly, who became bankrupt over what appears to be fraud.

So surely, we have a case of riches to rags and back to riches again!

I was inspired to do a bit of research on Georgina Teague myself, and found a few of the items mentioned in an earlier posting.

I thought it showed quite well, how our lives can be shaped by events in our ancestors' past, and how they can overcome misfortune.

Regards

[carol8353]

I hope next episode is better otherwise my love affair with WDYTYA may be at an end! 

The next episode is Dervla Kirwan- so should be good for those of us with Irish ancestors (or hubby's with them  )

Didn't like last night's episode,although it did(eventually) go back to showing us certs and covering a few generations,which is what the earlier progs did.

Carol

[BagpussBee]

I kind of enjoyed it but found Rupert to be a bit snobbish. I am not interested in the aristocracy stories coming as I do from a long line of ag labs!.... so wasn't too bothered about the program not including that but wasn't sure why he even met up with Rose Marie Bawtree's grandson, who'd never met Fred Everett, didn't know anything about him and I agree looked very uncomfortable about the whole thing.
Pointless!..

Great Aunt Marguerite was fab - I wonder if he's going to keep in touch with her?...!.. eh?...