Did anyone else watch that bag o’shite wimminz show The Pact on AlBeeb recently? If so you were no doubt as ungratified as I was to see this hatchet-jawed actress, sorry, ‘ac-tor’, in her customary role, playing ‘Hayley Cropper’. Again.
This dreadful old munter first washed up on Coronation St as ‘TVs first transgender star’ and I’d argue that you can trace the decline in that once-great / now seldom-watched show to that ridiculous storyline. Gone were the days of Minnie and Elsie sharing some humorous gossip over a half of stout in the Rovers; ushered in were ever more ridiculously woke, sensational but improbable storylines with one of those tedious “If you’ve been affected by” messages over the end credits.
But I digress. “Red Hayley” followed the usual deluded view of actors and felt it was her civic duty to loudly proclaim the wonders of Catweazle at the last General Election, no doubt from the safety of her 5-bed property in leafy Wilmslow. I knew there and then that would clinch a few thousand votes to the Tories.
Broadchurch, Happy Valley, Morse, there it still is. Same dodgy anorak; same crappy helmet hairstyle; same professional northerner dialect; it’s Hayley Cropper / Crapper all over again. There should be one of those aforementioned Warnings at the START of the show to alert us all to this old trout’s imminent appearance.
Nominated by: Isaac Hunt



