Well, some might. It`s reported today that Christine Bleakley is being offered £2million to stay with the BBC for the next two years, thereby sparking off a bidding war with ITV, who also want the services of Ms. Bleakley to team up again with the implausible Adrian Chiles. Allegedly.

Now, Ms. Bleakley may be a perfectly pleasant young lady, but her rise to so-called `stardom` seems to be based mainly on her extraordinary teeth and her current dalliance with Frankie Lamps, the Chelsea and England midfielder. What I can`t understand is why an annoyingly squeaky voiced talent-challenged Irish tv `presenter` can possibly be worth at least £2million over two years. If the deal with the BBC is sealed then, once again, it will be the licence-payers who fork out the cash for yet another misguided decision by the BBC bigwigs, who even in these apparently austere times seem to possess a strange idea of value for money. And also it seems, a bizarre grasp of `talent,` for they have in mind getting Ms. Bleakley to be `the face of the corporation`s 2012 Olympics coverage.` I sense trouble.

No offence, but we seem to have too many ear-grating annoying Irish presenters on BBC radio and tv these days; it`s reached the stage whereby we could do with sub-titles on Radio 5 Live. I`m all for regional accents, but some of them, like Northern Irish, Brummie, Scouse and Geordie might be better off being confined to the regions where they can at least be faintly understood. Rant over. For today.