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  • If anyone deserved to be treated with contempt and condescension, it's that shrill voiced bigot.

  • OH dear, this is going to be torture to watch... :S

  • What a great exchange. I loled at the end.

  • Anne Widdecombe 1 - Louis Theroux 0.

  • he's an impolite asshole. she should've kicked him out. he treats all his subjects with such contempt and condescention i'm amazed no one is calling him out on it. louis theroux is britain's michael moore.

  • Good for Anne, she handled Louis brilliantly!!

  • hahahahahahahahahahahahahhaha

  • Anne Widdecombe owns sabres? I don't like this one bit.

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  • i had sex with ann witticomb

    her cat was watching the whole time...

  • I find it so ironic that she is this pretentious and snobby, while she really belongs with the lowly of our species due to being an over zealous moron. It just exhibits how warped our society's class system is.

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  • She kinda looks like Trollface without the grinning.

  • I thought he was going too far here.... that's just cruel... he's a virile young man taunting an old single woman about her lack of attractiveness/ ability to get a man. Louis has dropped a bit in my estimation here. He pretends to be a moral compass on some of his shows - yet I just see obtrusion here - whether you like Ann Widdecombe or not.

  • @SuGaRuSh14 I dont think he was asking those questions to be cruel, those things are just some of what she is famous for, Louis was just trying the opinion straight from the source.

  • Mr Pugwash my unused pussy. ;)

  • It's Mr Pugwash...my black cat..

    cough.

  • @yenamarre100 im afraid you may need glasses.

  • Bloody norks on that!

    Anne Widecombe is a legend.

  • @codownni Oh for God's sake. Can you imagine what she must look like naked (in fact I don't want to think about it, so why am I writing?)

  • bitch needs some dick

  • @zunjofik123 Shes no longer a virgin, shagged her last week.

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  • @izzih1234 Did she come to visit your school or something? Did you do it behind the bike sheds?

  • @graemeoliver84 She didnt come and visit school, that would have been alittle bit risky. I invited her round my house. The sex was Amazing!! : P

  • Damn Louis is bangable.

  • That's one insecure human being.

  • the picture of her young looks alright and if she'd then had a softer, more likable personality and took better care of herself then i'm sure somebody out there would have married her...really it's her own fault why men are repulsed by her

  • Louis isn't rude, it's just Gonzo journalism.

  • Love Anne Widdy,she's so straight.

  • Say what you want you good for nothing assholes but Ann Widdecomb is the most honest and hardest working person you could meet.

  • @madmarcus1 she was also prudish, misinformed, out of touch, biased, agenda-pushing and ill-suited for politics...

  • @moralreef the qualities you just mentioned are exactly what make her suited for politics!

  • @SweetMintPie555 dohohohoho!

  • i like louis but hes too rude sometimes

  • She is right, he is so rude to ask that question. What a prick

  • great! definitely let me know when you find them i'd be keen to check them out! thanks!

  • @TheMightyHartley hmm BBC world service 'sounds' better than USA mainstream media, but research institutions like Glasgow Media Group have shown that its performance really isn't any better - and don't forget USA has numerous high profile independent media programmes like Democracy Now!, The Real News Network etc. and UK has virtually none (I guess there's Media Lens..any others?)

  • @chalkstuff didnt glasgow media group do its bbc studies in the 70s? thats almost 40 years ago. regardless, BBC is a remarkably open organisation that publishes data openly and does listen to criticisms about broadcasting. its the defacto world news standard for a good reason.

  • @moralreef Thanks for the feedback! No, they started in the 70s (and yes immediately identified BBC biases) and today still publish research on BBC media bias - check out their website’s 'books' section, it's very interesting! Others are also very critical of BBC output like Medialens ('Newspeak In The 21st Century') - just curious, why do you say BBC is remarkably open? (any evidence)? why do you say that BBC responds to criticism (what about research-based crit from Glasgow Media Group)?

  • @chalkstuff good point, i did have some information access auditing links but i can't find it any more. to be continued...

  • Ann Widdecombe is a bigoted old bat.

  • Her smerks and offensivenes is anoying.

  • louis theroux is one of few journalists who have developed in themselves to produce fasinating documentories. His lastest ones are brilliant, he has the ability to be almost inpartical yet be bias and not offend the person, he also presents the arguement insuch a way that the audience questions itself, not being told to think this and that! Go louis!

  • louis is awesome, he finds the weirdest people and pokes them with a stick

  • anne widdecombe is quite clearly a self hating closeted lesbian. which would explain why she hides behind catholisism to justify her intolerance born out of her own insecurities. just come out anne, you will feel better.

  • @ec123456789able, is this the kind of trash that passes for news in Britain? The BBS journalist or documentarian or whatever the hell that asshole guy is was extremely rude to this woman. Who can take this seriously? This would never pass for legitimate news in the US. Why would Ann Widdecome agree to let this shithole Louis into her home?

  • @sndblstr, I mean BBC. I was just thinking the work of Louis what's his name was total BS, so I thought it must be the BBS.

  • @sndblstr Louis Theroux isn't a news presenter and this is not on a news show, so we are under no illusion that this is news. Ann Widdicombe is a big girl, she can handle the abuse she takes and in most other shows I've seen her in, she gives as good (if not more) as she gets.  He does documentaries on the lives of people who may have different from average views on the world, and it has a sort of British humor thrown in. For example he's met survivalists, white supremacists, even spent some...

  • @sndblstr The BBC is generally regarded worldwide as the best and most dignified news organisation. News reporting in the USA is largely tacky and very sensationalist (and I've seen enough of it to make a valued judgement). This is a light-hearted documentary series; Louis and his subjects know what they're getting into. This has nothing to do with the BBC World Service, for example, which is valued internationally as one of the best.

  • Anne is one in a million - a very sincere and really quite inspiring woman.

  • anne widdecombe is a horrible woman. this is a woman who campaigned ruthlessly for anti homosexual legislation and converted to catholisism because she doesn't believe that women should be allowed to become priests.

  • shit he hates her!

  • you can tell he doesnt like her too much

  • I always knew she was insane. But I never knew she is THIS insane.

  • God, I can't even watch Attenborough now!! I thought the majestic sweep of savannah would be just the ticket to take my mind off the ghastly juxtaposition of Anne Widdecombe and doing unspeakable things to virgins. Then I saw a rhino having a piss and it all came flooding back. I swear I wil knock your teeth out if I ever meet you Theroux you lanky streak of piss. It's all your fault.

  • Frankly I'm with Ann Widdecombe on this one. I regard mentioning the words Anne Widdecombe and virgin in the same sentence as an impertinence too. I used to be able to get a nice semi on when thinking of a virgin. Thank you very much Louis fucking Theroux, you skinny cunt.

  • shes unusal because she manages to be permantantly out of touch, and yet still speaks out, her itv documentaries were hilirious, she basically ignored what people were saying and then said what she thought for the rest of the 'conversation'

  • The problem with Anne Widdecombe is that she's an insufferable, hateful bitch, who only ever speaks in shrill in a disjointed incoherent version of the English Language.

    People bring up the ol' "dares to say what he/she thinks" as if she's some sort of 'shining beacon' in a society with a PC conformist agenda.

    So did Hitler, and to be honest he was a bit of a cunt. If we're go against the norm, let's not go against it with a bunch of economically heirachical, neo-Nazio notions of superiority.

  • why is he so mean to her?

  • "You look like a raven haired temptress in that photo!"

    Um............no, no, she did not.

    I saw her pictures of when she was younger.

    Anne Widdecombe was never pretty nor handsome and not even cute.

    I do like the "cat poetry" though.

  • wonder what she has hidden upstairs

  • @WilAnimator Her mother, like Norman Bates used to!!!

  • Lol @ the comment about the pope looking like wtf who is she?

  • ok I know this probably waaaay off topic but he looks so hot from 2:58-3:10 :D

  • It didn't work for Louis did it! I'm a great admirer of Louis when interviewing weird people trying to pass themselves off as normal, but the trouble for Louis here is that Anne Widdecombe is a perfectly upright and normal individual who suffers from an unfortunate manner - in that she's a public figure who dares to say what she thinks

  • @fallbarn1 now be fair shes pretty strange

  • okee im with the tories but she is just annoying hehe have u seen her on strictly? lol

  • he's rude because he wants to take a scalp

  • Exactly what the hell is wrong with Louis Theroux in this? He is a dickhead. He is a dickhead from the first greeting, and you get the impression that Anne Widdecombe sussed his attitude at quite an early stage and was rather sharp to him in response. I think the stuff about her virginity is just nasty and rude.

    I must say, she looks pretty stunning in the photo of her when she was at Oxford.

  • Well done Anne for standing up for yr beliefs, i don't agree with yr politics, but to keep Louis in his place when he is probing away is no mean feat!

  • i feel like louis is being quite mean this time round..

    also immature comment - FURRY LITTLE OBJECTS lolzz ;p

  • i resent having to watch a vodafone add first...maybe only for NZ viewers... grr

  • He is exceptionally rude to Ann.

  • Awh man Louie Theroux is the mannnnn :D

  • I agree with absolutely none of Ann's politics or beliefs but still can't help but like her. She has a unapologetic attitude to who she is that's sadly lacking in most people.

  • @JoeStunner i agree you know what i think it is? older people ( i know ann has always been like this tho). i think as you get older you dont actually care what people think and your more likely to stick by your beliefs why would you change them its got you this far...

  • @classicdinner

    Yes, I think age has a lot to do with it. It certainly did in my case anyway. Some younger people do seem like "old souls" but there's no substitute for life experience.

  • mum?!!!?!?! :O she must be a 190!

  • @saulwilliams56 no just 90 :)

  • love this gyal

  • love this gyal

  • Ann Widdecome = Norman Bates?

  • no one love louis more than me....but....these early ones are not louis best....he is being insensitive and insulting. in an interview he admits to "winking at the camera"

  • @boomboxbadboy1

    This isn't early Louis Theroux.

  • My God she is such a guarded, stubborn little bint.

  • My word, that Louis really goes out of his way to be impolite...

  • how embarassing

  • GOD what a fat ugly annoying dyke..

  • @AlbinoGhandi Thats not very Ghandiesque of you.

  • Anne Willycum

  • Widdecombe sucks. She's a fat ignorant bitch. No wonder no bloke wants her. Jesus, imagine being married to that pain in the arse.

  • louis is soo harsh!

  • Bloody papists.

  • I love that cat poem, it just encapsulates her personality.

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  • She's sort of likeable in an old-fashioned school teacher kind of way and she's not completely without a sense of humour. I mean I can understand her behaviour and Louis is just plain nosy at times. I'm not really thinking about her politics but she seems like she has some integrity.

  • What a vile and ignorant moo-cow.

  • "you've still got lovely thick hair"...cheeky bastard

  • Hehe.

  • Louis Theroux for prime minister

  • Anne Widdecombe is a bitch.

  • "...well I'll winkle away at that one!" ahahahaha her face!

  • Christ, lighten up Anne. I did think Louis was being quite rude to her after I watched it and didnt really give her much respect, but now I think he could see she couldnt take his light hearted humour and decided to play with it, making her make herself look stupid.

  • I love his cheeky wee smile at the end when he says ''kate? don't believe anything she says'' in regards to the whole virgin thing.

    Jesus, she could have lightened up a bit :\ what happened to being 'virgin & proud!' ?

    lol

  • Apparently there was a row after the cameras went off.

  • @tonybeir Whatever lights your torch, mate!

  • Of course she's a virgin...LOOK at her!

  • @maadmaestro looks fine to me.

  • @maadmaestro it also explains the reason for the cat poem lol

  • HAHAHA!...Nice one!

  • I don't much care for A.W. and I usually like LT, but he's being an ungracious dick here. "Why can't we go upstairs?" "Because it's my fucking house and I don't want you snooping around there with your fucking cameras, you gangly nosey sod"

  • ha I love Louis he's so good at having his way with people

  • you're actually quite cool Mrs Widdecombe ! I never thought I would say that !

  • Are those swords hanging on the wall? Never heared of the woman but she must be something special.

  • How can you guys hate Anne Widdecombe!? I couldn't disagree with her politics more, but she's just great. Since politicians in Britain do bugger all anyway, its nice to have entertaining ones.

  • @chazmeistro Do you want a fucking list?

  • @chazmeistro And they provide great material for satirists.

  • Some of her fellow MPs nicknamed her Doris Karloff.

  • I've always dislike her, found her self-righteous and overbearing. Still, she handled herself well here.

  • I love you Louis Theroux, you're the best interviewer evar!

  • Ann Widdecome is a neurotic fruit. The fact that she is in office is disquieting in the extreme.

  • LOL Louis Theroux is one of my favourite TV personalities.

  • this made me actually really like Anne

  • See I hate Anne Widdecombe and quite like Louis Theroux, but...

    It amuses me greatly how she is absolutely refusing to take his bullshit here!

  • sexy

  • Her poem's quite sweet, really.

  • Ann is a good lesbian.

  • Hello everyone!

  • i luv british chit chat

  • He is a cocky, young fellow.

  • susan boyle

  • anne is a fat biotch

  • anne widecombe is a character,one of the more likable politicions,shes herself no false shit from her

  • Anne widecombe fucking rocks...you fuckers,Im a gun loving transvestite,beer drinking ashtray scum that likes weapons and porn.I d give it all up if that brilliant woman would take control of us all...she s the best.

  • Ann is awesome!

  • So the BBC advertises now?

  • advertises what, sorry?

  • Every time I watch this vid, I get a 17 second advert for 'Angels & Demons' with Tom Hanks.

  • that was pretty harsh of louis calling her a virgin and stuff

  • @gormando19 But it was a quote from Widdecombe that Louis was referring to! She said "if anyone says I'm not a virgin, I'll sue them." lol

    Besides, I'm certain that Widdy knows exactly what kind of person Louis Theroux is, and what kind of documentary he makes.

  • @gormando19 Thing is, she IS though...

  • soppy? shes got swords on the wall

  • anne looks after her mom bless!

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  • i wud destroy her. im madly in love with my baby anne. anne if u read this im urs sexy xxxxx

  • i know what you mean, its the frumpyness that gets me going

    ;-)

  • Go Anne!

  • she actually has sass

  • shes hot

  • ''Thick hair'' Lol, what a player. That's prolly the only thing he could compliment her for.

  • haha I think she was seduced..

  • She reminds me of Dolores Umbridge. :D

  • who is Anne Widdecombe?

  • Ann Widdicombe is a British Member Of Parliament (MP)

  • conservative politician from the UK

  • sshe just doesnt want to talk about sex or a sex life she doesnt see it as relevant, it seems in todays society everyone must talk about it, but if u started talking about ur sexlife to ur boss in the middle of a meeting that would not be appropriate and for ann its just never appropriate, ppl seem to target her, when its a reclusive guy its oh mystery oh isnt he cool and myseterious when its a woman shes frigid or square, mind u i dont like her politics but i quite like her somehow

  • Is Ann a virgin of what?

  • probably an italian stallion

  • louis is such a joker..saying "I heard if anyone said she wasnt a virgin she would sue them"....it would mean she wud have to have a physical examination to win the case? : o

  • sometimes women avoid any physical relationships with men because they've had a trauma in their childhood...i think this is whats happened to Ann

  • Ann once came to the hotel I worked in. The bith wouldn't shut up! Though she did make a good remark about Prescott:

    "I'll try and answer any questions you may have, but I can't answer all of them- I used to say I would answer any questions, and then someone asked 'Why would anyone have an affair with John Prescott?' I still don't know the answer to that one."

  • Louis is being a tad insensitive to her 'decore taste' lol

  • lol

  • This seemed kinda uncharacteristic of Louis. He normally doesn't make such open biting remarks. I mean making fun of her for having cats and teddy bear plates? Tons of older women are quirky like that. I just thought it was maybe a bit petty and rude this time.

    He's supposed to be the type of journalist who just observes, and it's funny when people make themself look silly. Not when Louis makes kinda mean remarks though.

  • Agreed did seem dis-tasteful.

  • he's not being rude, she is not being rude but just a bit english and guarded. unlike his usual cannon fodder of american nuts, widdecombe comes with a modicum of intelligence and understands his deadpan dry and gently sarcastic style.

  • Raven haired temptress. Quite.

  • I dont blame her. I usually like all his videos but this one hes seeming a bit rude. making fun of how she looks her cats and decorations and then having the nerve to ask a very personal question about a private thing as being virgin.. Was louis on a downer this day? i still love his show though

  • What amused me is how she has swords on her wall, looks like shes trying to make a balance from all the ''furry'' things in her house lol!

  • Virgin, Lol.

  • What a great Prime Minister she would have made, a no noncence kinda chick

  • She's honest, I'll give her that.

  • Its nice to see Louis with some sass but taking the piss out of an older lady's teddy bear plates? Jesus, for a quick sec. there he almost looked attractive!! must be the cheekiness...