davidn

There's a man on Food Network in the evenings called Marc Summers, who I gather used to be on television quite a lot a couple of decades ago. I don't know whether it was the years of presenting Double Dare that drove him mad or whether, he's always been like this, but he has, two very IRRITATING vocal features. The first, is the arbitrary EMPHASIS on several, words. Occasionally, he ALSO, feels the need to pause, IN, the middle of sentences, usually somewhere near the END, but often just at random PLACES, throughout. He's like the illegitimate offspring of Johnny Vaughn and Jeremy Clarkson.* Whitney doesn't mind it at all somehow, but once you've noticed it you can never un-notice it and watching Food Network Unwrapped becomes a twitch-inducing torture second only to nails on a blackboard or Mark Vanderbilt trying to sing. Aaaeeergh!

Right, after typing all that I checked his Wikipedia article, and it turns out that his presenting job in the 80s did actually bring about a disorder, so I'm officially a git.

* Sorry about this