In Which Riona's Journal Becomes Heat Magazine.

[rionaleonhart]

So it turns out that Charlie Brooker and Konnie Huq are engaged! I am a bit sad that the media found out, because I suspect that the plan was to get married secretly and then go 'LOL WE'RE MARRIED AND YOU DIDN'T EVEN KNOW WE WERE DATING', which would have been hilarious. Alas, it was not to be.

I won't pretend my reaction to the news wasn't mixed, given how unexpected it was and the part of my little fannish heart that massively 'ships Brooker with David Mitchell/Victoria Coren/me. But the two of them are charmingly mismatched, and Huq seemed adorable during Konnie's Great British Wee (parts one, two): 'I'm Konnie Huq. I'm thirty-three years old, but I look about nine, and for as long as I can remember I've been fascinated by the world of urination.'

(I really hope that Konnie's Great British Wee was how Huq and Brooker first met. I can't imagine a better answer to the question 'So, how did you two meet?' than 'Well, we were making a documentary about weeing in public...')

Also, Brooker has seemed happier and calmer in recent months than he used to be, and perhaps that's due to Huq's influence. If so, that's a good thing. Brooker's misanthropy and rage may be entertaining, but I disagree with comments I've seen on the Internet criticising him for becoming more mellow; it's absurd to wish unhappiness upon someone we admire for the sake of our amusement (and, in any case, I think he's still hilarious even in his mellowed state). I wish them the very best of luck.

(My only real selfish concern about this is how it will affect the Brooker fandom. I love this fandom, but this revelation has made me feel a bit guilty about writing for it. I hope I'll be able to get past this, because Brooker and Mitchell are such a joy to write (and read) for. I'm not ready to switch fandoms yet.

I suppose I can always write gen.)

Comments

[suthnoli.livejournal.com]

I'm really familiar with Konnie, so I could write her (and maybe I will!) but... she's from the generation of Blue Peter presenters I grew up with. It'd be like slashing my primary school teachers.

[inappropriately.livejournal.com]

It'd be like slashing my primary school teachers.

[suthnoli.livejournal.com]

Not primary! There was no clear pairing there, really. But several of my secondary school teachers were actually fucking. There was even fucking-related drama! The Science department basically had shipwars.

[inappropriately.livejournal.com]

See, if that happened at our school we'd probably never find out. DAMN.

[suthnoli.livejournal.com]

I don't think we were supposed to, people just couldn't contain themselves. Gossips gotta gossip!

[anewcitylife.livejournal.com]

In my secondary school two teachers allegedly got fired for having a lesbian relationship.

[inappropriately.livejournal.com]

Yours was Catholic though, right? I was about to make an ANGRY COMMENT but if I'm right then I'm not really surprised.

[anewcitylife.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it was. And I was entirely pissed off about it, too. But there were several other LGB members of staff who didn't get sacked, so it was possibly just the relationship part?