ITV spokespeople remind me of that 'Comical Ali' guy in Iraq who said that everything was fine even with American tanks rumbling behind him in the background.
Actually what people should do is hold these people to their word. So when Christine gets shipped out as she inevitably will, they should ask 'But hang on why would you do that when in your own worRAB you were closing the gap and everything was going well? Why would you risk ruining such a good program?'
They make me sick these spokespeople. Don't treat us like the imbeciles who come up with their phone in quiz questions, the hardest of which so far seems to have been 'What colour is grass?'