One of the most vehemently despised presenters and media figures still working today...will be doing a bit less as of March this year, being his godawful shouting match of a TV show in the US came to an end. Morgan is one of those solipsistic narcissists who if their own voice was an instrument, would play endless babble into the night until they ran out of air. For all Morgan does wrong, from interrupting guests by asking the most paparazzi-style questions to presenting a terribly uncomfortable aura of self-entitlement and a smarmy aura around him built from the ground-up on the idea that he thinks he is above any and all around him, his stance on US gun control did draw a few nods of agreement. What had greater remarks of adulation though, was Jeremy Clarkson levelling the bloke by way of a punch square to the face back in 2004. Remember that instead.
9. How I Met Your Mother
There will no doubt be more legendary programs coming to a close this year, but when we're only just breaking the first quarter and the Mother chaps are turning in, you know it's going to be a big one. With a nine-year runtime and a fanbase verging on LOST-levels of dedication, HIMYM attempted to tie all its major plot threads together to varying degrees of success, depending on which of the very vocal fanbase you consult. What can be said in confidence though, is that HIMYM gave everyone's favourite suave-guy Neil Patrick Harris a place to cultivate his infectious personality, and alongside a (now pretty naff) Big Bang Theory, was twin-inheritor of the Friends must-watch-sitcom crown.
8. Chris Martin And Gwyneth Paltrow
It seems even the most dedicated spouses can't put up with Chris Martin's piano-tinged warblings for too long. I joke of course, but this month saw the split of one of the most well-known and long-running celebrity couples there's been in years. Ten of them in fact, is how long Martin and Paltrow stayed together, despite press-spats and various other paparazzi-bothering intrusions that meant their lives were splayed all over front pages up and down the Western hemisphere. A brief spot of research relates that things seem to be going smoothly for the couple, so hey, maybe all they had to do was Talk? (Sorry).
7. Tax Discs
93 years later, and we no longer have to bother with forking out an annual sum just to keep our vehicles on the road. To many those flimsy paper discs that adorn the windscreens of Britain are something of a nuisance, as in a first-world problem to end all first-world problems...sometimes they just don't go in the little plastic slot the right way. We know, there are far greater injustices and abhorrent acts worldwide, but have you ever tried to separate the disc from its perforated housing, only for it to rip and you bring out the sellotape to makeshift your way out of a hefty fine? It was agony, but come this October we'll all be tax disc-shackle free.
