Monty Don

You're busy.

But Monty Don... retiring from gardener's world has just created such an uproar first of all everybody loved him he was a great host yeah this is a english gardening show i

have never watched it is it what netflix or something apple that's

a youtube oh it's youtube you know something like that yeah i've watched a few i don't know a whole lot about it but i you know his feed comes to my thing and He's a good host.

quickly as possible.

The problem is that, you know, this Tom Jones, this was only after we heard the other tragic news that Monty Don was leaving the garden as well.

So it just hasn't

stopped.

Hanging up his trowel.

After two decades, Monty Don is stepping down as presenter of BBC Gardener's World.

Rebecca, are you a consumer of Monty's work on the television? I'm

not.

Absolute radio.

Front page news today, and all over the internet and the socials, is the sad news that Gardner's World legend, Monty Don, is stepping down from his role as presenter and gardener after 20 years and some are saying over 700 episodes.

Ooh.

..of the iconic BBC Two show.

Yeah, OK.

So, what do you have an unhealthy obsession with?

Alan Titchmarsh and Monty Don.

LAUGHTER

So I'm not slighting him or anything, but he wasn't, he didn't really, I felt it was a bit businesslike, like as in a transaction of, I was talking to him, I was talking to him about like horticultural therapy and how he'd been someone that had kind of, inspired me because he's got depression I said my husband's got depression and Garvin changed his life and it's changed our life and I just felt his response was like a robot so I was a wee bit like I still love him though right so

after you saying that I'd like to tell all the listeners if you go to theplantpod.co.uk you can join the Monty Don we hate Monty Don fan club headed up by Nikki Cross and myself

But I do love him, right? It's like, I can't stop loving him, right? I was really disappointed meeting him.

But you know who I was really happy to meet was Adam Frost.

Yeah.

Yeah, my dad just put in the comments about Monty Don.

Yes, he's off.

One more season.

A brief disclaimer before I start.

This is not an interview with Monty Don.

It is a fond farewell.

I say that because I know how the name draws people.

And so they go.

And so we speak to the front row, to those who fell asleep.

I wonder if the extreme age of parasociality has finished, has retired with Monty Don.

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