As I’ve mentioned in this post – between 2003 and 2005 Jimmy was often chosen to present C4 shows in the series “100 Greatest…”.  Viewers were asked to vote, in whichever category had been chosen, and the results were counted down in a clips show. Various “talking heads” were brought in to deliver a soundbite and add fuel to the fire of family arguments as to whether a clip deserved to be higher or lower in the chart.

But there were a couple of other shows, in this series, that were not in the “100 Greatest…” format. One of these was 100 Worst Britons.

As with the rest of the series this list was created from a C4 poll in 2003. The parameters of this poll were that they had to be British, living and not in prison.

In this review article the final Top 100 is listed but I’ve just given the last 2 minutes a scan and the top 6 are as below (that linked article has 1 and 3 the other way round – perhaps wishful thinking?):

1. Tony Blair
2. Jordan
3. Margaret Thatcher
4. Jade Goody
5. Martin Bashir
6. Gareth Gates

Video

Archive.org has a 2-hour copy of the show that has a couple of minutes missing (Queen Elizabeth and Geri Halliwell). The audio / video is slightly out of sync, but its watchable. I scanned a few minutes and most of the narration seems to be Ann Bryson (see IMDB). Not sure how many minutes Jimmy appears on screen, but it doesn’t seem to be many.

You can view it here.