Who has the nickname of the thinking man's crumpet?
Thinking man's/woman's crumpet Thinking man's/woman's crumpet In British English, the thinking man's crumpet or thinking woman's crumpet is a humorous term for a person who is popular with the opposite sex because of their intelligence and their physical attractiveness. The expression is derived from the slang use of the term "crumpet" to refer to a woman who is regarded as an object of sexual desire. The first person to be called "the thinking man's crumpet" was Joan Bakewell, by humourist Frank Muir, following her appearances in highbrow television discussion programmes such as BBC2's "Late Night Line-Up". Bakewell is still synonymous with the phrase,
Thinking man's/woman's crumpet lifetime to live it down. It was meant as a compliment I suppose, but it was a little bit of a put-down". Actors Benedict Cumberbatch, Colin Firth and Bill Nighy have been repeatedly called by the press "the thinking woman's crumpet". But even before them, Michael Kitchen was acclaimed as "the thinking woman's crumpet" in a review in "The Mail" in November 2003. After the release of the 1997 film "Titanic", Kate Winslet was dubbed by one newspaper as "the sinking man's crumpet"; the moniker was repeated by only one other British newspaper. Stewart Lee uses the phrase "crumpet man's