The Resume

(June 13, 1910-November 23, 2001)
Birth name was Mary Hutcheson
President of the National Viewers' and Listeners' Association (aka the Clean Up TV Campaign) Member of the Moral Rearmament Movement Always referred to as Mrs. Mary Whitehouse

Why she might be annoying:

She was a religious nut.
She fought for 30 years to remove sex and violence from British TV.
She called the BBC 'the devil incarnate.'
She said that pornography was worse than censorship.
She raised such a stink about Stanley Kubrick's 'A Clockwork Orange' that Kubrick refused to show the film in Britain.
She attacked the harmless children's sci-fi series 'Doctor Who.'

Why she might not be annoying:

She was extremely powerful in the 1970's and 1980's.
BBC refused to allow her to express her views on its talk shows.
The head of the network had a nude portrait painted of her and threw darts at it.
She received death threats from liberal extremists.
Margaret Thatcher thanked her for increasing the 'stability' of British society.
She stood up for what she believed in.
A pornographer named a magazine 'Whitehouse' in her honor.

Credit: Wieland Kalligaro

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• Black and White
• Celebrities Born on the Same Date [June] (Ranked: 6131910)
• Censors and Wannabes
• Doctor Who
• I am a Karen
• I am Disliked by Gays
• I Died in 2001 (Ranked: 91)
• Look at Me, I Got a Microphone
• Look at Me, Yes You! - Finger Pointers
• People with John or Mary in their Names
• Pissed off Chicks
• Profiles 14501-14750 (Ranked: 14603)
• We Died on the Same Day (Ranked: 20011123)
• Wieland Kalligaro's Profiles [Series 6]

Year In Review:

For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2023, Out of 112 Votes: 66.96% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 124 Votes: 58.87% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 135 Votes: 57.04% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 10 Votes: 40.0% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 7 Votes: 71.43% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 131 Votes: 50.38% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 4 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 155 Votes: 53.55% Annoying
In 2014, Out of 833 Votes: 64.71% Annoying
In 2013, Out of 149 Votes: 66.44% Annoying
In 2012, Out of 64 Votes: 64.06% Annoying
In 2011, Out of 74 Votes: 55.41% Annoying
In 2010, Out of 66 Votes: 57.58% Annoying
In 2009, Out of 117 Votes: 52.99% Annoying
In 2008, Out of 85 Votes: 58.82% Annoying
In 2007, Out of 239 Votes: 76.57% Annoying
In 2006, Out of 318 Votes: 74.21% Annoying
In 2005, Out of 499 Votes: 69.14% Annoying