Strictly Come Dancing

[Yellow Fang]

What do you think of the new line up?

The Contestants:
Ali Bastian Lynda Bellingham Martina Hingis
Natalie Cassidy Jade Johnson Zoe Lucker
Laila Rouass Jo Wood Phil Tufnell
Richard Dunwoody Craig Kelly Joe Calzaghe
Ricky Groves Chris Hollins Rav Wilding
Ricky Whittle

I'm pleased the Swiss Miss is doing it. I've always liked her, and with her skill and coordination she should be able to give the male sports stars a run for their money. I thought Joe Calzaghe said it wasn't his kind of thing anyway. I can't say I recognise a lot of the other celebraties. I also have to say I disapprove of Arlene Phillips having been sacked. She may have been a bit dogmatic, but at least she had some professional standing. Alesha Dixon is lovely to look at, but she's not a professional dancer. Apparently Darcey Bussell is going to be a guest judge. She's nice to look at, and at least she's a dancer, but she ain't a ballroom dancer.

 

[Will1985]

Who are these people???? I only recognise Hingis, Johnson, Tuffers, Dunwoody, Calzaghe and Chris Hollins.

That's 6/16 and they are all sportsmen (apart from Chris Hollins who talks about sport instead).

 

[Yellow Fang]

Have to say I don't give much for Chris Collin's or Bellinda Bellingham's chances. Chris Collins is the sacrificial journalist. Bellinda Bellingham is your favourite auntie type figure who keeps being saved by the viewers while the judges get increasingly shrill.

 

[PaulB]

I quite like Strictly.

Well, when I say "quite like", I really mean I don't care for it one way or the other.

Well, I say "don't care for it one way or the other" but what I really mean is that in preference to watching such shite, I'd rather have my arse amputated with a rusty guillotine.

Strictly Come Dancing! Strictly Come Shite more like. What a brain-dead idea this utter nonsense it. A load of ponces fannying about doing nothing of any use to anyone for the benefit of the gawking brain-dead viewers too gormless to get off their arses and do something for themselves.

And look at the gormless losers they've lined up to do the fannying about! A tennis player desperate for redemption after she stuffed her career up her nose, a fat former soap-opera performer, the Oxo woman, a jockey, a boxer and a load of absolute no-marks who aren't even household names in their own households.

I knew we'd regret the loss of the test-card.

 

[Yellow Fang]

You're more of an X Factor fan, I take it.

 

[PaulB]

You're more of an X Factor fan, I take it.

Don't get me started on that pile of utter shite, neither If they're not laughing at the mentally ill, they're fawning over talentless tossers as though they've found the new Aretha or Levi Stubbs. The thing is, even the "winner" will be unheard of in six month's time.

 

[Yellow Fang]

Well, you gotta like Britain's Got Talent.

 

[lazyfatgit]

More shite saturday night telly.

 

[4F]

But on a plus side they are extending the Saturday show to include the results so it won't be on Sunday's as well.

 

[Noodley]

OK, apart from the sports people who are they? Is Bellingham the mum in the OXO adds? <serious question BTW, never heard of them> No, just realised who Cassidy is...ex-soap star from EastEnders?

 

[PaulB]

But on a plus side they are extending the Saturday show to include the results so it won't be on Sunday's as well.

Results? They have results for this shite? What's this absolute obsession with competition-based TV programmes, particularly on Saturday nights? You'd think it was the eleventh commandment.

 

[Yellow Fang]

Yes, Bellingham is the OXO mum. I gather some of the others are football WAGs, Jo Wood is Ronnie Wood's ex-wife who was dumped for a teenage Russian waitress, and Jade Johnson is a long jumper. They do seem to be scraping the barrel a bit.

 

[lazyfatgit]

Hmph. No doubt there'll be no space on the recorder due to it being jammed full of this or the X factor on the other side. Coupled with the phone being tied up as it just has to be discussed endlessly. grrrrr

 

[Over The Hill]

Even when nice totty is in it I find it really off putting when they wear all the sparkly gear and dress up in the regulation gear.
Just me?

 

[Yellow Fang]

I see from The Times that Chris Collins was a reserve with Charlton Athletic and a former first class cricketer. He could be a dark horse.