Strictly Speaking

Thought CW wasn't doing ITT as recently had baby ??? ...but actually prefer Zoe ...so hope they keep her.

agreed annobel Claudia is irritating and much prefer Zoe
Think ZB actually really LOVES SCD
Think CW PRETENDS to love it and takes the money

When production of takes two moved north to Salford CW couldn't be ars--
BOTHERED to travel.

Oh yes message to be passed on from Doting Grandma....*
" you call those heels darlings? Please! it's easy -watch me as I walk"!

*5ft 1in bare feet 5ft 6in in her average shoe

Good point, nanachrissy, I've been getting increasingly irritated by Claudia in particular in recent years. I do like Zoe, but she seems to by trying too hard to be like Claudia and is aping her mannerisms. How does either of them walk in those heels?

I think they could lose Bruce, Tess, and Claudia as they all seem to be turning into caricatures of themselves. Len is brilliant and I love Craig, he is such a pantomime dame but tells it like it is, so well. I wish the BBC would stop trying to turn it into the X Factor.

Here's a question for the Brucie fans.... You have a choice

Lose Bruce OR.... lose Len Goodman from the show?

(or Craig/Bruno)

ONE of them has to go.

The show would be more damaged -it would be less entertaining- by the loss of Len, Craig or Bruno than it would by losing Bruce.

you and me numberplease we won't let Brucie down

Brucie is great! I`ve loved him since I fisrst saw yim in a seaside show in 1956, and for me he can do no wrong!

grandmaagain, I have a dreadful feeling you will get your wish.

(ducks and runs) LONG LIVE BRUCIE LONG MAY HE REIGN ON STRICTLY, LOVE HIM TO BITS [GRIN]

Oh I agree that Morecambe is is different league to Bruce Forsyth what I meant was that Eric Morecambe and Tommy Cooper were by all accounts NEVER "off", they were always performing, and could not stop, would never pass up the chance to be in front of an audience - and I think Bruce Forsyth is the same in THAT way
he will never say "that's enough"

HildaW yes, Eric Morcambe was priceless - I can imagine him taking the mickey out of Brucie on SCD if he was still around.

I have just about tolerated Bruce since the show started, but this year he is just beyond tolerance. Everything he says is so obviously scripted to a formula that nobody can possibly believe he is spontaneous any more. Sorry, Brucie, you need to go and enjoy yourself on the golf course - and bask in the glory of your knighthood!
And his scriptwriters ought to retire as well, the sooner the better.

Dont callme.......oh dear, please dont put Darling Eric Morcambe into same category as daft old Bruce!

Petra the enigma that is Bruce Forsyth! I can't stand him either

Why do they keep him in the show?
I think we have to think back to when SCD started...

some people at the BBC might have said
" you what? a ballroom dancing contest? early evening on Saturday prime time BBC1? Are you mad? It won't work!"

Thing is for 30 years Forsyth had delivered hit shows in that 6pm - 8pm Saturday night slot for both BBC and ITV.

Back when SCD started ( and seemed like a risk) someone at the BBC would have said

"get Forsyth on the show he's a safe pair of hands who will deliver an audience in that time slot - he will get people to watch this crazy idea and give it a chance"

Now though, SCD is BIGGER than Bruce and he doesn't add to it.

I think Brucie is one of those entertainers like Eric Morcambe or Tommy Cooper - always "performing " ,addicted to it, who will probably, like Morecambe and Cooper, drop dead on stage.

Did anyone see 'The Graham Norton show' At long last someone asked her 'so what exactly is it that you do, Nancy? And as per usual, it went right over her head: hilairious.
On Bruce Forsyth: Until i joined this site i thought i was the only person in the Uk who couldn't stand the man. Now i know i am not alone.

Surprisingly my grandsons loved the Junior Bake-off on CBBC yesterday. They do like baking, but usually watch very 'boyish' TV.

I used to enjoy this show but like all the others The Apprentice, X-Factor [never been a fan] all the cookery shows, Big Brother, Jungle thingy and so on have all been done to death. The same shows over and over again. I love Bake-off but is that going to become tiresome?

dcmg ...slo-mo!!

Not a bad idea, don'tcall I wonder how we can influence the powers that be at the Beeb? Maybe the Strictly Facebook page.

CAGSY I think losing the dance off was a bad move.
The results show now seems a bit artificial without it.
I think it would be good if they brought it back but instead of the judges making a choice, let the live audience vote - ie the people who are actually in the studio, there on the night and who have seen the dancing "in the flesh" so to speak.
It's easy lots of programmes use the technology with buttons linked to a computer which people select when asked.
It's still the public not the judges choosing and would add real live drama.

Nancy did us a favour - it really isn't all about being slim & glamorous, but I'm glad she's gone. I miss the 'dance off', there doesn't seem any point in having a results show now. I'm still a fan though

Oh yes having looked at Chelsee's dance in slo mo frame by frame, on sky+... Tess wasn't being quite accurate when she said nobody saw anything but it was nothing to get too upset (or excited) by...

( oh no! did I just type that out loud?)

I will miss her... Anyway... NEVER MIND

Oh isn't Kristina Rhianoff great?
Her choreography is excellent! When the partnerships were announced I said to the Doting Grandma " at last! after all those drongos the ADORABLE Kristina finally has someone she can really work with..."

And.... The Swan Lake thing by Holly Valance pure brilliance -why no-one gave that a 10 ...

There is something about the pros who are from Russia they have something the others just don't have...

Nothing wrong with upsetting people, grandmaagain ! Not that I'm upset. I liked Robbie but thought the pelvic thrusting was a step too far for a family show. Like his hair, though! ITT should be funny, if it's anything like Nancy's appearance on the Graham Norton Show.

glad Nancy is out!
I really love all the themed nights enjoy seeing the extravagant costunes and make up, and I'm really enjoying this years dancers (now Nancy has gone) just shows it takes all sorts and you can never please everyone.think Nancy is going to be a hoot on It takes two tonight poor Zoe
still hoping our local boy Robbie is going to win
I've probably upset just about everybody now hey ho