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Strictly Come Dancing 2014

The kick off is tonight and then tomorrow with the first contestants strutting their stuff. I always feel these first outings really show us who is going to be good and who is going to be useless. The Slebs have had at least three weeks to work on the dance for this week so they should be able to do it OK. If not, then how are they Winkgoing to manage when they only have one week to learn a new one?

I am in London at the moment so will not be seeing the show until I get back and will then catch up on Saturday night.  I am a huge Strictly fan as you all know by now, but hoping that my usage of the mute button will be less now that Brucie is no longer there, though I usually silence the set throughout all those tedious VTs they insist on putting in.

I am hoping to comment on each week's show so if you are interested do check it out. I have my tube of fake tan at the ready, some fishnet tights and a jewelled bustier ready and waiting so off we go.

Keeeeeeeeeeeeep dancing

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5 responses to “Strictly Come Dancing 2014”

  1. Margaret Powling Avatar
    Margaret Powling

    I watched a little of the 2nd show, Elaine, thinking it just might be a tad better without Brucie, but I was wrong. Tess and Claudia a dire double act, and Tess is now doing stand up comedy naff jokes as Brucie once did, only Brucie did them better! I’ve no idea who 99% of the people are, and I’m fed up with Len pretending to be cross with the audience when they disagree with him … how many years has this been on? Eleven or twelve at least … time for it to be put to bed, I think.
    By the day, did you know that Claudia is the daughter of journalist Eve Pollard (not to be confused with Sue Pollard of Hi-de-Hi fame!)?

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  2. Elaine Avatar
    Elaine

    Yes my mute button,which used to be on when Brucie was droning. Is now on for Tess. She really is banal

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  3. Elaine Avatar
    Elaine

    I have more or less given up on Downton. I recorded it lasr week because I cannot takeall the adverrt breaks and I foundmyself fast forwarding through it.

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  4. Jo Avatar
    Jo

    I fear your mute button will doubly overworked with Tess and Claudia – if the first two shows were anything to go by.

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  5. Margaret Powling Avatar
    Margaret Powling

    I’m glad that a lot of people, including you, Elaine, still enjoy Strictly, for there is little else on at the weekend to entertain us (unless we want to watch the red-top equivalent of TV, i.e. X-Factor). But as with Bake Off (and all the make-over programmes and cookery programmes, from Gordon-fou-lmouth-Ramsey to Lorraine Pasquale) I’m just a teensy-weensy bit fed up with so many programmes now in their umpteenth series, and that includes Downton Abbey which I do feel is now in permanent decline (like the milieu of society it represents.) I’m totally cheesed off with Lady Mary’s drawl, her mother Cora’s permanently exasperated-cum-perplexed expression, Tom not knowing which seat in the car he should take: driving seat as chauffeur, or back seat as chauffeured, and Lord Grantham with nothing at all (apparently) to do except look glum after being overlooked in favour of Carson by the WW1 Memorial Committee. Sorry, he does pat his dog occasionally. Maybe there are some programmes on TV at the weekend that might interest me in all the free channels (I don’t subscribe to any) but as yet I’ve failed to find them.

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