Safe to say the real winner IS Matt Baker- why ?this is why
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Strictly Come Dancing runner-up Matt Baker has been handed a contract for The One Show
by Mark Jefferies, Daily Mirror 21/12/2010
STRICTLY runner-up Matt Baker has been formally offered a place on The One Show sofa and is expected to accept later this week.
The Countryfile host, who just missed out in Saturday’s Strictly Come Dancing final, has been handed a deal thought to be worth £200,000.
If he signs, he will team up with co-host Alex Jones, 32, in the new year.
Matt will host Monday to Thursday nights, with Chris Evans on Fridays.
A source close to the 32-year-old said: “Before he signs, the things important to him are to continue working on Countryfile and to go on the Strictly tour next year.
“It looks like he will be able to do both those things and present The One Show, so he’s happy.”
Matt will replace *comedian Jason Manford who quit the BBC show after confessing to online sex chats.
Read more: http://www.mirror.co.uk/celebs/tv/2010/12/21/strictly-come-dancing-runner-up-matt-baker-has-been-handed-a-contract-for-the-one-show-115875-22797184/#ixzz18hejVIsl
Thats excluding the money he gets for Countryfile and his other work.ie commentary work for various sports etc.
SCD raised his profile, got him a fanbase and showed the BBC he can multi task big time.
by Mark Jefferies, Daily Mirror 21/12/2010
STRICTLY runner-up Matt Baker has been formally offered a place on The One Show sofa and is expected to accept later this week.
The Countryfile host, who just missed out in Saturday’s Strictly Come Dancing final, has been handed a deal thought to be worth £200,000.
If he signs, he will team up with co-host Alex Jones, 32, in the new year.
Matt will host Monday to Thursday nights, with Chris Evans on Fridays.
A source close to the 32-year-old said: “Before he signs, the things important to him are to continue working on Countryfile and to go on the Strictly tour next year.
“It looks like he will be able to do both those things and present The One Show, so he’s happy.”
Matt will replace *comedian Jason Manford who quit the BBC show after confessing to online sex chats.
Read more: http://www.mirror.co.uk/celebs/tv/2010/12/21/strictly-come-dancing-runner-up-matt-baker-has-been-handed-a-contract-for-the-one-show-115875-22797184/#ixzz18hejVIsl
Thats excluding the money he gets for Countryfile and his other work.ie commentary work for various sports etc.
SCD raised his profile, got him a fanbase and showed the BBC he can multi task big time.
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I thought I read somewhere yesterday he has rejected The One Show offer and will be doing Countryfile 'full-time'???
That would be a turn-up as his One Show contract would mean that he couldn't take part in the tour and that was suspected to be the reason the show didn't want to risk him winning if they could help it.
http://www.strictlycomedancinglive.com/the-line-up/celebrity-dancers/celebrity-dancers-2011-2/
He's a safe pair of hands. (Unlike his One Show predecessor whose hands must have been rather sticky by all accounts)
Not to mention One Man and His Dog!
I'm happy for him, if this is what he wants. I'm also pleased that he stood his ground about Countryfile because that was the make-or-break part for him.
I think he's too well grounded to let any of the Strictly limelight go to his head. And with his new-found love of dancing, I'd bet my TV that he will do the full tour.
The ONe Show will always be there for late.
Can't see if he is working on both, that he'll also be able to be on the tour.
Matt's star was in the ascendency before SCD not because of it - Nice to see someone like him get on in life.
I may have misheard but didn't he say several times on Saturday that he was sad because this was the last time he'd be dancing with Aliona? That doesn't fit with doing the Tour.
In a radio interview on Friday he was certainly doing the tour.
Great for his fans to be able to see him in the same shows... not that I watch either one of them...but what's new? What has he won exactly?
Surely he will miss Aliona, the sequins and a dancefloor? What will fill that gap?
You're not on your own hun, complete personality vacuum imo.
We all knew he had been offered the One Show half way through the series. This just looks like someone trying to create a win for Matt out of already known information :rolleyes:
Still doesn't make him the winner of series 8.
Haven't we discussed this ad infinitum on other threads?