There's been so much adverse publiity, they must be grateful for any crumbs of comfort at the moment.

Perhaps if we agitate enough for any long felt SCD wants that we may have been harbouring, they'll give it to us just to shut us up!

See I'm just too naive - trying to see the best in the big boys all the time: Mental note to self - they're all idiots, they'll do what they want.

Time to start emailing the BBC - every week, only took Andy Dufresne (Shawshank) 5 years... you never know!

And he still had to crawl through a river of excrement at the end of it all...

Whilst Karen is clearly very knowledgeable, a judge's role is very different from what she's currently doing for ITT.

I fear that her tendency to speak her mind wouldn't have made her many friends.

She might find it difficult to be candid about former colleagues and dance partners.....but it is a joy to hear her coherent comments and perfect grammar on ITT.

Alesha has improved and will continue to improve, but the judging panel has lost its bite with Arlene's removal.

I wonder what Darcy Bussell will bring to the mix?

Ive never really liked Karen much but she has been such a revelation on ITT. Her knowledge of ballroom and latin seems to be so much more in depth than the other judges and she explains it in a way that makes it easy for non dancers like myself to understand. There's no fancy jargon from her.

The Beeb missed a trick by not hiring her as a judge. Why are they trying to compete with X Factor? Its a totally different show, thats always been panto and all about the judges rather than the contestants. SCD is not about that and in fact Cheryl ruins the other show for me.

I don't think that'd be a problem for her at all. She was still judging couples like James/Ola and Darren/Lilia on a semi-regular basis while she was actually on the show at some of the bigger events. And while these couples did well, they've never placed near the very top in 'open to the world' competitions.

Karen = the best replacement for Arleen