Sorry I'm going to spoil all the banter now and be serious, sorry. Before long I think the Beeb are going to find it hard to find anyone prepared to go on the show. This year the celebs haven't really been the top of the cream have they. Mind you I have enjoyed some of them that have been on and some of them have been brill (Chris and Ali). but each year the 'real celebs' seem to drop in numbers. I think both the breakfast shows are virtually out of dancers now. Penny Smith has already done a contest before, remember her singing with Curtis Siegers!!!So next it will be mid morning presenters.

There's lots of people who would be good on Strictly.
Eammonn Holmes springs to mind as a candidate.
The female equiv of John Sergeant , Jo Brand is ideal.
John Prescott could be good.
Louis Walsh can probably do a nice samba.

Indeed. And Lynda Bellingham got a fair bit of campaigning in on Loose Women.

I wish it WAS true that BBC presenters got a huge advantage....perhaps Gethin wouldnt have been binned by the judges in series 5. This is complete rubbish, no one is daft enough to vote for someone just because Bill and Sian support them. What all these threads are about is .....'I dont like Chris, I dont understand why anyone would like Chris as I dont like Chris, so there must be some kind of bias or conspiracy because I dont like Chris'. The truth is a lot of people DO like Chris and have liked him since week 1 and have been voting for him because THEY DO LIKE CHRIS it wouldnt matter if he was a presenter on QVC shopping channel....they just LIKE HIM

I don't see why they shouldn't compete at all but I was very disappointed by BBC Breakfast this morning.

They got their boy through fair enough but they could have spared a little thought for Ali and Brian and instead of highlighting that was she nervous and showing just a clip from her Argentine Tango, it might have been gracious of them to show her beaming and doing her American Smooth as well. And maybe finishing it off with a 'well done, sorry to see her go, she did well.'

Chris said he wanted to do Ali and Brian proud in the final and the whole thing did smack of justifying Chris and Ola in the final so I guess they were being defensive but it was very disappointing.

You also forgot to mention, that Chris stated that he was feeling guilty, because he knew how much Ali and Brian wanted to be in the final. He certainly wasn't gloating and reiterated again how friendly the couples had become.

However, I agree they should have shown a nice clip from her AS. They are bound to do this on ITT tonight tough.

I hope so, and not too much fawning and sniggering over the kiss / couple thing either. They did really well and it'd be nice to celebrate their achievements with a bit of dignity rather than behind the bike sheds giggling.

Yes this is true and Chris first mentioned this during his first sports report of the morning long before Ian came in. He looked extremely folorn saying he felt really bad for Ali as they had all become such friends and it was horrible for someone to have to go, and that a lot of 'fans' were not happy he had put Ali out.......Bill pointed out correctly that HE didnt put Ali out because the public voted for him.

Actually it was Bill who tried to get some fighting spirit from Chris (which didn't work). Ian made me rather laught, when he very insincerely said, "you can beat Ricky".

I dont' know why people hate Chris so much. He is very articulate, very considereate of the other contestants and his partner. He has tried to improve and he never complains or moans. I sincerely hope on Saturday, we will have two couples who respect each other and enjoy the finale. Chris will be the first one to say that the better man has won, when and if Ricky lifts the trophy.

Indeed he would because he is very sporting I am pretty sure he was convinced he was going home on Saturday.

Like another poster I had opened this thread with dread but this really has made me ROFL. Thanks all. A sense of humour hasn't entirely been lost on here....there is hope.

We should have kept it going. The best thing for me today was opening the Radio Times and finding "Sean of the dead" advertised for the pre-xmas period. How very apt.

How about that awful looking new James Cameron film? There'll have to be a ban on blue aliens competing. They would have an advantage because blue is a lovely colour that everyone likes and it would subliminally make people vote.

If it's on the BBC then I'm writing to points of view, the zombies should not be allowed to start self promoting on a publicly funded channel a clear 9 months before the start of the competition

It's a fix I tell you. These zombies are cunning things.

Nancy1975, you are a color-ist and I don't like it. If you want to bash someone, bash the pink people. They do have the unfair advantage of having the same colour as the forum (a dead give away that they will win the competition).

Ah no, apparently they're 10' tall so they couldn't jive, definate disadvantage that cancels out the blueness, and besides, I'm pretty sure you'll find many a zombie with a blue tinge to their skin, and they don't tend to be 10' tall - it's all being fixed for the zombies to win

Colourists make my skin crawl. Not wanting someone on a show just because their skin is a primary colour is just narrowminded. It's no wonder that the BBC hasn't been able to attract a single cast member from The Simpsons with attitudes like that flying about.

Not often I'm stumped for an answer on here but sorry I am this time. Serves me right for not thinking through my original post properly.


And....ditto.

That old Hammer film Plague of the Zombies is a precursor to what is in store next year. They will comprise the entire line up and no matter what happens, one will win. You keep knocking them out, and like the film they keep emerging back from the grave waving their hands and dancing.

The series could last 76 years.

This current one feels like it's lasted as long.

Just wait until the week one of the zombies askes for a bye.
Carnage.
Although - what would make a zombie get a bye?

This just made me laugh out loud.

And they are soooooo the judges pets. Some judges just give them marks for actually being pink ... how unfair is that!

Bhoy is that you.

It's pretty simple why a Zombie would get a bye (you have not read this thread properly, have you). Zombies with flying limbs have an unfair advantage. Everybody knows there is a positive correlation between the amount of limb flying and the decomposition of the zombie body. Now if one of these zombies lives in a particularly cold area of the Uk (let's say Scotland), they do not decompose as quickly as some of the zombies in the south. Ergo, vis a vis and concordingly, they should get a bye until they have caught up with the decomposition process of the other contestants.

Ah, OK sorry
You get a bye until you are suitably drippy.

Yes but you could see Len going all macho man on them, and calling them fancy nannies or something like it. Len likes his bloke colours, maybe a saturated green (I watched Mars Attacks the other night)

Well, yes - that's a point. Although, Len has the casting vote in elimination and if a better dancing over marked Pinkie went out to an entertaining Greeny just because of Len's bias then that might just be a travesty