Surely I'm not the only one who finds it creepy that the girls have to take off their shoes at the end and hand them back to "the lord".

He probably can't help sitting there looking like a lecherous pervert, but I just imagine that after they've handed back the shoes, and the camera cuts away from him, he's sat there sniffing them like a foot fetish pervert.

He really shouldn't be on TV before the watershed...far too creepy.

I'd rather they had to hand back the dress too

If Mr. Lloyd-Webber was sniffing the shoes, it wouldn't be a foot fetish, it would be a shoe fetish.

And it isn't even that. If he was really that much of weirdo, he would not allow them to wear the white socks while in the shoes.

Do you mind - i just read this post and snorted and spat my wine out !
The image of ALW sitting on his throne sniffing shoes will haunt me now !

Speaking from personal experience are you???

And if it didn't look creepy before it does now.

One of the more obscure parts of A level psychology. Strangely enough, not in the exam.

This thread reminds me of an episode of Sex and the City where Charlotte got free shoes off a creepy guy with a shoe/foot fetish.