The sun is reporting today that Matt Cutler is to sign for DOI as a celeb!!! - the BBC have themselves to blame

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...#ixzz0vPGtYyI8

Not sure what I think about this.

He breaks a leg/arm/ankle whatever, that means his dancing career/demos/possible tours out the window for however long and possible long term complications,would he risk that ???

Bit of a bizarre rumour for The Sun to come up with though if no truth in it at all

He'll get paid more as a celeb on DOI than as a pro on SCD...

Hope he does well IF its true!

Another thought.......very exciting prospect (given the concern about the safety element) in principle.

Also doubt he will be appearing at all on SCD/ITT this year if proved true,( BBC producers won't be impressed ).......no more BBC/SCD celeb/pro tours at all ........it would be REALLY cutting all ties with SCD.

think ties will be cut anyway why tour if he isnt in the show - he can tour DOI and get paid a lot more

I wonder if the Sun have got it wrong and they mean as a judge on DOI? With his dancing. judging and choreography expertise he would be perfect (and he isnt mean like Jason!!).

Absolutely take your point on board but anyone who saw Matthew dance in the pro tour (and the other pros) in smaller venues than arenas will know what a pleasure it was to see a pro dancer/s perform up close to the highest level with no sort of boundaries or restrictions........i wouldn't like to think this years Pro tour would be the last time any of us will get a chance to see Matthew perform like that (at what he does best and has trained for all his life).

Can he do SCD Pro Tour 2011 and DOI 2011 ??? (obviously not)........if he could do both that would be ideal.

Just don't break anything limb wise on DOI !!........we are talking his career here.

But he already said that he would be making some appearances on Strictly and would be choreographing some of the Dance Troupe dances, so I can't see that he would do DOI and risk cutting all ties with the BBC. If he still makes some appearances with the Dance Troupe (but not every week) then he could still do the Pro Tour next year. Couldn't he?

Who knows if the BBC would take kindly to Matt doing DOI ?? ....i doubt it somehow,would they want to be seen promoting him this year on SCD for DOI next year on ITV ??

IF they don't he's out of SCD completely and that means no choreographing,no routines on SCD,no ITT appearances,no SCD tours Pro or otherwise......

Remains to be seen i suppose and the BBC might surprise everyone by keeping him on even if he is signed to do DOI ( i very much doubt it though unless he's already signed a cast iorn contract for SCD this year)

Well that article says time and again he has got the boot from Strictly, so he has to move on and sort out other things......

But he hasn't got the boot from Strictly so the article is inaccurate in that respect at least.

I think they may well have crossed wires here, and the lovely Matthew will be taking over from Emma as a judge. I hope x

With Matt being such a fab dancer he will have an advantage of natural balance and rhythm, Ray Quinn was also a dancer and he had done roller blading when he was young and finished up winning in 2009.

It would be fun I imagine. there have been some injuries over the run of the show but surprisingly few considering most of the celebs are stiff and wooden.

Matt would be great I hope he does it.

As Matt has walked out of scd he isn't likely to be included as a choreographer (that was/is the job of the new pro dance group), not likely to be asked to go on future tours, so guess he is free to do what he wants.

If it's true and he does DOI, I daresay there will be those who will say "it's not fair...... he shouldn't be on the show...... " etc etc etc.

As for the risk of breaking a bone - like all athletes, dancers take that risk all the time, and it doesn't end their careers - might put them on hold for a few weeks, but that's all. One pro dancer had a fall at practice only 3 days before a major competition, and broke his arm in 2 places - it didn't stop him competing!

Actually I rather like the idea (above) of Matt being a judge (presumably in place of Jason?), although I wonder if that would make the panel just a bit too nice? Jason might be the villain but he does add spice!!

Good luck to Matt

Matt hasn't walked out from SCD though he's just declined the offer of the dance troup and according to the man himself up to a few weeks ago would still be choreographing and appearing in a "few" routines.

Take your point about athletes/dancers risking breaking a bone all the time but surely doing what they do on ice would increase that risk. ??......Matthew isn't a pro that makes some of his money through other media avenues eg,gameshows etc (ie Brendan/Anton) so to my mind he is putting his main dance/teaching/performing career at risk more by doing DOI (if he is).

Fair enough the pro dancer you mentioned still competed with a broken arm but did he do as well as he would have done without the broken arm ?? never mind all the inconvenience it must have caused career wise...

As for the judge thing,Matt did Diet On the Dancefloor for Living TV a few years ago where he was a Judge/mentor/teacher/performer......possible judge i suppose for DOI but i still think the BBC wouldn't be best pleased and consequently he'd be cut loose totally by SCD/BBC.

If he is doing anything with DOI then i wish him well with it but its all just rather surprising speculation up to now ??

How can this be fair on the other DOI 2011 contestants, he is a professional dancer with ALOT of experience which means he'll likely get 6's throughout the show. I thought all the contestants are meant to be amateur?

Why is it any less fair than Suzanne Shaw, Ray Quinn or Hayley Tamaddon?

Besides, dance ability doesn't automatically mean a good skater. Jeremy Sheffield last year is a former ballet dancer but he wasn't good on DOI because he couldn't get over his fear and so was very tentative and didn't skate well at all.

IF it's true, then I'm looking forward to seeing him on DOI.

I really hope this is true. I love DOI, and I was gutted that Matt quite Strictly, I don't think he'd have any more of an advantage than anyone else really. His lines would be better that others, but skating is a whole different ball game.

Poor sod, DOI is such a lame show in my opinion. He is a professional dancer and should not have been sidelined like the others for this so called dance troupe.

Feel sorry for him.

I doubt Matt has signed any kind of contract with the BBC - any work such as choregraphing some of the pro routines are likely to be on a freelance basis. Also I think it was always highly unlikely that Matt would be asked to tour once he decided not to join the troupe, even the pro tour.

TBH if he is going to worry about injuries then he may as well not do DOI. As others have said any injury is unlikely to be career threatening. In 5 series only 1 person has had to drop out through injury.

I'd much prefer Matt as a contestant not a judge on DOI. If he can skate really well he could be as good as Ray Quinn.

Just because someone can dance on a nicely sprung dancefloor does NOT automatically mean that they will be brilliant at ice skating.

Bonnie Langford put on a wonderful performance each week when she was on DOI - but spent 90% of every routine being lifted or carried or doing tricks, and precious little time with her blades on the ice. She was used to getting into and out of lifts and knew how to hold herself in them.... at the end of the series she still looked like Bambi when asked to skate on her own......

IF Matt is doing it - he will have to DO the lifting so won't have the advantage of his performance skills to mke himself look good like the women can... and as he is taller than Ray, his lifts would be expected to be better (Ray didn't do spectacular ones as he wasn't that much taller than Maria) which limited what he could do.

Ray is the most successful of the male "dancers" who have been on there - John Barrowman was good but was inexplicably booted off in favour of the less talented Stefan Booth by the panel and no other male with dancing credentials has ever been brilliant... the women on the other hand....

I can't see this being true.