I agree.

I like Tess and think she is heroic in the way she puts up with BF

Although I wouldn't like to be trapped in a lift with her because would get on my nerves, she is perfect for SCD.

Whilst I do think Tess is a bit of a fool - I'm a Lancastrian and it was always chips & gravy for us. Just been chatting to a mate from Manchester and it was same for him.

Only really knew about curry sauce when we moved to the Midlands. And no-one knew what Dandelion & Burdock was, which was very upsetting as I loved it as a child.

I don't think that she is an idiot, but I do feel that sometimes when she is talking to the couples immediately after the dance her brain and mouth fail to connect.

Is Tess an idiot? Well, if so, I wish I could earn as much as an idiot!

Tess is from Derbyshire which is where she gets her awful, cooples and joodges, from

I thought that too. So stupid to ask that ask question.

Re Tess, Matt and Aliona in the tesspit..


Tess: Matt, will you get a ten tonight!
Matt: Nah. I don't think so Tess, judging by the remarks just now.
Tess turns to Aliona : So, you are going for a ten then.


lol

Tess is very good in what she does as she rarely loses her place on the auto-cue.
I can't tell if she has a personality "as it isn't written in."

What does annoy me is her affected use of the "oop" type pronunciation of certain words, as she isn't consistant with it.
I guess being in the TV business for so long she has lost that very localised North Manchester sound so has to remember to use it, but it because of unscripted interruptions, it disappears when she's "behind in her reading" and is attempting to catch up.

I believe Claudia seemed to be constrained by the producers of her programme after her first year of IT2. She became less unpredictable and thus not quite so hilarious.

She may be under orders not to upstage Tess. But her personality works best when she's more closely observed by the camera as she is in IT2, than on the Sunday show.

I don't mind her accent. It's the words she says which are often ridiculous, cringeworthy and ill-judged; and they still would be, regardless of whether she was from Oxford or Aberdeen or Cardiff or Coventry.

Me too!!! I had never even HEARD of curry sauce as a child in Lancashire. Everybody has gravy on their chips there!

Yep what was she thinking

I actually have some sympathy with that. I have always lived in the south east, but both my parents are from Sheffield. I grew up saying words like 'dance' with a northern accent at home, but at school learned to say 'dahhnce' to avoid being teased. I generally stick to a northern pronunciation now as it feels more natural, but in moments of stress it can come out either way!

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What's this all about?

It's against T & Cs to discuss bans on the forum.

I find her OK, have got used to her over the years. Irritated me a bit at first as she sucked up to Bruce too much, but then I realised that she was just 'looking after' him - is he doddery? well yes, just a bit.
But really, I have enjoyed the format up until Arlene got booted off, (Alesha should have been brought in as a 5th judge) Now we are being deprived of the regular professionals who we have got to know & love. The Beeb call it 'keeping it fresh', but if it ain't broke - don't fix it.

I'm a Lancastrian and we never had no gravy on our chips. Black puddings or tripe but no gravy. All we got was a heavy lashing of salt and a good few squirts of vinegar.

Sheffield is my home town too, and I was made to feel rather awkward about my heavy Northern accent when I moved to London. But over the years, and moving around, it seems to have disappeared. I actually do not like to hear certain Northern accents and Tessa's over enthusiastic use of hard vowels gets right up my nose. But Craig's 'dahhling' & 'disaarsterous' I find hilarious.

I think accents are a bit like languages, "you learn to speak them."


Our daughter is "bilingual."
Born on the southcoast to parents from south London and Surrey she moved with us to south Manchester at the age of 5.
She developed some "bath and path" northern sounds as she didn't want to "stand out" at school, it was far less noticeable at home.
When she and a friend went to study nursing in central London, she reverted to the accent she had when she was five, which amazed her friend as she had no idea she was originally from the south.

Funniest thing is that when Tess said to Michelle they serve the chips with gravy after mentioning that blackpool is las Vegas of the uk, I thought she meant gambling chips!!!! I went, that is so disgusting! The gambling tables must be a mess!

I just can't escape the feeling that if a celeb reported that they were worried about one of their kids who'd been taken to hospital, Tess would offer one line of sympathy and then carry on with the autocued script. Rachbot? Gavbot? Imho she out-bots them all.

^^^^^Not right to think she is an idiot, but she does get on your nerves slightly. Seems a tad biased towards Anne, whatever happened to impartiality. Gone out of the window in my books. She has done it in pervious years, it's a queue of mistakes by her, seems to like entertainment factor but not the dancing. Needs to care more about the dancing instead of bleeding us consumers of our hard earned cash and revenue for the bbc. Seems a great presenter and then goes and ruins it at the best of times.

How many in here have ever been on tv doing some sort of presenting/interview/guest?
Not that I think that Tess is great or anything, but it is much harder than it looks, so I wouldn't call her an idiot, just not great.

No, Tess is good at her job - that's why she keeps it.

Only northerners give a flying fig about mistaking chips and gravy for chips and curry and use it as a measure of intelligence.