Boy, Anita Gobson can really go on and on and on. Makes a minute seem like an hour.

Don't forget Tesspit will want to examine his guns

Dan Lobb - boring and pedantic.

If you put the subtitles on, it just repeats over and over again

"I'm a serious actress and have done more than Eastenders...I'm a serious actress and have done more than Eastenders...I'm a serious actress and have done more than Eastenders...I'm a serious actress and have done more than Eastenders"

I officially vote Gobson as my fave name for Anita!

I've just watched the vids.

What a shame we no longer have our delightful Pet 60 year old Psychologist with us to opine on their peculiarities.

Some of them are the stuff of nightmares and I don't scare easily...they will make 'The Borgias' look like 'In The Night Garden'.

I have a question...

...when these wimin go and get their faces filled full of crap does it affect their eyesight?

Madame Pissoir is so full of latex she looks like a muppet and Chelseeee Chesticles is going to need some of BOD'sextra strong knicker elastic to keep her bodices tamed

Lu 'I've not had any work done -honest' Lu evah so humble and down to earth and down with the kids. vomit smiley .

Hi *waves" mimi. I'm with you on that.
Who's she dancing with again? Should be good for a name-meld.

Thou painteth such a vivid picture. Love it!

Yay, everyone came back! Including some next generation non-appreciaters! Now it feels like Strictly's starting again soon. I love the Strictly Bingo list!

I didn't watch the One Show but I'm positive that your summaries were much more entertaining. I hope Chelllssseeeee/ Taipoh/ Brighde uv Phranckinstine is good at dancing because she is effortlessly irritating me already. I know it can't be easy to came off as anything other than hopelessly vapid in those BBC interviews but if you can actually hear the wind whistling through someone's ears and spend half the interview looking for the lamp that's clearly shining through the back of someone's head in order to get the light in their eyes, it's not the best of starts. Wardrobe clearly hates her already though so at least she might be good for a horrendous outfit or two before she goes.

I have high hopes that Anita might turn out to be the luvviest luvvie that ever luvved on Strictly.

Mouldytrix/ Eggwina is frightfully earnest in her interview. I will be highly amused if she attempts to give Tess a political broadcast every Saturday night. You're not an MP any more, dear. You're mostly famous for being the one who somehow managed to have an affair with the cardboard cut out that replaced Maggie Thatcher.

Presenter guy really didn't seem all that interesting, considering how many forumites seem to be crazy about him. I've forgotten what he said already and I watched the interviews right before posting. Do you think someone should send Katya the Strictly bingo card so she can get right on it this year?

Could somebody please clarify for me how Robbie Savage can be the third most booked player in the premier league and the most booked player overall? Surely if he can at highest only be the third most booked player overall. (Though admittedly I'm not sure why that's something you'd want to boast about.)

I love the rumour that Pasha flatly refused to dance with Ourliona. I'm sad that Artem and Katya are to be split up because they were one of my favourite pro-couples last year but I'm sure Pasha and Katya will work just as well, and maybe Artem can cope with Aliona a little better than poor little Jared could.

Anyone remember last year when NotGoalie lost his best pleather jacket, went mental and got sent to Bognor/Tenerife for ages?

Have you read his posts today - he is not the same person. They are reasonable, balanced, considered, calm.

Either he got a given a lobotomy in Bognor or *gasp* we have a Fake NotGoalie on our hands.

Anyone know what's going on?

Because he wasn't really good enough to play in the Premiership, his best friends were all from Manchester United (he was in the youth team with them) and so played in the Championship (league below Premiership) for some of his career.

You have to sneakily admire a man who made a living out of being gobby and annoying, whilst having not a lot of talent.

He hasn't seen any of this lot dance yet, nor had to listen to The Experts talk bollox.
Just wait til Saturday....normal NotGoalie service will be resumed.


Or you could be right....

Could he be NotNotGoalie?

*waves* Hi Phoebefair.... I slipped in a Giant Squid reference yesterday, just for you!

On DS, there is a DavidJames and a David James. Maybe they've got mixed up? We have the wrong NotGoalie?

It hasn't actually started yet, he's always reasonable before they actually dance and then he gets really annoyed at all the nonentities hoofing around the floor being told "you was amazing" by Alesha when they danced like a giraffe on roller skates.

It does take a while for him to get there though. Wait until Anita scores 10 for being dragged through a foxtrot by Bruno and then stand well back!

Now this I can do. He only came third in the Premier League but has also been booked playing for Wales Seniors, Wales Under-21's, Wales Under 19's, Wales Under-Whatever's, Swansea Reserves, Neath Junior School First XI, his nursery school and probably for booting the other newborns in the maternity unit. So it all adds up to Most Booked Player EVER!

He could be fun in the Group Dance/Massacre they have at Blackpool. Particularly as Wembley is the New Blackpool this year.

Oy, he's actually from North Wales! Don't lump that tosser in with those of us from South Wales, we want nothing to do with him!

Russel Grant said he had lost ten stones...ahem...been borrowing the Natalie Cassidy scales again?

If Robbie Savage can 'cause an argument in a phone box' I think someone had better hide some of CRH's paddles

Thanks for that Mimi - there is only one, the Eternal GS Natalie Foreva.

Is NotNotGoalie that strange Motorway person in disguise?

Apologies: geography never my strong point.

Didn't think they had any land flat enough for a football pitch in North Wales.

Preferably paddles 3-10 so at least he can go on a journey! Bingo!

... Just thought I'd let you know.

There's some non-nonappers already deciding team names.

Apparently it's Vartem.

I nearly spat.

No worries! You'll hear him on SCD, he's slightly more Welsh than a Scouser but the North Wales accent is very different from South Wales and God knows where Alex is from, but that accent is horrendous.

My accent is more like Gethin's.

"Use VARTEM to get rid of all those hard to shift stains!"

... I actually did laugh out loud.

noooooooo - get in there and start the Heart'em Thread before we get beaten to it.