...put them together and you get something like, "You came out...full on...faffing around...That tickled me fancy. Seven." He just doesn't seem to say anything insightful anymore.

And he starts every critique with 'Well'!

Has anyone else noticed that?

Did he threaten to pickle his walnuts this year? I can't recall...

he did.

Did the story of the gauchos from Argentina come out at point around the Argentine Tango?

It's almost enough to make you miss Arlene's awful puns.

Or "Look" - or sometimes just to vary it "Look 'ere," usually followed by a disparaging comment.

You're getting on my wick....

You came out full bore.
You came out all guns blazing.
It was full of energy.

Just because you can fart to the National Anthem doesn't mean you have to do it.

You missed a heel lead there.

what about <..it was or roight but it wasn't brilliant - I wantcha to come ahht and give it more welly>

When he speaks, if you shut your eyes, he could be "Mr 'odges" the air raid warden in Dad's Army.

"Some dances just don't suit some people."
(*idiotic face at Craig's scoring*)
"It's hard for the male celebrities to *blah blah bling blah, literally anything, including breathing*
"...and by and large, you did that"
"I wasn't too keen on..."
"Give over"

It tickles me that unlike Bruno he doesn't bother modifying his expressions and language on DWTS to suit the American audience. Majority of the * WTF * moments on that show have been Len-related. Bruno's tend to be around his pronunciation, most recently "a pot-pourri of..." - a big deal was made of the fact that he pronounced "pot" to rhyme with "cot"

The recycling of the "You've got the guns but you didn't have the ammunition!" comment to Gavin - which he had already used on DWTS to "The Situation"!

Mind you, Gavin kissing Bruno was a straight steal from Donny Osmond a couple of seasons back of DWTS!

Spotted Dick springs to mind. The audience gasped and Bergeron had to step in and ask Len to explain what he meant.

Oh, I think Len knows very well which side of the Atlantic he is on and how to modify (semi)appropriately. I'm pretty sure for example that he wouldn't say he was as confused as a baby in a topless bar there for example.

I noticed that! Another notable recycled comment was his "you can't win DWTS in week 1, but what you can do is make a good impression..." or words to that effect, which he said to Jennifer this season (I think it was her) and then later to Pamela on Strictly. He also said "It's never to early to panic" on both DWTS and the Strictly launch show.

Talking of The Situation, I loved the fact that while Len was busy dreaming up soundbites incorporating his daft nickname, Bruno just ignored it and called him Mike the whole way through.


I remember that - they thought he'd said something rude

"Full on" and "You came out..." in the Christmas Special. He relies on cliches more than any other judge.

Len's explanation didn't help much.

Who was he talking about when he said that? And what did spotted dick have to do with the comment?

Unfortunately we didn't get that one because!.... we didn't get hardly any A'tangos.......

I can only remember two!, they were very thin on the ground this year!......

I believe he first said it to Steve Guttenberg in season six.
The dance was like a spotted dick, you put it in the oven and it comes out all flat and collapsed.

He repeated it in the last series. Can't remember who he said it to, but the American public reacted a bit shocked, because he left out the culinary reference.

Here's a nice montage of Len's comments on DWTS.