Oh, purleese. There is a world of difference between being moved to shed a quiet tear by an evocative piece of music, poem or work of art, which 'us Brits' have always been capable of, notwithstanding our collective stiff upper lip, and the hysterical weeping and wailing that surrounded the death of the Princess of Wales.

I will no doubt need to dab away a tear or two when the Military Wives sing this evening, but I didn't need Diana Princess of Wales to teach me how.

I hope you aren't being disrespectful to Diana. You are speaking to a fan!

The Military Wives on Strictly tonight will be very emotive. I just wish it was LIVE. It would be even more powerful then.

Norbitonite wasn't being disrespectful to Diana.
Just to you! I can understand why.
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Neither is acceptable!

Well, the idiots clapping and cheering and the way the camera virtually ignored the choir completely ruined that for me.

The lead singer with all the tattoos was off key.

Personally this is one performance I think they could have not had any dancers perform at.

At least she had the balls to get there and do it

Fair play!!

What were the producer's playing at allowing all that clapping and cheering - totally inappropriate. Surely they audience should have been told to shut up.

I also agree that you didn't need the dancers either.

No doubting that, maybe she was nervous, doubt if the BBC would have given them much rehearsal time, too many of them to accommodate.

I guess she was proud of her tattoos,

i like the whole idea, but its an absolutely dreadful song

For once I was grateful for the audience clapping and cheering. It drowned out the noise fom the choir. No matter how good the cause or the intention, there is no excuse for giving airtime to people who cannot sing.

I actually found much of the behaviour that surrounded her death distasteful. I was of course shocked by what happened and thought it very sad. I watched the funeral, was moved by it and shed more than a tear for her family. But the weeping and wailing, beating of breasts, the demanding that the Queen - who was quite properly in Scotland consoling her grandsons - must return to London, that a Union flag must be flown at half mast over Buckingham Palace in contravention of centuries-old tradition, all of that I found self-indulgent, intrusive and disrespectful of her sons' private grief and, yes, very un-British.

Well done to Gareth and the Wives. I love the song. Very powerful, anthemic and emotive.

Let's raise lots of money for charity and at the same time, prevent Simon Cowell getting another Number 1.

You really are pompous aren't you?

I don't like tattoos either but last time I checked they didn't effect anyone's singing.

Well done to all of the choir, I really enjoyed this and so hope they get to number 1 with their single....Vincent and Flavia, absolutely stunning as ever!

None of those women pretend to be professional singers. They were brought together by Gareth to create a community for the wives home alone,while the guys are serving away, to give themselves some self confidence. Remarks like that don't help. They were fantastic!!

I lost a grandad and an uncle in the last world war... and find the likes of this "act" utterly naff, calculating and tasteless... it's like "microwave" or "boil in the bag" emotion.. These things should be spontaneous, otherwise they are worthless and demean everyone involved.

No I'm very sorry but they weren't fantastic. They were off key, sharp, and their timing was shot.

I appreciate you are speaking from a singing perspective but the song (which was written for them from words they had written to their husbands) could only be sung by them as it is their own feelings which make them and their singing fantastic.

No matter what the intention was behind the cutting of the single, the execution of it was dire.

I agree with all of the above posts, I love Gareth Malone and, when I heard that he would be on Strictly with the choir, I said I didn't want to see dancers as well .... now, I also love to watch Vincent and Flavia but, on this occasion, the focus should have been on the choir, imo

I had never heard the song before and don't feel I've heard it now as I could only catch a few words. The audience were ridiculously noisy.

I loved the choir and I loved the dancing but I did not like the way the dancing overshadowed the choir

I thought the BBC would treat the choirs appearance in the same way when The Soldiers were on and tell the audience to only clap/cheer the dancers and singers when they had finished.

It's strange that only some of the audience started to clap the dancing so it seems most of them wanted to listen to the singing.