Hellaw all. Wasn't it good to see Matt back on our screens tonight So relieved to have him back on the sofa and Sarah M was better than I thought she would be. I thought she might overwhelm the OS with her gigglyness and talkative personality but she did well as a 'stand-in' presenter. I haven't seen her chat show yet but think it's on post-watershed so she's able to give rein to her rather naughty jokes. Bet she had Matt in stitches during the briefings with her wicked humour (and he may have blushed just a weeny bit )

Rory was a lively and interesting guest....missed the quiz about bad Christmas presents at the end of the show, but I'm sure all will make sense when I view it tomorrow It's good that Rory has been able to keep the weight off since he lost all those pounds training on SCD. I thought he looked very trim and dashing in his lovely woolly jumper (that would look gorgeous on our man).

Off to have the food I didn't eat before the OS, I was so eager to position myself on the floor in front of the telly that I forgot about my dessert and drink

And having just visited Oxford I feel duty-bound to watch Lewis so off I go for now......

Lovely pics from nov

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It's Countryfile on the 2nd of December and I'm still rushing through the picspams We're in the South Downs and Matt is talking about the naturalist Gilbert White.

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Hi all - I am trying to continue KK's photo review 2012.

Day 6 BBC 1 Thursday 2 August 2012 Olympics Park Studio 11.30-13.00
Matt presents the coverage of rowing finals (Men's double sculls, Lightweight men's four final and Women's eight final).
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Day 6 BBC 2 Thursday 2 August 2012 Olympics Park Studio 13.00-13.45
Matt crosses over to BBC2 and continues presenting the afternoon program.
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Day 6 BBC 3 Thursday 2 August 2012 North Greenwich Arena 14.00-19.00
Matt commentates on Gymnastics Artistic Women's Individual All-Round final alongside Mitch and Chris. All-round Great British gymnasts Hanna and Rebecca are among the qualifiers. I don’t have any pics of Matt cos I think he just dashes off to NGA and hops in to the commentary box after his daytime duties Pics of Hanna and Rebecca in stead of FBB while they are being introduced to the crowd. Matt talks through it.
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You can listen to Matt lovely dialect tone of voice in the video and their commentary in the video which I always find it very fascinating.
Video
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Day 7 BBC 1 Friday 3 August 2012 Olympics Park Studio 11.20-13.00
Matt presents the coverage of rowing finals (Men's quadruple sculls, Men's pair final, Women's double sculls, Men's single sculls) on BBC 1.
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Day 7 BBC 2 Friday 3 August 2012 Olympics Park Studio 13.00-13.45
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No Gymnastic Artistic event on that day.

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Day 8 BBC 1 Saturday 4 August 2012 Olympics Park Studio 11.20-13.00
The coverage includes the continuation of the Athletics (Men's 100m round 1 Heats, Women's Heptathlon Javelin Throw) and the rowing finals. Matt takes over from Mishal Husain.
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And Matt hands over to Clare Bolding in the afternoon.
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Previous Posts 2015 and 2029 – 4 August 2012 Matt in the Olympics Park studio (full picspam)
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No Gym Gymnastic Artistic event on that day but the Trampoline sessions taken place in the afternoon commentated by Mitch and Christine.

It was soooo lovely to have Matt back on our telly.
Night all!

Rather late post here....fell asleep But I do feel better now, it's been an exhausting day!

Thanks for the CF phawtaws KK, will peruse them shortly. I see there's a big 'Caution' notice in force

And yes, it was certainly wonderful to see our darling man back wasn't it Emma, a sight for sore eyes.

Hope we get some more waistcoat action this week...

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Off to bed now, and if anyone's still awake, the sweetest of dreams to you and restful sleeps.....:sleep: xx

Morning. Yes, lovely to see Matt back and looking so gorgeous, and lively, and tiggery and stubbly. I thought Sarah did very well as co-host. I too was a bit worried she might get carried away with herself but she knew what her job was.

Davina McCall tonight (as guest I think). Only my love for Matt would force me to watch anything with her in it. Hope he wears something amazing to make up for her presence!

Afternoon all. Normal service was definitely resumed yesterday Rating for the return of The One Show was 4.67m (21% share) so right back to it's usual level. It was the 10th most watched programme of the day (which wasn't bad as BBC had 2 half hour comedies in the list where normally there'd be a one hour show).

Afternoon all. - I agree with you 100% here. Hope that MB keeps the natives happy as DM is just one step too far for me but I shall have to keep the British stiff upper lip ( a waistcoat and jeans would help believe me)

SM was a rather good co host but must admit got lost a bit mid accent! Not my fave comidienne but was pleasantly surprised and lots of giggles with the lovely Rory Bremner who never fails to make me smile.

KK - CF cerainly kept its own against the first episode of DOI - really good rating and T1S - the return- did keep its market share as well so all is right with the world

It's all too familiar, isn't it. The hat, the scarf the warm jacket, the general wrapped-up look! Let's hope for some good T-shirt and henley days this year.

Although I do like this one
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And of course can't miss this one out
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But, not surprisingly, my favourites are indoor pics. Love these two
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All of this lot are wonderful of course. Have just picked a few
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Doesn't his skin look absolutely perfect in these.

Thank you kk.

Thanks kk for the fabulous review of 2012, lots of great pics of matt looking fabulous & gawgus

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Hello all - It’s jumper time! I need one too. It was very obvious that Matt made Sarah felt welcomed. The OS probably does something different for Sport Relief 2013 as Alex has been filming in Malawi but why won’t they set up a challenge for their presenters to go head to head dancing on ice for sport relief? The OS on Ice was just a teaser so why not let them doing it properly? It is not easy, quite challenging for them to learn and practice in limited time, I know. Health and safety needs to be in places but it would be rewarding IMO. They may come up with an idea that more OS viewers to get involved though.

Evening all

A great tos tonight, matt and sarah were having a great time and lots of laughs, having fun with davina getting her to do weightlifting with cake, i'm sure sarah would have loved to have a taste of it all the cakes
Davina was ok, not that they chatted with her much, not alot that you can say about a excise dvd

Matt was looking lovely in his red jumper, nice and stubbly, a very happy bouncy matt tonight, think he has been enjoying having sarah has his guest co-host. She is a good laugh would be happy to have sarah back as a guest presenter

Think its Comic Relief that AJ is doing - she went to Africa for the last one as well a couple of years ago to do a presentation.T1S seems to have its yearly C1N Challenge - suppose they cant do it all

Tonight 's T1S was typically random- which other programme would have weightlifting with cakes but it was funny.

Back to 1 hr tomorrow - will be interesting to see the ratings

Hellaw, saw most of OS tonight but need to watch again as I missed some of the cake-lifting bit! Sarah M was an enthusiastic stand-in host although for a couple of minutes she and Davina got a bit screechy together But they both calmed down under Matt's guidance as he brought order to the proceedings He looked great as usual but I'm hoping he'll be sans jumper tomorrow

So it's Gabby L as co-host tomorrow. She's a seasoned presenter so will be the hostess with the mostest? Anyway, it'll be a step up from presenting Splash, that rather ill-advised programme that has come in for such a bashing (splashing? ) from the viewers and critics alike!! She'll be glad to be in her comfort zone, in a well-lit studio with a handsome and professional presenter at her side Couldn't ask for more, could she?

Thanks Emma by the way for such gorgeous phawtaws from Day 8 of the Olympics, particularly this one.....

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It's a thing of beauty......what a charming picture!

So CCM to the good and the great who are still up! Night night, sleep tight. :sleep: xx

I thought Matt and Sarah worked really well together. He seems very relaxed with her, more so than usual. Gabby Logan is another lady who irritates me, but not as much as Davina. Thank goodness Matt and Sarah between them finally managed to shut her up. I thought she was going to spend the whole programme talking about her DVD!

Mike D, bless him, is probably the only presenter in the world who can make killer whales seem dull. I like Matt's compensatory over-enthusiasm for the subject -or was he just taking the mickey? He does like to do that with Mike D.

Didn't like the red jumper or the trousers, but there was lots of stubble so I'm happy. I'm just happy to have him back really

4.76m for TOS lat night. Pretty good, and it was the 7th most watched programme.

Yes, I saw that and thought it was a pretty good rating - I've tried to find the percentage share but nobody seems to have posted it yet. I hope today does well too

I'm looking forward to seeing Matt being hypnotised. Wonder what he'll come up with. I seem to remember last year Alex thought she was a window cleaner!

We have it. 21.7%. Not bad at all.

I was glad to see Death in Paradise doing so well too. I like Ben Miller

Afternoon all

Looking forward to tonight tos and seeing matt getting hypnotised, sounds like it could be funny
Should be able to see most of tos, off out to the cinema later


Gawgus matt in a lovely waistcoat, lots of great pics

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Hello all – Very interesting show tonight and somebody’s seriously HOT, utterly lovely and gorgeous again! It is wonderful to see he is making good friends with the multi-colour collection of waistcoats! Really, really suits him, as he’s body is in great shape. I was expecting that he might have come back with a bit of xmas pie/pud belly after Christmas break but he hasn’t so I am v impressed that he manages to maintain his fitness level so well. And he’s been hypnotised and Alex has just missed the opportunity to see how her sofamate was hypnotised by Paul. It’s only fair! I have to re-watch it again cos I couldn’t manage to listen to what Paul has said about Matt’s single-mind or something like that. Gabby was fine co-hosting with Matt on the OS. She and Matt hosted the show before Alex and Jason’s debut. I found the young ballerina’s story interesting.

Day 9 BBC 2 Sunday 5 August 2012 North Greenwich Arena 13.15-17.00
The Artistic Gymnastics finals (Men's Floor Exercise, Women's Vault and Men's Pommel Horse finals) starts early on that day so Matt has no morning presenting duty if I am not mistaken. But as busy boy Matt not just commentates on Gymnastics, he interviews Dan and Sam twice, and Mitch and Chris at the end of the program as well. (Helen Skelton was his little teammate interviewing Louis's mum earlier on that day. It was a big day for Louis and Max as they respectively won Silver and Bronze in the pommel horse final.)
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Matt interviews Dan and Sam first and then Mitch and Christine
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Previous Post 2023 & 2470 – 5 August 2012 Matt at the North Greenwich Arena (full picspam)
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Video
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/...istic/20120805

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Day 10 BBC 1 Monday 6 August 2012 North Greenwich Arena 13.45-16.00
Matt presents and commentates on the Artistic Gymnastics Women's uneven bars final starts on Day 10 alongside Mitch and Chris. (It was an early start so no morning duty but it was another very busy day for Matt as he was in and out of the commentary box, interviewing Imogen and Jenny, Beth’s parents twice and also Christine and Louis. Poor Mitch had to cover both Matt and Christine!)

Here, the Angle of the North Greenwich Arena, Matt Baker…some pics are new ones!
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Cute close-ups of Matt at NGA (he has lovely v expressive pair of eyes!)
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Matt interviewing Imogen and Jenny….
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Previous Post 2605 – 6 August 2012 Matt at the North Greenwich Arena (full picspam)
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Video
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/...istic/20120806

Emma - thank you for recapping the Olympics It's great to look back on those weeks where Matt did such a good job and made himself a lot of new fans.

And Paul's comments on the One Show tonight were about how when Matt was hypnotised he became single minded and very focused on what he was doing. It was fascinating to see that because I think Matt does love art and would probably like to take it more seriously and I think some of that came out when he was hypnotised

Onto The One Show on 3rd of December with guest Harry Hill and I'm still doing these really quickly

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Think I was too hypnotised by the return of the waistcoat to take much notice of anything else and then had to lave before the end. No matter I will catch Matt Van Gough on i player.

CCM all as am feeling a tad under the weather and going to make my way up the wooden hill:yawn::yawn: