Hello! Managed to find some time to get on here. I miss Matt as I haven't seen him on TV since Sunday

Still feeling rubbish as I have a cold that I'm hoping clears up before my holiday this weekend...

For Hustle - yes, I think everyone involved decided they'd gone as far as they could. It was their decision to end the series not the BBC. There's a new series on Sunday night's by the same production team called "By Any Means" and it has a similar feel, but on the other side of the law. It's a covert police team who essentially set up crooks to obtain convictions when regular police work fails. They have a similar sort of "stuff happening and then they tell you how they did it at the end".

Evening

Nice to see you popping in, KK. Hope you feel better.


I know SkyBlue. Not just Tony and Aliona. How can I forget how they treated Matt and Aliona. I forgave them and have already moved on but I won’t forget it cos forgiving and forgetting is two different things. I managed to watch Tony and Aliona on ITT. Haven’t seen the results show yet though. Do you know which strictlydresses Julien has designed? I have no idea. He seemed to be mad about sequins. I do like Ben Di Lisi’s designs. If I am not wrong, Aliona’s AS and Tangodresses were his works and they are my all time favourites of Aliona’sdresses on strictly.

Sorry about 2 words putting together. Annoying "1nkd3t3" I hate it!

Evening all

A really good tos, great way to start tos, alex doing a bridget jones, funny, I've never watched either of the bridget 2 films
Helen was lovely chatting about the books and the films, she was quite moved by the vt about the ladies bj love storys
Graham was fab as he always is when he comes on, very funny, I sometimes watch his show, it does depend on who's on.


Matt was in good form full of beans and bouncyness and looking gawgus in his spotty shirt and jacket, the shirt had very good snw and wowage
Alex got her tongue in a right twist again, which made everyone in the studio laugh




I did see them on ITT, Tony was very nice, such a shame he couldn't have stayed another week. I don't know if julien has
design any of the dress's but the thing he was wearing sat was so OTT is was scary it did distract you from his dancing


Hope your cold clears up soon kk,

Hello kk. Sorry to hear you're still not feeling well. We seem to be going down like flies at the moment don't we. And, yeh, hope you're better for your holiday - that's the most important thing.

By Any Means sounds good. I think it might clash with Homeland so will have to check and record one or t'other. So much depends on the casting with this sort of series - either you like them or you don't. They got it right with Hustle so I'm optimistic

PS. You've got some good Matt catching up to do

I've never seen Bridget Jones either - or read the book(s)? Have I missed something good?

What exactly did Alex say tonight when she got tongue-tied that had them all laughing so much? I missed it. I must say I thought she was great in the opening bit. Very well mimed and acted. I remain not really a fan of hers but she does seem to do justice to this sort of thing.

She was doing a link to a vt about learning to read and really messed it up, not sure what she said got wrong as everyone was laughing so much

Evening


I watched Bridget Jones’s Diary a couple of time and have read the novel once as well. I liked them especially the sequel The Edge of Reason. You see I am a big fan of Mr Darcy from Pride and Prejudice so Mark Darcy has become my favourite character. So I can see Matt as the gorgeous Mark Darcy as well.

Evening

Brrrr it's turned cold today

Matt was all wrapped up in his snug cardie and some unbuttonage with the shirt, nice trews and lots of stubble, gawgus, a happy matt

Mrs brown boys is something else I've not watched, brendan was a good guest having a good laugh with matt about his love of a good cardie, a fun tos.

The snug blue cardie, lovely pics kk


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Good morning all! I'm back from my work trip and have some catching up to do before I head off on holiday for a week from tomorrow

I may even find the time to do a picspam or two to tide you over for another week

I thought Mrs. Brown's Boys was total rubbish the first time I saw it, and couldn't understand the fuss. I've now got used to it and quite like it. Old-fashioned farce or pantomime. Wouldn't say it was the greatest comedy I've ever seen though.

How dare people complain about the elbow patch jacket - it's a lovely jacket, and I like this one too

Love these 3 pics:
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And this is a beautiful close-up:
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Hellaw all - peeps from behind door. Long time no post so must slap wrist.

I missed all the gym stuff - away on me hols and then visitors

Thanks for all the lovely piccies (I know I am a tad late but just catching up as on my ownsome). What a lovely start with the gymnatic trio strutting their stuff. And lucky Beth in their rather- ahem -strong arms.

What would we do without you clever clever ladies.

I think the marks on SCD (IMO) are too high at this stage and I really did think TJ should have gone first but Juliens outfit did he design it! It was a close run thing .

I loved Bridget Jones' diary mainly for the gawgus Mr Darcy and the wonderful actor that played him

Have a well deserved break and enjoy!

I'm on holiday next week so I'm trying to leave you with at least one picspam to tide you over with

It's the 19th of September on The One Show with guest Kate Humble. Who clearly loves One Man and His Dog SO MUCH that she obviously talked to Matt - her co-presenter on the show a couple of times - about it being cancelled when she was on this show - before talking to the press about her "one women mission to bring it back" . Strange that Matt wouldn't have mentioned how he was hosting it on Countryfile this year (Stories in this week's press have Kate saying that it's wrong the show has been cancelled by the BBC - http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2013-...an-and-his-dog - either she's upset she's no longer presenting or there's some selective interpretation happening there with the press...)

Matt was wearing a very fine knit coral jumper (you could see the spots on his shirt through the material ) and a pair of indigo jeans. And this was the episode in which Matt introduced Bob his new sheepdog to the world

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Good evening

Welcome back KK from your work overseas (hope the cold/cough is on its way out) and goodbye as you start your well-deserved hols Bon voyage!

Interesting discussions about OMAHD and what Ms H did or didn't know Well at the end of the day, the powers that be decided that OMAHD rests perfectly within the boundaries of CF...and we all say hurrah It's going to be a major success and will get massive viewing figures!

Lovely OS on Wednesday with Helen and Graham....if anyone's interested (and they're probably not!) I've never read BJ but enjoyed both BJ films, the 1st hilarious one more than the 2nd which featured prison and a too-long sequence with fellow inmates all singing Madonna . And, yes, I know I'm an old fogey Graham was a hoot as usual and played along with all the silliness (he's used to that )

And yesterday's edition with Brendan was very funny, a good rapport between him and M/A. All in all, the progs have been terrific (shame about the Friday edition )

I see we have 2 clips of Matt on Sunday's CF, the producers dare not leave him out. Even old Mattage is better than none at all

Thanks KK for the recent picspam, MrB looks so gorgeous in that jumper.....haven't had time to peruse properly but I'll just do a lucky dip:

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Wanted tochoose a couple more but computer has seized up again,been doing that a lot recently....

Better say CCM and sleep tight MBlovers! :sleep: xx

Evening all

Hi Lotus how are you, enjoying being a lady of leisure



Great pics of matt playing with the big boys toys, looking gawgus, thanks kk

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Welcome back kk, hope the work trip went well, have a relaxing holiday

hallaw, are we watching scd tonight, I cant believe that it's 2 hours long. I'll be shattered!

Thank you as always for the pic spams KK, hope you have a great holiday

Other than that I'm becoming impatient waiting to hear about Rickshaw Challenge 3, hopefully there'll be something about it this week, I hope!

Good Strictly tonight for the most part - including 2 very good rumbas. And I'm pleased to see there is still no-one who can equal Matt's samba - though it could have been even better if he'd been wearing Ashley's shirt

Some good dances tonight, Natalie rumba was very good, enjoyed ashleys samba, along with sophie, ben and susanna
Not liking patrick very much, dave was terrible but would still like him to stay in over julien and vanessa who I hope are going to be in the dance off

Hello

I have found the evidence of Matt having captured the attention of Chinese nation.

PM question time
http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMjgzOTEzMTY0.html

Cha Cha Cha
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What a surprise! You would need to wait a bit for the ads in first few seconds. Let me know if you can’t view them.

Some nice pics from 'Once' Musical UK Press Night (KK and myself has posted some but these are the better ones)
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Digging out some good old pics from 2008 BBC Children in Need – Around the World in 80 Days:
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I am wondering when the OS will introduce us team rickshaw 2013 and the entire route the team will ride. Think we will see team collaborating with Viewranger, Medibike and Across the Divide soon. Hope we get to see good promo pics.

Looking forward to see Matt’s clip with Anthony Worrall Thompson on CF Compilation - Wild Harvest tonight at 6.20pm. It was filmed during SCD 2010 in either VW or Rumba week and hasn’t been repeated yet. Broken spectre was at least repeated twice already but would be nice to see Matt and his binocular.

Having caught up last night SCD and I am still very happy that I didn’t watch live. I skipped some uninteresting VTs and comments and scores so all worked perfectly well for me. In VTs some couples have plenty time to go out from training rooms and spend their time somewhere to practice for the sake of motivation or something like that. Incredible!

I think Natalie can dance like a pro. Don’t know she and Artem would manage to win the series as this is not just a dance competition but she appeared to be consistently the strongest contender. Ashley, Sophie and Susanna have potentials to be good dancers but they are not so consistent.

And I spotted that M&A’s VW and AS floor spins in Iveta’s last night routine in rather brief and slow walking movements. Also M&A’s AS spin in Patrick’s routine in rather running movements.

I have no favourite at all as I don’t get bonded with any couples but I think Natalie is great and Artem’s routines are interesting; Ben and Kevin are appeared to be likable; and it is very likely that Ashley and Ben will get supports and votes from many women. Pure guess that Rachel, Ben and Patrick will fight for a place for semi-final.

At first I was a bit surprised that Matt didn’t mention anything about OMAHD on the OS when he introduced his 12 weeks old puppy border collie Bob to Kate. But my second thought was it wasn’t that necessary and they would have overrun the show if he did. It was more like ‘Bob will be trained very shortly so watch this space’. I could have understood her if the program was being axed but what a surprise that she didn’t seem to know or has observed about the show with a bit more interest. If I were her, I’d have observed a bit more before I’d say something. Anyway it could be the media’s publicity stunt as well.

All I knew was Matt joined the show in 2007 as a commentator alongside Gus while Ben was still a presenter. She became a co-presenter, Ben’s replacement in 2008 and OMAHD website introduced her like this:

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00g22m8

Again in 2009

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00phhsn/episodes/guide

And I got the impression that OMAHD will still be aired on the BBC red button at the regular timeslots despite the highlights we used to see on BBC 2 will be shown in segments at primetime on CF on BBC 1. What I prefer to see is CF special edition of OMAHD in full an hour show. If not and if it would be split into segments, I prefer each segment not less than 20 mins which was half of an episode aired on BBC 2 in 2007. On other note, Matt mentioned about a judge that Adam went to see him in Wales. So I do wonder is it him Matt referring as a TV legend about to join CF. But I tended to think that TV legend is Gus because he is.

The pics are looking great, thanks KK and these caught in my eyes:

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Lovely spotty shirt, but it is too buttoned up, but there was a nice wow, great pics kk.

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Evening all! Good autumnal themed clip show - 2 Matt clips from when he was on Strictly. In the 2nd one in Perthshire he's wearing my favourite checked shirt and he was looking fabulous with the first stubble attempt (I tweeted this pic where he's leaning on a tree and I think he looks great - http://twitter.com/mattbakerfans/sta...136384/photo/1)

And then we had a tiny bonus clip at the end of Ellie's mushroom clip - that one came from earlier in 2010

Great selection of clips on autumnal CF tonight… Thank you CF production team!

I grabbed a few screencaps too KK (but not the one you captured) cos’ it’s hard to resist the loveliness, the cuteness and the gorgeousness of the unkempt FBB:
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I really, really miss Matt on strictly!