Thank you for your reports ladies. I'm not going this year, but nice to hear about it. Glad Simon and Kristina are having some wins.



This Q and A with Robin was posted outside. It's well worth a watch!
Thanks to the OP

You're welcome


Yes, I saw the DM article - it seems whatever you say they'll find some way to twist a story out of it. Some quite unpleasant comments about Artem under that article as well

I think I saw a tweet about the Lorraine thing too, so may be worth a watch

Looks like they are in the Radio Times as well - going by this article it's a good job Kara doesn't always listen to Hannah's advice

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/showbiz-t...y-Come-Dancing

Yes I think I saw a tweet about Lorraine when I was on my ipad, then on my laptop I couldn't find it.

BIB lol good job indeed, and the rest is history!

Echoing fridgy's thanks for the reports and adding continued thanks to Ellie for her links.

Fridgy just watched Robin and enjoyed his candour. He was brave or stupid to answer the question about Ola. It looks like James bit back with venom, with comments like perhaps you said it to look less beige, and that robin was only invited back to Strictly this year because Artem didn't come back.
Apparantly James has deleted the twitter comments, but they are showing on the main board.

Thanks Fridgesoup very interesting and surprisingly honest.

It was quite funny hearing him talk about the finalists' past training - he sounded like he'd got all his info from the DS thread on the subject

I was surprised he was so honest about Ola (I don't know if he knew this would go on Youtube?) and I guess James' twitter reaction was inevitable, although he seems to have deleted them pretty quickly. I used to quite like James but he must be a difficult person to be friends with - its amazing anyone tells him anything 'in confidence' as it seems he will use it on twitter as soon as it suits him.

Yes, I was a little surprised he commented about Ola, too. Will go and have a look on the MF to see James' tweets. Sound a bit youchy!

ETA: Had a look. Oh, dear. James and his 'threats' again. Cringe.


I'm always changing my opinion about James. Sometimes I admire his candour and think he's very loyal, but really wish, for his own sake, he would engage brain before speaking. Feel as if his and Ola's time on Strictly has been well and truly sullied in the last few months. Shame really.

Yes, it is a shame. I feel some sympathy for him because he obviously used to love being on the show and it must be frustrating to see all the changes and know that he and Ola don't 'fit' with the new direction, which is not necessarily an improvement. Some of Brendan's tweets suggest he feels the same way, but he's much less 'in your face' about it than James. As you say, I think he needs to engage his brain and consider the longer term implications of the things he says, particularly as he and Ola now both seem to have lost their Strictly income. If he really wants a career in TV presenting, being a loose cannon probably won't help (unless he wants to be a male Katie Hopkins type).

Kara at the Mr Selfridge premiere at Selfridges tonight

https://twitter.com/Selfridges/statu...034880/photo/1

Kara STV interview.

http://shows.stv.tv/mr-selfridge/new...-shows-return/

Had a little hiccup playing vt it seemed to jump to the middle of interview, I had to push it back to start.

Thanks I had the same problem, had to sit through the ads a few times but got it to play eventually - a nice interview.

Lol no adverts for me, it was a bit stuttery though. Yes an open interview from Kara, which I always like about her.

Kara's 'on screen husband', interview, for anyone who is interested.

http://shows.stv.tv/mr-selfridge/new...e-de-bolotoff/

Another jumping vt.

Behind the Scenes on Mr Selfridge on Good Morning Britain

http://www.itv.com/goodmorningbritai...n-mr-selfridge

And another 'Behind the Scenes' from Lorraine

http://www.itv.com/lorraine/showbiz/...f-mr-selfridge

Never really "into" Jeremy Piven altho friends have always said he was handsome .
Funny now I'm interested in the series because of Kara he s suddenly become ((especially in that)interview quite mmn easy on the eye I'm really a sucker for a handsome man think Kara's Russian prince is also nice to look at then there is Henri yet to appear. Sundays will keep my heart rate up to speed .
Lovely to see Kara getting so much coverage I always feel when she's interviewed that I "know" her and its like watching a friend ..I suppose following her and her Russian for so long is the reason .
Read that Artem is to be a judge on the Scd cruise in July .

Yes, Jeremy Piven is quite handsome - I've read some 'interesting' articles about his attitude etc. in the past, but Kara seems to get on well with him. I thought Gregory Fitoussi looked quite nice in his uniform

Kara does have a very warm way about her, like she is chatting to a friend - I think Dougray Scott mentioned it once, its something you can't 'act'.

Its nice that Artem is getting plenty of work on these cruises, but I must admit I wonder what has happened to the cats

BIB Understatement of the year, Ellie!

Thanks for the clips, I'm looking forward to the new series having watched the previous two back to back and really enjoyed them.

LOL

Just watched Kara on Mel and Sue - fun interview (although she didn't get to say much), she looked fab and I was quite impressed by her accents

http://instagram.com/p/yM7gWVJliM/?modal=true

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B8DR-EoCEAA5nyR.jpg

Vincent and Flavia were brilliant too - I saw Dance til Dawn a few months ago and loved it.

And another group photo too which is lovely
https://twitter.com/melandsue/status/558677482728349696

Great show today and lovely to see Kara as well as V&F. She's always beautiful

https://twitter.com/notebooklive/sta...604544/photo/1

Thanks Dilly, a lovely photo V & F are even amazing dancing the tango in a kitchen

Thanks Ellie and Dilly for the photos. It was a good show and Flavia and Vincent's tango was spellbinding.

Thought Kara's American accent was pretty good too.!

Thanks Ellie and Dilly.

http://www.rexfeatures.com/livefeed/...gramme,_london

http://www.itv.com/news/meridian/upd...-mr-selfridge/

Thanks There are some unfortunate pics of poor Robert Webb in there but again somehow Kara manages to look great in all of them (I think I have hair envy)


Quite funny seeing them being pulled along in that car with a bit of rope - its not all glamorous

Thanks, Karma. Much appreciated.