And to make matters worse............ Bloody Lu Lu was on BBC Breakfast this morning.

She's going on tour next year apparently.

10 seconds of Tina Sparkle does feel like being force fed dolly mixtures so you're probably right.

Who is Tina Sparkel, please?

With all the cringe-ing, I'm a bit out of the loop.

Joanne from Grimsby

Wot mimi said. you must recognise her.

I think this is a better likeness.....
http://www.empressmcc.org.uk/images/People/gurner.jpg

Has there ever been a less dancery looking person than Kevin ? !

He looks like a cross between all the lads who have been cast as Ben Mitchell in Eastenders.

I just feel that he is being forced upon us and they are trying to make us worship him.
And now his sister has joined in the force fest it feels very cloying and .......well, cringey.

I saw him briefly on ITT earlier and it was bugging me who he reminded me of. At first I thought it was Matt Smith...... then I thought no, it's one of the Tracy brothers - and I don't mean from the film, I mean the original series ... but actually, I think it's Brains. Still not sure though.

OK, I think I've worked it out.... Virgil Tracy, but wearing Brains's glasses

http://www.wearysloth.com/Gallery/Ac...111-24-343.jpg

http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j1...ps6be770d5.png

Or maybe it's just me....

Mark is getting it in early - he has not just Nanny Pat, but TWO Nans, mentioned in Wednesday's ITT.

They're personalities (code for "can't dance for toffee")
I did like Louis on ITT say to Lisa that if she could have done the caterpillar she should have! That would have been a sight for the brain bleach.

Joanne Fromgrimsby reminds me more of Kylie.

Enjoyed Jake and Janette on ITT today... Following on from his hilarious "they'll get me another one if I drop her" comment, now saying that his text advice from Scotttttttttt mainly consisted of "sleep, and eat" did make me giggle if only someone had told Scott that!

Meanie that i am, I'm really looking forward to his deadpan reaction to comedy VTs à la cowboy

And he even made a good double babywarz entry! He or Aliona or both for thread pet, yes please!

So impressed with my TV today. It got awful reception and edited out nearly all of the bits with Lisa for me!

Hate to say it as I loved her in her series but Zoe is really getting on my nerves. She has 3-4 stock phrases that she uses in every interview, but that hashtag thing? Grrrr.

If he continues in this vein, go Jake (minus a point for Buster).

Was Lisa the same year as Louis? She sounded a bit pissed off that he did gymnastics on his routines. Lisa, love, he's an Olympic gymnast - the choreography is going to play to his strengths. Just like Robin's choreography played to yours *gurn* *gurn* *jazz hands*.

Zoe has become a caricature of herself and doing it on autopilot - you can almost see the mental box-ticking going on.

It only took her half as long as it took Claudia. Although, to be fair to Claudia for the last year - possibly two - she was barely present.

Yes, Lisa and Louis were the same year.

Someone chain Zoe to ITT though please , I have this awful feeling they are trying out Lisa 's presentation skills,

Caroline would be ok so far I like her.

Even though Claudia was barely present I always preferred her because you never knew when she was going to go off piste and she did at least listen to answers, Zoe could easily be replaced by a robot with pre programmed questions.

Personality wise Kylie is a million miles away, Michael Hutchens went out with her. There is something inherently sexy about her

Michael Hutchens would have run away from JFG , she is as sexy as a bag of haribo.

Not really too keen on the ladies this year except Allison, Sunetra and Judy.
The REST ?

Oh puh-lease.

If you're going to invoke the name of God made flesh, at least get his name right. It's Hutchence.

Have just been on the Strictly bit on the BBC for dress rehearsal pictures - which we don't look to be getting this year - but the picture they have of Tess on the banner is hilarious.

Zoe's questions obviously are pre-programmed, and the programmer needs to put in more effort.

How nervous/terrified/petrified were you?

How relieved we're you when it was done?

How's it [next dance] going?

And for the pro, How proud were you of [insert name] on Saturday?

Repeat 15 times last week.

Answers are: Very, Very, OK and Very.

Press button A for question 1a: Were you proud of your girl?
Press button B for question 1b: Were you proud of your boy?
Press button C for question 2: What did you think to the judges comments?
Press button D for question 3: What did you think the marks?
Press button E for question 4: how is training going?
Press button F for clunky link to random training montage.
Press the nose and spin the eyes for random interjection to include: have a cushion/love your shoes/we all loved it at home.