do you think Darcey should be replaced?

3 possible Judges to me could be:

Abbey Clancy ( former winner and Alesha also was a Judge)

Arlene Phillips ( would you like to see her comeback)

Marian Keyes ( seems to have knowledge on dancing technique)

Erin Boag

Why don't they replace one of the male judges? I don't know if many people would miss Bruno.

why not 2 male judges and 2 female judges

Oh dear please Noooooooooooooooooo. Abby Clancy proved to be a good dancer, but would be no better at judging than Alesha was.

Arlene is hardly likely to return given how she was treated before

And Marian Keyes? You're not serious? She knows nothing about dance in any form, let alone technique - have you seen her on ITT?

Abbey is really popular and knows something about dance technique

i thought Marian Keyes was popular around this forum

Bruno is the only judge who needs replacing, but not by a former contestant.

Flavia to replace Bruno

We have two female hosts, three male judges and one female judge, to me the sex if a person isn't an issue, it's if thry do the job well.

SCD is getting ten million viewers, so if it any broke do not fix it, now we see other shows, where thry have a knee jerk reaction to falling ratings, change formats, hosts and judges, ruin the show, and ratings go off the cliff. XF is now described as " Shambolic" by its creator Simon Cowell.

Let's not ruin a great show, leave it as it is.

" If" a judge or presenter left, then yes then have a debate, but this us hypothesis until thrn.

If a make judge left, Karen Hardy would be best to take over with knowledge and skill and personally.

The show will be badly perceived if it the male judges have a secure job but the female judges keep changing.

Abbey Clancy and Marian Keyes - Are you joking ? They'd be no better than Alesha. Karen Hardy would be good, maybe Erin Boag also.

Flavia or Erin would be fine in my opinion - it should be a proper pro dancer though.

I think Arlene would bite their hand off!!

Replace Bruno with Iveta.
Was she not World ten dance champion ?

I always thought Alesha was pretty good most of the time. She just commented on the performance without all the messing about from Bruno and corny gags from Len and did it without being nasty like Craig.

Alesha was the worst judge we have ever had on SCD - she had absolutely NO idea what she was talking about!

Unless Abby has been studying dance since leaving Strictly, she only understands the routines she learnt - that's not the same as understanding technique, etc. Learning to dance on Strictly is not the same as learning to dance properly. The celebs simply learn a given routine; if they tried to dance with someone who didn't know that routine they'd be completely lost.

I've no idea if Marian Keyes is popular on the forum or not, but even supposing she is, that hardly qualifies her to judge.

Well she did learn what she did know from the other 3 telling her week after week.

I'll assume that's excluding Jennifer Grey's 1-week stint as a guest judge then. And Donny Osmond too. Both absolute atrocities.

But I think Darcey is a good judge, and if I was going to make a judging change I'd swap out Bruno for Erin. And if he doesn't start to cheer up soon, I'd drop Len too (maybe for Anton, but probably for Ian).

Changed my mind on Darcey and want her to stay now. I do feel as though there could be another female panelist to replace Bruno, about time the show had a change in direction and had more judges with technical knowledge.

Add Jo Clifton to the panel...then, whenever she gives a decent mark to her brother or sister-in-law, the whole of DS can combust in indignation!

I wouldn't replace Darcey. I would replace Len or Bruno.

I definitely don't think any new judge should be a previous winner regardless of gender.

My conclusion is that this thread is a wind up. No one with a sane mind would suggest Abbey Clancy or Marian Keys as judges.

What a great idea to have Iveta on the judging panel, my preference would be to replace Len though, he is so crude.

I wouldn't mind seeing Erin or Karen Hardy become a judge if a seat becomes vacant on the panel. Len preferably being the vacant seat, although I get the vibe they'd shove Anton into the judges chair should Len retire.