it's a terrible job but someone's got to do it

I think he is one of those people who loses muscle tone very quickly when he doesn't exercise and regains it quickly when he does. I think that body type has some fancy name. He certainly wasn't big when we saw him close up in Wimbledon or MK by normal standards but theatrical types and dancers are very slight. When I saw them on the SCD tour in Birmingham before the show I was struck how unhealthily thin some of them looked, partly no doubt due to the intensity of the show when you can see them all loosing weight because of the intensive training.

I read something that said Joanne Clifton has done some campaigning about body size and girls in dance, saying that you don't have to be super thin to be a dancer, which I thought was quite admirable.

By normal standards, he's always looked healthy and fit to me - it's only 'stage fit', or perhaps 'dance fit' that is different.

Who was it who looked almost anorexic by the time he was done on SCD? Was it Maslin? Wardrobe I think now prepare for girls to drop a dress size or even two by the end of the competition as they know it happens so often.

Well, perhaps Jo has done some campaigning of that nature, but then look at her body. She's extremely slim.

Jay's tweeted Gregor's curry pic ...

https://twitter.com/JayMcGuiness/sta...87874387783684

I'd say he's 75% ectomorph and 25% mesomorph. Most men are a mixture.

Very nice indeed.
I do love his neck and shoulders.

Here it is ex Instagram.

http://67.media.tumblr.com/52cbf0fdf...tmuo1_1280.jpg

Curls, stubble, lip lick and NECK.
https://45.media.tumblr.com/96005f13...img5o1_400.gif
Smelling salts as requested.
http://www.expresschemist.co.uk/pics...ling-salts.jpg


He's happy. Curled up with two feral cats for company. What more could he ask for.

Ooooh, ecky thump ...

https://www.instagram.com/p/BL13HHjBMZp/

And who this year is feeling and living their dance as J does? 💕

Ooh no. I need the curls and the beard please.
He just looks too too "fetus"😂

Wow! No doubt about it, he has slimmed down. Cheekbones emerging again.

I thought for a bit this was a photo of him from his younger days. He looks so cute!

Goodness
Liking this look
But then I like all the different looks to be honest.....

Do you think he read that we were waiting for a photo???

It was a bit of a "My heart goes boom, boom, boom ... " (or whatever) moment. Disconcerting. Far too old for the sort of thing ..

Feeling like a proper TW fan as I got the reference!

To be honest I don't think so. He used #danceselfieday and @danceproms on Instagram. #danceselfieday seems to be a competition put on by Dance Proms.

http://www.danceproms.co.uk/index.ph...y-2016-nearly/

Off to catch some ZZZs with that lovely image firmly in mind.

If anyone's on a late one tonight, keep an eye on the citrus fruitloop on the MF - desperately looking for someone to play with ..

Sounds like quite a lot of us have had similar conversations this week.
When I posted earlier about being viewers being invested in the show, I didn't just mean us lot, and others on the various threads etc. Most of the viewers who watch the show regularly do so because they are invested in the 'characters'- in the pros or the celebs or the judges or any combination thereof. I think the number of viewers just watching for the beauty or otherwise of the dancing alone is relatively small. The dancing is part of it but it is in combination with whichever ' characters' you are interested or invested in. You may not vote- I didn't before last year - but you are interested in what happens to the people. TPTB know that and select the 'characters' who they think will engage or even irritate the viewers. But as I said before, viewers expect fairness and won't keep on investing in the 'characters' if they think they are being taken for a ride.

Very nice anyway!
Thanks for the info Spree

Just had a look.
Finding quite hard to follow the logic of some the points being made to be honest....

Anyway, night all.

How many sleeps till Edinburgh???
Or should I go to Plymouth???

Oh dear, Greg appears to have wandered into the is SCD racist row. I am not sure that is very wise.

Huh?

Sorry, Spreeathen. Re my post in the downstairs "Hung up" thread. I quoted your post, and I hope you don't mind that I cropped it, for brevity, and relevance to my point. While I was in the middle of doing it, there was some of that fractious feline foot-tapping, I mentioned earlier, and the post posted itself. I went in immediately, and edited it, but I don't know if it made much sense, before the edit. Apologies.

Loving the latest pics of Jay. Thanks all for posting them. Can't make up my mind, tho'. Short hair/long hair? Clean-shaven/beard/stubble? Ooooh....stubble...

ETA. I think jayfan, and others, are talking about a different thread. Which one is it, please?

All good.

Wondered what you were apologizing for tbh

I've always liked that sigh of relief at the end of the rumba, whilst still also remaining in the moment.