Was Ian the name of the chap who most often did the Sweaty Box or whatever it was called before they devoted BBOTS to Rylan's dancing and prancing only?

The greasy looking guy? I think so.

Thought so, quite a nice, gentle chap I thought. In fact I liked that segment when I watched, even if they never gave it long enough to actually get more than one or two comments in when the guy had obviously spent his working day trawling lots of reaction, only to get rudely cut off everytime!

Yeah he was nice. Shame they got rid.

Ian Symes is his name. He hosts a red dwarf podcast if you miss him.

Just in the context of the show myself, it showed a link between production (however junior) and BBOTS and the viewers that was missing the last time I watched that pile of poop (which was Rylan dancing with a load of trannys and Pete Burns I think). I hoped he'd find a nice gal as he seemed like a nice chap, but if he's a Red Dwarf podcaster perhaps he's already met his Kochansky