Can anyone answer me this. Watching video on YouTube of Karen Hardie and Mark Ramparkash?? it had something like 340,000 views, wasn't the official BBC release it was, I guess, a fan and it's still there. So, why has Sergio had to take his off

Answers on a postcard please 😉

Glad to hear it!


Fantastic!! Thank you for organising this Bendy! I've watched the Tango quite a few times on the Iplayer now thought always spend half an hour fast forwarding through the programme so it's great to have such easy access to it!



She seems to be wearing the same shirt, doesn't she?


Well exactly, Afton! There will be literally millions of supposedly copyright infringing videos on YouTube that have not and will not be asked to be removed, Sergio was essentially just unlucky to have had his spotted and removed - after all, they were doing no harm!

Fair do's Collaw, there are plenty of allegedly gorgeous women that I don't find any more than 50% attractive either!! Georgia isn't one of them though!!!


I think it's probably 150% less than I would award her!!


Have to agree with you Brian!!

It says something that she can look just as beautiful in a posh red carpet frock fully made up as she does in a vest, leather jacket, jeans & boots, or as she does in her Strictly training stretch leggings, or as she does in an Instagram shot with her hair & face covered in raw egg, or as she does make up free wandering down a Street in Sheffield or wherever with Gio!!
That's what REAL beauty is about for me & I still maintain it starts from the inside!!


Ok so now I'm practically in tears after watching that waltz, how absolutely beautiful & what a superb Tango, just the sort I love (with apologies to GG's Ghostbusters routinr which was great for what it was intended!!
Sandy, I'm hoping to go some way to redeeming my former self here by saying I was watching the way Gio & Jo were looking at each other in that Waltz & while there's genuine affection there it just is NOT the way he looks at Georgia in that Viennese Waltz!!


Lol!!!! Consider me well & truly guilt-tripped!!

To be fair I was always in touch with the thread, just didn't post for a couple of days!!
Sadly I doubt if Georgia missed my lack of attention to her!!

I have been about to post exactly that several times over the last few days - the waltz was really tear jerking and beautiful but there was just that thing missing that had us all hooked watching GG in Strictly - right from early on it was the way Gio looked at Georgia (you can even see it in the first jive) now it could have been great acting but I have watched him dance with his partners on YouTube and although the routines are often very sexy there is not that same connection. Look at him in the waltz with Georgia in week 2 and by the time we get to the AS in Blackpool it is obvious he is head over heels.
Then after Blackpool Georgia started to look at him the same way.
All of us old romantics saw it and absolutely knew they would end up together !

Well star, Lozzer and claire_louise - I hope you are still saving to go to Sicily !

My daughter has just phoned me from Southern Italy having just got in - she sent me an odd text earlier to say she had a date and wasn't it hilarious and I was beginning to wonder at what point I declared her missing - She wanted to tell me that the men there are gorgeous and she had three invitations to dinner today !

She sent me a photo of the one she had dinner with in a little restaurant overlooking the Bay of Naples - he is no Giovanni but I certainly wouldn't have kicked him out of bed back in the day !
He looks like a version of Gio's friend Nando.

The restaurant was not touristy apparently and she had a lovely time.
From the photos he looks like he did too.
What is more surprising he paid !
It seems he is coming in his very big car to take her for drinks tomorrow.
(I will try not to worry about drinking and driving and mad Italian drivers)

She has only been there since Friday afternoon so Italian men obviously don't hang about, mind you neither does she - she was an actress remember and is very OTT.

So Italian holidays are the way to go and come highly recommended ladies - get booking !

*Books flights*

Totally agree, NDD!



Well it sounds like these Italian men have a lot more money than I do! Or perhaps are a lot more willing to spend what they have than I am!
And looking at the weather for Naples, it's hot and sunny!

Wow Sandy, I wonder if your daughter will do a Shirley Valentine and decide to stay out there! Anyway, good luck to her, I hope she has a lovely time. If I was about 30 years younger (at least) I might be booking flights too!!

GG, especially Georgia, have rather quiet after all the excitement of the Proms. I'll refrain from speculating on what's going on since I'm usually wrong!

It can't be long until Gio starts training with all the pros for Strictly this year - I'm sure Bendy told us that they learnt the pro routines during two weeks in August. It must be about exactly a month until the launch show is filmed, if not less than a month.

I wonder if Georgia will be going back to film in Bristol anytime soon? Saying that it's only about a month and a half until she starts in BAT!

I know one of these photos of Gio and Jo has been posted on here before - apologise if the other one has too!

https://twitter.com/courtneycfc1997/...34666156314626

Article on Georgia's modelling for BT and confirmation of who she was actually supposed to be!

http://home.bt.com/tech-gadgets/phon...11364075042732

Would not be surprised in rehearsals start sometime this week to be honest - they normally take 2 weeks to rehearse pro routines then they meet up with celebs (without being partners) rehearse launch night routine - so must start imminently as show is end of August

Thank you very much for the info. A busy time ahead for G+G then!
Shouldn't be too long until the first celebrity is 'officially' announced.

I think someone (sorry I can't remember who) said that Brendan had said on instagram that they start next Monday, 1st Aug. Also Nina said that at the pre-Proms talk, Jason Gilkison said that they will last the whole of August. Full on from next week then! Exciting.

On a different note, Monkseal's annual Pros poll - the ranking of all the Pros who have ever appeared on Strictly - has opened. I wouldn't possibly like to suggest who should get high scores - but just leaving this here casually *whistles nonchalantly and wanders off"

https://monkseal.wordpress.com/2016/...pro-poll-2016/

Well I've put my vote in!

I notice that in the final rankings for Monkseal's 'Strictly World Cup', Georgia came in 15th, 15 (or should that be 14 - was never any good at maths!) places too low but hey ho...

https://monkseal.wordpress.com/2016/...-2016-results/

I think that photo of her as Jerry Hall is just amazing - she should have a Vogue Cover of her own !

I am having a very senior moment here but can someone explain how and what we vote for please

I see the boy band boys were voted for in large numbers - Boo

It's rating all the pros (present and past) out of 10. Then all the votes will be added up and the pros ranked in order of popularity. I think Natalie might have won for the last few years.

For the ones from the very early series who I don't remember, I just clicked on the "don't know" option. You have to click "vote" after each person.

Right - thank you !

He doesn't make things very clear does he ?

Off to vote ......

I thought as much just wait for it to come in the post then look for JC put x against and return

Senior stupid moment from me sorry Sandy could not resist

I think there's a little summary of the rules at the top - before the actual list of names x

Well that is the last name I will be putting my X next to !

There was but it sort of assumed one had voted in previous years and didn't explain really that the idea was to judge each pro out of 10 - your explanation was much clearer x

BTW I only awarded one 10

Ahh sorry, I just can't keep up so I forget to post I am on a weeks annual leave now though so I expect to pop in a bit more! If someone could bump up the quiz that would be great please


Oh wow I'm so jealous of your daughter ! I bet she is having an absolutely amazing time! 😀 I need to go there sometime soon!!'