I don't mind the "Nice to see you, to see you nice" bit and the "You're my favourite" routine. I can tolerate the duff jokes and the compulsion to show off his soft shoe shuffle at every turn. But I am seriously up to here with the football referee's whistle! It must make a piercing noise to those standing nearby and every time he does it my dog starts barking his head off!

Apart from anything else, I enjoy watching the judges have a go at one another and I don't like Brucie stopping the fun with his bloody whistle.

So - please leave the whistle where it belongs Bruce - at a football match!!

Actually the whistle doesn't bother me - I was just commenting this morning at home that Bruce has the nerve to stop the judges comments becoming a total bun fight - a la X Factor, which bores me to tears, and detracts from the actual performers.

Bruce has the guts to stop it before it gets too out of order - Kate on the other side has no control at all.

The whistle will get annoying if he keeps on doing it. Maybe he could use a gun instead and fire the gun into the air. That would get the judges attention.

I absolutely agree with that - he does need to step in quickly & stop the bickering, however a more aouthoratitive manner rather then the whistle might be better.

Something like, 'Oi, it's not about you.'

Or go one step further and just shoot Bruno

The sound of the whistle doesn't half cut through me! There must be some other way to shut 'em all up!

Ha ha ha

Actually I think that Brucie does have quite an authorative manner, compared to say Ant & Dec or Kate Thornton.

The whistle doesn't bother me and i don't think he uses it that much anyway.

I hate the whistle. I like the judges arguing, it annoys me when I can't hear them. Bruce is annoying. I'd love Graham Norton to host SCD as well as SDF.

I love the whistle! I think Bruce is so charming and has such a great personality on stage. His humour is kinda old-fashioned but I think you've got to just get on his level. He's sooo much better than a lot of other presenters, a la Kate THorton, Cat Deeley, Tess (!), etc.

I think the whistle is a great idea and it is really effective. Exactly what we need in the programme.

I hate the whistle, I can't stand high, sharp noises. Surely Bruce could stop the bickering in another way. Or better yet, if the judges just gave each other the opportunity to give their comments, there would be no problem.

The first week that he used the whistle I thought it was funny , but when he did it again this week it seemed a bit rude to cut short the judges putting across their points of veiw.

They're talking about "obssession" on another thread, so I'll mention nit-picking on here.
The judges are too full of their own importance. We all know they are encouraged to "play up" by the producer, but they end up shouting like unruly school kids. Do you really expect poor old Bruce to have continued to try to shout over the top of them?
He's tried that and it doesn't work.
Or maybe you think it should be allowed to continue each time so that the show over-runs and "they miss a dance?"
It's a trivial complaint, people shouldn't be so "picky."

"The whistle is working." Get used to it.