That still wouldn't mean Rachel thinks winning UK Strictly Come Dancing = career in Hollywood

The previous article, btw, sounds like the rather nasty one in the mail (which was not without spin).

With Jodie, I also think it was a chance to get some good publicity, after some very negative stuff in the press in the last 12 months, raise her profile, plus put the drugs story behind her.

Christine, I think similar to Gethin, raises her profile considerably, pretty sure TOS doesn't get the amount of viewers SCD does.

Well as a general rule yes, but I do agree that BBC employees (presenters normally) are probably more or less told to do it. As in Gethin and now Christine. They always had a CBBC presenter in Celebrity Fame Academy for example, perhaps they drew straws lol. And similarly for the GMTV presenters.

Another world exclusive...Bear sh*ts in the woods.

So what??

Most people who do reality TV to further their careers... so what??

In general it doesnt ressurect careers (well not for long anyway) there are some exceptions (peter Andre etc) but generally people disappear soon after the shows end.

AS for Rachel- OK shes boring but essentially harmless, so good luck to her in her attempts to resurrect her flagging career...

So what's new? There are only two reasons why any celeb joins this or any other reality TV show - (1) for the moolah they are paid and (2) for the possibility it will help to raise their profiles and thus enable them to pursue whatever it is they want to do, and rake in even more dosh doing it.

I see nothing wrong in this - they can choose to make their living anyway they please - if they want to be a singer/actor/RTV star etc etc then I certainly don't begrudge them earning their daily crust in this way.

I quite like that she's being honest about it.

Don't like her at all, but at least she's honest and most are doing it for exactly the same reason. The only one's who maybe are doing it for fun or experience are the sports stars!
And the established stars such as GMTV presenters etc who just go back to their job when finished.

Yes, but who does improve their profile by doing SCD - presenters, on the whole. If I were to name who I think has done best out of it, it would be Aled, James and, though it's relatively early days, Gethin and Alesha. Maybe the sports people really up their appearance fees, I don't know. But I don't think Jill has done any acting parts on TV (maybe in the theatre) that she wouldn't have got just from having been in Eastenders, or Matt or Louisa. Arguably Julian Clary restated his popularity after certain scandals, but I don't see him on my TV and radio half as much as Aled.

No criticism implied of anyone in this, because I don't think wanting to further your career is a bad thing, but if I was going to guess who'll benefit this year, leaving aside the too raw issue of John, I'd say Jodie and Christine, focussing on TV presenting, are likely to get more opportunities from it than Rachel is likely to sell records - and I think they are savvy enough to know it.

If you were Rachel Stevens wouldn't you try to re-promote yourself? Its not like after she has been really successful and famous by herself and in a group she is going to want to go and get a normal job is it? I bloody well would give fame and fortune another go in preferance to a 9-5. God, people aren't happy unless they are slagging someone off. Maybe we could say that Lisa, Christine and Jodie are being "too nice" and its all an act to keep them in next. In my opinion people who slag any of the beautiful girls in the show off are just bloody well jealous!!!! She could have done alot more lewd and crude things to get herself noticed instantly, but instead she chose to put her all in to create beautiful dances in a dignified manner and have a good time with the show like them all. Some people just don't like it when others appear to have everything. I wish all of the celebs the best in the comp, because really who the hell are we to judge why or why not they are doing it in the first place. If someone asked me to do a show like Strictly I would bite their bloody hand off! Sorry but I had to rant!!!!!!!

But the public like people to look like their having fun doing it. She's just desperate to win. She isn't working hard because she's enjoying it she just wants to use the show as a ladder

Rachel looks like she's enjoying it to me.

I agree that the GMTV ones have their arms twisted a bit to keep up the shows profile v. the Beeb but the others are all in it for their careers. Jodie had a major personality 'rehab' job to do after the NOTW revelations (which appears to have been successful!), Christine has been mentioned as allegedly gunning for a much higher profile job soon to be available (, Austin got fed up with Credit Suisse and clearly wants the opportunity of media work, and even John, having retired from the political reporting is getting a light entertainment career off the ground (hosting a show on one of the non terrestrials, I think). Nothing wrong with any of it. Slightly surprising that, having got Alesha's PR, they didn't advise her to be a bit more 'economical with the truth'. Alesha's tale of doing it for fun, get over the divorce etc was much more appealing than the fact that she had a stalled music career.

She dosen't to me.

It's all about staying in and upping her profile.

As always the public will decide. As they did the week she dropped into the bottom 2.

Exactly. Whatever reasons people had for going into SCD, they get caught up in the show once they're there.


Yes, and also it's only the title of this thread that says Rachel is only doing the show to further her career. The article doesn't say it. Nor has Rachel said it elsewhere.

She lacks any sort of personality imo. She would be awful as a presenter. She looks good but there is nothing else there. Mind you its never stopped Myeleene.

She has a good and rather sweet partnership with Vincent, for example. We can see her enjoying training and working with him in clips.


You don't know why the public voted as they did or even how high or low she was in the public vote (beyond rather broad limits).

Well we know she had fewer votes than John, Jodie, Austin and Christine.

Christine also looked 'safe' so no reason to vote for her either.
If she's not Top 2 with the judges this week she'll be in the dance- off.

"I'm back now and there are so many things I want to do with acting, fashion, everything," Stevens revealed.



Hopefully after Saturday she'll be able to get on with those planned projects.

What's wrong with that?
Everyone does the same. The show doesn't last forever, it's just one season for her so naturally she wants to move on.

I can't help but agree- her dancing leaves me cold. Let's face it though-her acting will need to improve quite a bit if that is what she wants to do

Maybe Rachel should work on the fact that she has no talent to back up her dreams.
Meeeowwww!

But if she did then she wouldn't be using a POPULAR dancing voting show to get to them. She thinks that if she wins she'll suddenly be the nation's sweetheart.

One thing I did notice on Saturday is that she almost did the same thing she did last week. Two weeks ago when she finally got good comments from Len she went to the back room to await her scores with Tess and she raised her arm in the air like a football hooligan to celebrate her success. This week she almost did the same again after getting great remarks from the judges. She raised her arm in the air in a very show-off way, but she suddenly stopped herself and quickly brought it back down. Didn't want to jinx herself again I suppose. Last time she did it she ended up in the bottom two.
It certainly made me laugh to see a look on her face that said "No, don't do that!"

It'll start on Monday !