I think the universal reaction to this year's Strictly line up has been "No really, is that it?
OK, I know the Strictly audience is a little older than its competitor The X Factor but this isn't so much a group of celeb contestants as a Saga holiday. The middle aged contingent is as formidable as it is unimpressive. So I suppose we should steel ourselves for some Sanatogen sambas.
But when you look at the line up, do you really have the enthusiasm to stick with this from now until Christmas?
So who are they? There's the inevitable someone off Hollyoaks and Corrie, but no Eastender this year. What's happened there then? We have Abbey Clancy who is famous for being married to someone who struggles to get into the Stoke side, Fiona Fullerton, who was a Bond girl in A View To A Kill, the worst Bond film. Sophie Ellis Somethingorother, a Hairy Biker (I have not idea what that is), Vanessa Feltz, how will she get the time off from her highly successful Channel 5 show. (It was what cancelled after how many episodes? Oh) someone called Julien McDonald, well yeah we all know and love him, the numbers girl from Countdown (yes that is still going). Ash from Casualty, Dragon Deborah Meaden, who really is on a hiding to nothing. Susanna Reid, who will give the early morning excuse when she exits. There are others but I've just lost the will to live.
It usually takes a couple of weeks to get rid of the lame ducks, but, this year, I think it might take a couple of months . Len will be hard pushed to say his usual the standard is the best yet this time out.
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