General Chat

Yep that time has rolled around again. :-D :-0

Two new professional dancers this year.

Here are the contestants.

Harry Aikines=Aryeetey - Gladiators

Dani Dyer - TV Personality

Alex Kingston - Actress

Jimmy Floyd Hasselbank - former Football

Balvinder Sopo; - Eastenders

George Clark - Youtuber

La Voix - Drag Queen

Chris Robshaw - former England Rugby

Ellie Goldstein - Model and Actress

Thomas Skinner - TV Personality

Vicky Pattison - TV Personality

Stefan Dennis - Actor

Ross King - GMTV

Karen Carney - former England ladies Football

Kristian Nairn - Actor and DJ (Withdrawn)

Lewis Cope - Emmerdale (Replacement)


Not sure I know all of them, but hey ho, we will find out in due course.

Come one, come all, anyone who wants to give their opinion on the series is more than welcome <3

Can't wait - but it makes me feel that Christmas is round the corner.

I think I only know 5 or 6 of them but I do think they are going for B listers instead of A listers. I'm sure the show will be just as good though.

Kath. x

Woohoo we have the Strictly Thread ;-) :-D

Kath, by name I too only knew about half a dozen but recognized more by their photos :-D

I’ll watch the first episode and decide on the others later ;-) ;-) ;-) :-D

Thanks for the list.
I know a few names but happy to get to know others as the series goes on. :-D
I'm sure there will be a pair that I love and one that I hope leave quickly that's how other years have been anyway.

Kath once Strictly starts I start thinking about Christmas as well. :-0

I only know a couple but hopefully there will be plenty of entertainment as that is sadly lacking at the moment.

Kristian Nairn has withdrawn from the show due to undisclosed medical reasons.

I is getting old, girls. If only know three - Alex Kingston, Vicky Pattison and Stefan Dennis. I shall have to look up the others.

Lewis Cope from Emmerdale will replace Kristian. Thanks Belle :-)

Just a reminder, if you have not seen all the ads on TV, that Strictly begins tomorrow.

No doubt it will be about 10 minutes of dancing, and the rest will be padding when the celebs meet their dance partners :-0 ;-)

Still not sure who a lot of these people are :-)

I must have missed the ads :-S

Thanks.....something interesting to watch on a Saturday night :-D

I have not seen any ads either.

Me neither. :-S

I don’t usually watch it though - only the one that Jay M was in as I thought he was a good dancer even though he went to some sort of theatrical school so would have learned there . Still, those schools don’t always turn out good dancers.

Usually before the 6 o clock news, featuring Shirley Ballas. :-)

Ah, I am usually on ITV for the West of England news.

Looks like it could be interesting! :-D

Seem to be a lively lot.

I have to say I turned off after an hour. I could not stand all the screaming and whooping. It was bad enough last year, but they have turned it up another notch.

Maybe I missed the best bits, I will give it another go next week, and hope they calm down a bit :-D :-D

When they did the group dance at the end (It was so long and fast I was worn out watching it), I thought there looked to be some promising dancers amongst the 15 new contenders.

I did watch it right through (I had nothing else to do!) - but that is unusual for me and I won't be sticking with it.

Gawd, some of the dancers give me the heebie-jeebies as they seem so 'up-themselves'. :-S

Neverthless, I hope Alex, Chris and Jimmy make the grade.