Tell me you didn\u2019t look at the final leaderboard this week and gasp: \u201cScott\u2019s at the bottom!\u201d even though Ann was below him. Tell me it\u2019s not you voting to keep her in every week. We can get past this, our friendship can survive the blow, but if we have nothing else, we have to have honesty.<\/p>\n
It would be nice to have news. I\u2019m a newsy guy. And I have some. If Ann Widdecombe is the bit of Strictly that should go, perhaps in an ideal world taking all the props with her, then in a fair and just world, there is someone we should be thanking for how very much better the show is this year.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not the fabulous Dave Arch who can\u2019t be bothered to take his headphones off. It\u2019s not the fella with a hat who sits behind him. It\u2019s not any headgear person at all because this one isn\u2019t directly in the production, isn\u2019t even credited at the end. She\u2019s Katie Taylor, head of entertainment and events at BBC Television and she dun it. It helped that the BBC has invested more money and there is a new executive producer too but Taylor is responsible for the revamp.<\/p>\n And she told Broadcast magazine this week that she may not be done with the show just yet. \u201cNothing can stay the same or the audience will get bored, and when that happens, they switch over,\u201d she said. \u201cThe format is the format, but it\u2019s there to be tweaked.\u201d<\/p>\n You see the word tweak and you think Bruce Forsyth but, no, he\u2019s not on the way out just yet despite skipping the results shows this year. \u201cBruce is 83 and his energy is quite something,\u201d she told Broadcast. \u201cBut it was tiring doing both shows, and Claudia, who is already part of the Strictly family, is so witty and really lives and breathes the show, so Bruce was really happy with it. I am sure he will call me up if he decides to leave, but we\u2019ve not had that conversation yet.\u201d<\/p>\n I\u2019m ready to declare a winner, by the way. I\u2019m ready to call it. Kara Tointon for champion. You saw it here first, unless you saw it anywhere else before me and didn\u2019t mention it.<\/p>\n Yes, the tricks as she called them were quite eye-popping but what got me convinced was the return of what I\u2019ve briefly seen before with her: a moment or three when she wasn\u2019t dancing steps, wasn\u2019t following choreography, she was in the music. <\/p>\n I don\u2019t think there\u2019s anything more I could want. <\/p>\n Except for Ann Widdecombe to do a John Sergeant and leave gracefully. For gracefully read quickly, but gracefully is good too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I\u2019ve said to you before that there\u2019s no Strictly blog on RadioTimes.com this year and this is true. Would I … Continue reading ![\"\"](\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_qNff_ayROXI\/TNg6LkekI_I\/AAAAAAAAAHE\/hE50fDs_D4U\/s400\/strictly.jpg\")
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