Strictly Come Dancing 2024

[Stephen]

Congratulations Chris , although for me JB should have won.

But what a show. One of the best finals I’ve seen. Not only from a dancing perspective but also the lighting/graphics which were excellent as were the band and singers.

It would have been nice for once to see the back stage team, especially the costume dept who do a fantastic job come out and take a bow.

[david63]

No surprises last night - it was a foregone conclusion as to who the winner would be.

Some of the best dancing that there has been on any show. with Tasha's show dance being the highlight of the night.

Not sure why three of the judges turned up as there was only Craig who contributed anything - and what was Motsi wearing? She looked like zebra!

Have they changed the format of the final? I'm sure that it used to be the judge's choice and then the contestants choice after which the one with the fewest votes was sent home and the remaining three did their show dance.

[Mervyn and Trish]

You're right, that's how it used to be. But they changed it because it meant one couple had worked hard on a dance they never got to perform.

And I agree. Motsi looked ridiculous. But when I mentioned it in a Strictly Facebook group I was blasted with righteous indignation!

[Onelife]

No surprises last night - it was a foregone conclusion as to who the winner would be.

Some of the best dancing that there has been on any show. with Tasha's show dance being the highlight of the night.

Not sure why three of the judges turned up as there was only Craig who contributed anything - and what was Motsi wearing? She looked like zebra!

Have they changed the format of the final? I'm sure that it used to be the judge's choice and then the contestants choice after which the one with the fewest votes was sent home and the remaining three did their show dance.

I’m glad they didn’t revert back to that voting format especially considering the quality of the finalists…who would you have voted off first David?

[david63]

who would you have voted off first David?

Based on the dancing I would have voted Chris off, but that would never have happened and based on the previous voting it would have been Tasha going for an early bath.

[oldbluefox]

Any one of them would have been worthy winners depending on which criteria they were being judged on. It was a great final.

[Onelife]

who would you have voted off first David?

Based on the dancing I would have voted Chris off, but that would never have happened and based on the previous voting it would have been Tasha going for an early bath.

Talking about baths, I’m about to launch my new range of bath soaps, a few of which I’ve sent to Tasha in the hope that she might like me to pop over and demonstrate how to use them …. I will of course put a few aside for forum Birthday presents…I think you will agree when I say my generosity knows no bounds

[Ray B]

Just like the labour party, they make promises, but are yet to deliver.

[Stephen]

Onelife wrote
Talking about baths, I’m about to launch my new range of bath soaps

Try using some.

[oldbluefox]

They'll come in handy. They don't provide soap in the Tower.

[Stephen]

Strictly to feature first drag queen competitor https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yxj1dder3o

[Mervyn and Trish]

Not my taste. I'm not sure why this current obsession with drag. Yes I suppose Danny La Rue was drag but he was talented. Some of this current lot are just hideous and sleazy.

[Jan Rosser]

Can’t believe I joked about a drag queen competitor - crazy

[Mervyn and Trish]

You'll get cancelled!

Whatever that means....

[Onelife]

Displaying theses misfits on prime time tv is degrading and totally wrong in my opinion, not only is it degrading and offensive in the way it portrays women, it has no entertainment value whatsoever… less of course you are as screwed up as the producers who allow this offensive garbage to be aired.

[Portsmouth]

it wouldn't surprise me if the winner of the Christmas special show was the drag queen competitor.....

[oldbluefox]

It just had to happen didn't it?

[Mervyn and Trish]

Utterly predictable.

[Stephen]

Didn’t bother watching, and after seeing the result online this morning I’m glad I didn’t.

How much lower is this show going to stoop to get ratings.

[CaroleF]

Saw parts of this last night. Totally agree with Onelife, not often that happens, I couldn't believe it when I saw the result, although thinking about it maybe it was almost inevitable. What is it with the BBC? It seems to be there are several areas where the minority are trying to dictate what the rest of us thinks and what's acceptable and what's not. The rest of us need to stand up and say no! I have a young relative who tells us what we can and can't say, 'You can't say that!' Well I, for one, am not being dictated to. And as for going back through literature and altering plots, characters etc. who do these people think they are? Sorry rant over.

[Onelife]

Just following on from what Carole has posted…

I didn’t/haven’t watched it yet and like Stephen I don’t think I will bother…indeed if this LBGTQRTUV/Drag Queen things is what we can expect in the next series of Strictly I doubt I will be watching that either. Whilst I accept that my views could be seen as being bigoted, I can live with this quite easily. I see no artistic/entertainment value in shoving this kind of stuff down our throats, even less so than that of our impressionable children. The mocking of women, the provocative way in which they parade themselves and the sexually explicit innuendos don’t resemble any ladies that I have come across, so why are they being allowed so much air time, you can hardly turn the tv on theses day without having some fairy expressing themselves as if they are cross gender hermaphrodites.

My overriding concern is what message all this LBGTQ/Drag Queen stuff is sending out to our children, who in this very confusing era of “anything goes” are ever more suseptable to sexual identity issues, this is on top of what most teenagers go through in their adolescence years.
And before anyone jumps in and says I’m wrong again I would just like to say that I fully appreciate and understand that there are those who for whatever reason feel they are in the wrong body but that is not to say we should have a choice of which body we want to be in…. this I’m afraid is a LBGTQ PR exercise which is getting way out of hand IMO.

[Ray B]

And before anyone jumps in and says I’m wrong again I would just like to say that I fully appreciate and understand that there are those who for whatever reason feel they are in the wrong body but that is not to say we should have a choice of which body we want to be in…. this I’m afraid is a LBGTQ PR exercise which is getting way out of hand IMO.

Those who feel they genuinely and medically in the wrong body are few, and will be getting professional help. It the new kids on the block that are having their brains muddled by the LBGTQ brigade.
But the rest of your post you nailed it Keith.

[Onelife]

Postscript…to the above…

And before anyone jumps in and says I’m wrong again I would just like to say that I fully appreciate and understand that there are those who for whatever reason feel they are in the wrong body but that is not to say we should have a choice of which body we want to be in (unless medically /psychologically diagnosed)…. this I’m afraid is a LBGTQ PR exercise which is getting way out of hand IMO.

Sorry Ray, posted after you had posted.

[Ray B]

We were in the same ball park.

[oldbluefox]

Sorry to be controversial but I quite welcome it............

When these people are strutting their stuff it gives me an oppprtunity to go to the loo, make a couple of coffees and do anything else until they are finished. Apart from that they should stick with RuPaul(ine) or whatever it is to entertain themselves. Unfortunately it is already having an impact on some of our more impressionable youngsters - teachers having to be careful to use the right pronouns, literature mirroring the LGBGT influence, boys given the option of going to school in skirts etc if they wish and deciding which name they will use. Why can these people not leave them alone to determine what they want to be at a more appropriate time but until then they accept the gender they were born with?
It seems fashionable at the moment for those on TV, whether actors (no longer use the term actresses), news presenters etc to just drop it in about 'my (gay) husband/wife'. I'm not interested darling, just get on with doing your job.
On the subject of there no longer being actresses I notice we no longer have batsmen either. They are now called batters!!!
Total wokeness gone mad!!!