Good on Yer, Widders!

I confess that I can’t stand the dance contest, Strictly Come Dancing, and never watch it. However, via the newspaper reports, I have kept up with the antics of Ann Widdecombe who has had the four judges consistently growling at her poor performance.

I quite like Ann Widdecombe who I thought was a voice of sense when she was an MP, and was disappointed when she was not elected to the Speaker’s Chair. I think her strident quips would have brought the place to good order.

Ann stood down at the last election and was then brave enough to expose herself to ridicule on this dance contest that seems to have quite an audience. Such is the size of her enthusiastic followers that she has been repeatedly voted ‘in’ despite the judges wanting her ‘off’.

You have to admire her tenacity and also humour. As our Aussie cousins would say, ‘Good on yer, Widders!’
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Big Brother Scratched

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Channel 4s reality show Big Brother is to to end after the current series. Though the producers say that the programme has reached its ‘natural’ end they agree that falling viewing figures was a factor in their decision.

I’m not surprised, for these so-called reality shows have become boring in the extreme and, let’s face it, are just vehicles enabling people to humiliate themselves in front of millions of viewers. Speaking for myself, I want to be entertained not subjected to watching someone come to pieces and descend into a nervous wreck after other competitors have mentally brutalised them.

There was, I thought at one time, a danger that these shows would in their own way take on the mantle of the Roman gladiatorial games. But a new breed of reality shows have sprung up to replace them. Strictly Come Dancing is just one example which readily comes to mind, and there are a number of others in which people are encouraged in positive ways to excel at something they haven’t done before.

With so much unhappiness around, it’s good to see some people getting up and doing something new. Even if some of them are being paid to do so!
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Here's To Len!

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Here’s some good news - Len Goodman, the Strictly Come Dancing judge is to appear in a new movie as a dance teacher at a village hall dance club.

The movie stars Virginia McKenna and Keith Michell as childhood sweethearts who meet up again sixty years later and who learn to dance under Len’s tutelage.

Len Goodman is the acceptable face of the sometimes dire Strictly Come Dancing show, and we wish him well in his movie debut!
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