The last month has been a dull one! With the end of ‘Just The Two Of Us’, and ‘Dancing On Ice’ we have been suffering from Reality TV cold turkey, and the withdrawal symptoms were BAD!

Thankfully we have something to look forward to! Strictly Dance Fever starts this saturday (1st April) at 7pm, and will be once again presented by the camper than camp Graham Norton.

The show will feature the best amateur dancers in Britain strutting their stuff for the judges, and more importantly for all your votes! The series will start this week with four special shows, showing how the contestants were chosen and the ups and downs of the audition process.

For die hard fans you can catch June Sarpong presenting a ‘behind the scenes’ show on BBC 3 after the main event,

Reality TVs most famous couple Chantelle and Preston have been spotted shopping for rings this week, adding fuel to the rumours that they are engaged and planning to marry.

Entertainment Wise reported

“Rumors of a wedding were sparked after they were seen looking at sparklers through the window of acclaimed London jewelers Dinny Hall, and were further fuelled after they beamed about a recent visit to the five-star Hertfordshire Hotel, a popular wedding destination in celebville.”

Will they or won’t they….watch this space!

After Celebrity Big Brother was heavily criticised this year for its lack of actual celebrities, the judges of Celebrity X factor are determined that their show will not go down the same route!

In order to sign up some really big names each judge will have to recruit three contestants each.

An insider said: “They are going to have to start calling in favours to get really big names involved.

“And they will have to use all their powers of persuasion to get the celebrities to risk humiliation.

“It will ramp up the competitive edge as they will want to outdo each other. It’s under discussion just now.”

If rumours are to be believed negotiations are already underway, with Simon Cowell trying to sign Jordan and Peter Andre, and Louis Walsh chasing Jade Goody! I just hope that Sharon Osbourne doesn’t try to talk her hubby Ozzy Osbourne to take part, that would just be too much to bear!

Producers for the Big Brother 7 in the UK are considering banning smoking from the Big Brother house this summer.

They have come under increasing pressure from various anti-smoking groups and organisations and have watched as the Australians outlawed cigarettes in their recent series of Big Brother.

A spokesperson for Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) said: “We’ve called on Channel 4 and Endemol to consider imposing a full ban on cigarettes this year.

“The TV show has a young fan base and clips like this encourage them to copy their idols.”

“It seems remarkable that Channel 4 warn viewers about swearing or sex scenes on the show and say nothing about the dangers of smoking.”

Every Reality TV show seems to have its own big romance. From Chantelle and Preston to Jordan and Peter Andre, heres MSN have published the definative list of reality TVs most famous couples!

Samuel Preston and Chantelle Houghton: Celebrity Big Brother 2006

Jordan and Peter Andre: 3rd series of I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here

Anthony Hutton and Makosi Musambasi: Big Brother 6

Lee Davey and Sophie Pritchard: Big Brother 3

Ulrika Jonsson and Lance Gerrard-Wright: Mr Right

Helen Adams and Paul Clarke: Big Brother 2

Maxwell Trotter Ward and Saskia Howard-Clarke: big Brother 6

Stuart Wilson and Michelle Bass: Big Brother 5

Craig Coates and Anthony Hutton: Big Brother 6

Abi Titmuss and Lee Sharpe: Celebrity Love Island

Paul Danan and Paul Danan: Celebrity Love Island

BAFTA nominations have just been announced and the award for best entertainment programme will be between Strictly Come Dancing, The X Factor, Have I Got News For You and Friday Night With Jonathan Ross.

The Apprentice will do battle with Top Gear, Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares and Dragon’s Den in the best features category.

It certainly has been a great year for reality TV!

While Shayne Ward was shooting the video for his second single, he became a witness to a shooting of another kind!

Just feet away from the set he was working on, Shayne watched on as a drive by shooting took place.

A source close to hunky Shayne tells us: “The location has a bit of a reputation but no one could have predicted that - it was a nightmare.

“The shooting came out of nowhere. We heard a screech of tyres, a long volley of shots then a car sped off. It was utterly shocking.”

The crew insider goes on: “It was a miracle neither Shayne nor any of the crew had been injured - the shooting was so close to where they all were.

“Shayne was really shaken but he took it upon himself to go and speak to each member of the crew one by one to make sure they were OK. He was really concerned about everyone and anxious about the guy who was shot.”

Big Brother contestant Makosi Musambasi is selling her body at £1,500 a time to pay off huge debts which she has built up.

Since leaving the Big Brother House, the 25 year old was even paid to take part in a threesome with a famous TV presenter who cannot be named for legal reasons.

Makosi, who was third in last year’s Channel 4 show, said: “My life is disgusting. I feel so filthy. I can’t imagine a person in a worse state than me.�

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Singers Javine Hylton and Jade Jones have been crowned champions of TV show The Games.

The R&B stars came out on top after eight days of gruelling competition for the Channel 4 programme.

Participants took part in events including hurdles, weightlifting, curling, swimming, archery, hammer and the 100m sprint.

Other more unusual events included for the first time were white water kayak slalom, kendo and archery.

Javine, 24, who last year represented the UK in the Eurovision Song Contest, was dubbed “Javine Machine” after winning six out of nine events. Her wins included hurdles, gym floor, swimming and the 100m sprint.

She said: “This is a dream come true. It’s been a tough contest and I’m really pleased to have won.

Jade, 25, a former singer in boy group Damage and long-term boyfriend of Spice Girl Emma Bunton, notching up five event victories. He said: “It’s been brilliant. I’m totally over the moon.

Liberal Democrat MP Julia Goldsworthy and Radio 1 DJ JK (Jason King) came second overall while Michelle Gayle and Blazin’ Squad MC Plat’num secured took third place.

The other competitors were TV presenter Amanda Lamb, Bernie Nolan, Adam Rickitt and Peter Duncan.

They spent three months in intensive training with world-class sporting experts including Roger Black, Sally Gunnell and Suzanne Dando. The group competed in front of a live audience and lived together in the purpose-built athletes’ village in Sheffield’s Don Valley Stadium.

This week saw the battle of the X Factor taking centre stage, with the release of the debut albums of both Journey South and Andy Abraham.

Journey South’s self titled album ‘Journey South’, which contains some original songs written by Carl and Andy Pemberton, has pipped the post, and now holds number one spot in the UK album chart.

Andy Abraham and his album ‘The Impossible Dream’ came close behind and holds the number two spot.

X factor winner Shayne Ward will release his self titled debut album in just afew short weeks so it will be interesting to see if he can manage to knock the boys off the top spot!