Winners of ITV reality Tv show, Grease Is The Word, took to the stage for the first time last night, but unlike their Joseph counterparts, their opening night reviews were certainly not of the raving kind.

Sarah Crompton, writing in the Daily Telegraph, said Bayne “made Travolta look like Olivier”.

“Whatever qualities made people vote for them shrivel and fade in the spotlight’s harsh glare,” she added.

The Guardian’s critic, Michael Billington, said McFadden “sings prettily, but has a painfully limited range of physical expression”.

The show was also branded “disappointingly short on dazzle” by Sam Marlowe in The Times.

“At no point do we care one iota what becomes of any of them or their teen romances,” he said.