The BBC must’ve burst their Photoshopping budget when they had Penny Smith‘s face superimposed on Britney Spears’ body in some of her most famous costumes. Yes, Penny’s pretending that she was Britney’s body double throughout her career.

Anyhoo…. *deep breath*

Penny hits the stage in a blue PVC airline hostess costume. Sadly the routine (and the costume) fails to excite on any level. Penny stares her way through the performance and her movements are incredibly wooden. Not that she was one of the frontrunners to begin with though.

Lee Mack: “I genuinely think we might’ve found the winner. I’m happy to go to the bar now. When Penny came on, I didn’t think her skirt could be more revealing, and then I found out it could when they picked her up. Great start to the show, and also a brilliant wink at the end, which I thought proves to Anne Robinson that you can do that and not freeze someone’s soul to the core.”

Jack Whitehall: “That was outstanding – it was a great way to start the show and without wishing to come over all Richard Keys-ey, the bit with the frilly pants was really sexy. Really brave.”

Keith Lemon: “Can’t tell you on telly what I’m thinking. I think you look FAF – fit as flip. I like your boots, I like your earrings and you’ve changed your hair, that looks nice. You look better like that than you do on telly normally. It was a good dance, and almost better than Britney Spears.”

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“Sure we kind of made fools of ourselves a little bit,” Curtis confessed, “but Penny has a great sense of humour and can laugh at herself.

“I’d be glad to welcome her on stage in Belfast to renew our friendship from the television thing.”

Penny is said to be considering the offer, but ultimately her decision will depend upon her GMTV rota.

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I admit to being a real Penny Smith Fan, even when she reads the news on GMTV in the mornings she is witty and oozes personality, more than some of the so called presenters they use. I’d be the first one to admit that she can’t sing, but hey neither could the Spice Girls and look what they acheived.

I enjoyed her and Curtis’ performance of ‘The Street Where You Live’ from My Fair Lady much much more than Russell Watsons and Sian Reeves version of ‘Nothings Gonna Stop Us Now’ which was out of key and boring. At least Penny was funny and entertaining to watch!

Had I been choosing who went tonight I would definately have kept Penny and sent Sian packing. Poor Penny has faced criticism every single night and responded with dignity. Maybe if she had collapsed in floods of tears like Sian she would still be in the show.

It was refreshing to see an honest celebrity for once….when Vernon Kay asked Penny if she thought she deserved to make it through to the semi finals she said no. How many other contestants, talented or not, would have admitted that eh?

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A BBC insider admitted to the Daily Express: “Gaby didn’t take the news too well.�

To be fair I wouldn’t want to lose a singing competition with Penny Smith either!

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Penny said: “After Saturday’s dress rehearsal I can’t stop giggling. I’ve gone into hysterical meltdown.

“After the rehearsal I laughed and laughed so much there was no moisture in my body because I was crying. I just couldn’t stop.

“I’ve discovered I don’t sing as well as everybody else, but then I’m the only person who hasn’t been taught how to sing. I’m the only total novice there.

“The only reason I agreed to do it was because I thought everyone else would be a novice, but they all either learned how to sing because they are actors or have sung in bands. I’ve only sung in the church choir and while giving out pints at a folk club.”

Despite her fears of making a fool of herself, the bookies yesterday made her and Curtis Stigers third favourite – with William Hill offering odds of 5/1.

This isn’t Pennys first time on arelaity Tv show though. In 2004 she appeared as Debbie Harry singing Denis in a celebrity special of Stars In Their Eyes.

She said: “I hated it so much and was so awful. I’ve never seen it. I loved dressing up. I was having really good fun until the moment it came to sing and then I wished I’d never done it.”

So why is she doing this? She said: “It’s duets so I felt a little more protected, but now I can’t even pretend to be someone else!”

But then she shrugged: “It’s not that I’m going to miss every single note. I can get the high notes. I just can’t do the wobbly bits. They are all show-offs and I’m not. I could karate chop my throat frantically throughout the whole song to make my voice wobble.”

“My agent said: ‘I’m coming along on Thursday to support you’. I said: ‘Come on the last night’. And he said: ‘What, do you think you’ll win?’

“I told him: ‘No my last night. . . Friday’.”

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Singers include

*Beverley Knight
*Soul star Alexander O’Neal
*ABC singer Martin Fry
*Disco diva Jocelyn Brown,
*Jazz singer Curtis Stigers,
*Ex-S Club’s Jo O’Meara,
*Ex-Atomic Kitten Natasha Hamilton,
*Russell Watson

Celebrities Include

*Hollyoaks hunk Chris Fountain,
*Ex-Cutting It actress Sian Reeves,
*Actor Mark Moraghan
*Presenter Matt Allwright.
*GMTV Newsreader Penny Smith
*BBC Newsreader Fiona Bruce.
*Gaby Roslin, who recently starred in Chicago.
*Presenter Nicky Campbell

The show will be presented by Tess Daly and Vernon Kay

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