Rod Stewart has been revealed as the musical guest for this Saturday’s Strictly Come Dancing, which comes live from Blackpool Tower Ballroom, the home of ballroom dancing. Rod will be performing the hit ‘Same Old Song’ – and will be joined by his wife, and former Strictly contestant, Penny Lancaster, making it a real family affair!

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Well, the first show has come and gone, and I’m left feeling incredibly frustrated at the Great British Public.

Brad has done a great job of detailing each act – if you want to see my view on each of them, its all listed in my Blog here: Live Show no 1.. TheNovaView

What on EARTH was Dionne doing in the bottom two? I can understand The Unconventionals being there – Louis should be hanging his head in shame at his mentoring of this group – but Dionne was absolutely brilliant last night. She had style, she had panache, she looked absolutely fantastic, and she owned that song.. but she had to go to the Song Off to stay in. Simon blamed it on her lack of personality, as her vocals were amazing – but I can’t really see that. She shone on the stage.

I hope the MacDonald Brothers are heaving very large sighs of relief. Pretty much every review I’ve seen of them had them firmly in the bottom two. Perhaps the teenagegirly syndrome is already kicking in, and they (and Ray) have managed to stay here. They’re going to need to raise their game much higher if they want to carry on performing in the X Factor.

Next week should be really interesting: the theme is Rod Stewart (so I’m assuming that he’ll be the guest star) and that will suit Ben’s vocals down to the ground. We’ve already seen him perform Maggie May at Bootcamp, so I have high hopes of him. Perhaps Louis will do a better job of song selection, as he’s getting first choice of the songlist, followed by Sharon and then Simon – I just hope he stops messing it up for his acts. And Sharon love.. try and pick better songs too, you did an abysmal job last night, the only one you got spot on was Dionne’s.. and look how the public repaid you.

I could cry.

Rod Stewart is set to make a guest appearance on hit show The X Factor and offer the contestants some tips and advice.

61-year-old Rod will also help judge the contestant’s performances when the show goes live next month.

He told the Daily Star that despite years of live performances, he sometimes gets stage fright.

“I’m going to do X Factor in a couple of months. Those kids have got some guts. I’m used to big crowds, but even when I do TV shows I’m on edge.”

A show spokesperson added: “There will be some guest judges. But as for Rod, it’s speculation.”

Rumour has it that Rod let the cat out the bag, because TV bosses were trying to keep their celebrity judges under wraps until the last minute.

An insider said: “They were furious with Rod. It was to be a surprise, but now he’s blown it.”

Other guest stars linked to the ITV programme include Westlife, Beyonce and Julio Iglesias.