The stars are tuning into Strictly but it doesn’t seem that they can agree on who is set to win this weekend.
Jason Donovan, Harry Judd and Chelsee Healy will go head to head in the Blackpool Ballroom tomorrow night and Jo Joyner admitted that she is backing the former Neighbours star.
She said:
Stacey Solomon has finally landed her first full time TV presenting role.
The X Factor star, who also won I’m A Celebrity in November last year, recently revealed that she would love a career on TV and now will front Saturday night show ‘Sing If You Can’ with Vernon Kay.
Speaking about her new role, the mum of one said:
Craig Revel Horwood has admitted that he wouldn’t support Vernon Kay as a replacement for Bruce Forsyth on ‘Strictly Come Dancing’.
The famously acid-tongued judge believes if the 82-year-old TV veteran permanently quits the BBC One show, Vernon – who has been touted as his replacement and is married to Bruce’s co-host Tess Daly – wouldn’t be the right presenter, as there is only one person who is “absolutely perfect” for the job.
Speaking on ‘OK! TV’ about whether Bruce will be hosting the next series of ‘Strictly’, Craig said: “Well I’m hoping that he is. I would not like it to just fizzle out and tail off – I think he is the show.
‘Got To Dance’ winners Chris and Wes have admitted that they are grateful for all the support TV host Vernon Kay has given them and added that they’d like to teach him a few of their signature moves.
The street dance duo – who scooped £250,000 when they won the Sky1 show on Sunday night – admitted that Vernon’s supportive tweets probably helped them win and now they’d like to pay him back.
Wes exclusively told BANG Showbiz: “We were shocked when we saw Vernon Kay had tweeted us! To have that level of backing is just amazing, I think it really helped us. These people are seeing dance and entertainment all the time because they’re in the industry, so to have an impact on celebrities really is great.
Bruce Forsyth has backed Vernon Kay as the new ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ presenter.
The 82-year-old TV veteran – who currently co-hosts the BBC One show alongside Vernon’s wife Tess Daly – hasn’t yet stepped down from the series but thinks while the ‘All-Star Family Fortunes’ frontman would do a “very good job” as his replacement, he would love Hollywood hunk Brad Pitt to assume the role.
He explained: “I always say Vernon could do a very good job. He would be good. I said that five years ago. There have been people bandied around for the past five or six years.
“Brad Pitt could take my place. It’s so obvious.”
Vernon Kay has reportedly refused to sign another contract with ITV, as he hopes to move to BBC for the next series of Strictly Come Dancing.
TV executives had allegedly spent weeks trying to tie the ‘All Star Family Fortunes’ into another contract – he signed a £900,000 one-year deal with ITV in 2010 – but he refused to be tied to one channel and insiders say he is holding out for Bruce Forsyth’s job.
A source told The Sun:
BBC bosses are reportedly planning to replace Bruce Forsyth on next year’s Strictly Come Dancing series.
Producers are worried that the 82 year old presenter is growing too old and tired to withstand the pressures of the popular TV show and instead plan to offer the job to Vernon Kay, whose wife Tess Daly also fronts the dance extravaganza.
A senior BBC source told The News Of The World:
Dermot O’Leary has hit out at fellow TV presenter Vernon Kay, after Vernon claimed he would have turned down the X Factor job if it had been offered to him.
Dermot told Heat magazine:
“It’s the biggest show in the country.”
“Unless you’re Jonathan Ross or Ant and Dec . . . if you say you’d turn it down, you’re full of s***.” Read more & comment »
Into the second night of the six nights series, ex-Blue Peter presenter Janet Ellis and soul singer Alexander O’Neal were voted out by the combined votes of judges and public. Last night the first couple to go was Celebrity Masterchef’s Gregg Wallace and T’Pau’s Carol Decker.
Strictly Come Dancing Brendon Cole and partner R&B singer Beverley Knight were the most impressive performers last night with Watchdog presenter Julia Bradbery and singer Toni Christie coming bottom of the leader board but tonight Julia and Toni shot up to the top impressing us all with a wonderful duet. They shared top position with Cricketer Mark Butcher and classical singer Sarah Brightman. With eight couples being reduced to six we have the remaining competiors as follows:
Hannah Waterman (ex-Eastenders) and Wet Wet Wet’s Marti Pellow, Julia and Tony, Brendan and Beverley, Mark and Sarah, Eastenders’ John Bardon and soul singer Jocelyn Brown and Casualty’s Luke Bailey and Natasha Hamilton ex-Atomic Kitten.
In four days time, after voting out a couple each night, one of the couples will be crowned ‘Just The Two of Us Champions for 2007′ hosted by Vernon Kay and wife Tess Daly.
Well the day finally came. Many thought that Penny, undoubtedly the worst singer in the BBC’s ‘Just The Two Of Us’ competition, should have left on the first night. So with that in mind she did really well to last until the show before the semi-finals.
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?
