Tess and Claudia leaving strictly!

[TheKeeperofBooks]

What!!! Is this true? Who will take over? I'm shocked!

Thank goodness for that. Claudia gives me the rage - can't stand her - and Tess needs a rest too. Time for some new faces to take over.

First suggestion I can see working!

Angela Scanlon?

I hate all of the Claudia bit just give us the scores.

BBC made a big thing of two women hosting so will be interesting if they stick to that format.

Some ideas to make the show 'big' again...
Sack the bloody awful tear-fest, aka 'couples choice'
Back to basics - more waltz and foxtrot, less salsa & Charleston
Less difficult dances in early weeks - no sambas, Argentine tangos etc til later stages
Better music, less crowbar-ing dances into music that just isn't right
Fewer theme weeks
No same sex pairings - just no need
No obligatory disabled contestant as it changes the whole dynamic.

Just my thoughts!

Tom Allen for presenter! He’s brilliant on the Bake-off after show.
He would keep it from turning into the love fest it’s become, by cutting through all gushing.

They'll have to be really careful who they pick as replacements. I think Anton Du Beke would make a fantastic main host. Reminiscent of Brucie. Maybe Rylan or Dermot O'Leary as co host? Let the men have a turn!

Rylan and Rob Rinder would be good

Agreed! Every autumn, as the nights draw in, I think how much I'd like a Saturday night in front of the TV..... and it's always Strictly! I did try with it on a couple of occasions, but it's unwatchable..... the dreadful audience clapping out of time, Tess Daly, sentimental chitchat, celebs I've never heard of.
How about they do a show about people learning a new skill without any of the ridiculous add ons? I'd watch that.

Great news!

Please not Stacey Dooley and Kev

Time the entire thing was put out to pasture IMO.

It's been going on too long and has got very stale.

To the people saying Z list celebrities. I don't think they are really - it's just certain age groups etc. don't know them. I had no clue who George was - DS knew straight away. Don't watch the soaps, but other people do. Knew the gladiator as an athlete. We all know different people.

It's time for a change. Stop the Sunday night TV version and boot them out on TV when they go do on the show!

I’ve always maintained that Tess Daly, Cat Deely and Holly Willoughby are the same person.

End the show, just have an annual Christmas special in future. If it does come back, have shows with a weekly winner and then a final of all the weekly winners.

Tom Allen doing Claud and Clara Amfo as Tess? I really liked Clara on the proms, she is a very calm presence.

Apart from the pay check, I'm not sure how appealing the Tess role is, there isn't really room there for anyone to inject much of their personality.

So true! There will be an article on the BBC website any minute now about a drag queen being really sad that Tess and Claudia are going.

It might have been leaked and the press were going to go with the story, so the BBC just getting ahead of that.

It’s gonna be Alison Hammond, isn’t it?

Never really saw the point of Tess, whose job seemed to be looking and sounding awkward on the ground floor and waving people up the stairs to Claudia.

Claudia is legitimately funny and seems wasted on Strictly.

Hopefully their departures might be a sign that Strictly Come will Strictly Go. I've enjoyed it for a few years but now it seems to be much more about performative virtue and pointless scandal than it is about dancing and fun.

Bloody hope not or Rylan either had more than enough of both of them.

Scott Mills and Kylie (I’m sure she wouldn’t a stay back in the UK).

I feel the same! I liked the consistency.

I also wonder if something had happened.

I always assumed the theme of Claudia going off- piste and Tess looking panicked was their act? They are playing characters- Tess is the straight woman- I think it’s a bit unfair to trash her for that!
Mel and Sue would be great.

It’s soooo over!