Strictly Come Dancing 2012 - who's getting excited?

[CeliaFate]

Just read that Katya Virshilas isn't returning to the show, a new dancer Karen Hauer is taking her place.

Who will be in this year's line up?

Cross-posts!

Thanks for info thehuman

Follyfoot, I don't think they repeat it. Watch it on iplayer and fast forward through Bruce.

@ fast forward. Mmm he is buttock clenchingly embarrassing.....

I thought Flavia and Louis looked a bit tense with each other. Such a shame, they'd make an amazing team otherwise. No hand holding up the stairs and a massive gap between them when they were talking to Rebecca adlington Tess. A quick google suggests he is lazy

i think louis' 'journey' will be him learning how to loosen up and be a showman... that's very good for the 'aaaaaw' factor, and combined with the 'coooor' factor, i think he's a contender.

agree totally that lisa shouldn't have had to do that stupid lift at the end, she was totally storming it from the beginning. (although her posture etc etc lots of it was Not Great).

was that whole thing filmed last night, btw? someone sorted darcey out, anyway, i thought she was charming tonight, and no yars.

Can I just come in to add to whoever said further up - has Tess had a boob job? - just what I was wondering! Her boobs were huge, definitely not how they used to be .

I think the criticism of the speech use of Darcy is really unfair. She knows her stuff, her advice seemed useful, and the 'ya' is a total aside. And a massive improvement on the valueless 'critiques' of Dixon.

Tess always looks like she has been made up of a selection of random body parts which don't actually belong to her.

The top half of her dress looked like a swimsuit.

Darcy was better tonight, someone had definitely had a word.

I think her boobs looked big because the weirdy swimsuit top effect didn't support them at all. Perhaps she had been reading the MN droopy boobs thread?

I have SUCH a crush on Robin. He is so hot, a brilliant dancer and so nice to his partners

not unfair at all, Pan, it was merely a verbal tic brought on by nervousness so easily sorted but yesterday it pretty much drowned out anything she had to say.

I thought DB was better tonight and totally yahless. Good advice too which, unlike last night, you could actually hear as it wasn't buried in yahs.

well, no Aitch, it was unfair - I watched last night's show on i-player this afternoon and it certainly didn't drown out anything useful she had to say. I guess it depends on your perception.

yes, i guess it does. thank GOD you are here to put us right, Pan.

A service that is freely given, Aitch.

yes the yahs were annoying glad they lessened.

Who's Robin? How hot is he?

Just googled, oh yeah yeah and thrice yeah. But he's gay, no? Can still think he's hot though.

curiousmama and bisjo, but you are wrong, the yahs weren't annoying. did you miss that Pan has spoken?

There were some yahs. I think she sounded like she had been drinking.

Jerry Hall also appeared to have been drinking, although she is funnier and more self-deprecating than I thought she would be.

I loved the way Louis was able to "finish off" his moves. He is a very elegant mover, and can do the hip action.

Richard Arnold was good, but he has such an irritating personality that I doubt he'll stay long.

Lisa has good, natural dancing talent, by the looks of it. I hope Robin doesn't spoil it with silly choreography.

oh you are prickly when someone disagrees with you!!

who's pan?

look, you're the one who came onto a thread where heaps of people are saying that something irritated them to inform us that actually it's not irritating and we're being unfair... nice mansplaining.

but at least someone had a word and stopped it.

Pan is Aliona's husband, in his dreams.

Well Aliona you should stop spending your cash on boden and buy the poor bloke some clothes methinks?