Strictly fans over here!!

[FamiliesShareGerms]

who do we think will be the early favourites? Who will get to the grand finale? Who will turn most orange?

It's starting now and I am very excited...!

[Minimammoth]

Where is Anton's dance. I want to see I want to see. < jumps up and down>

[PolkadotsAndMoonbeams]

If you're absolutely ...

I think there's a reason most Latin trousers are black.

[ppeatfruit]

Thanks polka but I reckon those trousers aren't very erm flat cut at the front it's the way the material falls well maybe something underneath was pushing the material up a bit!!!!

[Minimammoth]

I think he was carrying an emergency torch just in case of a power cut.

[Horsemad]

[PolkadotsAndMoonbeams]

It's a bit like these I suppose

[Horsemad]

Not much better in black!

[Snowstorm]

I thought it might be the box for his mike in there ... but couldn't work out why it would be down the front of his trousers!

[Snowstorm]

Ha!ha!ha! Mic ... microphone ... not his mike - wheyheyhey!!

[Balloonist]

Dp reckons it was socks. Every man I've ever met tells me ballerina's put socks down their tights- no woman ever has. Please could someone clarify once and for all if this is a myth spread by men?

[PolkadotsAndMoonbeams]

They wear dance belts like these. This one is 'slightly padded', but I don't know if they'd put anything else in there! Maybe a box like you wear for cricket? That would at least give a smooth shape.

(I do remember being out with a group of ballroom friends at university, playing drinking games when everybody was very drunk and one of the questions the boys had to answer was how many times they'd got an erection whilst dancing.)

[ppeatfruit]

Well well well Polkadots What did they answer?????? You can't leave it there you know!!!!

[digerd]

Male ballet dancers wear a jock strap, as they were called. Many roles were in white tights, but all you saw was a compact bulge and nothing jiggled or swung during their high jumps or pirouettes.

[ppeatfruit]

True digerd but some 'bulges' (thinking Nureyev here ) were bigger than others . To be serious i wonder why the ballroom males don't wear a jockstrap?

[PolkadotsAndMoonbeams]

It had happened to quite a few of them actually. They were saying how they automatically 'dress to the left' after a while

My favourite story was one during a private lesson (as if it wasn't awkward enough), when they were doing samba rolls and he whispered to his partner that "I need to stop for a minute, don't ask why" and she hissed back "I don't have to, I can feel why".

[ppeatfruit]

Thanks polkaPerhaps there's a male ballroom dancer that can tell us why they don't wear jockstraps (praps it's because they like plenty of ball room ) geddit ! sorry folks!!!!

[birdbrain21]

just found you guys, spent last year lurking I normally watch on i-player as busy most saturday nights but will enjoy reading everyones comments

[FrankelInFoal]

We're going to need a new thread in advance of tomorrow night's episode.

[TheOneWithTheHair]

I'm out again. Honestly, I hardly go out but it happens every year that as soon as Strictly starts I'm really busy.

Thank god for iplayer.

[RedPencils]

I'm trying to talk our work Xmas do organiser into a Friday night out rather than Saturday so not to clash with the final. .

[ilovesooty]

We're off!

[PolkadotsAndMoonbeams]

Yep I'll start a new thread and link it, so we can move over when we get to the end of this one

[Fiderer]

Craig as vicar

I was wondering how long the pros get to rehearse their routines. Are they all so seasoned that it's quick and slick and fairly effortless?

[PolkadotsAndMoonbeams]

New thread for when we get to 1000

I liked that group dance!

[PolkadotsAndMoonbeams]

I think they rehearse in August Fid, so they're all choreographed and practised, and only need a quick polish on the Friday/Saturday.