Telegraph are reporting SCD to be hosted by Tess and Claudia

[Sunnymeg]

www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/strictly-come-dancing/10807602/Strictly-Come-Dancing-Tess-Daly-and-Claudia-Winkleman-to-co-host.html

Sorry the link may not work as on phone and I never seem to do it right.

Oh God I hate Claudia Winkleman. She is all squinty, silly and giggly. I read an article about how she has problems with her vision that means she can't read autocues, etc and it just made me wonder how she keeps getting work when she is so incapable and so fucking awful

Graham Norton said it was too much work for him!

I think Tess deserves some reward after years of having to be on the alert all the time to cover when Bruce messed up, pretend to find his jokes funny, and resist slapping him when he pawed at her.

Agree with nennypops!

Graham could be a bit of a liability on BBC pre-watershed prime time

Actually, yes - now that you've said that it's probably a bit risky to stick him in front a camera at that time!

So - we need a dancer with a personality who can present to a family audience. Umm....?

GN managed to do the ALW search for Joseph/Nancy/Maria and not balls it up.

That's true also Sparkling

Bunch up on the fence for me SirChenjin, I'm not sure how I feel about it yet, but I am glad Bruce is gone, I actually thought Anton might the job

Oooh yes - Anton would be perfect! Anton and Claudia, or someone else?

Not Anton.
Apart from his general dreadfulness, don;t you remember what he called Laila Rouass when she was his partner? REally, I was surprised that he came back to Strictly at all.

I like the idea of not needing it to be older male+subordinate younger female. Madness that it would be 'the first all-female presenting duo on Saturday night television'.

But if we need a chap, then we must have Iain Waite.

I don't remember that - what did he call her?

I really hate the word/connotations so I am going to wimp out writing it.
Suffice to say, she's not even Pakistani, she has Moroccan heritage, IIRC.

As much as I like the idea of two women presenting the flagship Saturday night show, I can't stand Tess daly.
I want Graham Norton and Claudia.

Anton, noooooo. Besides he's settled into the 'hopeless old duffers' niche quite nicely.

Ah OK - no, take Anton off the list.

I'm veering back to Graham and Claudia - he has an afternoon show on R2, presents Eurovision and did the ALW search all before the watershed, so I think he could be trusted.

Graham and Claudia would be immense fun!

Oh right scrap Anton off the list so, as long as they don't ask Davina to do it, I couldn't watch it if she was presenting

The only thing in favour of this partnership is that it is better than Tess and her husband doing it.