That Samba and all things Strictly 2019 #3

[xsquared]

Starting this one in anticipation.

Been reading Monseal . . . .

Can someone tell me who this "Baron von Biscuits" is, and why he is called that?

And also - was the gorgeous and glorious Kelvin a last minute replacement for the aforementioned von Biscuits chappie? (I've tried googling but just get pictures of jaffa cakes etc). If so - how lucky were we?

Which wonderfull MN Strictly fan found a magic lamp and wished for Kelvin? Whoever you are, I am forever in your debt!

Baron von Biscuit is Jamie Laing, heir to McVities fortune so something.

Kelvin was due to be in panto so couldn't do SCD. Jamie hurt his foot. BBC increased their offer to Kelvin so he dropped out of panto, and think has been replaced by Robin Windsor of SCD.

I am glad kelvin is in it but wish Jamie could have stayed in, I think he’d be really entertaining

I’d swap him for David James or the entirely forgettable comedian guy

Baron Von biscuit aww I'm going to miss monkseal ripping into BVB. I don't watch made in Chelsea but Jamie was in a police thing and came over as a decent guy

Although Jamie couldn't bake a biscuit in bake off!

Stacey repeatedly calling him king Kevin

Maybe she means (fuc)kin' Kevin

Urgh no ikiboo. I never think of KKfG with actual working parts 😄

iklboo

Mrsjayy

Placemarking. Although for some reason really not into SCD this year, Or perhaps it's just not yet.

Monkseal's review is on form this week...I was sat in my car eating my lunch whilst reading it and literally was crying with laughter

I feel that way about Bake Off, Puffling

It' just run its course with me.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/strictlycomedancing/entries/3db5b684-32de-4b50-a4bc-0baeec16ed88

Week two dances & routines!

James has got a Jive 😬

coveting thanks for the link. Poor James, can't see this being any better than last week

This is the first ITT I've seen and I'm liking Rylan a lot

No flannel

YOU WHAT? Lady of the Night?!

THAT DOG DONT LOOK HAPPY

This is just look at my Dalmatian innit?!

PMSL

😂

Sorry for being late , thanks for the thread xsquared and thanks for quoting me in the last thread Schady I didn't know that you 're a woman of the cloth, do you use 'popular 'subjects' like SCD in Your sermons ?

Also feel for Chris having a Charleston on week 2

Can't say I'm a fan of Rylan but I thought he was pretty good on ITT.

I'm loving Strictly and Bake Off this year - comfort TV that doesn't require any thinking and certainly feels like all the shit going on in the country isn't really happening!

Rylan is made for light entertainment he is never going to present newsnight is he I think he is great and probably can't believe his luck.

I'm not familiar with Rylan, I've only ever seen him on the occasional Friday panel on ITT. Those who are familiar with his work, approximately how many episodes will it take before I stop being mesmerised by his teeth and the perfectly plastic quality of his skin and start being able to concentrate on what he's actually saying?

ppeat - I'm not an ordained minister - I'm a licensed one - a Reader. I can do pretty much everything except bless/consecrate.

Where possible I try to ground my sermons in "popular subjects" - things like Strictly - I've used Corrie before - it depends on the text, and what message I want to get across from it.

As it happened, I ended up using the Hatton Garden Robbery as my example on Sunday. Pretty lucky really - I knew what I wanted to say, but couldn't think of a real life example, and then (on Netflix or something) while I was channel hopping I saw an advert for the Hatton Garden Heist and I thought "THAT'S IT!" and also "Thank you, God - just what I needed!"

I went forward for ordination once and was knocked back - not the "right stuff". I found out that the priest of my then church (plus another church member) had shafted me good and proper.* Which is how I ended up where I am now . . . and it's where I'm meant to be - at least for the present.

*A long, bitter and tedious story - I won't bore you with it

I love though how Rylan doesn't take himself seriously. He was complaining about his toothache on Twitter yesterday and making jokes about his own teeth.

His face when Vincent came out with the 'lady of the night' comment, he did say I think that means something else where I come from but Vincent didn't clarify any further! I quite liked Rylan on ITT, didn't see it last night.

His skin is quite wax-like, how does it look like that?

Rylan is the first to joke about the work he's had done

It's a different approach though

Claudia would cringe and shout CRASHING ON

Zoe would pause and knowing eyebrow raise to camera

Rylan dives straight into the awkward and makes comments

Could be hilarious in a few weeks time