Strictly 2026 : WEEK ONE 18.15PM Sooo many SAAMMBAAS. NO SPOILERS.

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100 posts left on previous thread but majority agreed to a weekly thread so here we are, please board the glitterbus

I’ve put NO SPOILERS but I don’t think we have an elimination this week. In any case the Spoiler Thread is here :

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/telly_addicts/5578073-strictly-2026-spoiler-thread-for-results-and-couplings?utm_campaign=thread&utm_medium=app_share

Cheers

KEEP DANCING

Theme week already? Nah.

Kai is 31!!

I think so.

Well that’s going to be a lot of people getting screwed over by wardrobe next week.

Trying to boost it due to Medicare presenting!

If you haven’t seen it, watch the series the BBC did on Girl Bands - Kerry has had a tough time of it with her upbringing and the way the tabloids treated her.

Love that the big head came last!

Ellie Taylor is so tall! I think she will be good

It's a running joke...

Don’t get you

I prefer the larger than large version of Motsi 😍😍

Having something exciting in the second week

sorry, that was mediocre

Once again, thanks for watching with me guys 👏

I think she'll be this year's Amber. You can't be TOO good in the first week as people don't get invested in the journey (because there isn't one.) You want to be surprised that someone is better than you think and they get better week by week.

Mediocre! Now I get you!

I know

I have watched the first show .

Jojo is a fantastic dancer . They should have kept him on the dance floor
Josh will get better with time but he seems surplus to requirements

They should have used Zoe as the main presenter and Rylan upstairs .

I really enjoyed tonight's show. They've been dancing for the best part of two weeks instead of three weeks before the first live show.

Completely misread that. Read it who was with the Eastenders star last year (Julian) was the menopausal women's favourite. I'm menopausal and he's my favourite! Had to look away from him during the arena tour otherwise I'd get a flush 😳

I do too but it does detract a bit from the serious comments. Rather like Bruno often had really good comments but the clown role distracted from them a bit. Mind you Shirley as head judge has been embarrassing in her comments on some of the male contestants - very unLen like.

No. I don't think Rylan would have been right for this at all.

I am curious as to whether they’ll swap next week

Oh good!

I actually want his old hair back.

Yes - you need up expecting them to just be one way

I think rylan and Emma - I don’t even like Ryland but think he would have been better than this lot