Just spent a delightful afternoon at the magnificent TRIC awards where This Morning lost out to the excellent BBC Breakfast in the category of ‘Best Daytime Show’. Well, that of course is the politically correct way to put it… the reality, which you seldom see, is here
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Sunday’s Dancing On Ice may well have been my most favourite show of all the series’ we’ve done. I loved the big movie opening (CLICK TO WATCH) and I got a little bit of the behind the scenes action just before we went live.
One of the guys carrying that huge painting asked if I fancied it for above the fireplace! I said we’d have to raise the ceiling.
From the moment the show started to the minute it ended it was a magnificent night at the movies, so much so that Holly even gave a little acceptance speech… which I didn’t hear because I was my usual 5 steps behind (avoiding the frock).
Danny was very nervous about going shirtless; in fact he quietly asked if I could make it clear that it wasn’t his idea. After Jason’s flustered reaction and the brilliant scores I wondered if he’d wished it was?! It was suggested in the commercial break that maybe next week he should try skating without trousers, he drew the line at that … those blades are sharp.
After teasing Kieron and Brianne over the deep mahogany tan they were developing, as soon as I walked in on Sunday morning Brianne skated straight over and said “Look, no fake tan!” I said “Brilliant, well done, but are you ok? You look pale” at which point she hit me and skated off
Both Mikey and Danniella were in the Skate-Off and if I’m honest I think both were ready to go. Mikey wants time to heal his aching body and promote the new Boyzone album and Danniella is desperately missing her husband, Mikey lost out (or got lucky depending how you look at it) and we’ll really miss him.
Who would believe with his terrific routine that Gary was ever in a Skate-Off, and who could ever have thought that Hayley, who had never danced on ice before, could get our judges to spontaneously jump to their feet in excitement and rapture? Surely one of the best straight six routines we’ve ever had. An Oscar winning performance to end a magical movie night.
Finally, didn’t have time to say it at the end of the show, but next week is Props week! In the past it has proved to be carnage!
Let’s hope your favourite doesn’t get the wooden spoon…
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Poor Gino, or should I say poor @ginofantastico - as I helped him set up his Twitter account, I still have his password!! Which means that when he said he wanted to change his boring background into something more ‘Gino’ Holly and I were only too pleased to help. We asked him what he’d like and he said maybe pics of food taken from his books, ‘A big Italian flag?’ we asked, ‘No, maybe just a little one, in the top corner’ he replied… Oops
If you missed Gino’s first lesson, watch it now - click HERE.
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Telly can occasionally be very glamorous, or it can put your feet very firmly on the ground. I think two parts of this week’s video show this very clearly. At one end of the spectrum, Jason is sporting a 25 grand jewel ‘tie’ from Boucheron (borrowed :)) which, as the judges were introduced, clearly gave him some extra bling. And at the other end of the scale, lovely Danniella let me record her in make-up just before she got completely into her beautiful skating costume, not quite the glamour you saw on the screen, but very funny nevertheless.
Half way through the show, in one of the commercial breaks, Jayne Torvill told me quietly “they’re scaring me this week” in fact the skaters made our collective hearts skip a beat on a number of occasions. I had the Flip rink side as Mikey fell heavily just before the show, you can see the worry in Holly’s face. Everyone had a slip or stumble of some sort and quite frankly Kieron is very lucky to still have his teeth! And it’s Kieron and Brianne who got special mention on the show for sheer depth of tan, I called it ’skating mahogany’ on the show. Further investigation of the studio corridor uncovered their secret… though the fake tan was left untouched I found a tin of Ronseal dark oak varnish hidden in the bin.
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As if presenting a show to 10 million people wasn’t high pressure enough, the lovely people who run all the iviva websites set me an extra challenge this week…
You know by now that I love the world of Twitter. It’s brilliant for so many reasons. Keeping in touch with family, friends and those who are mad enough to follow (thank you btw!)
