TV Review: Moving Wallpaper, ITV1, 06/03
The Moving Wallpaper/Echo Beach concept was unusual for ITV, it was quite innovative and possibly even a teeny bit good. Worry not however, as they weren’t going to allow this anomaly to continue unfettered.
If the phenomenon of the original format passed you by, here is a quick recap. Moving Wallpaper and Echo Beach were shown back to back. The former was a knowing parody of a TV production office which was creating a beach-based soap aptly called Echo Beach. Therefore the viewer was in the unusual position that he/she/it could see the entire production process through to its fruition.
Kelly Brook Quite Happy She Dumped That Titanic Slaphead
Sad news - Kelly Brook and Billy Zane have split up. Billy Zane. He was in Titanic. You know, Billy Zane. Went out with Kelly Brook for a while. Anyone? However, perhaps it's not all sad news that Kelly Brook and Billy Zane have split up. For a start it means that Billy can go back to making his rubbish straight-to-DVD movies without any distractions, while Kelly Brook looks positively thrilled that she dumped him.
And this happiness might even trickle down to you, boys, because it means Kelly Brook is back on the market. You have a chance! Provided, of course, that you're older than Kelly Brook and bald. And a C-list actor who'll use your meagre Hollywood status to boost Kelly's acting career by association until you've exhausted your use at which point she'll quickly dump you for someone infinitesimally more famous. That'll help too.
Strictly Come Dancing Betting Odds: John Barnes Gone, Who’ll Win?
Sooner or later the Strictly Come Dancing contestants are going to have to learn that anyone who throws an on-camera strop will get voted out - just like Dominic Littlewood and, on Saturday's show, John Barnes. John Barnes: brilliant when he's asked to do a Strictly Come Dancing latin dance, but useless if he's asked to do a Strictly Come Dancing ballroom dance. Everyone knows that. But that theory took a beating on Saturday, when John's Samba to Sir Juke was all flabby and out of shape. Sure, he wiggled his hips around like he was trying to loosen up a colon-impacted turd, but nothing more. And as well as the technique being a bit out, John Barnes also made the routine look roughly as fun as regrouting a mid-sized bathroom. And then threw a wobbly when he got crap scores. No wonder he got eliminated.
But who's going to win Strictly Come Dancing if John Barnes isn't? Here are the Strictly Come Dancing betting odds for
Gethin Jones, Letitia Dean and
Kelly Brook, with help from
Paddy Power...
Strictly Come Dancing Betting Odds: Garraway Out, Who’ll Win?
Well, the dream had to come to an end at some point - and on Saturday Kate Garraway was eliminated from Strictly Come Dancing after convincing enough of the public that she couldn't dance to save her blinking life. Having just started to recover from the leg injury that did her in before Strictly Come Dancing began, Kate Garraway suffered a back injury in training for Saturday's Paso Doble to Somebody Told Me, meaning that the only parts of her anatomy that have come out of the show unscathed are her knockers. However, we didn't think that Kate Garraway did too badly at her routine - being in incredible pain made her scowl sexily for the first time ever and she even seemed to let loose at one point, although that could have been because she was hopped-up on enough prescription medication to break a dinosaur.
So with no more Garraway fouling everything up, who'll win Strictly Come Dancing? Here's part one of the Strictly Come Dancing betting odds - for
Kelly Brook, Letitia Dean and
Kenny Logan - with help from
Paddy Power...
Strictly Come Dancing Betting Odds: Alesha Still To Win
This season of Strictly Come Dancing is turning up all kinds of surprises, as Saturday's shock elimination of Penny Lancaster proved only too well. So far that's two potential winners gone in
Penny Lancaster and
Gabby Logan, while
Kate Garraway and
Kenny Logan - a spam-footed embarrassment and a graceless thumping monster - are still in the running. Despite what the Strictly Come Dancing judges say, this is absolutely the right way to go. With anything luck, if this keeps happening, Kate Garraway will be crowned as the Strictly Come Dancing champion by Christmas. And that means
a) anyone who took advantage of Kate Garraway's long betting odds will be richer than they could ever imagine and
b) Bruno Tonioli's face will explode.
Who's going to win Strictly Come Dancing? Here are the Strictly Come Dancing betting odds for
Kenny Logan, John Barnes, Kelly Brook and
Alesha Dixon, with help from
Paddy Power...
Strictly Come Dancing Betting Odds: Dominic Out, Who’ll Win?
On Saturday tiny wee slaphead Dominic Littlewood was the latest semi-celebrity to get voted off Strictly Come Dancing, which seemed to come as a surprised to nobody except Dominic Littlewood himself.
Dominic Littlewood's stock in trade - apart from his ability to haggle three pence off the price of a new car on daytime TV - is his cheekiness. However, that went on Saturday's Strictly Come Dancing because he was dancing a Paso Doble to El Gato Montez, which apparently called for lots of marching around like a midget Hitler out of time to the music while dressed as a gay Libertine. But, as you may have expected, the most convincing part of Dominic Littlewood's performance came when he had an embittered tantrum about how nobody likes him afterwards. Even Bruce Forsyth started slating Dominic at one point, and his tolerance for awfulness is so high that he counts Jimmy Tarbuck as a friend.
Who's going to win Strictly Come Dancing? Here are the Strictly Come Dancing betting odds for Kelly Brook, John Barnes, Letitia Dean, Gethin Jones and Kenny Logan, with help from Paddy Power...
Strictly Come Dancing Betting Odds: Penny Lancaster Next Out?
It's the next edition of Strictly Come Dancing tomorrow, and everyone wants to know whether there'll be another shock result like last week, and also whether everyone is going to react as if their children died like last week too. Having said that, the shock Strictly Come Dancing exit of
Gabby Logan last week was fairly entertaining, not least because
Len Goodman - a man who sat stony-faced when that Osmond woman collapsed in front of her recently - has turned into the world's most furious man because the public didn't vote properly. So let's try and get another favourite out tomorrow, because we get the feeling Len might squirt his brain out of his nose in disgust if we do.
Who'll be the next to leave Strictly Come Dancing tomorrow? Here are the Strictly Come Dancing betting odds for
Kelly Brook, Gethin Jones, Letitia Dean, Penny Lancaster and
Matt Di Angelo, with help from
Paddy Power...