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Dancing On Ice: It’s All Over (And Nobody Cares)

August 6th, 2012 By Jacki Evans

Anyone remember how Torville and Dean got famous? Anyone? It's that Bolero thing, right? Oh, and everyone knows about it? And is that because ITV keep ramming it down our throats every single Dancing on Ice finale even though it was nearly 30 years ago? Yes? Thought so.

And this year?s Dancing on Ice finale was no different. ITV didn't even give us a chance to think it might be, because they opened the show with two creepy opera singers doing Bolero whilst Torville and Dean launched their middle-aged bodies around a televised ice-rink trying to recreate something that happened before hecklerspray was even born.

Still, it wasn?t all purple lycra and a desperate need to recreate the 80s. Although some of it was, like Jorgie?s showcase dance. She pranced around the ice to Fame, and did lots and lots of tricky lifts and had a load of professional skaters doing the same thing as her, but slightly better than she'd just done it. She scored 29 out of 30, which looked really good.

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Dancing on Ice: The Show That Lies

August 6th, 2012 By Jacki Evans

This week it was semi-final time on Dancing on Ice, and for the first time ever the person with the top marks went straight through to the apparently-quite-important final. Sounds like they've come up with something new, doesn't it? It's that whole ?first time ever? bit that does it.

But they actually haven't, and instead of coming up with anything new they just brought back the ultimate skills test to work out who was best. So it was all a great big lie.

Which isn't exactly surprising, since everyone in Dancing on Ice does seem to have the amoral worldview of the compulsive liar. Because that's all everyone did all show long. Lie.

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Dancing On Ice Review: ITV Gets Confused Again (We Want Blood)

August 5th, 2012 By Jacki Evans

ITV?s got a long, long history of completely misunderstanding the concept of ?rock?. There's something about distortion pedals that just smushes their collective brains and leaves everyone in the audience a little bit baffled. And this week on Dancing on Ice, they did it again.

In fairness to the ice-dwelling imbeciles though, it wasn?t quite the same level of misunderstanding that Tulisa demonstrated on last year?s X Factor. They may have all been weirdly subdued and kind of odd, but at least most of them managed to pick an actual rock song to skate to.

Most. But not all.

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Dancing On Ice Review: ITV Breaks Everyone’s Hearts

August 5th, 2012 By Jacki Evans

This week on Dancing on Ice, the producers and judges got sick of pretending to be nice. Week after week, they have to try and find nice things to say about a bunch of useless celebs, and cover their hatred with comments about how they need ?more speed over the ice.?

Well, this week that all ended, because this week it was the Ultimate Skills Test, where the celebs all had to include a jump, a spins and a step sequence in their routines. Not sound that testing? Well that would be because they weren't done there.

Sure, the skills may have counted for more than half of the celebs? marks, but the real test came in the Ultimate Skills Skate-Off where the celebs had to skate on their own. Which, as anyone who's ever been dragged to a festive ice rink knows, is almost impossible. ?Almost impossible? isn't good enough for the dream-crushing producers though; no, they wanted to get the skate-off dwellers to perform a routine with 23 skills in it. And to have three of them doing it. And to boot two of them off.

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Dancing on Ice Review: Everything Happens at Once

August 5th, 2012 By Jacki Evans

Honestly. Reality shows. You can spend weeks and weeks suffering through manipulated drama and hoping for something exciting to happen, and then everything happens at once. And on Valentine?s Week, of all the weeks.

It was meant to be romantic and charming, but no. This week Dancing on Ice was out to just disturb and horrify everyone who watched it. It even featured a bleeding celebrity and a panicked Philip Schofield.

But before we get to that, we need to talk about old BigFace Sugababe Heidi, and how she made us glad that her miserable little pop band exists. Which was a terrifying experience in itself.

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Dancing On Ice Review: Katarina Disagrees

August 5th, 2012 By Jacki Evans

Another week, another loosely adhered to theme for Dancing on Ice. This week the theme was ?Pop?, although really it should?ve been ?Katarina Disagrees?. But that wouldn't have fitted in so well with One Direction?s appearance, so pop it was.

Some teenage boys with suits and sideways hair weren't going to stop Katarina, though. She has monumental cleavage AND Olympic medals. Nothing?s getting in her way.

Not even fellow Olympian Chemmy Alcott, who Katarina infamously called ?big? a few weeks back, before begging her not to ever do any lifts ever again. Chemmy wasn?t having any of it though, and decided to do a handstand on her partner?s leg. Queen Katarina tried to pretend that she only wanted to keep Chemmy safe for the next Olympics. Nobody believed her.

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New This Morning Host: Davina McCall?

August 5th, 2012 By Stuart Heritage

Davina McCall, This Morning, This Morning Host, Philip Schofield, Fern BrittonWe’ve finally reached the end of our interminable search to find Fern Britton’s replacement on This Morning.

What does that mean? It means that in a few weeks’ time, one of the contenders who we’ve profiled will definitely become the new host of This Morning. Unless someone else does. Or Philip Schofield decides to go it alone. Or the entire ITV building topples over and falls into the river. Either way, it won’t affect your life in the slightest so it doesn’t really matter.

Here, then, is the This Morning rundown for Davina McCall…

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New This Morning Host: Emma Forbes?

August 5th, 2012 By Stuart Heritage

This Morning, Emma Forbes, This Morning Host, Fern Britton, Philip SchofieldHere we are again, churning out possible This Morning replacements for Fern Britton like our lives depended on it. Which they don’t.

Don’t worry, though. This won’t last forever. This time next week, in fact, we’ll be bombarding you with Big Brother profiles and rundowns. And that’s better, isn’t it? Or worse. But definitely one of those two things. Unless it’s exactly the same. Let’s face it, it’ll be exactly the same.

Anyway, will Emma Forbes be the new This Morning host? Let’s jolly well find out, shall we?

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New This Morning Co-Host: Kerry Katona?

August 5th, 2012 By Stuart Heritage

This Morning, Fern Britton, Philip Schofield, Kerry KatonaLook, OK, we KNOW. We know our organisational skills are bad. We thought Big Brother started this week. It doesn’t.

Big Brother starts next week. And that’s left us with a gap to fill each morning. So, like anyone with any common sense would, we’ve decided to dedicate these next few 10am slots to discovering who’ll replace Fern Britton as the female host of This Morning. Try not to get too excited.

Anyway, we’re kicking things off with Kerry Katona, so that’s something at least…

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Twitter Tuesday: The TV Stars

August 7th, 2012 By David Schwartz

twitter-bird-wallpaper-150x1501In the latest of our seemingly endless supply of celebrities on Twitter, this week we focus on TV ?personalities?.

Yes, as if dominating our television sets was not enough for some actors and presenters ? you can now read their private thoughts on Twitter.

So what earth-shattering insights have we discovered about the inhabitants of TV land? Now, we realise this is rather a sweeping statement ? but from what we can tell, TV stars spend half of their time eating and the other half talking about it.

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