So as you’ve all heard, John Sergeant has left Strictly Come Dancing of his own accord – but don’t be sad.
Although yesterday John’s resignation may have felt like a punch to the stomach for everyone who enjoys looking at Bruce Forsyth‘s anguished face, we need to face the facts. In the cold light of day, all that’s happened is a fat man has left a TV show about dancing. That’s all. Besides, ironic voters shouldn’t be too upset – there’s still Jodie Kidd.
Anyway, this is a sort of vaguely obituary-themed set of Strictly Come Dancing betting odds, for John Sergeant and Tom Chambers, who nobody really cares about today…
John Sergeant – Even though he left Strictly Come Dancing, there’s no doubting the intelligence that he showed on Saturday’s show. Over the last few weeks, John managed to lower public expectation of him to the extent that if he actually managed to string two or three steps together in the right order, he’d look like a bloody genius. And, during Saturday’s Strictly Come Dancing American Smooth to True Love Ways, that’s exactly what he did. It was a return to the old charming, lovely, slightly touching John Sergeant of the first Strictly Come Dancing, and that seemed to confuse everyone. Not least the Strictly Come Dancing judges, who could only blurt out “For the first time tonight, John, I really got what other people see in you. It was quite endearing,” in something approximating astonishment. But let’s not mourn John Sergeant too much. He was shit, wasn’t he? Strictly Come Dancing score – 25
Tom Chambers – Tom Chambers has his sights set so firmly on the Strictly Come Dancing prize that he’s become that most despised of characters – the efficient professional. Take Saturday’s dance, for example – Tom danced the Salsa to Pa Goza Con Fruko and so, in training, got some Salsa experts in to teach him. The training worked and the performance was fast and intricate and convincing and, even though he tried to liven things up with an arse-slap or two and a shimmy that made him look a bit like one of Harry Enfield‘s scousers, ultimately it was a nice, good, brutally neat performance. The Strictly Come Dancing judges thought it was good, too, but not enough to make them say anything particularly memorable, and he went safely through to next week’s show. Feh. Strictly Come Dancing score – 35
Next week: More Strictly Come Dancing recaps. Woo.