Doesn't look good this year; no obvious stars; no joke person; too many tokens (disabled girl; black guy paired with white girl etc). But then Celeb Masterchef had some greats emerge from obscurity. On first look I root for the Death In Paradise guy; love him in the shows (first series) and he's a little bit more mature.

JK2006 wrote:
Doesn't look good this year; no obvious stars; no joke person; too many tokens (disabled girl; black guy paired with white girl etc). But then Celeb Masterchef had some greats emerge from obscurity. On first look I root for the Death In Paradise guy; love him in the shows (first series) and he's a little bit more mature.

I think Shauun will be quite funny, but granted there is no real obvious fall guys a la john Seargeant and Anne Widdicombe and no proper oldies. I will be rooting for Katie after the terrible trauma that she has been through and hope that she beats that dreadful Stacey Dooley with her whiney accent. Graeme Swan also looks like he might be good fun and has much more personality than most sports people.

I only watched it up to when The X Factor started, so I will have Doctor Ranj.

I only knew 2 from the 14 person line up...

This may say more about me than the show but I'm not sure...

I dont really like dancing but my partner always watches so I look forward to the "joke" entrant for entertainment.

Not sure there is one this year, so may have to read through this season while the cliches play out....

The You Tube kid - how depressing. No discernible talent, but because he's posting videos of himself every week he's considered 'a star'. I was chatting to a publisher friend the other day. She was telling me that they're mainly signing up reality stars and vloggers for books these days. 'Of course, they all need ghost writers'. So I said, 'You, a publisher, are mainly commissioning people who can't write books?' She said, 'Yeah, but they've got loads of followers!' It's not exactly progress, is it?

robbiex wrote:
Graeme Swan also looks like he might be good fun and has much more personality than most sports people.

I think the phrase 'he's a bit full of himself' was made for Graeme Swann. I just hope he doesn't try any of his 'comic' impressions like he does on TMS. His 'West Indian' accent is enough to make Jim Davidson wince.

I agree it's a big mistake not to have included a no-hoper type like Widdicombe. The producers don't seem to realise how close the show often teeters towards smugness and tweeness, especially now that they appear to believe that Winkleman is a comedian of Chaplin-like genius. The sense of chaos and surprise that someone like John Sergeant or Ed Balls created was invaluable.

Rob wrote:
The You Tube kid - how depressing. No discernible talent, but because he's posting videos of himself every week he's considered 'a star'. I was chatting to a publisher friend the other day. She was telling me that they're mainly signing up reality stars and vloggers for books these days. 'Of course, they all need ghost writers'. So I said, 'You, a publisher, are mainly commissioning people who can't write books?' She said, 'Yeah, but they've got loads of followers!' It's not exactly progress, is it?

I think it must take a huge amount of talent to succeed on Youtube.

honey!oh sugar sugar. wrote:
Rob wrote:
The You Tube kid - how depressing. No discernible talent, but because he's posting videos of himself every week he's considered 'a star'. I was chatting to a publisher friend the other day. She was telling me that they're mainly signing up reality stars and vloggers for books these days. 'Of course, they all need ghost writers'. So I said, 'You, a publisher, are mainly commissioning people who can't write books?' She said, 'Yeah, but they've got loads of followers!' It's not exactly progress, is it?

I think it must take a huge amount of talent to succeed on Youtube.


I trust you're being ironic.