This year's contestants for Strictly Come Dancing are an eclectic bunch, aren't they? Of course, there's the usual leggy lovelies - Lisa Snowdon, Rachel Stevens, Jodie Kidd - but I was more than a little surprised to learn that newsman John Sergeant will also be dusting off his dancing shoes - if he has any, that is! I can't say I had him down as the spangly trousers-wearing type, but perhaps he's been keeping his talent under wraps while reporting from Westminster all these years. You never know! Either way, I can't wait for it all to kick off. Roll on...
No, not the show or the result, but the reaction.
The Strictly Come Dancing voting system for the final was made perfectly clear, and is perfectly simple. And the way in which the show works is that it is in the end down to the viewers - and the viewers wanted Tom Chambers (that guy from Holby City) to win, rather than Rachel Stevens (that girl who used to be in S Club 7) or Lisa Snowdon (that model who does that breakfast radio show). That is the very reason that John Sergeant managed to stay in for so long even though his dancing was so bad that it almost came out the other side.
The final was decided entirely by votes - if Tom hadn’t been top choice of the viewers, he wouldn’t have got through to the final two; it was democracy in action.
And if you watched the three show... 
