Vicky Pattison and her “I’m just dead normal me” tripe will easily make the final, I can see Thomas sadly being obvious 4th place finalist as well, the kind who will be the worst dancer throughout but keep avoiding the dance off due to being a “right laugh” and a right wing grifter so those idiots will vote in droves.

1 minute ago, Liаm said:

Vicky Pattison and her “I’m just dead normal me” tripe will easily make the final, I can see Thomas sadly being obvious 4th place finalist as well, the kind who will be the worst dancer throughout but keep avoiding the dance off due to being a “right laugh” and a right wing grifter so those idiots will vote in droves.

He'll probably get a lot of votes from those not even watching just to "wind up the woke lefties" or something.

Ellie Goldstein should prove popular with viewers as well I’d imagine. She’s a real trailblazer and she comes across like she’s got a great personality and will be a trier too!

The thought of Thomas and Vicky doing well gives me shudders 😬. I mean my thoughts on Vicky are from actually meeting her but I just know she’ll convince people of her fake sincerity persona she adapts. The other Geordie shore females like Holly, Charlotte, Sophie (even Chloe ferry) are all so much more down to earth and would’ve been preferable for me at least.

the only one I know is Alex Kingston and I’m always here for any Doctor Who alumni but I'm more excited for Alexis Warr getting her shot as a full season pro! She was so good during the two weeks she filled in for Daniella Karagach on DWTS so I’m pretty sure Shirley has some kind of eye on her (especially since her son won that season)

Full Line Up

Alex Kingston

Balvinder Sopal

Chris Robshaw

Dani Dyer

Ellie Goldstein

George Clarke

Harry Aikines-Aryeetey

Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink

Karen Carney

Kristian Nairn

La Voix

Ross King

Stefan Dennis

Thomas Skinner

Vicky Pattison

So underwhelming.

When you see the lineup in full it really does look quite underwhelming. River Song, La Voix, Harry, Balvinder (don't watch EE so can't say the impact's the same for me as others but seems a good name to get from the show) and Vicky (for me ) aside it's all very civilian. Dani Dyer appearing is more of an eye-roll for me. She won Love Island about 40 years ago now and just jumps on anything Danny does to keep her name out there and say she's in work.

Stefan Dennis is a fairly major name, one of the biggest characters from Neighbours, most people would know Paul Robinson especially those a little older than our generation. But yes it’s not a great cast, I suppose it does depend what you watch maybe the sports names are big for other people but there is only a handful I feel most people know.

Thomas Skinner has apparently stormed out of the launch event.

39 minutes ago, Mack said:

Thomas Skinner has apparently stormed out of the launch event.

Hopefully he gets replaced :)

You'd think the BBC would want a stress free series after the past couple of years. Somebody fire the casting team. 🙄

River Song looking absolutely FLAWLESS front and centre in the promo pic

This is back tonight perfect antidote to the miserable weather!

I've only seen a couple of pairing spoilers so I can mostly be surprised tonight. Looking forward to that plus Chris and Dianne's return dance as last year's champions *.*

Speaking of the latter - saw the other day that Joe and Dianne are expecting a baby, lovely news, their series will always have a special place in my heart as it was the first one I watched. There was something in the air that year with Stacey Dooley and Kevin going on to have a kid too!

Hadn't seen any of the pairings prior to tonight either, and while there are a couple I immediately thought 'hmm maybe could've been better with someone else?', for the most part it's all shaping up to be pretty great! *.

River Song and Johannes is just going to be magical. Surprised Vicky ended up paired with Kai but can see them being pretty strong together ngl. Nikita ending up with Dani is everything we did not need in our lives but slay another year Nikita I guess x

Very excited to see the two newbies too with them ending up in really good pairings

I feel like La Voix will stick around for a while so they can pick up subsidiary Drag Race viewers - unless she's awful!

I wasn't familiar with La Voix until today but she made the best first impression for me personality-wise, seems like great fun!

La Voix to stay in as long as possible!