Thank you and a glittery goodnight
Very much appreciated your company and sage comments during this curtain-raiser, everyone. Let’s reconvene right here for the first live show, which starts at 7pm next Saturday. In the meantime, I’m @michaelhogan on Twitter, so do come and say hello.
Enjoy the rest of your weekend, Guardian glitterati. And, it almost goes without saying, keeeeeep dancing! Night.
Scandal? What scandal?
No mention of The Great Unpleasantness, which was perhaps no surprise, nor references to the show’s new welfare measures. Perhaps we’ll see that more when the training rooms come into play over the coming weeks.
Instead this was a launch show which definitely tried to put the fun back into Strictly. Lots of bright colours, camaraderie and start-of-new-school term excitement. A soft reboot. If you’d somehow missed all the scandal this summer, you probably wouldn’t have noticed much difference – bar a couple of mysteriously absent male pros.
Strictly is back and after several months of relentless scrutiny, it felt good to be reminded of its joys again. Maybe we are allowed nice things after all.
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