Another Year - And No Format Change For Strictly

[mushroom25]

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-45087784

right decision? or pandering to the older gay-averse audience?

[Zacs-Master]

I would venture that quite a lot of the audience for SCD are Gay.

[ToraToraTora]

gawd not another year of this tish! err indoors loves it! Wouldn't mind so much but it's on 7 days a week! ....and another thing, why does the audience have to ruin every single song by clapping like deranged seals? As you can tell I'm really looking forward to it!

[margarettom]

Definitely the right decision for me. I am quite happy with gay contestants and judges, but I have always watched ballroom dancing between a man and a woman and would like it to stay that way. Very sweeping generalisation to assume 'all older people are gay-averse'. What many older people respect is tradition. If in the competitive world of ballroom they introduced same sex couples, then the format might have to change.

[wolf63]

Who will wear the pretty frock?

[woofgang]

I keep explaining this.....same gender ballroom dancing is judged differently from mixed gender. The rules and expectations are different, chiefly in that the dancers must swap between leading and following and lifting and being lifted. Go and have a look on youtube. You can’t mix the disciplines because they are different.

[douglas9401]

I would have thought it was for men only anyway with a title like Strictly Ballroom.

I only drop in for my fix of Winkleperson.

[DarceyK123]

This show is a mixed gender competition. Why change the tried and tested traditional format. Unless the BBC wanted to tick a few PC boxes of course?

[hereIam]

If it did change from the original format, I for one would not watch it any more and I don't care which way that is taken. I enjoy it the way it is, except of course Brendan will not be in it this year, sadly for me.