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I’ve never owned a Kylie Minogue record, nor been even vaguely interested in the Aussie budgerigar (I prefer Bruce Springsteen).Yet there was a moment in her new Netflix series when I did shed a quiet tear.It was when she revealed that…

After Saturday night's Strictly Halloween special aired, embellished with more sexual flourishes and crotch flashes than a paso doble, I wonder if our once-beloved family show has finally lost the plot. Strictly truly might be cursed -…

Twenty years ago I burst into a meeting of senior newspaper executives and announced to the group of mostly middle-aged males that I had just seen a programme that would change Saturday night TV viewing for ever.It was a ballroom dancing…

The BBC are reported to be ‘furious’ that details of their top-level, highly confidential inquiry into Strictly’s most famous dancer Giovanni Pernice’s behaviour have been leaked.There have been previous claims about Giovanni’s tough…