Daily Mail (once again) pours scorn on Strictly

Amanda Platell continues her role as the Mail’s fearless anti-BBC crusader today – with Strictly Come Dancing once again the object of her scorn.

The Mail’s coverage of the Strictly ‘ageism row’ has already been discussed here. It’s sometimes easy to forget:

(a)    It’s a show full of dancing D-listers; and
(b)    Co-host Bruce Forsyth is at least 100 years old.

But in addition to her “Come back Arlene!” clarion call, there’s also a hilarious box-out of the writer’s Strictly dream team. Some of her choices are as tasteless as the costumes themselves (continues...):

EVAN DAVIS: Partnered with Brendan Cole
Evan Davis… dancing with a man! Because he’s GAY, geddit?

JONATHAN ROSS: At least we might get a bit of entertainment in return for his vast salary
Really. It’s OK. You don’t have to reference Ross in every single article about the BBC.

CASTER SEMENYA: To see whether she leads or not
Hahaha! Because Semenya looks like a man!

You never know, with all this media speculation and ridicule, she might even attempt suicide like another gender-questioned athlete. Now that really would be ‘Murder on the Dancefloor’ – see what I did there?!

Comments

[Will Sturgeon]

Awful! Why is Evan Davis's sexuality an issue? And why would he have to have a male partner, while other contestants' sexuality appears not to have been an issue in previous series. Do contestants now HAVE to have sex with their partner or something?

Sadly, I guess this is what passes for wit and satire among the Mail's anachronistic stable of contributors.

Has the Mail just outsourced its columns to the fourth form children at St Childish Giggles Preparatory School For The Fundamentally Objectionable.

[Anon]

Amanda Platell does not have a comfortable relationship with the gay community.
http://tinyurl.com/kvykw3

But don't dare suggest she's a homophobe:

"My best friend, whom I regard as a brother, is gay and I have lost two dear friends to Aids," she says in the above article.

She doesn't mention whether the dear friends with AIDS were even gay, or the relevance of mentioning AIDS in this context.

You'd have to say that's tactless at best; the insinuation being they must have been gay, because, well, it was AIDS wasn't it. It's what they get.

[Anon]

Interesting to note Platell is even getting slated by the Mail’s own readers for this comment:

“In the ugly duckling category this year we have EastEnders drudge Natalie Cassidy, the fat one who played Sonia Fowler and was always getting pregnant - not that you'd notice. She says she's in it for the fabulous dresses and to 'look sexy'. It's reality TV love, not a miracle show.”

And this year's prize for the wanton self-destruction of glasshouses goes to...