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Why are half the seats (but ALL the best ones) for the audience reserved for Ö÷²¥´óÐã's Staff and Ö÷²¥´óÐã's guests and cronies? Some of which weren't even taken up - I think I estimated that at around 50 seats.

Week after week I see seats being hogged by people who really could do without, there was the lovely Brian Fotuna with Joe Calzaghe (again).

Is it any wonder then the tickets for the public are so limited.

Why do they get special treatment like no queing, free drinks, separate waiting area (presuambly much more plush and with more seats than the public foyer) and then waved straight through while we are stopped to let them pass?

ALL at TV Licence Fee payers' expense and at a time of austerity?????!!!!

Why does Bruce Forsyth keep signalling to the audience to give a standing ovation to pretty average performances by some of the couples? . It is a bit nauseating, & the girlish screaming makes it worse. Are you really trying to stoop as low as the X factor audience.

@Davidsaid: "...the girlish screaming makes it worse. Are you really trying to stoop as low as the X factor audience."

This is not surprising given that the audience is typically 80-90% female. If you want to stop it becoming like X-Factor then YOU moblise the fellas to apply for the SCD audience tickets. So not SCD's or Ö÷²¥´óÐã's fault. After all they start with half male/female contestant and macho guys like Audley Harrison, Joe Calzaghe, Robbie Savage, etc. If you don'e fancy them then they have had ladies like Kelly Brook, Lisa Snowdown, Alesha Dixon, Holly V., Alex J., Ola, Flavia etc

Oh, there is age limit of 14 and above. I don't recall many teenagers in the audience.

So far the winners have been even male/female.

2@Davidsaid: yes, they are trying to stoop as low as the X factor audience.

And I think BF does this because every time there's a standing ovation, he tells the dancers, 'look, look! They're standing! Enjoy it!'

So it's coming from his own need for this kind of adoration. He sees it as something everyone wants. I admire the dancers (pro and celeb) enormously, for graciously putting up with this assumption without saying something.

So agree with David the screaming from the audience totally spoils the programme for me.

Don't mention tickets to me. I have applied everytime a 'random draw' has been offered for the last three years - including Wembley (6000 seats) and the Christmas special this year. I only want two for my wife and me. Never does my application succeed! Do they discriminate against us because we live in Cornwall and they don't think we'll turn up? Or is our age - over 65 - against us? The Ö÷²¥´óÐã Trust assures me it's a fair system, yet I've heard of people winning tickets more than once. That's not fair! I'm appalled to hear there are still empty seats.

Found the visit behind the scenes very interesting - you tend to forget how much work is involved in producing Strictly Come Dancing - especially at the beginning - how on earth do they manage to find all those places for everyone to rehearse their dances it must be a legistic nightmare. There may be a lot wrong with the production of Strictly Come Dancing but you have to say there's also a great deal that's right with it as well. Let's aplaud all those behind the scenes who do such a great job.

I am a big fan of Strictly. BUT it gets a few things wrong which should be corrected. I am a dancer of more thatn 30 years experience. IDTA ballroom trained. Not one of the judges is qualified to judge the Argentine Tango performances. AT is a sensual dance not a sexual dance. There are no jerky movement like the ballroom tango. It comes only in 2 forms. On the ballroom floor or the stage where it called Stage Tango. If the judges are going to forbid lifts etc in a foxtrot, waltz rumba etc then they should know there are no lifts in a " ballroom" or social Argentine Tango. Hence they should not include it in the dances being perfromed. Vincent and Flavia are not and never have been World Champions at Argentine TAngo. The only recognised true World Championships in Argentine Tango are the ones held in Buenos Aires and they certainly would not even get into the final!!! I love them to bits But dont try to portray them as genuine World Champions. They won a competition set up by the WDO, an organisation that set itself up to promote itself. It isnt recognised professionally like the IDTA ( Len would confirm ) and neither are the judges in the top echelons of Argentine Tango. Vincent and Flavia have self promoted themselves whilst making their name in the dance world and even theit fellow pros in Strictly now think they are World Champions!! To add insult to injury they won "their title" back in 2005. Please please stop this con trick before the next wonderful series and lets see perhaps some of Vincent and Flavias guests on their tour, eg Giraldo, perform Argentine TAngo as it is danced in the dance halls (a Milonga ) up and down the country, across Europe, across the world, and of course in Argentina. I dance a viennese waltz as per the "rule book" Also all the other dances in the ballroom repetoire. So why betray the viewers into thinking what is danced on Strictly is Argentine Tango. It isnt!!!!! This is a view held by all in the TAngo Community and needs to be addressed, as we are sick and tired of telling the uninitiated friends of ours THAT IS NOT ARGENTINE TANGO! Its great dancing but it isnt Argentine Tango!! Nobody lifts their partner in a dance hall in TAngo no more than they dont lift them in a waltz. grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.....