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Monkey

BBC votes off its Strictly messageboard

John Sergeant dancing with Kristina Rihanoff during a dress rehearsal for Strictly Come Dancing
John Sergeant dancing with Kristina Rihanoff during a dress rehearsal for Strictly Come Dancing. Photograph: Guy Levy/BBC/PA

Clearly suffering from a lack of anything proper to talk about, Strictly Come Dancing viewers have been flooding the show's messageboards to complain about John Sergeant's very sensible decision to bail from the time-wasting reality show before it completely destroyed his last remaining threads of dignity. Not content with unleashing an unnecessarily malicious and humourless pack of dance judges on the public's favourite Paso Doblist, the BBC decided in its infinite wisdom to take the Strictly Come Dancing messageboard offline at 10pm last night because it couldn't handle the volume of comments. Monkey pities the poor comments moderators - and thinks that nasty Arlene Phillips woman should be put on the team as punishment.

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