Yes, so was I. How would the media have known what went on anyway!
And the corollary of that also, the pros should not have to worry about sleazy stuff from the celebrities. Bobby, last year, with his bare arse out during a training session, for example. Regardless of what anyone thinks of Dianne, that was disrespectful to say the very least. And there were other things that he said and did that should have earned him at the very least a warning to cop the fcuk on.
Someone said it upthread and it's a drum I have been beating too. The judges need to be very much on board the new regime. And no, I don't mean handing out tens and patting everyone on the head and saying you're marvellous even if they are not great. I mean fairer comment, especially from Shirley. No need to be cutting the socks off people. Give fair feedback. And something that I always think they could all do better on, is explain a bit more, what they are looking for. They are often quite vague, or else overly nit picking.
), the emotional pornography hadn’t been shoehorned into every aspect of the show, and the couples didn’t have to do ten hours of stupid social media content every week, the dancing was arguably better. I don’t doubt that there were issues then too, but it seemed less of a ‘pressure cooker’. 
