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Friday 31 October 2008

Gone to Ground........


I’m not going to do a day by day report this week, as it has been a funny old week, to be honest!
Saturday’s Strictly was a tough one for some of Gethin's Girl’s, with the Viennese Waltz and Paso Doble bringing back both sweet and bitter memories of SCD5. Geth’s Paso was featured on Len’s Masterclass piece on It Takes Two, which can’t be bad.

I received my SCD annual – and am seething that Geth and Cam’s record-holding and fabulous American Smooth was not recorded as the highest-scoring (they still say Colin and Erin’s), someone at the BBC needs to get their facts straight!


We heard tell of a new Quiz Show to be hosted by GJ, but have now discovered that it is on S4C - in Welsh. After some initial disappointment we decided we’d watch Gethin saying anything in any language if we can……


What it does point out is that the Beeb (and Geth’s new agents) have to find this man something good in prime time, or the wrath of thousands of women will be felt, never mind controversy over Ross and Brand! Perhaps the ill-wind could blow some good in Gethin’s direction – nice guys may not finish last after all!


The Danger Hunters episode this week was Deadly Surf, and it was the best so far! His fear was palpable, his humour infectious, and I especially loved his banter with extreme surfers, ‘They’re nuts, but they’re not nuts’……..oh yes, they are definitely nuts!


Loving Geth in a wetsuit of course, and how the heck he managed to look good at some unearthly hour on a windswept Irish headland, I don’t know!


We know Geth was at the National Television Awards ceremony on Wednesday night, but there was no sign of him in camera shot, and Katherine Jenkins was at the Bond Premiere, so we did not get a sighting of the pair of them on a red carpet together, or Geth in a tux, which the GGs would have been grateful for!


So, we've had another Telegraph article from Geth, a quiz show is recording this weekend….what else is Gethin up to…….fingers crossed there is something in the pipeline – we are missing him!

Friday 24 October 2008

'Oh, my actual days' - says Gethin Jones


Saturday
Party time - in Northampton
Geth's Girls had a get together to watch Strictly - bring back the viewer panels, we say!
Walesonline continue to publish articles about the match last week, but a great quote is to be had from one of them:
'....the media team had a lot of guts....but only Gethin had a six pack' 'nuff said really!

Sunday
Gethin's Girl
Katherine Jenkins sings on Strictly.....unfortunately we couldn't spot Geth in the audience!

Monday
Croeso i Gymru
It appears Geth is co-hosting Children in Need in Wales with John Barrrowman on November 14th - shame we have to put up with Terry and Fearne instead. I think we know which will be more fun!

Tuesday
A book is a friend for life
Gethin will be in a library in Colwyn Bay on 30th October

Wednesday
Danger man
On TV he is looking for lightning (and not finding much) in Danger Hunters on Virgin 1 - which was amusing and interesting, and we liked the shorts and flip flops, Jonesy! Getting a speeding ticket (tut tut, speeding is bad, says she whose middle names are Stirling Moss) was maybe not so good!!!

Apart from the quote in the title, we had the unconvincing, 'I'm gonna have a paddy, don't talk to me!'.

Thursday
Guess who's coming to dinner
Geth hosts an event for Cardiff Blues and gets a mention in an article about bags - hopefully a sports bag, not a little beaded evening number *eek*

Friday
TGIF
This week's Telegraph article is very amusing. Tom, allegedly, is wearing Geth's tango jacket, and Geth muses on whether his biceps will fill it as well as his own - well we know that is unlikely, now don't we, Gethin!

You can't fool us with this little game of feeling like a Strictly cast-off......well, maybe we do feel a bit bereft of Gethin and for him, but since most of our week we have been attempting to book every seat in every stadium for the SCD Live tour, the joke is evidently on us!!!







Friday 17 October 2008

All the world's a stage...and where in the world is Gethin Jones

Saturday
Dance like nobody's watching
I'm still laughing at the Rugby dance.............

The One Show Website has a clip of Geth giving Christine Bleakley dance tips!!!

Sunday
There's Snow Business like show business
Danger Hunters is repeated at 6pm......never too much of a good thing we say!

Monday
No news is good news
..........and I still hate Mondays!

Tuesday
Out of sight but not out of mind
We find out (well two small children and a GG find out) that CBBC have been running a short series of Blue Peter 'moments' - we have seemingly missed 'wildest' and 'craziest', but 'funniest' is on Wednesday and the others are on iPlayer!!!!

Gethin was 'spotted' on the phone in Heat magazine - chatting, well, there's a surprise!

Wednesday
Well there's a day of my life I am never going to get back............
Got a bit confused there for a minute, but Wednesday was TV Heaven for Geth's fans. There was a great compilation of Blue Peter's funniest moments......including some wind problems, a trip, slips, falls, and various other funnies, many of which included Gethin - of course - but the funniest was Matt trapped in an American Football outfit - classic!


Danger Hunters - the one with the tornadoes - was on MUCH later (way past my bedtime, actually, but hey, couldn't miss it). It was good, Geth was good, but his best moment was when he was talking to the people whose house had been destroyed. As lovely with them as you would hope for, but he felt uncomfortable and said so.....no 'Drop the Dead Donkey' moments here. Personally I preferred some of the outtakes on Virgin's YouTube channel......trying to get out of a dollar toll for example........

Thursday
Ain't no stopping Geth now!
Our trashy mag scanner came up trumps with an old article and one from Star mag that we missed (this involved bidding on ebay - so thank you!).

Some local newspapers leak what was obviously a press launch that 'smooth mover' Gethin Jones (and Kennnnyyyyy Logan) is doing the SCD Live tour, along with Jill 'The Jive' Halfpenny, and Julian 'Officer and Gentleman' Clary. Soooooo, bang go those 'Joseph' rumours then!!!

Friday
Thank God it's Friday
Above information is confirmed as Geth appears on the official SCDlive website here

Turns out Geth was at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium to launch the new Welsh rugby strip on Thursday......and one of my workmate's brother played rugby with him.....................small world! Everyone in Wales really does know everyone else, seemingly!

Sunday 12 October 2008

The Rugby Dance from Paul O'Grady's Show


Gethin Jones, oh my, oh my!
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Friday 10 October 2008

Once Upon a Time in Gethin's Girls' World


I only have one of the featured books in my VAST collection - can you guess which one?

Saturday
Ballet Shoes
According to that bastion of truth , The Daily Mirror, Gethin Jones and Austin Healey are responsible for a run on the sales of men’s dancing shoes (!).
Strictly - Cam reprises some of Gethin’s jive with Tom, but nothing, absolutely nothing, is ever going to match that leap from the stage and the trouser-melting…………….

Sunday
The loneliness of a long distance runner
Geth takes on the challenge of the Great North Run (his 4th half-marathon) in memory of a young lady called Tamsin and the Joshua Foundation.
Watching it live, and, woo hoo, the Beeb decide Geth is probably a good chap to follow (hmmm, wonder why) and we get a clip of the *thud* Argentine Tango from last year’s Strictly, a chat before, during, and after……………Now some of us were looking forward to a hot and sweaty Gethin, but the man barely broke into perspiration. See later report for why his very respectable time of 1hr 45 probably wasn’t any faster. Don’t believe the ‘I haven’t done much training’ line, either, by the way. It was a lovely day for a bit of a stroll and the sun shone on all the runners. Next year may see one of Geth’s Girls giving it a go (eh, ClaudiaforQueen?).

Monday
Blue Peter Annual

We find out that there will be a special Blue Peter programme on Sunday at 8.40, and that the Buck House tea party thrown by Her Majesty will be shown on the 16th - but will we get any Gethin sightings?
Let’s hope QEII does not trip over one of her own dogs as she did one of the Blue Peter menagerie.

Tuesday
How to be a Domestic God(dess)
apologies, Nigella
According to a rather nice interview in Now magazine, Gethin likes cleaning the bathroom, and his feet before he goes to bed. Well, that’s good, I like a bit of obsessive cleaning behaviour myself!
Geth will be on the Paul O’Grady show with Geri Hallowell (yawn, does that woman NEVER shut up?) on Friday.

Wednesday
Time to Say Hello
We find out in a newspaper article that Gethin and Katherine had a rude awakening from a fire alarm at 3am the night before the Great North Run - blimey what a time to get woken up - APPARENTLY they were in their PJs (now hands up all those who believe Gethin wears PJs - nobody?) . Oh and Nell McAndrew and Tony Blair were there too………..hopefully not together.


New Danger Hunters clashed with the Lottery results show but I saw most of both, Geth looking very good as the Man in Black - and thankfully doing the sensible thing by not taking on the riskiest slope..........however, getting buried alive in snow scared the bejaysus out of him, and us - don't do that again please!!!


Friday
(Gethin) Jones’s Diary

I’m doing this update early as I have things to do……but today, don’t forget:
Geth’s Daily Telegraph Strictly article - an this is a good 'un.
Heat Radio from 2pm (allegedly) apparently he was spotted in Kingston heading for the airport at lunchtime...............
Paul O’Grady Ch4 from 5pm (allegedly)

Friday 3 October 2008

On Days Like These

This week my update is inspired by a set of CDs I just bought called 101 Driving Songs - random? Well, you be the judge!
Saturday
How you remind me (Nickelback)
Half an hour or so well-spent on the Johnathan Ross show. Very amusing, JR claiming action man plaudits he clearly doesn't deserve, and our very own Gethin Jones looking like 'a young athlete' ! 'Wossy' disses hurricanes as 'a bit of wind' and says he isn't going to watch things where they aren't actively riding along - yeah, right!

A video appears on the SCD website with a spoof behind the scenes piece - a supposed 'Arlene' runs her red-painted fingernail down a picture of Geth.....and answers the phone with a husky, 'Gethin' - made me chuckle anyway.

We find out we missed a magazine last week - 'Zoo' turns out to be a Lads' mag that we are all far to wussy to go and buy.

Sunday
Purple Rain (Prince and the Revolution)
The day has finally arrived and we await it with eager anticipation - what am I on about? Gethin Jones' Danger Hunters of course, what else.....

But first, the papers......The Telegraph 7 magazine has the programme as today's highlight, all the others have it as some form of choice...result!!

The show itself is a-may-zing, really well done, Geth - amusing, and with some genuine moments of high drama - a definite rush of adrenalin when a waterspout was spotted tearing up a boat - *eeek*. We now know why Geth didn't tell his mum what he was doing......and we sympathise with Katherine. However, it was a gripping programme well-presented and showing that even under pressure and very scary conditions, our boy can a) keep talking and b) keep smiling. Happy Days! Our favourite bit was a frustrated yell of 'This boat is BROKEN!!'

Some new snow photos appear on the Virgin1 website.

Monday
Manic Monday (the Bangles)
I've said before - I hate Mondays

Tuesday
Bad to the bone (The Destroyers)
Someone who shall remain nameless put a copy of 'Zoo' in her online shopping basket. Turns out there is a nice picture in the article, and that's about it!

Heat magazine has decided Tom Chambers is their new 'Strictly' squeeze, and declares 'Move over, Gethin!'. However, it appears the love affair is not over as Geth will be visiting Heat Towers on Friday 10th to guest on Heat Radio's 'Diet Coke Break'.....still Gorgeous Gethin to Heat!

We find out from a Welsh source that Geth was on a radio programme on Monday, which we track down and listen to. Nice to hear him sounding so happy and relaxed!

Change of plan - news from our man at Virgin1 - says the shows will first air on Wednesdays - starting on the 8th. So that's Weds at 10 repeated on Sun at 9 - got that? Good!

Wednesday
The life of Riley (The Lightning Seeds)
Gethin, Zoe and Andy are in the Guinness book of records (Gethin for lemon-sucking - blimey!)

They are also going to Buck House for the Blue Peter party that her Maj is throwing.

Thursday
Love Potion No 9 (The Clovers)
Well, Hello! - nice full page article and picture. Gethin drinks cocktails - who'd a thought it! Passion and ginger eh - spicy!

My 2009 Blue Peter annual arrives (as GG ClaudiaforQueen put it - 'oohh , Christmas!') - page 52 is rather nice....
Friday
Here I go again (Whitesnake)
Geth is still linked with Strictly - and does his bit in the Telegraph - seems he'd like to get John in front of the drama coach who made HIM believe wiggling his bottom was worth watching, unleashing the beast within (thank you, thank you!).
*NEWSFLASH* - New pics and videos on the Virgin 1 site