Dance Mirroring Life

If the bookies are right (and there were initially wrong about early favourite Peter Andre) this weekend's Strictly dance-off should be between a Posh Bird and an Essex Girl.

Catherine Beatrice Margaret "Katie" Derham, 45, born Canterbury, brought up on the Cheshire plain, an Old Waconian with a 2.2 from Magdalene College, Cambridge, should face Kellie Denise Bright, 38, born in Brentwood and educated at the Sylvia Young Theatre School.

Of course, it's all down to the public vote, and I fully expect Bob Shennan and the BBC Music boys to mobilise a few for Katie, against the might of the Eastenders audience, propelled by Dominic Treadwell-Collins. ABC1s v C2DEs in a life and death struggle.