Kids Dancing Show On Saturday

[andy-hughes]

The title escapes me - shows how keen I am but ...

don't you find the whole concept really creepy?

The idea that kids dress up and perform like minature aduts, with rictus grins and faux sexuality while proud parents gaze adoringly, and the audience all just about explode with the whole 'cuteness' of it all, and the some either over-expsosed or totally unqualified 'judges' make noise about it all ...

I just find it really uncomfortable - a couple of minutes was enough for me - a 'prime time' format too far.

[rugeleyboy]

thank god for that!!!!!!!!

me and the wife was watching it and she was holding the remote saying things like "they are cute".

i had to remind her that a 10yr old flashing her knickers will have perverts reaching for their pause button and having a crafty **nk!!!

i hope i dont sound like i have gone over board but its bloody horendouse show and should be cancelled on the grounds of it being WRONG!!!!!!!!

[littleoldme]

I must admit I did nearly spit my tea out when I saw the trailer to this. Of course, the fact that we do find it creepy is a damning incitement of society. But we know that there will no doubt be people watching this for reasons other than appreciating the kids' dancing skills. The girls in particular seem to be made up like little adults and I have to wonder just what the programme makers are playing at.

[littleoldme]

Also, remember Minipops from the 80s? It's often been said that there is no way a show like that could be made in today's climate, with young children being "glammed up" to resemble adult pop stars, but this show doesn't seem a million miles away from it.

[Ms D Meaner]

Coudn't agree more, I said to my other half..something not right about this. I switched channels couldn't watch it.

[juliacornwal]

Remember little Jonbennet Ramsey, the American pageant queen who was killed on Christmas night about ten years ago? When photos of her, primped and made-up like an adult were shown in the papers, we were all horrified that mothers let their little girls dress up like Las Vegas showgirls and parade sexily up and down the stage to win cheap awards - and now we're doing it here!

These programmes are a paedophile's dream, and the television companies should show more responsibility!

[rugeleyboy]

also .................as julia has just reminded me...

the mother of one of those kids said " they are high in the rankings in the uk anyway, so if they dont make the final i will be very disapointed"!!!

crikey....how much pressure!!!!!!!!

[beejaybee]

They were NOT showing they`re knickers as the costume is a leotard underneath. I must confess that I did not think there was anything wrong with it. Should kids not wear swimsuits on the beach or in pools where they expose more of they`re bodies????

[twaflooers]

I don't think its that so much Beejaybee, its more about the concept of dressing these children up like little adults ~ the hair, the make-up, the clothes ~ then having them twirling around flashing their legs and underwear, be that a leotard or not.

These children have no doubt spent many, many hours practising very hard to get where they are BUT having the children, especially the little girls, tarted up to the nines in very tight and somewhat revealing outfits performing dances that may be considered erotic and suggestive (depending on the dance of course) when performed by adults is just plain WRONG!

Whilst it is a dance programme and will no doubt be watched by the ballroom dancing fraternity who will judge the programmes content on it's technical merit it makes my flesh crawl to think about the other not so innocent viewers to whom the dancing is yet another excuse to perv.

These fame hungry, probably failed, wannabe parents should get a life of their own and stop prostituting their childrens talents on and off screen in order for them to have their 15 minutes of fame.

[Cetti]

Well andy, you watched a sight more than I did - the trailer was enough for me!

Deeply uncomfortable, creepy cuteness in the extreme. In todays moral climate where little ones are preyed upon I cannot imagine what the television producers were thinking about. As soon as that child/boy/man appeared and said something like "This is what this show is all about" my husband looked at me and said" I don't think so, do you?" Not a nice programme at all, unlike the adult version which was good fun.

[andy-hughes]

Actually Cetti, Iwas just idly channel-surfing, and found myself transfixed with the sheer awfuness of it all. As soon as Kate Thornton started in smarming over those kids, my hand galvanised into action and hit the remote! I felt like I wanted to scrub my brain out!

[Cetti]

I know what you mean andy, occasionally something appears on the screen that has you literally transfixed by its sheer awfulness.