Hit Me Baby One More Time

For two weeks now ITV have gone head-to-head with Strictly Dance Fever with this celeb offering. Has-beens of the past compete for your vote to see who has more to offer the public this time round by performing and old hit and a contemporary chart track. I didn't see last week's episode (but got the info from the website) so I Sky Plus'ed this SDF in order to watch it.

Episode 1 (last week) featured Gloria Gaynor the seventies diva who performed I Will Survive and Christina Aguilera's Beautiful. 80's electro pop dude Howard Jones performed What is Love and Dido's White Flag. Nineties R & B girl group The Honeyz performed Finally Found and rock group Nickelback's How You Remind Me (I would have liked to see this!). Dodgy barneted Limahl, formally of Kajagoogoo sand Too Shy and Maroon 5's This Love. Finally 80's teen sensation Tiffany sang I think We're Alone Now and Girl's Aloud's Love Machine. She apparently won it by a strong margin.

This week we saw Shakin' Stevens rock to his classic hit This Ole House, although it seemed he forgot the words at one point. Later he did a credible version of Trouble (originally Pink). 80s Soul Singer Jaki Graham did Set Me Free complete with the leather-look rubber outfits she used to wear and followed up with Will Young's Your Game. Belinda Carlisle sang her anthemic Heaven is a Place on Earth but it seemed to be she resents the song these days, and did not give it her best. Her contemporary track was Coldplay's The Scientist. Next up was Haddaway who sang his big hit What is Love followed by Britney's Toxic and was the best for me by far. Finally we saw Dr and the Medics do Spirit in the Sky and Robbie Williams' Let Me Entertain You. They were as scary as ever.

Although I though that Haddaway was best, the odds were on Belinda Carlisle, but it was Shakin' Stevens who took this week's crown.