LET’S talk Strictly.

Two weeks in and this series is shaping up to be one of the best so far.

On only a second dance Alexandra Burke scored an almost perfect result for her Paso Doble with 36 points and a standing ovation from the crowd.

And Brian Conley almost blinded us all with his super glittery outfit.

I think he knew he might be headed for the dance-off so he told the costume department to go all out in case it was his last chance.

But happily he managed to sashay through the danger that is the dance-off and will dance another week.

It is probably a good thing nothing much has changed of late in the ballroom we have come to know and love in the past decade or so.

There are new professional dancers and, of course, a new head judge, but the competition remains unaltered and the way in which they receive news of their fate is the same.

Apparently this is the most “terrifying” experience anyone can go through.

Standing under those spotlights while you wait for Tess to deliver the judgment.

And while we all know this is patently untrue - we all do a small punch of the air when the dancer we like goes through.

As with previous years it was also clear, on the most part, who would be likely to shine and who perhaps might not.

Step forward Alex Burke, Aston Merrygold and that one from the girl group (there is always one from a girl group)

All three already show huge promise, which shouldn’t be any surprise since although they haven’t had any ballroom training they certainly have had to learn and master choreography for performances.

They keep saying the chap who plays Kush on Eastenders has never danced before but I don’t buy that - he went to stage school.

Okay, he hasn’t been schooled in the specifics of the samba, but he will have had to learn a routine at some point along the line and he also will have performed in front of a live audience.

It makes me really angry on behalf of the Rev Richard Coles and Susan Calman then when they judge them in the same way as the “stage schoolers” as I think of them.

These are people who are literally going in blind and risking ridicule.

Which is why I am already a big fan of new head judge Shirley Ballas.

She gets that, takes it on board and refuses to ridicule people.

Craig Revill-Horwood, who becomes more and more like a panto dame every year, should take a leaf out of her book once in a while.