The one about the All Star Talent Show!

Sorry - just had a text from Vanessa about the show. I HAVE to share it with you:

"I am so proud of you, go for it Jodie on Friday. Please remember to hold yourself, you are brill. I mean that. I would say nothing if I didn't mean it, I promise. Just lock that Dirty Dancing lift and it will be something me, you and your family will be proud of forever. Thank you for being so lovely to work with. I only shout at people I care about. If I didn't think you had it in you, I would just be nice and accepting but I know you have it in you and honest Jode I shout cos I care. Well done to both you and Ben today for being pros. I will pop up and have a look tomorrow. Big kiss and well done. You are my star of the show and I mean that. I love Toby and Carol but I have given you the hardest routine (even for a pro dancer). I will make bloody sure viewers realise that! I understand you more than you realise! Go for it! You're my winner no matter what! Love you and big kiss x x x"

She is amazing!!!!!! I love her like I love my own mum (not that she's old enough to be my mum but I love her in the way that I can tell her ANYTHING and I sooooooo want to do her proud). She is the best person I've ever worked with! You don't even know how mush her saying all that means to me! She is one of the nicest people I've ever met and I can't say that enough! I'm going to come up with a format for a TV show whereby I get to work with her for the rest of my life! Like Simon and Sharon on X Factor. I want to be with her on everything I do! Ha ha. Come on Channel 5 - help me think of something! ;)

I am so happy right now, but then who wouldn't be working with people like Vanessa?! Plus, I'm always happy when I'm dancing (which is why I go out clubbing so mush!). I know you are probably bored stiff reading about this AGAIN but I just can't talk about it enough (or stop smiling). I am off to bed soon with Paddy and Lyla and Jackie Collins. My mum and dad popped over earlier and my mum started singing my Lord of the Dance Alternative version (on blog previous to this). She got to the third verse and was crying so hard with laughter that she was bent over my desk. She couldn't breathe for laughing! My dad was the same and they actually took FIVE minutes composing themselves before they could carry on. When they did carry on they laughed so hard again that they had to stop again! Even after they finished it they carried on giggling for ages. I too have cried laughing singing it back to myself. I had my head on the desk at one point! I know it's silly and childish but it really tickles all of us. I've just sung it down the phone to Kyle as well cos I knew he would LOVE it. Our favourite line is "I fell in love on live TV"!! ha ha ha ha ha - like it's some sort of achievement! Ha ha. There's nothing better than being able to take the piss out of yourself and make yourself laugh. It shows that you're not really bothered by things you've done wrong or things that have hurt you. By being able to laugh at them, you are saying "I don't care!" and it feels good. I don't care that I made a twat out of myself (with Ben) cos I did the right thing in the end and I also did what I felt was right at the time - like I always say "no regrets!". At least I have ALWAYS been true to myself and I can sleep easy at night. I don't have any nagging doubts or regrets hanging over my head. It's been amazing from start to finish. I have learnt a ton of stuff (about dancing and about myself and other people); it's been emotional and a little journey/adventure all of its own. This show has taken on a whole new meaning to me. During the time we have been filming it I have discovered things about myself I never even knew, I've realised what it is I truly want in life (to find a fit genuine man and to dance forever) and I have done myself and my mum, dad and Vanessa proud and that is an achievement in itself. Like I said before (on the original show) - I don't even care if I win or not. Of course I'd love to but if it doesn't happen then so what?! I've had the best time ever and I have evolved as a person (even in this short space of time). In fact, the only reason I would probably want to win is so that I get to do the dance twice on the night!!!! Once isn't enough - I'd do it every day for the rest if my life if I could! If I don't win well then it doesn't matter cos I have enjoyed every single second of doing this. Channel 5, the crew, Vanessa and Ben are amazing and I will cherish this memory forever. It's the one time I did something EVERYONE around me could be proud of me for. I'm so happy.

Going back to the song; it has made all of us laugh harder than we have done in years. I don't even know why it tickles us so mush. Perhaps the tune of Lord of the Dance makes if funnier - I don't know. Lauren reckons they could use the verse about 'Channel 5, Friday at eight-thirty' as the music to the advert for the All Star Talent Show! Oh God we have laughed so mush my cheeks hurt. Seriously, taking the piss out of yourself is THE BEST! It's done me wonders tonight. I mean; I was feeling amazing already but that has been the icing on the cake. I needed that laugh (in fact I'm still chuckling to myself now like a mad woman!). If you sing it in the right tune it really does sound funny. We are also proud of ourselves for making it fit so well, rhyming it so well and putting so many truths in it. We actually think that it's very clever (don't be fooled into thinking that it's silly and childish straight away - even though it is that as well!). It's a masterpiece!! A genuine masterpiece. I think we have excelled ourselves! I might even record me and Lauren singing it and have it as my ringtone cos I know I would dissolve into insane giggling every time my phone rang (and I love to insanely giggle at least once a day). If it was my ringtone I could insanely giggle all day long like a nutter. Ha ha - seriously go and read it again and either sing it out loud or sing it in your head to the right tune (presuming you know the hymn Lord of the Dance that is). Go and appreciate the masters at work! Ha ha. My mum is printing it out tomorrow to put on her wall cos she finds it so funny. I suppose it would be ten times funnier if you actually knew me personally (and my sense of humour) but I'm hoping it tickles at least some of you out there!!!!

(Me and Lauren are available to write lyrics for any budding musicians who can't! We can be the Bernie Taupin to your Elton John. Ha ha).

Night-night - I'm off to bed! All my love from a giggling wreck of a girl in Brentwood, Essex (tired and delirious and laughing and smiling and aching and bruised).

xxxxx