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I'VE just caught up with I'D DO ANYTHING (BBC1) after having been away for a couple of days.

Nothing has changed.

The series began with Brum's lovely Amy Booth-Steel being booted off so unfairly.

But what goes around, comes around.

The final three are clearly not who Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber was dreaming of.

No wonder he was nearly in tears when four became three in time for next week's final.

He'll have to change the words to Evita.

DON'T forget I'd Do Anything (BBC1) tonight which will reveal who the three Olivers are for the new musical.

They've rightly been given a lower profile than the girls in this series.

But good luck to the three young chaps who are chosen. They'll need it.

Whether you enter showbusiness by the front door, back door, stage door or TV parachute it's a mercilessly-unforgiving business.

And the only true way to find out if you are up for it is to go through the curtains on to the stage on opening night. And then still see if you are surviving ten, 20, 30 years or more later.

Meanwhile, the girls are set to be whittled down from four to three ready for next week's final.

I do admire the losers in the weekly sing-off. Their good sportsmanship puts our petulant footballers to shame.

Catch them all in action from the earlier times of 6.50pm tonight on BBC1 and again from 7.15pm tomorrow when the axe will fall.

As for Eurovision tonight... all that'll be worth watching are the scores at the end to see what a fix this show now is in terms of the way countries vote for each other.

Don't waste your own money voting when petrol is going up like there's no tomorrow.

The BBC, so worried about the ethical nature of its own competitions recently including its little old Goal of the Month, should have refused to screen this bloated nonsense by now.

And Terry Wogan should have said the same instead of taking another trip overseas at our expense.

Maybe only then will the organisers wise up that the judging mechanism is not doing anything except raising unnecessary revenue like a desperate government eager to preserve its own overblown status.

HOW do you tell who is singing out of tune in I'd Do Anything?

Easy. Retreat to a different room so that you can still hear, but no longer see, your telly.

Even those of us who seem to be so tone deaf we can't sing for toffee, will be able to tell which of Andrew Lloyd Webber's warblers is wobbling.

Works every time, but especially tonight when Ashley got the old heave-ho.

Meanwhile, if the amazing weather forced you to miss the new series of Gladiators when it began at 6pm on Sky One tonight, don't forget that the first edition is repeated at 10pm tonight, Sunday and at 5pm tomorrow, Monday.

Just a thought... perhaps the girls on I'd Do Anything should be forced to Hang Tough. Maybe that would make 'em sing better. After all, you only swing when you're winning.