Airline food is always a challenge, but it's much more of a challenge to three couples given the brief to devise and prepare a three course meal and serve it up to fourteen first class passengers on a jumbo jet.

Hugh Pym on The Six O'Clock News

Although the foxtrot is one of the most elegant of ballroom dances, tonight’s dance-off between Gillian Taylforth & Anton du Beke and Jodie Kidd & Ian Waite was actually quite tedious this evening.

Tonight was the girls’ turn to show the boys what they could do - this is one year when I don’t think an Eastender will get anywhere near the final.

After being given half a pig with instructions to sell as much of the carcass as they could and leaving as little wastage as possible, the three couples who had performed worst at this task found themselves facing the latest challenge and fighting for the survival of their restaurants.

Phil Daniels together with his partner, last year's finalist Flavia Cacace, became the first celebrity to be voted off Strictly Come Dancing this evening.

Strictly Come Dancing kicked off in style tonight as the new male celebrities took to the floor for the first time. There were nerves aplenty and a few surprises – a couple of the boys were far better than I expected them to be – and one or two were a bit disappointing.

25 year old Derek Johnstone from Erskine, Renfrewshire, was tonight declared the winner of the first ever series of MasterChef: the Professionals.

Cheryl Cole will appear on tonight's Friday Night With Jonathan Ross on BBC One.

It's finals week for the young professional chefs and the thirty-six chefs who set out with high hopes have been whittled down first to six and now to the final three chefs.