20 years and in the last three has been using the format based on Strictly Come Dancing. They call it Bailando por un Sueño (literally dancing for a dream) but there´s no foxtrot in this program.

First, they introduced the contestants, all women, all with significant amounts of plastic surgical intervention (helium filled breasts, lips the size of Lithuania, arms with all the fat sucked out... the usual). As they were introduced the host, depending on the percieved hotness of the contestant would point out something unusual at the back of the studio so that the camera could linger on the contestant´s lycra clad (or barely clad) bum. It was reminiscent of Italian TV.

Then on to the dancing... over a dozen weeks they did the lot from the merengue, the Axe and the cha cha cha to Reggaeton and Hip hop... Reggaeton was the rudest dancing I´ve ever seen... I can´t even begin to describe it, just, very very rude.

Diego Maradona was a guest for a couple of shows and he seemed to give marks based solely on the tightness of costumes (or lack of costumes). The winner last year was a transvestite but no such shocks this year.

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