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McFly to front Saturday night variety show?
(Source: Entertainment STV

McFly have been approached by both the BBC and ITV to front their own Saturday night variety show.

Both the BBC and ITV have reportedly expressed an interest in the 'Star Girl' hitmakers - made up of Dougie Poynter, Harry Judd, Tom Fletcher and Danny Jones - in the hope of capitalising on the success of Harry's victory on 'Strictly Come Dancing' and Dougie being crowned King of the Jungle on 'I'm A Celebrity ... Get Me Out Of Here!'.

An insider told the Daily Mail newspaper: "There has been significant interest from the main broadcasters and a number of production companies about a show."

Harry has previously claimed none of the other members of McFly could have been as successful on 'I'm A Celeb' as Dougie, as his bandmate's "funny and quirky" qualities would always win over viewers.

He said: "None of us could have done 'I'm A Celebrity' but Dougie. He's the shyest, but once you get to know him, he's so funny and quirky. He's very endearing as a person.

"'Strictly' suits me because I work hard, and I'm probably the best dancer out of all of us."

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We can't tell whether this 'insider' is correct or wrong, but they also posted an article about Celebrity Big Brother rumours about Danny, whilst Georgia tweeted earlier that day that Danny was 100% not joining the 'celebs'. Honestly, I don't think he'd sink that low (it may be clear we don't like Big Brother shows anymore). But it would be awesome to see another McFly show on television! To be continued...

In any other news, McFly is on their writing trip. A few tweets from the last 48 hours:

- Danny: Studio all packed up and ready to go on a writing trip!! Hell yeah
- Tom: Just packing for our writing trip. Can't bloody wait. New songs. Awesome!
- Tom: Right, off to bed. Just sweet dreams about awesome mcfly songs that are about to be born in the next 10 days.
- Danny: Sat in bed watching The real A & E classic!!! Looking forward to writing and producing some kick ass songs for the next album tomoro cmaan. Goodnight my little d-dawgs
- Tom: Morning. Up early to head off to the middle of nowhere. Locking ourselves away to make some music! :D
- Danny: Morning!! Today is the day when 3 dudes mooch off to make some music for a lot of dudes :)
- Dougie: Yawn
- Tom: We've arrived at our writing retreat pic
- Danny: All set up and ready to make love to some banging new songs!!
- Dougie: Writing has begun
- Danny: A vital ingredient in my studio is a Yankee candle!! Woohoo @catdeans

We've added photo's of the OK Magazine interview with Harry & Izzy yesterday. Also new in our gallery are Dougie's "arty pictures" and a few other twitpics from Danny & Tom.


(right click to open in our gallery)

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