'NOW that Matthew Kelly's back in charge of Stars In Their Eyes, do you think they'll let him do the version involving children?" asked my wife while watching the I'm A Celebrity... Special (ITV1, Saturday).

It's certainly the biggest challenge facing the programme makers at Granada's Manchester studios.

The presenter has been the Special K in 13 years of warbling wannabes since he took over from the late Leslie Crowther in the early 1990s

. After a brush with the courts and the tabloid press earlier this year, Kelly has been reintroduced using the security of celebrity mates performing as other celebrities.

Although Cat Deeley always talks like she's banged her jaw bending down to speak to Ant and Dec, she was given this year's Junior Stars In Their Eyes.

Now Granada TV must decide to either quietly bury this spin-off, risk raising eyebrows by allowing Kelly to continue or suggest that the allegations haven't been laid to rest by bringing back Cat Chinley (sorry Deeley).

With Coronation Street's Roy (David Neilson) about to give us Roy Orbison tomorrow in ITV1's Soap Stars Special - hopefully with falsetto and false wig in place - the series continues to survive against the might of Pop Idol.

Last Saturday, Catalina Guirado's impersonation of Blondie was so good that she easily beat full-time singer Toyah Willcox. In an otherwise unimpressive contest, weather woman Sian Lloyd proved she couldn't sing at all. "You suddenly realise just how slimy and self-promoting Sian Lloyd is when you watch shows like this," said my noteworthy other half.

Quite a lot of self-publicity was in evidence as former Come Dancing host Charles Nove (bearded, Scottish, tubbier version of Noel Edmonds sort of thing) agreed to the ritual humiliation of The Life Laundry (BBC2, Wednesday).

Nove and wife Jess were seen squeezing into a modest home filled with cardboard boxes and storage units containing his broadcasting memorabilia and masses of redundant sound engineering parts - left over from the couple's sound (?) business.

How could a man from the dapper world of ballroom dancing collect enough junk to hide a dining table and chairs and shirts with more holes than collar? I was on his side regarding the Shaun the Sheep collection sneered at by home consultant Dawna Walter, who will spend the ten-part series de-junking some pretty disgusting hoarding habits.

Being American, she was completely clueless about the compulsive collecting linked to the Wallace and Gromit films.

Nove also appeared to be pleading for a return to his Radio 2 days. Sadly former colleagues sounded unimpressed with his lifestyle. "None of the presenters on BBC2 live like that... except those on BBC1," reassured a female announcer after the show.

And a mention in ratings-winning handovers between show hosts Terry Wogan and Ken Bruce on Radio 2 didn't do Nove any favours either. Bruce did admit to going round and checking his collection of old wires "which one day might come in useful".

Strangely, he didn't mention all those tins of old paint you have "just in case you need the touch up the paintwork". None of it is something to sing about.

Published: 23/08/2003