The Adios Max commercial is a good lesson in how to make a memorable advert, all you have to do is get a hot model to dance around in her knickers.

Of course, the end result also happens to be that you've completely missed your target audience, most of whom are women too fat to get out of bed let alone dance down the street, and not guys like the one in the advert or the ones watching at home, who just happen to appreciate a nice bum in some stripy pants.

Adios is supposed to be the UK's best-selling slimming tablet “helping women everywhere to say 'Adios' to weight they don't want!” Who knew that the side-effects would be the attentions of a nosey old woman and the unfortunate habit of forgetting to wear your skirt when you go out.  Whoops!

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Take Adios Max and risk dancing down the street in your knickers. It must be the Adios effect!

Susanna Reid, Fiona Bruce and Sophie Raworth broke out the tight lyrca catsuits and platform heels for this year's BBC Children in Need to perform two songs from the ABBA musical Mamma Mia.

It was Susanna Reid's first opportunity to dress up for charity as a member of the BBC News team, but her inclusion was a last minute one as Kate Silverton, a member of the original line-up suffered a slipped disc in her back after falling into a hole during filming in Kenya for Big Cat Live.  Here at Telly Toad we think Susanna's a fantastic presenter and it's about time she was given more of the limelight, so every cloud has a silver lining. As things turned out, she also put in what was quite easily the best, and sexiest performance.

Fiona Bruce and Sophie Raworth are no strangers to making spectacles of themselves on Children in Need, with Bruce previously dressing in miniskirt and fishnets (2007), and gold hotpants (2006) and Raworth donning fishnets for a Rocky Horror Picture show medley back in 2002.

Sophie Raworth found the tight costume this year difficult to come to terms with.  “It’s actually quite revealing because it clings to every curve. It’s so tight, I can barely raise my arm, and sitting down is virtually impossible” she told the Daily Mail.  By Fiona Bruce's standards however, the costume, replicating the ones ABBA wore around the time of their 1974 Eurovision Song Contest win, was the most demure in recent memory.

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Susanna Reid, Fiona Bruce and Sophie Raworth perform songs from Mamma Mia! on Children in Need, followed by a short interview with Fearne Cotton.  Interruption by Take That courtesy of the BBC's button-happy production team...

Fiona Bruce raised temperatures with her sexy song and dance routine on BBC Children in Need in November 2007, a performance we celebrate ahead of this year’s charity extravaganza.

Best-known as a BBC newsreader and presenter of Crimewatch and The Antiques Roadshow, Fiona Bruce, dressed in heels and black fishnets for the programme, was quoted as saying that her costumes for the charity event were getting smaller by the year...

Those in the know dubbed her ‘Fifi LaBruce’, as a result of the performance from the musical Chicago.

In 2008, she’ll join Susannah Reid, Sophie Raworth and other members of the BBC News team for a tribute to ABBA, but unfortunately the trend of skimpy constumes won't be continuing, their outfits are said to be straight from ABBA’s Waterloo era, the absolute worst fashion-wise.

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Fiona Bruce performs ‘All that Jazz’ from the musical ‘Chicago’ on Children in Need, BBC One, 16/11/2007.

“Did you see the dancing kid at the Twenty20 cricket final?”

The young fan took it upon himself to imitate the official ECB Twenty20 dancers and much hilarity followed, both in the crowd, amongst players on the pitch and in the commentary box.  “Go for it young man!” cried former England captain turned pundit Nasser Hussain, and so he did, dancing like a man, sorry, boy possessed on the steps of the Rose Bowl as Middlesex beat Kent by three runs in a thrilling game.

The video has been available for a while on YouTube, but quite frankly the version there is rubbish, so we’ve pulled out all the stops with WMV HD for your dancing pleasure.

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Twenty20’s cheerleaders are no match for the dancing kid in the stands, who steals the show at the 2008 Rose Bowl final.