Simon Bates doing the paper review

I was quite surprised to see Simon Bates join Viv and Alan on tonights paper review! I know he works for Sky doing Out Tune but does he occasionally do the paper reviews? Or was he walking past and they dragged him in at the last minute because the regular was ill?

It was nice and funny tonight, as it always is. I always make a point of watching the paper reviews on Sky News if I watch nothing else because there's lots of good banter and they all have a bit of a laugh!

News 24 does paper reviews but they just aren't as funny! The Sky News presenters have much more personality.

Every Wednesday night for ages now Bates has been doing the paper review on Sky - IT IS MUST SEE!

It was even better when he did it with Bob Friend & Anna Botting (when they did 8-12pm slot) - most of the time Friend & Bates would discuss which famous people they had met recently, the rest of the time they would all be in laughing contnuously, so much so they found it difficult to talk!