Vikki Jane 💙💛

*Some news* My officialness is now official - I am a member of the Critic's Circle for Dance. ❤ Forever thankful to @GWDanceWriter for making it happen & @dancingtimes who I could not have started this journey without. Here's to many more years of rambling about #Strictly ...

@superTV247 You know f all about Josh. He adores the show. Maybe save your opinions until September?

I’m so sorry but even this photo backs up my theory that it’ll just be Emma + Johannes after 1 series. This is just so odd and you can’t keeeeep dancing like this!

@TobechiOgazi @jeremybernier Well put and 100% true. A truly monstrous place to work run by evil.

There is a difference between exposing genuine wrongdoing and writing a public revenge memoir after leaving a company. If a workplace was truly this toxic, there were internal reports, regulators, journalists, lawyers, labour boards, and whistleblower channels. You skipped all of that and chose viral storytelling instead. Any reasonable employer reading this is also thinking: “What happens when this person leaves our company too?”

Meta was easily the most toxic company I've worked for. There's a reason the Chinese call it "Squid Game". Others refer to it as "Hunger Games" or "Lord of the Flies". I think they're all accurate. The company culture is basically every man/woman for themselves. The performance review process (PSC) not only doesn't incentivize helping others, if anything it actually discourages it since everyone is stack ranked against each other. Imagine working on a team where every 6 months, one of you is going to get axed. Of course it's going to become toxic. "Bottoms up" culture is a complete farce - it's just a way for leadership to offload accountability. The Tech Leads (TLs) have all the power - owning the relationships and tribal knowledge to gatekeep projects to their buddies. Managers are "people managers" with limited technical understanding, who basically aggregate TL feedback and create performance review packets to calibrate with other managers and IC7+. The takeaway is that your destiny is in the hands of the TLs, and TLs unlike managers have no responsibility for your career. There are no repercussions for unethical behavior. I've seen managers and TLs throw others under the bus and get away with it. The only mission bonding the company together is individual self-preservation. Save your own ass to survive for another stock vesting, and throw someone else under the bus if you need to. That's why layoffs rarely impact directors/VPs or tenured IC7+ despite the fact that they're paid by far the most. Even this recent mass layoff that was supposed to "flatten" managers layers barely affected directors/VPs/IC7+, and fell predominantly on M1s - the lowest rung of the management chain. The culture is extremely performative and focused on box ticking and optics. Everything is about PSC (the performance review system) and perception. This means tons of meetings, useless AI slop posts, and top-down initiatives that don't benefit anyone but maybe help tick off the impact box of some go-getter at the top. Impact is not enough - it has to have sufficient complexity. So complexity is added for complexity's sake. The org I was in (Facebook ads) is 90% Chinese, and the entire leadership chain up to the VP level is Chinese. Mandarin is the primary language at the office, except in official meetings with non-speakers. Chinese work culture is very different from American work culture, with 996 (9am-9pm, 6 days/week), top-down nature, emphasis on saving face (eg. don't question your superiors), and toxicity being quite common. Naturally when an org is completely dominated by a single ethnicity that's notorious for not integrating, elements from their work culture seep in. Of the layoffs I witnessed in this org, 3/4 were not Chinese (just to be clear, most Chinese are very kind so don't take this as an attack. But it is a reality that I think most people outside this company are completely unaware of, and I question if leadership is even aware despite the fact that we're talking about the company HQ) I had the most toxic manager of my life here. I watched him deliberately set up a new hire to fail, driving them to needing to see a psychiatrist for anxiety + depression, and getting them fired. Then he suddenly disappeared for 8 months, before leaving the company. I could go on and on, but this is already pretty long and I think you get the point. Yes there are a lot of great, kind people here. I managed to transfer out of my first team into a new team with a great manager where everyone was very smart, supportive, and hardworking. But the company has its Squid Game reputation for a reason. Company culture comes from the top. It seems leadership is either too removed to notice, or maybe don't really care anymore because I guess they already made their billions and us plebs are expendable these days.

@TobechiOgazi @jeremybernier The evidence is out there that it's toxic, it's widely known!

@raggedydocs Agree, he loves Strictly and is going to do a great job. I hope he'll be ok with the trolling because people are going to be mean whatever he does on the show :-/

i’m massively biased because i’m a fan of josh but anyone who has seen him on the last leg or any of his podcasts will know he’s a natural host. no one will ever be claudia and he’s not the obvious choice but i’m personally so excited to see him in the clauditorium

Josh Widdecombe is a really nice person and he's going to do an excellent job, so can you stop being mean and give him a chance please? #scd #Strictly

@bosdovja92 One jury thought it was Belgium!

Who the fuck in the ‘professional jury’ looked at Italy and thought ‘yep, best of the night’? Fuck all the way off #eurovision

I bloody know a banger when I hear one! #Eurovision2026

@IainDale This is not a good take. She's a musician and plays the piano. She was incredible.

Always loved Delta Goodrum, and this is a great Eurovision song, but she's coming across as a Celine Dion tribute act. Are we really supposed to believe she's actually playing that piano? #Eurovision. Has a touch of the Loreens about it. Sure to be in the topo 5.

Along with attending every tennis major, I would like to attend one Eurovision song Contest in my little lifetime. #Eurovisión2026 #Eurovision #EurovisionSongContest

If Delta or BANGARANGA don't bring it home they'll be trouble. #Eurovision #VikkiHasSpokenonEurovision #ESC2026 #Eurovision2026

BULGARIA BRINGING A BOP! #Eurovision 🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬

@Astrolexicons "do some emails", you are literally a school child.

POV: School vlogs in 2026 have everything… except actual studying..

@BethRigby Queen is in her element this week, love to see it

Your cheque's in the mail (or DM your venmo) 😘

You know shit's about to go down when this pair of ghouls rock up to your doorstep #BBCNews

Quite livid Zoe Ball didn't get the #Strictly gig. She's been a part of the show since 2005, she adores it, she cares about it. Would have been the perfect bridge between the old and new era of the show. #scd

@ss2698_ If you think that's expensive, how are you affording to go on holiday?

Will they please just let Icons Week die? #scd #strictly

@ghostysapphic If you did amy research you'd know Rob doesn't know him.

the kind of people rob beckett associates with btw

CELEBRITY TRAITORS SERIES TWO CAST ANNOUNCED 🚨🚨🚨

From Pamplona to Princeton, New Jersey London City Ballet’s 2026 tour is announced. Expanding to 18 dancers, the season premiere’s at the National Dance Theatre Budapest. A subsequent tour of 17 venues in the UK, Europe & USA follows 📸 ASH of Sahel Pascual at Opera de Vichy