And oooh, is it shiny.

Not that the old one was a muddy sock with frogs in it, but there’s a lot of interesting things going on this year.

Things I have found so far:

A photo gallery. Some early shots of the trainers kicking some fat booty. If they keep the gallery updated, that’d be just super. So often the official sites update for a week or two and then whoever is in charge just can’t be bothered anymore. I feel your pain, faceless official site webmasters!

There’s also a new video gallery. Nothing very exciting there yet, just the various promo ads you might have already seen somewhere… ;-)
Again, will be interesting if they can keep adding videos to it. This is one area where the official site did alright last year, with regular contestant video diaries and trainer tips appearing fairly regularly for much of the season.

The contestants page is up, but there’s nothing except names and tiny mugshots at present. In what appears to have been a blunder the contestants full names, not just their first names or nicknames, were listed originally. And the image files are still named as such. And the eventual profile pages here on The Recap will have their full names. You can see some of them already, as the existing pages have been updated. And the new pages have been created but they’re quite boring so I haven’t linked them yet.

There’s a couple of other bits and bobs on the site I’ll let you discover for yourself (like a brand new forum, which so far has a distinct lack of moderators who’re cracked in the head) and share in the comments section if you want.

Hopefully the proper profiles will go up on Sunday night once the show has aired. Until then, REMAIN EXCITED. Or sort of ignore it all until things really start, that’s entirely up to you. :-)