WEEK 10 – Down to Six of one, half a dozen of the other – although of course it should have been the Magnificent Seven!
I have lost my score sheet, so you will have to find your scores from somewhere else this week sorry!
First out tonight were:
Jodie and Ian Jodie has had a very bad week, she was totally full of the flu – but as usual for her she remained pragmatic and hardly a whimper was heard from her and she tried her hardest to give us a good jive, which, by and large, I feel she succeeded in. Again, this is a difficult dance for the taller people among us. Shorter people have less length in their extremities to control, which makes the whole thing tidier. I thought I was going to have to watch this from behind my cushion, but NO. I was pleasantly surprised. Jodie is such a lovely girl. She is, in my opinion, what this programme is about! She wore the dress that we saw on the original publicity shots, the silver one with the fringe sewn at thigh height. What was their song again?? Can’t remember?!
Of course you will know she has gone now. As soon as I saw she was in the dance off I thought “that’s it”, and I wasn’t wrong! But she did herself (and Ian) proud. Remember back in her first group dance how awkward she looked in that beige and black dress – who would have thought she would blossom into the lovely mover she did!
Lisa and Brendan A beautiful quickstep by a beautiful couple. Brendan has surprised me so much this year. Have they hidden the “old” one and replaced him with a clone? Lisa managed to execute some quite complicated steps, and to be frank, I have no real criticism. Surprised to see her in the dance off again. I really felt for her when I saw her little face crumble. Come on Lisa fans, get voting or you will lose her!
Christine and Matthew From doing so well last week, Christine crashed to the bottom of the leaderboard with a lacklustre and lazy cha-cha. It was almost like she left her “funk” at home or on the couch with that pest, Adrian. I know she has so much more to give us! She had a really easy song to dance to “I like it like that” – I defy anyone to keep their hips from moving – yet she kind of did? I actually marked Christine as my “winner” from the start, and I am going to hope that this was just one bad week – otherwise my winner will be the loser. Again, those horrible leotard dresses – give these girls a skirt please – or at least a bit more coverage with the fringes.
Austin and Erin I was so excited when I heard they were dancing to “Its Raining Men” – but I feel the excitement of the song was lost somewhat in the performance of the vocalists. Mind you, how many of us can say we can sing as good as the weathergirls! Poor Austin sustained a dance injury to his finger whilst doing his performance. Not that you would have known from watching it. Well done! Agree with Arlene about his arms – its almost like he can only put them out “so” far, like a pensioner with a frozen shoulder.
Rachel and Vincent Well, what can I say about this?! The fact that they got a perfect score says it all I think! Rachel could well win this if she keeps up such a standard. It is difficult to do a foxtrot that wows the audience, but with Vincent at her side, she couldn’t go far wrong! Saw some lovely heel leads, good leg extension, beautiful neck and top line… WOW! Foxtrot is a dance where you have to be perfect in your technical elements (you can’t hide behind pizzazz). I had my 10 paddle out as well for this lovely couple. Quite an old fashioned dress, but these big dresses are actually all the rage out on the dance circuit at the moment believe it or not. Quite a twee song, “close to you”, but it worked.
Tom and Camilla Did a tango to a brilliant song called” Mrs Jones”. Loved Camilla’s dress. Yellow and purple clash in such a fantastic way. Tom pulled his face, but it worked for this dance haha! Still no 10’s for Tom. Maybe the judges are doing a bit of reverse psychology on us viewers – if they started raving over him there is every chance we would make him pay for it, so perhaps he should think himself lucky that they are not fawning all over him.
Of course, on Saturday we also saw John and Kristina do their farewell dance. They did their first/best dance, the waltz. They got a standing ovation, except for the judges who remained steadfastly in their seats. The judges have been getting quite a bit of stick regarding John and I have seen calls for resignations because of their treatment of him. I have three thoughts about the John situation:-
• If anyone is to blame for him becoming an “icon” it is actually the BBC in the way they portrayed him right from the start. Remember when all the girls would chase after him and pretend they fancied him – they built him up into the anti-hero. So they can’t be surprised when voters went along with it!
• He never for one minute thought he would be in this long, and has booked his diary accordingly. He had hoped to be “out” in plenty of time to do his cruise, and given the choice of remaining in the contest to be blamed for everyone else going – or keeping his contract with the cruise, it’s a no brainer.
• The judges were no harsher to him than they have been to anybody else. John himself was probably not bothered by their comments, it is the media (a lot of which is the BBC) that is to blame for whipping up this frenzy. If judges are forced to leave when then they are only doing the job that is expected of them, it will be a sad day for all reality tv shows.
