SCD #5 Blackpool and onwards

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Please continue to keeeeeeeeeeeeeeep dancing!

(I'm sorry I'm so bad at threads)

Liking the look of Jay's tango. And Anita's rumba could be entertainingly filthy.

There's a clip I've seen of Gleb doing a fabulous rumba on Russian DWTS - admittedly armed with a Russian figure skating champion which gave him a bit of a head start.

Anyone I'll have to watch that, have you seen the Paso Doble he did with her?

Anyone know offhand when the final is? I've got a number of things happening in the next few weeks and I need to plan carefully!

I have sadly missed parts of IT2 on several occasions, but tonight I changed over at 5.50pm and couldn't believe what was on and carried on. .

Anita and Georgia looked really good in their training.
Ian had said Helen should not turn her knees out when her feet close together but that is what she was doing tonight in her training clip . A disadvantage of her intense ballet training. Her knees will be hidden though if she wears a long full skirt.

I shall be keeping fingers crossed for Anton and Katie in their AT.
And hope there will be nothing to delay tomorrow's SCD show.

Mini - He looks more like Wallace than Grommitt the dog to me

the final is the sat before xmas emotion

Emotion no you're right - Gaby wasn't a serious contender to win but I remember the judges telling them both that they shouldn't be in the dance off

If it was up to the public though they'd let through some truly dreadful people and it is meant to be a dance competition, I like that the judges make sure that it is

i love the show
I hope PA is in dance off this week against georgia ...then he will be gone.
my faves are Jay.anita and Katie

Thank you comeagain, much appreciated.

There is more about the "ongoing rumours of a fix" in the Daily Wail today....

Apparently the Beeb are "stunned" at the uproar.

I don't do the Wail, but for anyone who does there is apparently fun to be had in counting the number of factual errors in that article.

The public often votes for most entertaining, not best dancer

But is that necessarily wrong? A large proportion of the public will have no idea at all whether someone is a good dancer, they just want to be entertained.

Wasn't sure about Anita's 'nightie' type frock for her rumba when we finally got to watch ITT

DD1 was watching with me making odd 'this is crap' type faces at me, when we watched what she wanted to watch which was Lip Sync. Contest FFS!!!! I made 'this is crap" faces at HER with justification!!!!!!!

Though Aled Jones certainly showed those others in Blackpool how to do `handheld camera' presenting didn't he?

I do like a white dress in a Rumba. I will always remember Stephanie Beacham's rumba with James Jordan. She wore white. The dance was utterly filthy and I loved it so I have high hopes for Anita ad Gleb's.

Yes, Aled Jones is at least a competent presenter.

We all think Karen Harding should replace Bruno as a judge. Are you reading BBC?

I love Aled.

Strictly has always been a personality contest with the viewers and better dancers have been booted out before the worse dancers.
The judges have been very disappointed but it is what the viewers want that makes the show popular not what the judges want.

Indeed anyone: "Jamelia was voted off this weekend and on Monday she said the result was fixed"

Er, no she didn't. That's not even paraphrasing what she said!

*disclaimer - I don't do the Wail either, was DH that told me about it.

The Sun have another 'startling' revelation.

For those not wishing to sully their screens (I have washed my hands, applied eye bleach and disinfected my laptop), it says that the judges watch the dress rehearsals on monitors, sitting with a producer so they can rehearse their comments etc. The inference is that the producer would probably have the previous weeks voting figures thus allowing manipulation of the judges' scores

www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/tv/strictly_come_dancing/6770302/Strictly-judges-once-more-hit-by-fixing-allegations.html

They've mentioned watching dress rehearsals - 'it's such a shame, you did that so well in the dress run' type comments.

Next Sun 'revelation' will probably be that all the judges have a prior knowledge of dancing

Next Sun 'revelation' will probably be that all the judges have a prior knowledge of dancing

Now that would be startling

I'm shocked to my core about that revelation. I might never watch it again I'm that outraged

I'm shocked that they rehearse their comments, does Bruno rehearse his pantomime behaviour too?

Isn't it the 'free for all' on the dance floor doing the quickstep of all things tonight.? Dangerous me thinks. Hope there are no crashes into each other.

Evening all, checking in for later.

I can't say I'm surprised that the producers and judges conflab before the show - how on earth would they figure out the generic running under otherwise?

Hope there are no crashes into each other mm, is or wrong that I'm hoping for the exact opposite.