Strictly Come Dancing Thread #3 Will Fantons save Susannah or does Vick not have a hope in hell?...

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....Is Katie going to be pipped at the post, will Graeme take a swan dive to the bottom of the leader board, is the news just in that Kate's first out, will MWMOB Wombling Eel's Latin make us Blue or has Seann seenn his finnal routinne?!

New thread for Saturday 29th and this week's It Takes Two.

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at Poundland Gleb. Wish he'd come back, he was great.

@BubblegumFactory this year there is also Luba & another male dancer I can't remember his name.. who are new 'stand ins'.
Last year there was also Chloe who popped up for group dances & on ITT.

I’m not agin ‘gorgeous & funny’, whiskey. There are a few good looking, engaging celebs this year who arent trained dancers. I’m with the others who don’t like all the wide eyed ‘aww shucks. Really?!’ stuff, whenever the celebs with dance backgrounds are complimented on technical things. All for show. All for votes. Can’t blame them, it’s an entertainment show after all. It’s just irritating.

Thank you for the explanation
Have been wondering if I’m going a bit crackers ...

Neil had a partner on the Christmas special last year. Judy Murray I think?

I wonder if Swanny might be in trouble tonight.

I don’t vote for people in the top half at this stage in the competition because it’s a waste of a vote, so I voted Graeme and Seann because they’re in danger, they seem to be enjoying themselves, they have a chance of producing an entertaining dance next week, and I love their pros. Susannah and Katie I’m afraid are beyond saving and don’t even seem to be enjoying themselves.

Third vote went to Lauren even though I’m sure she’d ace a dance-off.

I voted for Lauren - because she is doing a good job despite her disability/competitive sport,
Katie - because she is overcoming what happened to her to be on the show and she might improve quite a bit if her confidence went up
and Vick - because her routine was so beautiful and was so much better that last week.

I would expect Susannah to be leaving.

Random musings...

1. Stacey Dooley investigates: Why cha cha cha is now haaaard
2. Chucky got sweaty Luther Vandross style. Despite me liking Sir Duke, it did seem slow for a QS. Who went wrong?gate.
3. Katie should be bottom two
4. Oti's choreo was uneven and wrong song.
5. Kate didn't do head snaps did she? School run - ovary vote winner
6. Ladderography should not be a thing
7. Susannah's broken Anton
8. Lee had Robbie Rotten RIP's hair. And it took me all week to realize Blue Suede Shoes was cos he's FromBlue. D'oh!
9. Danny was good but reminds me of Ben Kingsley and should stop bowing

10. A brolly joke at Ranj's expense broke Tess? 11. Vick did much better this week 12. Ranj was my favourite tonight for that suit alone 13. I want a floaty viennese not a feisty one 14. Seann's attitude to critique should get him through 15. Ashley should have had to miss the CCC same as other candidates who have learnt a style before

The pros who have been let go by Stictly are having a field day slagging off Graziano.

Watching on catch up. I knew Seannnnnnnn reminded me of something....

Did anyone vote for Stacey? I think she might possibly be in danger because I’ve not seen much discussion about her tonight and she’s in an iffy leaderboard position. She’d be safe in a dance-off against a duffer though.

Just finished watching back and fast forwarded through a lot but even I could see that Tess was either pissed or had been at the funny fags again. Either way, it was fucking embarrassing /highly amusing depending on what you think about the stupid trout sorry, did I just type that out loud?

Can’t warm to Ashley at all. I know we’ve had ringers before, but this is taking the piss - they might as well have paired Pasha with Luba or Chloe.

Her actual career is dancing.

The pros who have been let go by Stictly are having a field day slagging off Graziano what are they saying?

12. I love that song in Zumba so it won the night for me. Dr Ranj 😍

We’re bringing it, bringing it, bringing it back!

Fireball!

James Jordan putting the boot in.

Tougher week for celebs. I do think everyone should do one ballroom and one latin, for fairness but also in case they go out so at least they experienced both! I voted for Danny cause I love cats, Seann because I love his attitude and Lauren cause she was great. I also love Faye and Ashley but they don't need my vote. I think Katie needs acting lessons to help her and I'm hoping not even Anton can save Susanna.

Oh James! If only you had played nice, you could have been a regular on it takes two or done the podcast! I think he nailed it this week and will soon hit his stride. I remember Jame's first few seasons going badly when two of his partners pretty much hated him.

Having looked back through all the dances I've surprised myself by liking Faye's dance the best. Like a previous poster above I'm warming to Giovanni. He was a smug, arrogant git in his first series with Georgia, he was a total bastard to Laura but he was much improved last series with Debbie and seems fairly human this series so far. (Gorka's still my favourite though.)

I don't quite understand why they've gone for Graziano over Neil though — why pass over a British and World Professional champion who does tonnes of workshops and teaching for an Italian 24 year old who retired from Amateur at 20?

I think Neil passed over due to height. There are a lot of tall ladies this time

Lauren was too pale for the Georgia wig and outfit also too pale
She does look a bit like Anna Friel, yes
My DP keeps calling Seann Gene after Gene Wilder.
Not sure Graeme or Katie deserve the votes they appear to be getting
I think it should be Katie vs Susannah in the DO. They'll save Katie for attitude. She was stitched up with Demi Potato music though...speaking of Monkseal, summary up...
monkseal.wordpress.com/2018/09/29/strictly-come-dancing-16-week-2-performance-summary/

I actually loved Seann's

I'm going to have to watch it all back (with commentary) as we ended up sitting down to dinner at precisely the wrong time

Mind you, I'd take anybody at this point who was actually a ballroom specialist.