SCD 2019: the glitz and glamour that is Blackpool. STRICTLY NO SPOILERS!

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The scum hate older assertive women we,ll tbf they hate all women but they have singled in on Michelle because there is a non story so made it up.

I get the impression that Giovanni is quite a serious person - he’s not a gushy type, and he obviously takes the dancing very seriously (that’s why he’s so good IMO). So when he’s on next to Michelle who is a big personality he can come across as a bit subdued. I think that’s all it is. Re the tour: maybe it is because Giovanni isn’t doing the tour (he’s got his own tour), and so they didn’t want to match Michelle up with someone else? Who knows. Either way, the tour line-up does not look that exciting to me.

I'm seeing Gio on tour.maybe he will take shell face

Gimmer alert: where is Giovanni’s response? I follow Michelle and can only see her message and then all her pictures.

@DarlingNikita I just clicked on the comments and his was the first one

Ah, I see, thank you!

Anyone seen Shirl and Claudia meeting Prince William at Centrepoint's 50th anniversary Gala? Shirl apparently asked him if he watched.

"Catherine and my mother-in-law are huge fans” he said."

You heard it here first.

Which is a polite way of saying ‘good god no!’ Isn’t it 🤣

@AppleKatie

I'm a day behind on ITT so I've just watched the Michelle and Joe interview from yesterday. He did seem a bit quiet but I didn't read anything into it. He was a bit like many husbands are when they have loud and opinionated wives not that I would know

"Catherine and my mother-in-law are huge fans” he said."*

And Camilla, she's a bit of a superfan

Shite, bold fail. Again.

I thought Gio was a bit quiet yesterday but he may have just been tired.

Haven't seen tonight's ITT, was it good?

Sophie & Louise were in the audience last year. Bet they didn’t have to queue for tickets though

Horse Zoe was back on form and possibly deliberately speaking a little slower!! A lovely section with Kevin introducing some of the best dances EVER in SCD. OMG I'd forgotten how good Jay was in the paso?? (sorry I can't remember the name of the dance he did with his hair all scraped back) !!.

The most interesting bit was when Zoe and Ian were discussing the fact that Michelle and Joe are going to do Vogueing at Blackpool and that she has done it anyway (which we all knew ).

Thanks @ppeatfruit, will try & watch it later. 🙂

I have high hopes for Michelle & Giovanni’s vogue.

Not so much for Karim’s Charleston. It looked very frantic and overcooked in the clip they showed on ITT from training.

I think my hopes are perhaps TOO high.

If she doesn't do a death drop I'll be disappointed.

Yes Jemima Most of Karim's dancing is OTT, he's got talent, a definite ringah, but he overdoes it. He seems a sweet guy but doesn't seem to understand the meaning of S..L..O..W D..O..W..N

Karim is like a kid who has had too many sweets at the school disco he just needs to take a seat and chill for 5 minutes

Huh ???? Death Drop Elspeth ?? Will she survive??

Oh btw I've been meaning to tell you peeps about the 40s Radio Station 128 kbps MP3 (if you don't already know. ) All the good old dance tunes are played , good for dancing/ keeping fit to . And NO ADS

*I think my hopes are perhaps TOO high.

If she doesn't do a death drop I'll be disappoited*

Would she be able to get back up though

Karim has the potential to be very good if he just slows down a bit. Even Ian Waite said he needed to slow it down, so that we can observe the finesse in the shape and movement of his dance.
His lines also need to be cleaner and more finished.

Craig is spot on about having light and shade in his dancing, and not just being fast and frantic all the time.

Dianne ? His prof. said something about not discouraging him, which IMO is not doing her job !

I think the judges have now said several times that Karim needs to rein it in, but that message doesn’t appear to be getting through. (I don’t think Amy is helping here, she’s come over as extremely intense lately.). Admittedly the Charleston isn’t the dance where you go for “less is more”. But it’s a shame actually because, for me, the dances which you really enjoy are the ones which move you, where you feel a connection - I think you can get that from something really beautiful, or where the storytelling / characterisation works, or where there is chemistry between the dancers, but NOT from over-the-top acrobatics and kicks and doing things as fast as you can and all that nonsense. It doesn’t help that Karim is a bit of a camera-hogger who is always trying to insert himself into other people’s airtime (that kiss to Oti and strange touching of Kelvin’s face last week during their claud 9 interview being an example). At the start of the competition I was “wow he’s good”, but I’ve liked him less as time has gone on.