Strictly '22 #13 — First to spot the Tower gets 50p! We're off to Blackpool

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Poor Graz - they would not let him in the goodbye circle 😳

It seems as if Molly isn't well liked given by the reaction to Tyler leaving.

Rubbish decision. I honestly thought Tyler was better there.

What a lovely lad.
The charleston (?) he did after the London Marathon was a great achievement. It's a shame he's gone.

Me too 🥰🥰🥰

I thought it was going to be Will and Molly going on last night's dance - in the final

I don't see any point in saving Molly. It's obvious there's no fan base there.

I meant the dance off

Ooh, a "this girl". Preferred Tyler's dance overall but the lifts were still rocky. The styling did not help. Tyler got his Blackpool bonus though so there's that. Had Shirley saved him she'd have had a backlash that she hates young women.
Like Clara Amfro, Tyler will always have his Charleston.

Are they going to say Anton hates young women? Technique does not always make for interesting to watch. Molly isn't.

Oops Ellie! She’s fab on telly but just don’t get her still being on strictly (really sorry!), same with Will (but he seems genuinely into it)

I'm still sore about Clara Amfro. She never got the marks she deserved apart from that fab Charleston.

Tyler should have stayed. I don't feel like watching next week, the decision was all wrong. I don't care who wins now.

Are they going to say Anton hates young women?
Nope. Tis only Shirley that gets all the flak online. Misogyny innit?

Ok I'm biased, but I would have saved Tyler, based on that dance-off. I'd assumed that the jive would be Molly's dance, she being so dinky and peppy, but she looked tentative and unconfident and a bit leaden. Tyler was just more assured and he got the feel of the dance more.

My four finalists were Hamza, Tony, Ellie S. and Tyler. I bet I've jinxed Hamza and he gets a groin injury from a psychotic pine marten or something.

Even Chaka Khan is not going to make me like Couple's Choice. Nice try.

Tbh , I can never remember Helen's name so I did wonder if I was confused!!

I love "Ain't Nobody", but I hate "I feel for you" so her cc won't do it for me. Kym looks bloody good though.

I looked at the Spoiler and have just caught up with last night.

Wrong decision IMO. Tyler was great last night. Molly was completely outdanced by the "king of Jive" (who was "king of Rumba" last week (should be "king of gurny faces" imo. The Spoiler blog votes have her way down at the bottom of the chart so yes, think she's going to be dancing off some more.

I loved Hamza, Ellie and Tyler last night. I didn't see any issue with Ellie's finish apart from maybe taking a bit long to fasten herself into the chairlift thing? But that was when Johannes was swooshing round with the other dancers anyway. I do agree they have a lovely rapport.

Kym and Graziano left me cold. And I love the Paso. Weird music and he seemed like a parody posturing paso-er and she looked like she was overacting in some school play.

Helen was efficient but didn't blow me away. By the time we got to Will I was fed up with it all.

Fleur - well. It was always going to get 40. I didn't like it. It was more like a very good dance troupe performance on BGT rather than Strictly. And the fact that Shirley says it will go down in history is not a good thing because others might go for the same sort of thing.

All in all it went downhill from Hamza onwards for me.

And Graziano making out he's never seen fish and chips and TV presenter Helen Skelton making out she takes her kids on holiday to Blackpool is ridiculous. Yes he has, and no, she doesn't.

I googled the two children who were dancing in the group number: no wonder they looked good, they've just won the world U10 ballroom and Latin championships

PS I'd have given Ellie 2 votes and Tyler 1 (cos Hamza wouldn't need one)
I'd have had Mollie and Kym in the dance off with either of them out. I stopped caring.
Grump grump grump.

Wow !!! I thought they must have won something but I was thinking British ballroom champs not worlds

Fleur - well. It was always going to get 40. I didn't like it. It was more like a very good dance troupe performance on BGT rather than Strictly. And the fact that Shirley says it will go down in history is not a good thing because others might go for the same sort of thing.

Agreed, and I'll go one step further, it looked like a tribute act, rather than an expression of the contestant's personality (or whatever the odious couples' choice is supposed to be). And her legs were far too heavy and stompy to be anything like Janet J/Beyonce/J-Lo or whoever it was she was copying.

I'd have saved Tyler. If Molly ends up in the dance off for the next two weeks she could well be saved again.

Out the pros left, only Johannes and Gorka have had a crack at the final and done freestyles over here. Jowita, Graz, Vito, Nancy, Carlos have never made the final so would be interesting to see their routines although we saw Fleur's freestyle yesterday Ellie is very tall, bambi-esque, and has salsa, samba and jive left so I think she's a goner soon. Molly vs Fleur would be an interesting one.
Hamza, Helen, Will and Fleur would be my prediction.

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