Strictly '22 #14 — Craig's broken his duck! Who's next for a 40?

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Ellie is bottom

Will got 38? Good lord.

I voted Will, Fleur and Hamza tonight. I thought Ellie's jive was pretty bad, though not her fault as it was down to the music and the choreo. Molly is just not floating my boat.

Molly and Helen Do. Maybe hamza and molly. Prediction is purely based on to people getting 35 which last week proved can be a tricky situation to be in

IIRC, Mark Ramprakash's Argentine didn't score that well on this night, although it was very good (Karen being the goddess that she is as well).

Simon Webb's was a great concept with that music - Roxanne. I wonder if it is better to give them male a "role" to play with in their head so that they can get into the part a bit more and show a bit of drama and passion, rather than simply being a pole to dance around.

If Hamza is in the DO, I will eat my hat. No way. He is going to win this thing ( without my votes:)

Won't let me vote, same account as always and shows my normal postcode 😨

Are you on mobile data rather than WiFi?

I think they got 39. That was the days when AT was held over to the semi-final.

Voted 2 for Hamza,one for Molly

Three to Fleur, she does not deserve to go and I think she could in 'mid-table' trouble

I didn't but just turned my phone off and on again (a la daddy pig) and it's working

Oh did they, @AnneShirleysNewDress ? I just recall they did what
I thought was an amazing, passionate dance and then got marked down. Must have been something else.

Is the elephant in the room with the Argentine that if you don't look the part because of height, body shape etc, the whole thing just doesn't work?

I thought Shirley's critique for Hamza's AT- taking Jowita aside and praising her feet- was bonkers. Has anyone ever done that before? Taken Karen Hardy or Aliona Vilani aside and praised her feet?🙄

@Lentilweaver v odd she has a real thing for hamza

It was very odd, @Lentilweaver , I agree, critiquing and praising the professional over the contestant. The whole programme felt off kilter for me this evening. Blackpool hangover syndrome, perhaps.

I think they just don't want any more blokes to go home.

Shirley did say Hamza was the one to beat for her last week, so she's probably needing to defend that statement. And he is generally fantastic and has probably had the biggest challenges of the remaining couples, as he is not sporty, artsy, actory and is a larger gentleman. Having said that, though, Craig and Anton's scores for Hamza didn't reflect their critique of his AT. So it's not all on Shirley.

I'm not really a Helen fan, but that 5 was ridiculous.

Although he's top of the leaderboard, I wouldn't be surprised if Will was in the dance-off, purely because that was a weird dance (not as enjoyable as more typical Charlestons) and a very odd choice of music. If he is, then they will name him first out of the two dance-offs, because although they always say "in no particular order" they always reveal names in the way that will most crank up the tension / cause maximum suffering to the contestants. The Results show is deliberately cruel, a shame for such an otherwise goodnatured show.

Danny Mac?

Gorka's arse did more heavy lifting than Superman on a bombsite.

Shirley never knows what to expect from the celebrities the week after Blackpool. It involved ketamine, a brawl over a kebab and paying off a few police officers, didn't it?

I once went for a country hike in jeans that were too small and had immense trouble getting my legs over the stiles. I mention this because Will's child-size trousers were clearly having the same effect on his Charleston. If Nancy had been dressed as a frisky bullock I would have been having flashbacks.

Having said that, I did think his Charleston kind of worked. I've always thought that Iggy Pop's Lust for Life would work for an alternative Charleston (obviously they'd have to clean the lyrics up a bit).

Ellie is Thelma and Johannes is Louise. I will brook no arguments on this.
Day Varch is Harvey Keitel.
The Man in the Hat is Michael Madsen.
Neil is Thelma's husband.
Vito is Brad Pitt.
Craig is the FBI man.

So far I've been bored by Molly and excited by Fleur but tonight it was the other way around. I thought that was Molly's best dance and she was undermarked. Perhaps the producers shouldn't have handed her all those peppy teen dances? Fleur's dance needed a bit of camp or a bit of drama, but most of all it needed someone to switch the big light on. She could have been doing the Gay Gordons for all I could see of it.

Ooh, Hamza was masterful. Ok, not the best Argentine tango of all time, but he constantly surprises me by how he gets each dance. If Craig and Anton come for him, they will have to go through me. Although I suspect that being mean to him will only bolster his vote.

OMG yes to "I Heard it on the Grapevine". Danny Mac is prob my fave Strictly contestant. Loved ALL his dances. He even made the American Smooth interesting.

Owww just watched it. That was fab!

. If Nancy had been dressed as a frisky bullock I would have been having flashbacks.
That paints quite the picture

The post Blackpool show is always a bit lacklustre