I like Anthea and think she has been unfairly criticised in the press for years, especially when she is called talentless. She starred in the pantomime here as Cinderella years ago and was brilliant. People also criticise her for marrying Grant Bovey yet Esther Rantzen walked off with someone else's husband and is never criticised for it. Anthea is very graceful in DOI.
I have no idea of her personal history and could care even less. It is rather tiresome that anyone over a certain age seems to be automatically criticised. Oh - unless they are male, in which case middle aged paunch is excused.
She is still shaky on the ice and yet that will improve with practice. What is clear imho - is that she has more grace and performance ability than anyone else on the ice. Go Anthea!
I like Anthea and think she has been unfairly criticised in the press for years, especially when she is called talentless. She starred in the pantomime here as Cinderella years ago and was brilliant. People also criticise her for marrying Grant Bovey yet Esther Rantzen walked off with someone else's husband and is never criticised for it. Anthea is very graceful in DOI.
I don't know why she is hated either. She seems nice enough.
Surely the bottom two should have been Joe with Anthea tonight, not Keith as he's a much better skater and very smooth on the ice, and Anthea was lifted off the ice far too much and spent so little time ON the ice!
I was sorry to see Anthea go - though I wouldn't have been happy to see the departure of Keith.
imo the bottom two should have been Joe and Luke.
Yes - Anthea's performances were loaded with elegant lifts, but that came naturally to her - so why didn't T&D say "Great - you're a natural when it comes to elegance so let's concentrate less on lifts and more on solo skating."
I realise that for some reason, unknown to me, Anthea attracts much hatred but imo T&D could have given her a fighting chance by choreographing routines that focused more on skating skills and less on her natural artistic grace.
The skaters are only as good as the choreographers.
I don't mind her really but as far as her skating ability went, she was carried around most of the time by her partner.
Jason hit the nail on the head with his comments. She was very graceful but when you look at the others, they can skate a lot more on their own than she could.
Glad the judges made the sensible decision to save Keith, who has far more potential but whose save-me skate wasn't as good IMO. Anthea was fairly gracious in recognising that she wasn't going to improve any more and I'm glad we've been spared weeks of the same-old.
I can understand why the public don't like Anthea, but if you want to feel better about her then try watching Linda Barker on Splash for any length of time :eek::eek::mad:
It bothers me far more that nobody seems to want to vote for Keith - in fact I'm going to do a thread about it now...
I was sorry to see Anthea go - though I wouldn't have been happy to see the departure of Keith.
imo the bottom two should have been Joe and Luke.
Yes - Anthea's performances were loaded with elegant lifts, but that came naturally to her - so why didn't T&D say "Great - you're a natural when it comes to elegance so let's concentrate less on lifts and more on solo skating."
I realise that for some reason, unknown to me, Anthea attracts much hatred but imo T&D could have given her a fighting chance by choreographing routines that focused more on skating skills and less on her natural artistic grace.
The skaters are only as good as the choreographers.
She did admit last night that she would've probably struggled if she stayed in much longer as she's not confident skating alone. And she said the same again on This Morning she admitted she was still nervous skating on her own. So obviously that's why they didn't include more solo skating in her routine. Presumably they tried to make the most of the nice lines she produced.
I just wonder what other Reality TV shows she will use
before finally accepting its over.
theres a very good reason why her.Cilla black and a few others vanished off the TV
I found it very telling the comments T&D used about her.Then the passion they showed about Keith.
Glad the judges made the sensible decision to save Keith, who has far more potential but whose save-me skate wasn't as good IMO. Anthea was fairly gracious in recognising that she wasn't going to improve any more and I'm glad we've been spared weeks of the same-old.
I can understand why the public don't like Anthea, but if you want to feel better about her then try watching Linda Barker on Splash for any length of time :eek::eek::mad:
It bothers me far more that nobody seems to want to vote for Keith - in fact I'm going to do a thread about it now...
Lets hope that is the end of her. Get ready celebrity mag readers for another marriage break up/get back together series for the awful woman to earn a quick buck instead of real work.
Lets hope that is the end of her. Get ready celebrity mag readers for another marriage break up/get back together series for the awful woman to earn a quick buck instead of real work.
I agree.
Can never understand why these producers seem to think Anthea is a good choice.
She is not a popular person, which shouldn't really matter but of course people don't vote for those they don't like. She spent too much time off the ice with the lifts, which is what made the difference in the skate off.
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This pretty much sums it up for me.
She is still shaky on the ice and yet that will improve with practice. What is clear imho - is that she has more grace and performance ability than anyone else on the ice. Go Anthea!
I don't know why she is hated either. She seems nice enough.
imo the bottom two should have been Joe and Luke.
Yes - Anthea's performances were loaded with elegant lifts, but that came naturally to her - so why didn't T&D say "Great - you're a natural when it comes to elegance so let's concentrate less on lifts and more on solo skating."
I realise that for some reason, unknown to me, Anthea attracts much hatred but imo T&D could have given her a fighting chance by choreographing routines that focused more on skating skills and less on her natural artistic grace.
The skaters are only as good as the choreographers.
Jason hit the nail on the head with his comments. She was very graceful but when you look at the others, they can skate a lot more on their own than she could.
I can understand why the public don't like Anthea, but if you want to feel better about her then try watching Linda Barker on Splash for any length of time :eek::eek::mad:
It bothers me far more that nobody seems to want to vote for Keith - in fact I'm going to do a thread about it now...
She did admit last night that she would've probably struggled if she stayed in much longer as she's not confident skating alone. And she said the same again on This Morning she admitted she was still nervous skating on her own. So obviously that's why they didn't include more solo skating in her routine. Presumably they tried to make the most of the nice lines she produced.
before finally accepting its over.
theres a very good reason why her.Cilla black and a few others vanished off the TV
I found it very telling the comments T&D used about her.Then the passion they showed about Keith.
Why???
I agree.
Can never understand why these producers seem to think Anthea is a good choice.
Has she done IAC yet?