[Got To Dance] Ashley Banjo Appreciation Thread
Mandark
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Ok, I'll start it off. 
The guy's got a lot going for him.
Can dance (obviously!
), is smart (doing a Physics degree), is good looking and he's a nice guy. I recall all his plaudits for SuBo when she was suffering.
Shows a black guy can be 'street' without being a trouble maker!
The guy's got a lot going for him.
Can dance (obviously!
), is smart (doing a Physics degree), is good looking and he's a nice guy. I recall all his plaudits for SuBo when she was suffering.Shows a black guy can be 'street' without being a trouble maker!
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What's not to love? Athletic, creative, drop dead gorgeous and studying law........perfect.
I think he needs to improve on his articulation/communication skills on TV though. He doesn't seem as good at making a point as the other judges are.
I'm not sure that it's doing it on TV that is the problem. I think he is a naturally quiet guy and also he is in awe of the other two. Not only because of their fame but their success and obvious knowledge. With respect to Ashley he is an amateur compared to these two and I think he is still trying to find his comfort ground where he can talk without thinking am I making myself sound silly and out of my depth.
Thats a good point actually, he has not been well known for very long and probably has a way to go and more confidence to gain.
The footballer Ian Wright, who had far less verbal skills than Ashley, used to be terrible when he first started on Match of the Day but look at him now. He can host his own shows.
I hope he continues to learn, develop and grow from strength to strength.
Such a talented bunch of people.
Good luck to them, I can't wait to see the Streetdance movie coming out later in the year and seeing Diversity and Flawless in that.
Oh dear that sounds bad. lol
Saw the preview on Saturday, it looks pretty good.
Well, I intend going to see it.
Ashley's the main reason I started watching the show. He's beautiful to watch both on and off the stage
I thought Diversity's performance last night was absolutely brilliant, and reminded me why they deserved to win BGT.
Totally agree with all that
Me too
I'm old enough to remember some of the films made to appeal to certain demographics. When BMX was big they decided to make BMX Bandits. When they did dance ones they were rubbish as wel. It's really hard to write a decent story around hobbies.
Erm.. ah, I've got one! He says "I'm not being funny" here - it may be petty but I hate that phrase.
He was only 16 though (doesn't look it at all :eek:) so we can let him off
Things like this really wind me up - I think most of the media are trying to forget Diversity ever existed.
A few months ago Simon was on the news being interviewed, and the man who was introducing the piece said something like "And we find out how he's dealing with Britain's Got Talent winner, Susan Boyle."
Words cannot express how angry I was
So, there's no excuse for not being able to dance like Diversity.:D
I can't stand simon cowell. Susan is the winner to him because she's made him a ton of money. No other reason. He's up for villain of the year at the NME awards
Of course they won, but Susan is the bigger star and celebrity. What he is doing with Susan is no different to what he does with Leona. How he loves going on and on and on about that girl.
Susan is an international star/celebrity. She has had a number one album around the world. What have Diversity done close to her? Yes they won BGT bbut other than that?
They beat her in the final but has the US rushed to get them over on Letterman etc? Nope.
The problem Diversity has is they are boring. TV is influenced by the papers and how much exposure they get. For exaample if the papers weren't priniting katie proce/Jordan stories all the time would she have got on TV as much?
For the newspapers to get interested in Diversity they are going to have to do something interesting and that is likely to be only a couple of things.
1) They split and someone sells a story to the paper.
2) Sex (either underage sex or from a kiss and tell loser )
3) One of them starts dating someone famous
4) Drugs shocker
How quickly did the media lose interest in Paul Potts? A quiet guy that's married, doesn't go out boozing, doesn't turn up at lots of premieres, no scandal. To the media he is a dull person.
On top of all that where can Diversity actually go on TV to keep their profile up?
This show, SCD (dance show) SYTYCD (dance show and assuming Aslhely leaves this) and......? Ant & Dec's Takeway.. I guess. There is a servere lack of openings for variety acts of any sort.
You also have to allow for the fact that unlike singers, they don't have things to plug. Susan releases her next single she can go on shows and sing/mime of Loose Women, GMTV etc. If she doesn't they show the video.
How does that translate to dance acts? Diversity has a new routine lets get them on lots of our shows to show us it. I really can't see it.
Promote a tour then maybe one would get on the sofa and chat, certainly not all of them and highly unlikely they would get asked to perform it.
If Darcy Bussell, Waybe Sleep etc is on This Morning do they say they're going to dance for uslater like they do with singers? Nope they just sit on the sofa and show an old clip.
It will be interesting to see what happens over the next few weeks if Matthew Koon does win. He may get invited on GMTV, Loose Women etc. Will they ask him to dance/perform like they would a singer or would they just sit down and talk to him and rely on a clip from this show?
I think it will be the latter.
I'm sure his opinion will be sought on any spectacular street dance groups that might turn up on BGT. Although it seems to me those groups have targeted this show as many are already champions.
If they cou;d do something like Fame or Flashdance it would be good. But I mostly agree, BMX Bandits and Gleaming the Cube (skateboarding) were crap.
Tally!
Why did you have to remind me of Gleaming the Cube? Couldn't you just shove a cactus up my bum it's less painful.
If he relaxes in front of the camera possibly. But, where does that leave Diversity?
The more TV work as well as TV and personal appearances he makes the more distractions from the group. Eventually he wiil walk away and the group could fold unless they have another person to replace him with his originality.