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Sick of the sob stories
Tejas
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Seeing as negativity in the thread about Simon's latest appearance in the press is frowned upon, I will say this here... I am sick and tired of him wheeling out sob stories after appearing in the dance off!
After beating Thom by the skin of his teeth he suddenly decided to tell the press about his battles with 'chronic depression', and now after beating Pixie in another 2/2 vote, he is apparently upset because he fears a public backlash. I see he also managed to get in that the Head Judge wanted him to stay and that now he can't let Len down. Sure there have been some nasty comments, but no more than others have had during the series - and he has had lots of support as well.
For whatever reason Simon isn't getting that many votes but I wish he would stop his 'poor me' routine as I would respect him a lot more then. Sunetra did 3 dance-offs as well and she took it all on the chin, because its part of the show and she accepted that. At the end of the day, he has twice scraped through a very close dance-off, giving him another chance to enjoy the Strictly experience and try to win over a few more fans - something that Thom and Pixie didn't get. Its a shame if people blame him, totally unfairly, for their exits, but I wish he would let his dancing do the talking. Personally I hate this X Factor style thing of telling the world about all your personal woes to try and get more votes and think it adds a rather unpleasant tone to what should be a feel-good, family show and not one where people feel sorry for a contestant because they've had some bad luck in life. I also hated his previous comments that Strictly had given him a reason to get out of bed, which I thought was rather disrespectful to his daughter and the fans who paid to see him on tour with Blue.
Don't expect many to agree with any of this but its my opinion and I stand by it!
After beating Thom by the skin of his teeth he suddenly decided to tell the press about his battles with 'chronic depression', and now after beating Pixie in another 2/2 vote, he is apparently upset because he fears a public backlash. I see he also managed to get in that the Head Judge wanted him to stay and that now he can't let Len down. Sure there have been some nasty comments, but no more than others have had during the series - and he has had lots of support as well.
For whatever reason Simon isn't getting that many votes but I wish he would stop his 'poor me' routine as I would respect him a lot more then. Sunetra did 3 dance-offs as well and she took it all on the chin, because its part of the show and she accepted that. At the end of the day, he has twice scraped through a very close dance-off, giving him another chance to enjoy the Strictly experience and try to win over a few more fans - something that Thom and Pixie didn't get. Its a shame if people blame him, totally unfairly, for their exits, but I wish he would let his dancing do the talking. Personally I hate this X Factor style thing of telling the world about all your personal woes to try and get more votes and think it adds a rather unpleasant tone to what should be a feel-good, family show and not one where people feel sorry for a contestant because they've had some bad luck in life. I also hated his previous comments that Strictly had given him a reason to get out of bed, which I thought was rather disrespectful to his daughter and the fans who paid to see him on tour with Blue.
Don't expect many to agree with any of this but its my opinion and I stand by it!
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Actually I like all of them and don't want anyone to go.
So shoot me now.
and it says : best male in the competition.
(but shouldn't have stayed in over pixie)
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/07/06/most-irritating-hand-gestures_n_1653271.html
<<<<<<BANG!>>>>>>>
I like them all too
Lol, I feel like tweeting the article to him.
Ouch..........that hurt.
Let's face it; he's ghastly.
'Ghastly'? Why?? That's not a nice phrase to use about anybody. Are you referring to him as a person or his dancing? In either case the phrase is not called for
He's far from being ghastly.
Gestural language is hardwired from birth as part of our linguistic brain!!! Deaf children who are diagnosed early and taught to sign can tell their parents 'milk' (for example) at an age when hearing infants (who don't sign) are still screaming themselves (and us) silly
But the backlash should be intensely focused on mad man Len, and hungry for guns Darcy. How will they ever learn if they're not punished for their mistakes?
Lovely as he was, John Sergeant couldn't dance especially well. Simon is (to my mind) the best male dancer in the competition. (I'd go further but stopping here is more consensual.) Why should Simon, and not, say, Jake or Caroline, walk? Not everyone would agree that Pixie was best in any case. She might have been most perfect but (again, personal opinion) perfection isn't the most essential element in dance...
Also, why would Simon walk, after 12 weeks of hard work?! It's a preposterous suggestion.
I doubt he "decided" to tell the media anything at all. Once you're a Strictly contestant, you're more or less obliged to do lots of press in order to promote the show, and if the journalist asked a direct question about his past/background/childhood etc then whatever answer he gives will be suitably sensationalised by the paper or website in question.
The trick is to avoid those papers and articles. It's quite easy if you want to.
Love him even more now bless him
I haven't encountered anything like that from the other contestants, though. And to be honest, if he wanted to keep stuff like that private, he would have done. But had he done that, maybe he'd have got even less votes and been eliminated weeks ago... who knows?
Ghastly is going too far though, granted.
Did you notice the long-running Ola is a bully story? Utterly groundless, as it turns out. Tabloid journalists are vermin... no offence to vermin
BIB: You clearly don't understand depression. Most people with depression have people who love them dearly and that they love dearly. Depression is not that simple.
Something like dancing on Strictly releases lots of "feel-good" hormones that will act as natural anti-depressants. If Simon has said he has depression (I am completely unaware of this "sob-story" for him, so it's not reaching as many people as you seem to think) then I hope he is getting support not only for after the show ends but also to help cope with some of the nasty stuff that is being said about him on the internet, which according to a thread on here, includes racism (something, I think, other contestants haven't had to contend with).
Objectively, I think this is a ridiculous adjective. I'd like to see you justify it.
Sob story of chronic ailment, and I am NOT putting down anyone's problems be they anything from depression to childhood issues.
Wheeling out aged relatives.
Wheeling out cute children, their own or others belonging to relatives/friends, I sometimes feel this closeness to non immediate family is rather convenient to gain sympathy or popularity.
Close friendship with other celebrities
I'm not saying these things are not real or that they are not important to the competitor, but I don't want it splashed over my tv screen every Saturday night.
I can never get away from thinking it takes away from what is in name a dance competition.
Quite.
Isn't all this supposed to be fun and escapism at the end of the day? I can look back fondly to the earlier series, before the rot set in a few years ago and the show started disappearing up its own posterior, and trying to copy Cowell.
All very true. But should we blame the celebs or the producers? My suspicion would be the celebs have as little control over those VT segments as they have over the "I went to a funfair and it has really helped my Viennese waltz" type ones.
Blame the producers. It is they who look for ways to use anything which might cast the celeb in a good light (especially when they are not getting votes). They have the power. Don't ever assume those who take part have much say on this. Ditto the vile, stupid videos - and the music and some the choreography.