Originally Posted by jtnorth:
“To be fair, I think that in the quotes Ricky is only saying that the voters love an underdog. He doesn't mention Tuffers either. It's the paper that is saying he's complaining about not being popular. He doesn't say he isn't popular. He's saying the audience generally seem to prefer someone who learns through the show, which is a fair comment, though it isn't true that if you trip up you are more likely to win - that's a bit disrespectful to the people who have won. I didn't see series one and I'd say Darren was a journey, Mark R maybe, but Alesha, Jill and Tom definitely weren't.
The complaining about his long hours though, is him, and he's made that point enough. Tess will have to stop saying he doesnt' want sympathy about it now.
ETA: wow, just read the blog. Presumably Natalie has told him he's the only one since he obviously doesn't know what samba rolls are. She's doing him no favours if she is telling him stuff like that. Wow.”
And in the blog he does mention Tuffers, and it may just be badly written and ill thought out, but you could read a hell of a lot into what he says
Quote:
“ Everyone has voted us through this far so i guess its only right i do my part and dont let them down,so bring on the pain,i wont let excuses get in the way. Big Phil had an opperation and danced that week,we all have problems so lets just get on with it,i didnt use it as an excuse”
Very easy to read that as 'Phil used his op as an excuse, I, being wonderful, didn't.
May not be how he meant it, but very easy to read it that way.
