Originally Posted by
Ignazio:
“I rarely start threads - but her comments tonight incensed me
Surely it's an unwritten rule that each week, every contestant starts with a clean slate. Never can I recall any judge harking back to the results of a previous week. She then added insult to injury with her patronising and hypocritical "you've been very sweet my love."
Go back to singing my love.
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Originally Posted by missfrankiecat:
“I'm with you OP. Patronising, ignorant and unprofessional.”
Ignazio and Missfrankiecat I agree with you so completely. I was absolutely appalled by Alesha tonight. I rarely comment if I don't like something on here - I usually prefer to focus on the positive - but she really did offend me tonight.
What you say above is absolutely right.
Originally Posted by Cornchips:
“That was my problem with her comment as well. It was clear that all the other three found him dreadful - they didn't actually need to use those words for us to know their opinion. Bruno said what he needed to say with humour - which always helps to take the sting out of it.
Alesha on the other hand was just throwing her toys out becuase Zoe got voted off last week. That wasn't Craig's fault!! She could have found a much better way of saying what she needed to say. But then again "say it as you see it" has never really been my idea of talking truthfully. Its just an excuse by those who lack the vocab to be rude and crass.”
Cornchips, I agree with you too. I am no fan of Craig Kelly - in fact, he made the "red mist" descend with me, and I had to really battle with myself when posting on my own thread (we like to do reports on the dances each week and I had to choose not to say anything about Craig's because I didn't trust myself not to be unfair) - but Alesha, in the position of a judge, should be professional and yet still state the truth, as Len did tonight - it wasn't nice - because Craig was obviously clearly poor (and it has to be said, deluded!) but Len said it in as truthful and as kind a way as he could without kicking someone who was clearly the weakest dancer.
There can be little doubt in the majority of people's minds that Craig WAS the weakest dancer and should have been the one to go - I think few would disagree with that - but to say "because Zoe went last week and I had to endure THAT" is unprofessional, unkind, and crass at best. Even though Craig was dreadful, there is a better way to say it than that.
Alesha then compounded her unprofessionalism by being patronising - I found her "you were very sweet my love" just appalling in view of how actually nasty and unprofessional she had just been - and I really found myself actively disliking her.
I didn't want to - I am very much in the Cutler camp and I loved her partnership with Matt - but since then my opinion of her has increasingly sunk, and now is at rock bottom. I think you are right Cornchips - she WAS rude and crass - and I wish she'd never taken the job.
On a night when Strictly was in such a beautiful place, the home of dance, she tainted it for me with her crassness and I couldn't help wishing for her to have been more sensitive in her comments whilst still speaking the truth. I don't like Craig, as I say, and I think it is right he went - but they all work so hard every week, that whether they are good or not, they do not deserve that kind of put down - which is so completely dismissive of everything they have tried for and I think each celeb deserves some respect for that at least, even if they are poor.
I don't like feeling and speaking in this way - but I really cannot help how I feel about her now.
Poor show Alesha - I thought you'd have been better than that. You actually disgust me and I wish you hadn't come back.