Originally Posted by -Sid-:
“Jan Ravens has cropped up a lot. How did she offend so many people, just out of interest!?
She seemed pretty harmless to me....”
For me there are three things that make her the only contestant I truely hated at the time (apart from Lisa Snowdon because she put Austin out and Christine because she put Jodie out and people were talking about her like butter wouldn't melt in her mouth and saying she deserved to win when she the only nice person in the competition when she got a tad snitty about not that bad qs judges comments - but I'll accept that in their cases that was me being petty and they are both nice ladies who contributed to the competition - they also did some good dances and I'll forgive a lot for that).
she was rubbish but then so are a lot of other people. The public voted her in despite the fact she was rubbish ergo we lost someone with potential whom could have given us some really good latin dancers and it wasn't fair but then again you can say that about a lot of people too.
What really clinches it was her attitude - I really really hate people who get precious when critised on Strictly - yes Julian answered the judges back but he was funny about it and he acknowledged off screen that he wasn't the best dancer - Jan's comments just reeked of bitterness. People accuse Matt DA acting his shoe size and not his age but Jan's outburst at Craig both when he answered the question as to whom should go that week with her name I thought quite reasonably and especially when she was voted off where the most immature behaviour I've ever seen anyone on Strictly display and she doesn't even have the excuse of being too young to know any better on her side. For those whom didn't witness it she yelled "I hope you're happy" at Craig when evicted in the manner of a stroppy teenager. I felt embrassed for him and to cap it all when he tried to be consoling in the bar afterwards she told him where to go and her husband shoved him. Only Carol Voderham (whom I didn't know about because I didn't really start watching Strictly until series three) has ever displayed such a vindictive and self-entitled attitude towards a judge and it's appalling IMO.
Dom Littlewood behaved very badly too but I missed the groping on the night and at least most of his appalling comments were behind the scenes or on ITT which I wasn't watching religiously until series six. His bitching about his marks on Paso night probably cost him the public vote so there's a sense of justice there. However some of his dances were quite entertaining so for me Jan is a worst contestant.
Gary Rhodes had a really bad attitude too - he wasn't prepared to put the hours in and then was surprised when he was rubbish. It was hilarious too how he went on about being a perfectionist and then was embrassingly bad.