Isn't it all just in the editing? Ola was charmless and humorless last year and this year seems like a changed person. Mind you - I think it is easier to come across more fun when your celeb isn't the best as there isn't much pressure to come out on top. I loved Nat's relationship in the aussie dwts with Ian Roberts even though he was the WORST dancer...ever. Found this
transcript from him about Natalie:
"For the first 6 months of this year I was involved in the show 'Dancing with the Stars' on Channel Seven, I can't tell you, it was quite possibly the best time of my life.
I mean the whole run of the show, and my partner Natalie Lowe who is actually an angel without wings, she has more patience then any other doctor I know but we were together basically everyday for 16 weeks I mean everyday rehearsing from up to four hours to times 12 hours because I was so terrible.
You could take it as seriously as you wanted, but at the end of the day the most gratifying thing for me and that whole process of that show was that we weren't kept in for any other reason than the audience where kind of saying 'oh god he's friggin terrible that bloke, isn't he, but he has a go and he always looks like he's enjoying himself'. I can honestly say that I did because I don't think there was a time I didn't burst out like laughing through the routine or if I missed a step it was funny to me because I was just like 'Nat I'm so sorry, I can't get this bloody thing right'.
We kept getting voted back in and it was almost like it got to a point where it was like for me personally it was like well you know it's almost like the general public were saying 'yeah mate, ok I'm not real happy on the way you choose to live your life', if they where saying that at all, 'but you know mate your giving it a go and I give you that you seem to be enjoying yourself'. Personally it was like the greatest reward, I mean to get right there to the final and then not just sell out to one of those stereotypes for cheap laughs."