Sorry if this is already mentioned, just watched the SCD launch show again and I noticed towards the end of the celeb and pro group dance, they all ended up with the right partner. How can that be? Did they already know during the group dance who they are partnering with, and it's not strictly (pardon the pun) revealed on the launch show???

I noticed that too. I doubt they knew that was the person they would end up with. It was a bit like celeb pass the parcel wasn't it.

Maybe the person/people who put the dance together knew who the celebs would be partnered with...

I honestly admire peoples obsevations . I hardly could see who was who , well Yes the obvious ones did stick out and Nathalie coulnt really be missed from as far away as the Himalayas ,But the rest swam into one mush on the floor .I must go see that again and see if I can spot that now .

Or perhaps they were just told at the end of the dance to team up with their partner (they knew by that point). They probably rehearsed it randomly.

Because it's phoney? (Don't tell him, he probably still thinks it's a dance contest)

Paul spoke Polish to Ola, so they may have known their partners in advance.

The other way to do it is to shuffle the pros at the start of the dance so they end up with the right partner.

That cannot be. Remember the celebs are doing this for the first time. There will be chaos if there are last minute changes to the choreography, maybe stempede on those poor souls with absolutely no clues like Ann and Gavin.

The bit where they were paired up in their partnerships probably wasn't that difficult to choreograph. They all did the same move - walk along with the partner and then both do a lean back with the music. If all the girls knew the order they were walking down, then all the guys had to do was walk with their correct girl. The final position also wasn't too difficult. As long as the celebs were told where to position themselves on the dance floor all the professional partners had to do was follow them and improvise. Also as the show wasn't live, they could definitely have practised the routine once or twice with the correct ending.

invisipost.

Don't get you. Who's 'him'? Me?

Hm interesting, do you think they rehearsed different bits for the end dance? (not that I know how this would work of course)


Me too, as I said in another thread, I didn't even recognise James Jordan so I'm very bad at recognising people.

There was chaos! I bet the pros were told to find their new partners at the end of it, and that's why it looked a bit wild at the end.

I noticed that too OP, thought perhaps it was all arranged beforehand and all the 'partnering off' was simply to make an interesting show. But I am a cynic and it WAS an interesting show.

The celebrities would have rehearsed the endong in the same order (ie Gavin remember you're behind Goldie or whatever). The pros then just have to find their real partner, do four walks forward and a dip.

Simples.

I presume they filmed the reveal, then had a quick run-through of the group dance to make sure everyone ended up together, then filmed it. The celebs were probably always meant to finish where they did, wouldn't be too hard for the pro dancers to figure out how to end in a different place!

It's easy to forget, this is really just a "show."
I can't accept that most of it isn't pre-planned and a lot of it rehearsed.

"You can't beat a bit of carefully rehearsed spontaneity."

Remember all the nonsense with the first Sunday results programme? The BBC didn't actually say it wasn't pre-recorded, but they let viewers believe that it was live with the all the "Last night we saw..." nonsense comments from the hosts.

Same as choices of music. They say it's the dancers' choices, but given some appalling choices in the past, leads me to believe it's usually "Hobson's choice."

And surely we have had that approach many many times previously from all broadcasters - the ones that spring easily to my mind are the "Christmas Night with the Stars" types of programmes shown on Christmas Day/Boxing day (as if the starts would really be in a TV studio on those times).

Let's not forget that TV, generally, is all about creating an illusion in your lounge

A couple of the pros made me believe they really didn't know who they were getting- eg Erin looked hopeful when Scott and Matt came on, less so when Peter came on.

Otherwise I'd have assumed they knew beforehand, whatever the producers wanted us to believe.

Well they all started with different partners and danced with various ones throughout, is it not more likely that they rehearsed it the way they performed it on the night and the producers didn't tell them that their final partner was their real partner? Although I guess you could argue that they might have guessed, but I didn't predict that the dance would end that way before I saw it - did anyone else?

Okay, I agree now that the pros may be the ones told to find their partners in the end, not the other way round. Well, I am easily convinced... :grin:

I thought that last bit when they got with their partners was deliberate and - ie the choreographer told them to go and present themselves with their partner at the end.

Oops double post.

I definitely noticed this and did think 'hmmmm '! Of course, lots of production staff etc would need to know the details of final partnerships beforehand but I did think the 'end positions' for that dance must have been a bit of a give-away to any of the pros or celebs with an ounce of savvy.

I don't actually 'mind' but I'm pretty sure some of the 'reveal' info may well have been 'revealed' to those concerned slightly earlier than the actual 'reveal' moment on the night. But, hey, I'm just an old cynic

I noticed that too and Natalie's feigned surprise was very unconvincing. I reckon they have known (or in some cases been prepared!) for a while.