Paul did look much better than I though he would too, I was expecting a bit of a Richard Dunwoody TBH!

I think it was just a bad still shot they chose there of Felicity, we have all experienced shocking photos of ourselves haven't we? And anyone who has paused sky+ or a DVD knows you get some crazy looking shots at times

Poor Ann though, that report really rips into her for placing a once in a lifetime religious event over a dance competition.

Agree. Those hands are definitely in Waltz pose.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode...rum_V_Special/

That was the first time I have seen much of Gavin. I thought it was a good interview, and it showed him to be a likeable person, but a confused person. He also seems to have a slightly unrealistic view of things and hanging a lot on his vision of how things will be. At least he has a positive outlook.

You cant make everything happen that you want, but you generally have to make the effort and that way you get more of them to happen. Better to believe you can shape your destiny than to hope destiny will favour you.

He's obviously not happy, so I hope he finds his way back to being happy and the rest will follow.

Anton talks about Ann's waltz ability in an article in the Telegraph today (it's on Greytops, he was teaching a journalist to dance), so that's their first dance confirmed

Tina has tweeted Jared this morning to say her legs are really hurting from 'jumping up and down' that doesnt sound like a waltz step !!

It doesnt sound like a cha-cha step either.

Felicity must be a dead cert for Waltz now.

Quickstep pendulum?
Jive?

Both dances would suit Tina I'd have thought.

Definitely not a waltz or cha cha (or at least it shouldn't be). .

May be a waltz, Jim, but not as we know it.................

Yes - that article reads as her first dance being a Ballroom one

it was a silly idea her loosing a weeks training, they didnt do it with jade, plus she knows the basic steps to a samba, not a waltz, or a cha cha cha, anyway samba has allway been a week 5 or 6 dance. except from series 5 where it was week 4

But it has to be! Unless they already know their dances for week 2 (which would make sense), and they've got quickstep or jive then....

Yes, I tend to agree, but Tina's tweet doesn't make sense. As StrictlyRed says, a waltz (or cha cha) but not as we know it!

i really do hope it's their week 2 dance and not waltz/cha cha.....bouncing in the cha cha might fit in a very strange way, but if Jared makes her do some kind of bouncing in a waltz, he's blotted his copybook forever in my eyes!

Kara on Twitter on the 14th (I just found this):

So we're agreed - Kara's doing a Quick WaJiCha?

It's Tina and Jared doing the bouncing though, not Kara

It's a foursome lol

I hope Felicity does well, and Paul Daniels could turn out to be a surprise package especially with Debbie's help.

It could potentially be that Jared has been showing Tina the basic principles of lots of the dances as a base before he focuses on her first week dance in detail, so it doesn't come as such a shock to the system if and when they arrive.

True - as in bounce for the Jive, flexed knees for Latin in general etc?

I think the bouncing was the warm up that Jared has been given Tina, jumping up and down throughout a song.

Hopefully this above. Jumping in a waltz? Equally jumping in a Cha Cha. I don't want to cast nasturtiums re him being a Yank, but if he does then I (as said by the stunning Sid) will have no truck with him. I'm not supporting her now, and I won't let that get in the way but I'm not keen on his dancing - just weak I think. I hope he matures. Quickly

Or it could be that he just likes watching her bounce up and down.

He has already said that she is going to be a very good dancer, so I think she will be a contender.

Holy slashed-shirts! Shocker of my Monday morning is that Paul actually looks OK - certainly no worse than Andrew Castle or Kenny Logan.

And we all know how far Ola managed to get them in the competition!