I have only just watched that video and I couldn't agree with you more. She actually said "am I seducing you" to him. What a self opinionated person she is coming across as.

From an ex dance teacher's point of view (picky, picky) I reckon Jimi, Pamela and Patsy have what it takes. They are all very 'centered' and move well. Jimi can do Latin naturally and it's a hard thing to teach so he's way ahead of the others.

Haven't seen Feliciity's video yet. I hope she manages to control her very odd mouth 'tics'. I expect her to be 'ballroom' rather than Latin, and reasonably good.

Matt, Peter and Gavin look exactly as I would expect them to - long way to go boys

I haven't watched Paul's or Peter's because I can't bring myself to do it, and I know what Ann will be like already

This could be fun

A good match in that case, because 'Brendah' just adores himself too.

The Clash of the Egos - hurrahhh!

Peter's isn't up yet. You should watch Paul and Ann's just for amusement factor. Paul's was only first training session though, but he doesn't look entirely hopeless! And hopefully Ola can pull another great Foxtrot out of the bag for week 2 and he might surprise

And as for Ann's, there are no words - she seems to be the boss!

From the ones I've seen they all look decent enough, Jimi looks very good as does Pamela, Scott and Patsy. I think Goldie maybe the dark horse too. Oh and there's Ann , well I just love her anyway

Oh, do I HAVE to? Nooooooo! Don't make me I can't watch Paul:I find him utterly repulsive. Poor Ola!

I confess I did see a bit of Ann's and I thought she was very funny They are having a giggle and neither she nor Anton thinks they have a cat in hell's chance so I think they will just have fun for as long as it lasts

Thanks for head's up about Peter

Well I only watched it for Ola really, don't particularly like Paul myself and Ola's one of my favourite pros! She seems to be having fun anyway, although she's not letting Paul boss her about like Anton's letting Ann!

It's fairly clear that she doesn't actually think she's seducing him. She's cracking up at how stupid she looks and joking about it.

I've said before, her dynamic with Brendan reminds me a little bit of Kelly Brook's. She's not particularly impressed or awed of him, probably because she's spent most of her adult life around and working with dancers of his standard. Or better. It just remains to be seen if she'll knuckle down and dance as beautifully as Kelly did. Can't imagine she'll ever be popular though.

I know, it's getting so close now i am bursting with excitement

I took it the same as Monkseal in that she is cracking up at herself as she looks stupid.

We all see things differently

I don't understand how people think Michelle is up herself and full of herself. Could you not tell that she was joking when she said "am i seducing you" - she was not being serious. She is very eccentric and silly, which is good! If everyone had the same characters the show would be rubbish.

My first post in this thread is especially in reference to the above!

I knew she was joking, I just didn't find her funny at all, I thought she just came across as rather silly and quite annoying (and i thought that from the launch show too). We'll have to see how she dances this weekend...

Plus she was throwing out all those dancing terms which she must have picked up from her time on Chicago. Its impossible to come to any conclusion about her dancing ability from that clip although Brendan seems to enjoy her banter. She may appeal to an American audience, not so sure how she will go down with the UK viewers.

Yes, she's clearly joking when she asks if she's seducing Brendan. And I could be wrong here, but I'm pretty sure the dance terms she's using have been picked up from him- back basics and lock steps are pretty specific to Ballroom/ Latin dances, she wouldn't have learnt those terms doing jazz.

I appreciate that I am in a minority when mentioning her banter with Brendan. I do think though she will get on his nerves if she doesn't buckle down to work and backchats him all the time. You can't joke for ever, and I wonder how her "personality" will come across to some of the viewers.

It must be almost time for Mystic Lorelei to polish up that crystal ball and start making predictions!

Of the videos I've watched, my money would be on Jimi and Flavia for top scores, although I did think Jimi looked a little heavy in a few of his movements. Still, plenty of time to iron that out before the live shows.

My dark horse is Goldie, who looks like he'd have a bit of potential if he'd stop mugging for the cameras. And I'm delighted that Paul might actually not be hopeless - less because I like him (I really don't) than because it's always nice to be confounded in these things.

If I were going for a shock result I'd say Michelle out first week, but I rather like her so far.

Biggest surprise is that Anton looked like he was actually having quite a good time with Ann

Are we ever going to see Artem and his partner - what was her name again......Kara? Tara?



*hot foots it across to the Beeb in case it's been put on there since I last checked*

It's probably not up yet because Kara is not allowed to start training until Friday morning due to her having once watched someone waltz 10 years ago

Bwahahaha.

Thing is, she was absoutely bang on when she said she looked like a chicken in her dance with Ramps. Artem has very clearly got a lot of work to do with her!

I may well go and sit in protest outside the Beeb, Or kidnap Artem at the very least....

Just watched Felicity's training vid, and as much as I wanted her to be really good, I'm a bit worried.....don't know when the footage was from though. Plus she's doing cha cha first week...

Just watched Felicity too, she doesn't seem to be enjoying it much. The thing that we don't know (or maybe I've missed it ) are when the vids were recorded - were they all recorded in the first few days then released one by one or is that actually Felicity with a few days to go, in which case I'd be very worried

The others all seem to have some degree of natural flair Matt definitely looked like he will be pretty good. Goldie looked hard work I thought he seemed hyper! Ann & Anton - well, the height difference between them is so huge, how will they do the tango etc when they do those sharp head turns to face each other she will just be staring into his midriff, and he into the middle distance

Felicity says in the video 'it all seemed so easy on the first day', which makes me think this is at the earliest the end of their first week of training, so it could still have been from over a week ago.

The vids seem to have been recorded at random times - Michelle & Brendan's and Matt & Aliona's were 2 of the first shown and they were footage from day 1, but Pamela & James' vid was also their first day of training and it was only shown at the end of last week! Whereas Jimi & Flavia's was shown at the same time and it was from quite a few days into their training....

So far, I'd say

Looking Good
Felicity & Vincent
Pamela & James
Jimmi & Flavia
Michelle & Brendan
Scott & Natalie

Looking Okay
Patsy & James
Gavin & Katya
Goldie & Kristina
Paul & Ola

Looking Not So Okay
Ann & Anton

I'd Kara & Tina to be in the Looking Good group.

Also just seen it. Declaring an interest, Felicity is my preferred winner. It looked a bit of a struggle but I think that as a long standing professional thespian she is concerned to get it right and worried if she doesn't, so is more self-critical than some. I think her best Latin dance would be the rumba, if she gets the chance to do it.

Can't be sure how good she is from the clip but I think she can definitely dance and with LOL (and votes) from her many fans will probably last a long time in the competition anyway.

I think a lot of people are supporting her! We have an appreciation thread for her and she is getting lots of nice comments!