I don't know anything about ballroom or latin either. But I love the rhumba because I did ballet as a child and as an adult, I've been doing lyrical jazz.

Seems like the rhumba uses quite a lot of the technical moves that cross over with oher dance forms. Things like controlled developes, attitude turns etc. which people don't seem to do in the other dances.

Couple of comments:

As it was Wednesday's training footage, I thoight Tina's Rumba looked excellent. Two more days working on that and she would have certainly given Pamela a run for her money.

As for Paul Daniels, well - he was spot on. I don't particularly like him, and shan't miss him. But he was quite right to say to Mrs J that he didn't want it raunchy. A 70 year old bloke doing raunch with someone like Ola is stupid, and would look stupid. He went up loads in my estimation for saying that.

Can anyone think of any male celebs in SCD that have expressed enjoyment of doing the rumba?

Chris Hollins is the only person who I remember saying how much he was looking forward to dancing it and then wanting to repeat it if he got to the final.

Good point, and one that's seldom observed.

The rumba seems to open the door for a lot of stuff that imo just isn't very interesting. Occasionally, one of the couples does something good with it, but the "success rate" is so low that I never look forward to the rumbas.