I work in television drama. It is hugely expensive, planned months in advance and run like a military operation. A TV drama production stops for nothing and nobody. An actor could break every single bone in their body and the producers would still make them come to the set and find a way of filming round their full body-cast. Eastenders producers will, rightly, not care about something as trifling as a dance show as re-organising their production schedule around Scott would be massively expensive and disruptive.

I thought the lift was very impressive but the rest of the dance poor. Not heaping blame on him, if he's knackered, he's knackered, and he certainly made no bones about the crpness of his own performance.

I'm no expert at all, but all the faults pointed out on this thread I saw too, and was surprised when the judges didn't seem to mention it and gave a reasonably good score.

I suspect it wasn't quite supposed to be like that, but I don't think it was the complete fiasco some are implying. (If it had been, I'm pretty sure he would have dropped her).

The couple who teach us lifts do this move really really well (in that I've never seen anyone do it better, and that includes several world champs). And his description of it is along the lines of "you have the lady on one shoulder, and you just forget about her and turn to catch he on the other shoulder".

In other words, even done well, when you do this move at speed, there's a moment when there really isn't very much holding the lady. Having said that, it should be a brief moment, and if there's too much of a 'gap' between letting go one side and catching the other, you can have a really nasty accident.

So my guess would be, it didn't feel right, she felt herself losing connection on one shoulder, and had a brief moment of terror before she was safe round the other side. But it wouldn't have been that different if done perfectly.

From the moment Natalie bumped him down in the left hand corner and he stumbled ,he looked like a headless chicken
It looked terrible.

At the end I thought I could see him say. Im sorry Natalie, sorry natalie, etc

Natalies professionalism is to be applauded she really carried Scott through that routine

To suggest the BBC should reschedule his filming is a bit excessive imo. Ricky was filming HO last year throughout I think and many pros throughout the history of the show have actually carried on with their 'day' jobs at the same time. (NB am not a Ricky fan or indeed anti-Scott - just my view)

To be honest I imagine EE directors/producers MUST be seeing the other side of this - he can't be at his best learning/remembering lines and be very tired on set... His commitment to them is the professional one and has to come first. If he can't keep up with Strictly then his performance is the thing that has to suffer and in due course he will be voted off as a result. Its the natural process of what's going on imo.

Ok, many thanks for this info. Must admit, it makes sense. I read in another post back in September that they had already made arrangements for Scott, but perhaps I had misunderstood. PS what happens when actors land up in hospital after a car crash?

He did say something like that.

I hadn't noticed the grab round the neck, i noticed him stumbling around the floor though. I've watched it back and it really was truely awful, how he made any 8's let alone 9's is beyond me. Terrible overmarking.

two 9's for that pile of rubbish. Reminds me of the 8 Len gave Matt Diangelo for mucking up 75% of teh dance in series 5.

This guy is totally overrated and the sooner he's voted off the better. Only Craig had the decency to mark him correctly, the others were just a joke!!!

I think actors always seem to have a high opinion of how hard they work, makes you wonder with some of them what they would do if they had to do a proper job.

I couldnt believe the judges coments . I was expecting them to be awful . Scott went wrong so many times , the look natalie gave him just before they went into the section where she pulled him by the neck said a lot . his hand was like a paddle which normally would get comments . You could see his blank moments clearly and panick too . Way over scored in my opinion . and i am a fan but fairs fair if you mess up you lose marks .

Definitely. If she hadn't sold the dance as well, it would have been even MORE of a car crash.

I do feel sorry for Scott, but it's impossible to get your head around the routine being given two 9s. Hence my sympathy is a tad diminished.

Never mind in true Matt di Angelo style I'm sure Scott will be awarded the coveted 40 next weekend.

I didn't mind the comments, they were kind for someone that is obviously beating himself for all the mistakes he made and that is usually a very good dancer. The comments were fine.
What I mind is the scores, they can't give 9's to someone who has made two clear mistakes, so how can they give 9's when he forgot at least 1/3 of the routine?

Scott & Nats AS was poor but as for favouritism towards him I've always had the impression that Matt was the blue eyed boy.