You'd be rugby tackling her to the floor every five minutes, would you???

She'd never get any dancing done!! Oh how funny.

This couldn't shock me less

No, I will dance rhumba with her - HORIZONTALLY. I am totally without shame...

I agree with OP. I think the poor s0d has been asked to go along with the showmance fiction and is reluctantly doing so.

You love her, you love her.....

Well let's stop wasting time talking about it and go and break them up! We can share the spoils - you have her, I'll have him and we'll all have a happy, satisfying Christmas

Oi!!! What about the dancing?

Oh right! I knew I forgot something We'll wait til Kartem have done all their dances. Actually, they might be doing the tour too so we'll have to wait til March and then have ourselves a satisfying Easter. All that chocolate around at that time of year, I'll have to figure out how to put it to good use with Artem

Nah, Kara will remain the ungettable get. I may fantasize, but I am realistic too, WAY out of her league!

So you're resigning yourself to observing her? Observing her, eh? Eh?

Personally I'm far too obsessed with their dancing to bother too much about what they get up to off camera. So I like Artem's philosophy of work first, smoochin' after.

Oh bless you! She doesn't know what she's missing!

I'll be quite happy to watch them win this year. That'll be enough for me.

After that you're free to smother him with chocolate and do as you will with him.

I never said that - that came from your mind, you little minx *whistles nonchalantly*

And don't jinx them!! Now you have to unjinx them - do something quick lady!

Artem is Russian and as deep as the Caspian and totally inscrutable. He shows very little emotion, I guess he channels it through his dancing

He could be boinking her on the training room floor and the camera crew would have no idea! (Hope Kara notices )

I do think they have a lot of chemistry and whether their romance is real, I don't know, none of my business really, even though it doesn't stop me discussing it.

I guess the magazines, papers, photos would be good for both their careers if I'm being cynical, but I also wouldn't be that shocked if they really care about each other.

He doesn't set me gaydar pinging though.

Right. If they actually get the win, I shall be so surprised I will fall over backwards frothing at the mouth.

I think the cards are stacked against them, and all I can do is vote 'til me little fingers bleed to try and help them get what they so richly deserve.

Is that good enough??

Well it depressed me so yes, that seems to have done the unjinxing trick. Phew but aw

What she said!

Observing her? That's a nice way to put it. I sometimes mentally stalk her. Yikes! I think I REALLY need a therapist (NOT Pam!)!


Well, she'll miss me, that's for sure...

I remembered an old English song sung by Gwyneth Paltrow (and Ewan McGregor) in Emma, when Ewan's character (Frank Churchill) started to show off and sang mid-song as Gwyneth's Emma was playing and singing on the pianoforte:

Not going to write the lyrics, but here's the youtube clip Emma and Frank's duet.

The song completely expresses my feelings for Kara, except she's not blond as in the song.

While my radar is ultra-reliable, I have a flatlined gaydar. It has to be prodded in the eye for me to observe the glaringly obvious to everyone else.

I don't think that fake romances are good for someones career, well unless they've got nothing else going for them. These two aren't some famous for being famous no marks, they don't need OK magazine to make a living.

Also I can't see Kara and her family participating in some giant conspiracy, but hey we could all be wrong, and they could hate each other. Whatever, so long as they manage to get on well enough until the final then that's all that matters to me.

I am not sure about that. OK and Hello! pay handsomely for 'exclusive' pics of couples, and even Prince William is NOT spared in this respect (not that he's paid, mind!).

I have an overactive gaydar, my husband is regularly shocked dumb by whom my latest claim of sparkliness is!

Still convinced that Dec, Robbie Williams (don't care if he's married) and Simon Cowell so are.

I know how much they pay, and you're right it can be a lot especially attractive if you don't have another potentially high earning talent. I just don't think that that is Kara and Artems motivation, that's all.

I think it depends on how much of a career you have away from the publicity. If you are relatively successful you don't need it, if you're not getting much work and you're out of the public eye, you sure do.

In that respect, I think Kara needs it more than Artem who I'm sure will be invited back next year!

I don't think it's their motivation too, but if OK or Hello is going to help them sort out their Christmas Expenses, will they give it a miss? I doubt...