Some people have such giant reserves!
Thinking positively , I guess its a therapy thing to get it out here where it doesn't matter so much and then maybe the family won't get it!


Aliona is lovely lovely lovely!
So cute, I love her devilish laugh.

I love her Choreography - why should dances always be the same and safe? Love, love, loved their American Smooth. I was furious at the judges' reactions. (I get a bit emotional as you can tell.)

I'm with you Moonbeam - their AS is one of my favourite dances of the season - I am not saying it did not have rough edges but the performance wowed me if not the judges.

I wish they had reprised it in some form in the final.

The fiasco when Scot forgot his routine and was higher marked than Matt's AS.

It's old ground now but it was no so much the Salsa scores as the manner of the judges that infuriated me.

I'm still seething over that.

Aliona is not stupid or arrogant. Why do some people have to be nasty?

I understand when people call Brendan arrogant, because he is. His backchat to the judges is always annoying anyway and is the reason some people don't like his attitude. Plus, she doesn't smirk. She smiles. There is a difference.

On the judges scoring, there has been some shockers. Like the time Gav scored higher than Scott because Craig was being ridiculous, or when Scott forgot his routine and scored higher than Matt.

Aliona is great. I am glad she was asked back this year and even more glad that she got a good celeb partner. I felt the judges were unprofessional in what they said to her, publicly, last year, when Rav didn't have a lot of ability for her to work with and she did her best. She was quite upset by that, I remember her talking about it on ITT. Well done Aliona, hope you're back next year and that you get at least a half decent celeb (not like poor Kristina who might well have had enough of SCD by now).