Could be worse, you didn't see the Robin and Anita abortion I assume?

Robin, amazingly, looks worse at the AT than he did last year. He's bouncing up and down, his hands are all over the place and he's looking down at his feet All The Time. Argh. And this is supposed to be the professional.

Harry, in fact, looked better than Robin.

I've been warming to him for a week or so, myself. You know what helps with that? Not looking at him when he speaks in interviews. Weirdly.

Yes, but he gets all the transfers in the right place. He has had a special little ruler made to prove it and all the other dads say it's the best airfix model evvahhh in the history of airfix model making.

I just wish he would wear a top that has sleeves to train in. Especially when he has to lift his arms overhead.

Also, not whining in a totally reasonable and understanding way would help.

His dances look like he learned them from a set of instructions badly translated from Japanese . I am sure he got the instructions number 6a wrong , it surely didnt say " grin manically at the audience in the middle of your Rumba "

He's taking tips from.....tuffers?

Although with tuffers I thought it was kinda cute, Grayson was kinda creepy.
But I object to anyone singling out Grayson as a bad rumba example while praising that stupid hobbit rumba. You know who you are!

I kind of want to, but I can't find any redeeming features. Then I see his armpit hair and get over it, it's a metaphor for his dancing - ugly, unnecessary and probably covered in sweat!

At least it gave Sofakat the chance to rob the mine.

I can see Jason at home with a pile of cardboard cut feet putting them in position and practicing walking over them again and again and again ....

Three obvious ones:[LIST][*]He works hard at learning to dance.[*]He clearly works hard at trying to understand the dance.[*]He gets on very well with Kristina.[/LIST]

He works hard at learning the dance - he's boring
He clearly works hard at trying to understand the dance - he's boring
He gets on well with Kristina - she's really asleep, he's boring

I think that covers it!

I have the strangest itch to start a thread called "Brendan will shine without Lolu". I can't imagine what brought that on.

They do a cream to help with that.

Just as long as it's not Love Panther!

Personally I quite enjoyed the whole "All the male pros say it's the best male rumba ever!" thing. Ah yes, that most competitive field of Strictly dances, the male celebrity rumba. There have been so many good ones over the years. Like... er... well... Apparently Colin Jackson was good back in series 2? I think Matt DiAngelo was ok. Seriously, if Chris Hollins' week 1/2 rumba is your target, I think we need to agree that saying a male celeb rumba was better than most of the previous ones is not particularly high praise.

I will say that the routine looked like a nice one choreographically and I do agree with Kristina that rumba doesn't have to be about sex, it can be about love and romance. Of course if that's the theme you're going for, you might want to make sure your celeb doesn't translate romantic love as "concentration, vague confusion, earnest control and occasional manic smiling."

... and a sudden hint of constipation juxtaposing with a bizarre quasi misogynistic callous expression (otherwise known as his 'sex face') while he threw Kristina into the missionary position. It was just... ewww...wrong, wrong, wrong!

From experience airfix kits raise high passions born of frustration. A lump hammer is an handy tool to demonstrate same.

Our Leona SYTYCD update : she made the last cut before the final, but was ditched in favour of Chelsee Hightower who is, if anything, the one female pro in the entire SCD/DWTS franchise I like less. So there's that. I feel punished now for expecting her to fail at something specifically when all that really went wrong is the choreo for the group she was in was crap (sub - So You Think You Can Walk stuff) and she didn't even do it.

Afraid I am a compassion free zone where Ourleona is concerned, possibly because she comes across as being so mindblowingly stupid. Oddly enough I too have an aversion to Chelsie Hightower and was amused to see that this year in DWTS her bottom half has increased substantially in line with her giant ego.

She and Mark B and Derek seemed to have formed a little dance troupe all of their own too. Had you noticed?

I did. Robin does bounce It was the first thing I noticed, and Anita's legs and feet are just shite, as usual. What does he think he is doing? Why don't they get someone in?

They just make it up, don't they? History repeating itself - let's take a perfectly good dance, screw about with it, suck all the passion and nuance out and then claim it as our own, (i.e. salsa, samba and rumba) in true ballroom style.

I have Lacey Schwimmer in there as well before Ourleona

How is William today, Sofakat - is he talking to you yet?

How's your lad, Alli - are the AB's doing their stuff?

I think you mean Lacey as I don't think Chelsie is in the current series. Can't stand Lacey!

I hate her with the passion of a million firey suns - Ourleona is just a two stops down from Dagenham, but basically harmless - Lacey is an evil cow (and no, I'm not completely rational where that little madam is concerned)

Yes I do! Sorry How stupid of me. Lacey is a little cow!

New drug regime not going down well, so William is back under the bed and I am back in my Cruella de Ville persona in his eyes I wish one could have a rational discussion with a cat.

His reaction to my ministrations this morning was to vomit up his new drugs on my red Berber rug.

Yay!!!!!!