Originally Posted by Tipi:
“No one is saying she hasn't had dance training.
She has, but so have many others.....including by her own admission Kimberley.”
“No one is saying she hasn't had dance training.
She has, but so have many others.....including by her own admission Kimberley.”
Leaving aside any personal feeling, there is a difference between "having dance training" and "training as a dancer".
The former could apply to anything from a couple of ballet lessons to several years one-to-one tuition in several disciplines. Fern "had dance training" for the Christmas Special. Didn't give her any advantage.
The latter indicates that you trained for a fair amount of time to actually be a dancer. You had lessons, showed ability and put time and effort into developing that skill in order to use it later.
Whether or not Denise intended that to be the way her quote came across, she did (if we're to believe the article) utter those immortal words and, as a result, people are judging her on them. Five words. Said years ago. If she doesn't win she may well regret them. She may well be regretting them already.



