1. Wembley is NOT Blackpool. Please please bring back Blackpool.
2. Finally 'get' the Artem and Natalie love... both have been fabulous this series for their own reasons
3. Wish they'd revert to 2 dances per episode... cant keep up and makes it so hard to compare..
4. Aliona and Anton who ?
5. Loving that despite (in my humble opinion, dont shoot me but) 'meh' cast.. this series is trouncing the x factor. TBH they could stick 16 trout in with the pros and I'd still love SCD...

1. Loving Darcey
2.like the minimum use of props and comedy VT's
3.great mix of celebs who with the exception of Jerry have put massive training effort in
4."theme" weeks to be more spread out
5. camera work improving but we need to see "whole body shots"

1. Enjoying fewer props, VTs and 'comedy' celebs
2. I see real improvement in most of the celebs this year
3. I like Darcey
4. I am hoping Lisa or Denise do not win
5. There have been some very good and some VERY bad frocks this year

1. One or two performances have come close but I'm still waiting for that elusive WOW dance. Doubt Wembley will provide it as performances get swallowed up by the arena.

2. Hated the controversial scoring and judge's bust-up last weekend. It felt orchestrated.

3. This is turning out to be the most one-sided & predictable series to date.

4. I've defended Brucie in the past, but this should be his last series. And forget all the names that have been bandied around to replace him - stick to Tess & Claudia.

5. Why is it obligatory to have a VT every week for each couple on ITT? Keep the really funny ones but bin the rest. They are cringeworthy and disrupt perfectly good interviews!

1. Someone will whop out a 10 this weekend, no doubt of that.
2. I hate Wembley compared to Blackpool.
3. Anton being out early made my series.
4. So glad Flavia has a real contender this year.
5. Ringers shouldn't be allowed to take part.

1. If I could retain 5 thoughts at once, they'd have been those - thanks Sid.

2. Hmmm...nope, that's it.

Did you bring your hamster with you?

1. darcey is great
2. Artem is extra creepy, encouraged by the complete failure of anyone to contain his wolfish behaviour
3. the competition is genuinely wide open with lots of able dancers. this i like.
4. i haven't yet seen any one of these very able dancers step into greatness. yet.
5. brucie is tired and tiring

Miss you Johnster

(and not just to flirt with!)

1. Bruce is as bad as ever, if not worse
2. The judges are as bad as ever - Darcey started off with so much promise but is irritating me more each week
3. There's no standout this year - good or bad. None of the dances so far have been memorable compared to previous years.
4. The choice and performance of music is at an all-time low
5. I miss good quality pro dances - we've only had 2 (Pasha & Iveta and Brendan & Natalie - I don't count V&F as Midnight Tango was a 'guest performance')

1. Loving Darcey now she has sorted out the Yah's
2. It really really is time for Bruce to go
3. Its not shaping up to be a classic strictly series unfortunately
4. Please get rid of Julian Mcdonald
5 I havent missed Aliona one bit.

1. I really enjoyed Tess and Claudia, more of that please, less of Bruce.
2. First season I think ever at the half way point I don't have a firm favourite.
3. I miss Aliona alot, she is the quirky pro who love it or hate it would pull something random out of the bag!
4. Natalie is an amazing teacher.
5. Erin doing latin these days is hurting my eyes now almost as much as Anton always has doing latin.

Phew, thought I was the only one who thought this...he creeps me out too!

1. I didn't realise until this season how much I love flavia and want her to win
2. Same goes for Natalie what a star
3. I'm finding pasha a bit bland this year.. Still hot though!
4. Never realised how frantic robin's choreography is before - its always so fast!
5. It's only been this series that I've realised how scripted these judges' comments are - Craig's marking the last few weeks what a joke!

Couldn't tear him away from his Kimberley shrine - she's the only girl he's ever loved, you know.


Ahhh, Sid, I'm a mere lurker these days but I miss your cut and, more significantly, your thrust.

1. Hate Wembley week, love Blackpool week and/or for the Final.

2. Natalie is my all time favourite female pro and I can't believe I didn't like her in her first series.

3. I hate lots of different dances being danced every week because it's unfair and makes it too hard to compare couples.

4. Until last week's show I've said I think Bruce should go in his own time, but now I agree with Sid that this should be his last series and Tess & Claudia should take over - no male presenter is necessary.

5. I love how open this series is, but I think Nicky and Karen are going to come good at the right time - and I'm still not sure even like Karen that much!


PS Miss you John and hope all is well with you and yours {{{HUGS}}}

1. Loving Darcey - she has fit perfectly and I'll take her crazy inflections over Alesha's "you was brilliant"s any day.

2. Give Claudia a wee Saturday job.

3. Don't give Anton a wee Saturday job.

4. Pasha has cemented his status as my favourite. His choreography is consistently spot on.

5. I find myself liking Brendan and even James at times this year. It's a worry to me.

1. Great overall standard of celebrity dancers this year, nice that there hasn't been a Widdi/Sergeant.
2. Better costuming.
3. Fewer props a plus - and what they're using, they're using well.
4. Didn't like Wembley last year, don't expect to like it this. Far too big a venue.
5. Spread out themed weeks, the last two were far too close together. Have one later in the series to take advantage of the improved dancing.

1. This series is just going through the motions.
2. I prefer the last two series.
3. Wembley is overrated. It is just an arena, i much prefer Blackpool.
4. There has been no memorable dances.
5. I want Dani and Vincent to win.

1. I missed the choreographies from series 2 to 5, now some dances are almost unrecognisable.
2. I miss the time I understood the judges comments and mostly agreed.
3. I love Louis and Flavia but fears he has no passion for dancing(I hope I'm wrong!).
4. I wish the pairings did not put people at disadvantage like Colin.
5. The music this series has to improve.

1. I actually knew most of the celebs taking part this year, shows the program is attracting more of the real celebrities as opposed to z-list
2. None of them was an awful dancer, they all did/ are doing quite well
3. I like Darcey as a judge, nice to have someone calm who makes valid points about the performances
4. The choice of songs has been pretty poor to match the styles of dances overall, and more dodgy vocals that I remember in the previous year
5. The celebs/pros pairings I liked the most have been eliminated or have no chance of winning... sad

1. Women loads better than men this year (apart from VP).
2. Loving Dani, Kimberley and Lisa.
3. Michael Vaughn 100% improvement....Natalie is brill and should be very proud.
4. Prefer Claudia to Zoe on ITT
5. This should be Brucie's last series

1. Len and Bruno shouting down Craig is still happening and this has to be stopped. Its been going on for too many series now and is downright rude and disrespectful.
2. Len having the casting vote in a 2-2 tie is unacceptable. Effectively his opinion is being made out to be 3 times more important than any other judge.
Can you imagine if we had head voters in a general election who had 3 votes to everyone elses one. There would be uproar. Fundamentally undemocratic.
3. Nicky is the one who is consistently improving bit by bit by bit. He was abysmal to start off with but in recent weeks he has started to find his feet. Every credit to him.
4. As usual I refuse to be swayed by perceptions of the celebrity personalities. I am not buying all this A is smug, B is fake, C is a judges favourite, D is overly competitive, E is a diva, F is boring, G is always overscored, H has an unfair advantage due to X,Y and Z, and I is lazy. Its all such a load of old nonsense.
5. Claudia Winkleman is a legend!!

1 Wembley. Let's just get it over with.
2 Quite a strong series with very few (if any) outright duds.
3 Not missing Ola at all. Which is quite sad in a way.
4 No more Bruce after this series. PLEASE.
5 Time for some new pro-dancers.

But if CRH talks absolute crap - as he did about Louis and Flavia's Waltz last week - then he deserves it IMO.


Then how would you suggest the tie is broken in a 2-2 vote? To compare the Strictly Judge's vote in a Dance Off to a General Election is a tad OTT, don't you think? The fact is dance competitions the world over always have a system to break the tie - whether it's counting the technical score over the presentation score, as in Ice Dance, in years past. Now the computer just randomly selects which Judge's scores to use and which to discard - is that any more "democratic"? I would suggest Len is exactly the right Head Judge, as he is the only Ballroom Judge on the Panel. The other 3 can talk about Devle Pes and other French Ballet terminology, but Len is the only Judge who notices a heel lead. And Strictly may've changed since series 1, but it is still fundamentally a Ballroom Dancing comp/come Popularity contest.


Now that I agree with! She's so much more natural in the Kiss & Cry area than Tess, but keep Tess, by all means, and bid Farewell to Bruce. Zoe on ITT needs to stop being quite so hyper, and the camera needn't go to her face all the time, ignoring the guests.