Cant believe how bad their jive was tonite and Karen was not much better than Nicky

It wasn't that bad, either that or you was watching a different jive to me.

Very poor, he has to do his stomping around in every dance . He is an arrogant little git . I was hoping to like this pair but now I can't stand them.

Yes I didn't think Karen looked too hot. I thought it was a good performance overall though and I agree with Craig and Bruno about his kicks and flicks but perhaps Len's right in that it was more rock 'n' roll than jive so perhaps the footwork would be a bit looser.

This.

they looked better in training.

It's a shame they didn't deliver the jive tonight like they did in training, maybe them trying to make it fill up more space made their technique slip. It looked incredible on Wednesday's ITT.


How on Earth is he an "arrogant little git", have you ever met the bloke? He certainly doesn't come across like that to me at all, he thought he was going home last week for starters, that's not the mindset of someone with arrogance.

Agree - not a Nicky fan but I was expecting a great performance. His shoes looked odd - not suited to bounce

It was dire & over marked.

Totally agree with the latter part of this post.

It was'nt the worst in my opinion, (I'll save that for Richard and Lisa and Victoria) but he looked a lot better in training. They all disappointed tonight. Overall, to me wembley was a flop.

I don't need to meet him. I've seen how he's behaved since the show started .

There is just something that grates about his legs. Can't put my finger on what it is, but they just don't look right in most dances, and tonight, because of the kicks and flicks this was emphasised.

I thought it looked bad in training, but Nicky performed well even if he couldn't kick for toffee. Mind you, I had to laugh at Len's comment about it being a R&R jive. When Derek Hough choreographed and danced a flat-footed version to the same song in the US series, Len took points away because it wasn't a ballroom jive. Not that I wanted him to do the same here as I hate to see the competitor's penalised for bad or incorrect choreography.

In training clips it looked so fast and polished - what happened ? It was much slower and not a patch on Denise and Dani's Jives.

I think they had to "stretch" it to make if fit the floor. Shame really as I think it looked great in training. I still enjoyed it though but tbh they all disappointed tonight. Even Denise - there was something just not right about the music of her Charlston - it had no fun for me.

He certainly seems to believe he is far better than he actually is.

He is unlikeable and up himself.

I quite like Karen though. Too bad she seems to have replaced Aliona as the pro-to-bash.

I 100% agree. I find him unbearably obnoxious. He is a one man band, I think he thinks he's dancing by himself

I don't know him personally obviously. However we know he is doing the lowest training hours & it shows. I do get the impression that he thought Strictly would be just a bit of a laugh & that he can get by on Irish charm.

I don't think Nicky's shoes helped him tonight. They lookd completely flat and very chunky. He would have been better in normal s dancing shoes. This routine did not suit the big rena.

I thought from the training clips that this was going to be 'his' dance. I couldn't have been more wrong...

I expected so much more from the training clips.
I think he'll be bottom two tonight.

Me too but it was so stompy. He really should be leaving soon.

When he wasn't stomping around, he was sliding about the stage like a child at a wedding. Everyone must have been watching different training footage from me because I didn't see anything that suggested this was going to be any better than it was.


He looks unbearable smug during every performance and seems to take the slightest positive comment as confirmation that he's brilliant.