Are you sure she has made the same facial expression on every dance and somehow I dont think this is going to be the right look for the rumba

She'll do a with her tongue licking her lips and call it a sex face.


Sorry! I've made myself feel nauseous, ill get my coat.

Can already do the swivels. I've seen him do them at the opening of the Sat. Shows so I have been looking forward to this one. Should be able to sell this dance. Tough having to follow Denise though especially when she got such praise and high marks. I personally did not think it was the best Charleston Strictly has ever seen. No fun and I got bored halfway through.

I think the charleston will suit Nicky and the paso Louis. I'm a bit worried about Lisa's rumba - bit of a nightmare dance anyway but it always works better with long and lithe people. Ok Rachel wasn't long but she was lithe and sinuous and all those things you need to be. Robin and her have a good relationship and connection though and hopefully they can bring that to the dance. It has potential to be a disaster though.
Would love to see an Argentine tango from Victoria

I don't think the judges care about swivel on a consistent basis so he'll probably be okay unless they want him gone :P

LOL the smiley describes Lisa's facial expression perfectly

I suppose she could eat Robin as a finale to the rumba, praying mantis-stylee

Nah, I reckon Sid's right and they'll go down the tender-touchy route rather than the raunchy-sexy route. After the VW, which was quite cute in its own little way, I trust Lisa to have a good go at it anyway. I doubt it'll be as traumatic as Pendledrama's and it can't be worse than whatever Michael'll serve up pretending to be a rumba

I'm really looking forward to Louis' paso. I've noticed his youtube views have dropped quite a bit from earlier in the series and I think he needs another WOW dance this Saturday to get people talking about his performances again. I'm crossing my fingers for him that this is it, and that he and Flavia find a way to improve his performance qualities.

Looking forward to Lisa too for all the wrong reasons

Can't see Michael being all that great at AT, but then if anybody is going to shock with a performance it will be him

I find Nicky so boring I never really care what he's doing

With Brendan wearing shin pads during the ganchos?

I can just imagine the comments now...

"That was the fastest Rumba I've ever seen! Not conventional, but I loved it."

"You gave it your all. Your performance was as big as your personality (and your ass). Truly outstanding."

Oh yes, I forgot that she can't perform anything relatively slow before breaking out into disco halfway through.

If Victoria and Brendan get an AT, it will only be Brendan's 2nd time to perform one on strictly.

And unfortunately Victoria doesn't have Lisa Snowdon's long lovely legs.

Dani & Vincent both very enthuasistic about this week's dance on Twitter but haven't actually named it. As they should be on latin, I think it might be the rumba as that's another of Vincent's favourites.

I think the youtube views are partially attributed to which ones get linked in online articles covering the performances.

Speculation: James has tweeted Denise about a "scary and painful" practice - lifts maybe? American Smooth or Argentine Tango?

It makes me laugh that we will find out what they are dancing on Wednesday - but no one can wait that long!

If it's an American Smooth, I really don't want to be the one that says, "Oh gosh yes, scary, scary, scary and dead painful. The American Smooth is the "Nightmare on Elm Street" of dances." but I may have to. Who on earth is scared of an American Smooth? Particularly when they either have Denise as a partner or are Denise?

Of course if it isn't the AS, I retract all of the above .

But if it is, it's further smoke and mirrors .

I presumed they meant practising the lifts was scary - unless it's scary for James because Denise is so good she's after his job?!

I assumed that too and still thought pffttt.. you is a ringah, woman. Lifts? Dance steps? Scary? Pull the other one.






But seriously, twitter has a lot to answer for.


Zoe Ball, Ali Bastian, Rachel Stevens, Colin Jackson... even John Sergeant and Ann chuffing Widdecombe for heavens sake. Any of them say they were scared of the pussycat Smooth? Nope. Thought not.

Aaaah, but tis Denise and James' way. Everything is REALLY hard and they can't do it and its REALLY scary and they can't do it and she can't get the footwork and its REALLY hard and they can't do it.

I think Salsa could actually be scary to Denise, as her CCC was not her best. That has lifts too.

My thoughts exactly
We all know Denise is a REALLY good dancer

James is fooling no-one

I think James and Denise might have AT. I think there is certainly a 2nd one this week as I know that Kele is helping Natalie and Michael, whilst Leandro Palou is helping someone else.

Think it must either be James/Denise or Victoria/Brendan.

Just bringing the list to the current page.

Dani & Vincent - ? (prob latin)
Denise & James - ?AS/Salsa/AT (from twitter - painful practice lifts)
Kimberley & Pasha - ?
Lisa & Robin - Rumba (Lisa's Twitter)
Louis & Flavia - Paso (Twitter)
Michael & Natalie - Argentine Tango (Michael's twitter)
Nicky & Karen - Charleston (Nicky's Twitter)
Victoria & Brendan - ? (poss ballroom)

Think there is a second AT this week as both Leandro and Kele are helping (different couples). That leaves Denise, Kimberley or Victoria with AT as the others are known.

I think the rumba will suit Lisa and Robin resulting in yet another standing ovation from the studio audience.