Originally Posted by thenetworkbabe:
“She's also quite good at some dances, just not at others. He was consistently bad. She tries and trains a lot. He didn't try much, built the character of being someone who couldn't dance. spent a lot of time building a vote up for it. and rode the reaction to the judges giving him appropriate marks for all he could.”
I disagree that John was consistently bad - imo for his age he did do some decent and entertaining dances and he did put the effort in to begin with so much so that he lost weight, I rewatched some of his dances a few weeks ago - in most of his ballroom he actually did quite well - I remember his first dance the waltz got really positive feedback from the judges - so he wasn't always voted in on the basis of not being able to dance. The Latin was always going to be a problem for him because of his age and weight but he did a very entertaining Paso.
The problem started when better dancers than him were getting booted off and the judges took out their anger on him! John perhaps took advantage of that, but I don't think anyone really covered themselves in glory when it got to that stage!