I was worried for her at the end of their routine, she was so hysterical, not knowing whether to laugh or cry . I don't think we've ever had someone so highly strung on the show .

I like Victoria (she was my pre-week-1 favourite) and I can see some improvement, mainly around her confidence and to a certain extent her timing, but...

she simply doesn't feel the music. I think forgetting the routine week 1 really knocked her and learning the dances doesn't come naturally to her, so she is concentrating so much on trying to remember the steps and not go wrong that she doesn't have anything left over to 'spend' (as it were) on musicality and performance. It might have helped if she'd taken some acting lessons (from a real acting coach, not Barrowman, Kendall or Collingwood AND if she spent every waking and sleeping hour with headphones playing that week's music so that the accents and rhythms became second nature to her. Sadly I think it's too late for that now. Brendan appears to have mentally checked out anyway and I suspect this will be her week to go.

On the plus side, she coped with the lifts nicely tonight, and she kept smiling - even through the near-tears.

This.