Knocks on glittery Kartem door to say hellloooooo for this year's Strictly !!!

Recently back from holidays so still playing catch up, not helped by also whacking my foot against the ruddy door frame which resulted in a broken toe (and language that can be best described as being like an over-ripe brie left outisde on a hot afternoon ) and catching a stonker of a cold. Still have manged to catch up the Strictly launch show (& Bake Off) in between all the hobbling around and snuffling - it's like being a defective hedgehog.

Loverllly to see the old swoonsters back again (not old as in age before I land myself in ) so I'm quoting Nooney as I'm too lazy to think for myself right now .

Thanks as ever to Wrenny & Soupy , and errr anyone else I may have missed, for keeping up the thread with posts that I'm trying to read back over right now. Wrenster I agreed with a lot of your run down of the couples, particularly Pixie & Trent who just seem monumentally Ken & Barbie to me, still 'tis v.early days.

Already liking Claudia hosting with Tess and not missing Brucie but I actually thought they did the handover pretty tastefully and without over-milking it (by a Brucie definition of over-milking anyway)


I know nothing of radio 1 dj's (being a 6 music gal) but thanks for the inside note on Scott, Joanne seems to be an ideal pairing for him. Is Bakka still watching, fuming,shouting ????

And just so I know that all is well in Strictly DS land there's even a good old thread on the main page about Aliona being rude - it's like nothing ever changed

Phnarrr!
Welcome back
.....chortling at your defective hedgehog (but feel better soon)



Caroline: First Steps

Pics in the car park outside the DwtS training rooms

Lea and Artem will be foxtrotting to This Will Be by Natalie Cole.

Hope I'm not repeating this news - I checked back a couple pages and didn't see it. Artem will be doing two back-to-back Caribbean cruises on Holland America, each a week long, 29 November through 13 December:

http://www.hollandamerica.com/pageBy...questPage=DWTS

Sounds a pretty upbeat fox trot .. Hope it doesn't offend Len .

I've never, ever fancied going on a cruise, but....hmmmm.


Len's even more inconsistent on DwtS than he is on Strictly. Anything could happen!

Cheers me dears .

Thinking I might rather like Caroline, she seems quite 'sparky'.


Is there anything that doesn't offend Len ???????


Sooooooo the Kartem cruise then ???

Have to admit only really keeping an eye on DwtS through your snippets, thanks as ever !

First Steps: Mark

This is old but nice things said about Artem

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/t...gest-loss.html

Seems Artem will also be missed by Mirror readers

http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/s...-artem-4056069

Waving welcome to a nicely eclectic kartem thread

Hiya Nina Kartem cruise nice idea. Peeeeeeve where are you.

Arty's chest gets a little outing.... (thanks Lili )

Lea/Artem pic and Artem and Val doing press ups.

Hi all, an article about Kara, doing Children in need

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz...n-In-Need.html

And some chest it is too loads of pre show publicity coming up on his fan page. Makes SCD look almost sedate by comparison

Stiff competition for him and his celeb .but he looks up for it .. There are lots of stunning male dancers with good chests in the states I wonder if he will capture the hearts of the fans as much as he did here. Think it will be a different fox trot from his first with Kara which sent me on this journey of support and interest in his career. Fingers crossed for a long stay is it the same as here public plus judges ?

Always lovely to see Kara in the limelight . Wonder if her stage show with her friends will get off the ground ..

Yes, fingers crossed.

It all works in a similar way with judges marks and public votes although they take the judges marks as a percentage of the total marks, and add those to the percentage of public vote rather than use a ranking as we do here. Sometimes it seems that's fairer and other times not....

They used to have a live results show on the next night, but that has been ditched (well - it's back for the first two weeks, so someone will be out on Tuesday ). Without the results show, the public are actually voting on the previous week's performance combined with the judges marks for the current week, which can be odd . (It has to do with the time zones in the US).


Again, fingers crossed

Frankie: First steps

Apparently (says someone on the MF) this was on day one of training. She looks great!

I'd had a look at some Frankie-dancing before the launch show - just Saturdays step/pose/wiggle/pout stuff - and really wasn't impressed, but I took to her on the launch show. She seemed excited and enthusiastic (at least compared with a lukewarm Pixie).

Not a massive fan of Kevin, but lots of the pairing are less than ideal (from a Soup perspective ), so I might find myself rooting for her anyway.

I really want to support Judy, too. She's with Anton. Am in crisis .

Mentioned nextdoor - thanks DQ. Am grateful someone has made this available for international viewers

lArtem and Lea's first meeting and reheasal

Lea does a good Russian accent (Looks like cha cha, but I'm sure they have FT first)

Bonsoir Clarty Peeve is a wandering 'out there' atm I think. I expect she'll pop her head in here at some point!


Hi Soupy, first of all, thanks for the the DWTS snippets you're bringing us. xx

Ditto on your thoughts about Frankie/Kevin. I like him but not his style of dancing. One to keep an eye on though.
I also liked the Mark and Karen first steps.

I'm also with you on wanting to support Judy but..................

PS: madly sends some waves and hugs up north to Nina

Kara Tointon goes hand-in-hand with mystery man for the first time http://dailym.ai/1sRpC15

Tipi I wondered if you would show up, it is fitting that the superest of sleuths should come up with the apparent evidence that Kara and Artem have decided to go their separate ways,

Not sure which emoticons to use, So I will do a melange

I think we need a group hug

Ah, well. I guess one of them was going to move on sooner or later. Wonder who he is....
(The fashion for excessive beardiness is so frustrating when you want to get a really good look at someone )

Nice to see you here Tipi . Would you be supporting Team Ireland this year, at all, at all?

I thought the very same when I read Tipi's post!

Kara Tointon
There was a genuine sizzling crackle of passion every time Kara did a Latin routine with her pro partner (and future romantic partner) Artem. There was also genuine beauty and tenderness whenever they danced ballroom. No partnership has ever looked quite so natural or perfect for each other as they did.

But it wasn't just the bubbling romance and Artem's red-hot routines that made Kara special. She had the ability to hop between Ballroom and Latin, she possessed stunning grace and poise, and she also had incredible power and fire when she performed.

Nobody has ever matched her performances from four years ago. Maybe someone in the Class of 2014 can top her.



Read more: http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/s104/...#ixzz3DKPf86ea


Hello Tipi and everyone who has posted and thanks Soupy for keeping us updated about Artem's adventures in US.

The above says it all it was such a special time for all of us I'm sure the memory of it all will be with them forever. It did deserve a happy ever after ending