Agree here, both ladies are very popular, lots of support on here and twitter

Can't remember the specific vote-for-your-fave-reality show - it may even have been SCD - but I do remember being told during one final that 'the amount of votes cast tonight are double the amount cast for the rest of the series'. I was a bit of a serial final voter myself until they got sorted online

Then Kevin was being somewhat disingenuous with his comments and actually said "I haven't done it before" after Zoe said "This is new for you".

The whole section was based on the premise Kevin had not done the AT before. No that he had not done an AT on SCD before - after all he could say that about every dance he has done this series.

Ha, today it must have been the first that I found Anton funny

Indeed, free online votes, can't be bad !

Yeah he probably means in competition or on the show though dems are different )

I thought Zoe actually sort of said something along those lines before she asked the question, something about him being a competition 10 dancer or something. I didn't read it any other way.

Yes. Yes...!

Yesssssss!

And DS will just have to deal with it.

You can argue that on my thread

This is his first year on Strictly, everything he performs will be for the first time by your criteria.

no, cos he danced with pros last year on SCD and has danced with pros on DWTS so he would have performed ballroom and latin dances

That makes no sense. It's his first year, so he hasn't done any of the dances before on SCD, but he didn't mention that for any of the other dances.

Kevin was on SCD last year and did all of the ten dances plus American Smooth, salsa and charleston? I must have missed that show.

Well done twinkle toes Du Beke! I am chuffed to bits that he did so brilliantly and even whilst wearing a sweater! Brendan will not be pleased!

Why all the smilies? Nat's not my favourite but she's a great dancer and she has come across as a perfectly nice woman.

I objected to 'I cannot warm to her' - which was then covered by 'she hasn't improved'.

Even if it's not about the dancing, being unpleasant about a person that hasn't seemed nasty or horrible at all, on ITT, is bad form.

I've never thought Natalie would win.

No not all off them - do you have FUN being so pedantic??? I MEANT HE HAS BEEN ON SCD AND DWTS BEFORE HAS DANCED LATIN AND BALLROOM IN PRO ROUTINES AND HAS COMPETED BALLROOM AND LATIN SINCE HE WAS A JUVENILLE BUT HE HAS NEVER COMPETED OR DONE AT IN PERFORMANCE OTHER THAN IN THAT STUPID LINK I PUT UP and now going to flounce off to calmer forums who are not so nit picky

Keep smiling Bendymixer. Please come back later

I was only joking really

Bendy, you know what's what. I have just posted this on another thread, but I just looked at the youtube link. I can't pretend to know too much about AT, I've had a few "go's" but thats it. Ballroom is my "thing". In your opinion, is the AT in the dem, an authentic AT...ala Vincent and Flavia ? I only as as it looks to me a little more ballroom tango, but with some AT lifts etc, as audience pleasers. What do you think. I know when I had a few lessons, I was under the impression that it was more compact and a little more static than on the clip ? What are your thoughts..?

Well that's me told - last time I try to apply logic to the utter shite people come out with on this forum.

*backs away slowly*

I think you just mis-interpreted what was written.Bendymixer just said that Kevin had danced on SCD and DWTS so would have danced Ballroom and Latin dances. I'm not sure that Bendymixer stated that he danced all the dances on the show?

Vincent and Flavia are AT experts Kevs is something put together for a dem only not in the same league

Just what I thought, thanks

At the risk of having Jan rage at me for picking on you, when someone posted on this week's dances thread that Susanna and Kevin may be in trouble this weekend because he hadn't danced AT before, wasn't it you who reassured us that Kevin had/does dance AT?

If it wasn't you my apologies, but given your initial response to my post tonight, I thought you and that person were the same.

I have never subscribed to the forum view that Anton isnt a latin dancer - and tonight he proved it I'd also like to see more of James, he's a natural presenter, and makes it all look very flowing

I'm agreeing with everyone who is finding Zoe a bit manic and "samey" now.

Good for you . At least you're realistic because from what I've seen here,a lot of Natalie fans in this forum actually think that she's going to win .