i agree. she is progressing well, week on week, has made a very secure partnership with kevin, and she has so obviously fallen in love with dancing, i find her strictly story really quite appealing. sure, she will never be the best dancer on the planet, or even the show, but thats not what strictly is about. kevin is a great addition to the team as well, i aprticularly loved their waltz and his ballroom credentials are a match to anton's, imo.

I can't take to her either - though I thought last night's paso was very good.

Neither like or dislike her, she doesn't radiate any personality if im been really harsh. She can most deffinately dance but I also think she is over marked most of the time, I like the idea of a traditional paso but realy didn't enjoy hers. She looked too hunched up on the shoulders for my liking. Gave her an odd looking frame.

I thought it might be something like that. Fits with the mentality of the rest of their post.

especially when much of the antipathetical posting relates to her appearance.

I also don't like or dislike her but I don't like Kevin's dancing.
Lovely guy but not a good dancer.
Seems they are set up for the win now with that impact dance. Loved the traditional style just to Kevin centric for me.

All so true. Susanna works in a hot house atmosphere-a man's world where not many women are able to penetrate. Read Ann Robinson's book if you want an idea. Claudia Wilkleman's mum is from the same stable-women who broke through the glass ceiling.

What I find sad is that this is not the first negative thread about Susanna. To my knowledge, I can't remember such like about other celebs apart from one or two.

I teach teens and I would point out Susanna as a role model for girls and steer them away from wanting to be WAGs. I don't mean women like Abby who had a career as a model before anyone busts a gut to shout at me.

Like them both but find them too neat and tidy to thrill me.
Bad that isn't it.
Consistently doing their jobs well, but being cast as just mehh
by some
bummer.

Like them as people though

She's a bit marmite. I'm wary of her but like her dances.

Agree....Kevin and the music which was fantastic...

I think she's a trooper! She's taken criticism on the chin, unlike some of the more "loveable" contestants, and she's got better and better.

I too was touched that she was overwhelmed by the praise for her paso. She already seemed overwhelmed at the end of her dance, when she stayed on the floor and Kevin looked a bit concerned. I think she whispered something to him and the camera pulled away to an audience shot.

If you think it was all faked - well, you must be in awe of Susanna's acting skills. I doubt Meryl Streep could have brought that off.

Almost certain to win imo. It's going to be fun on here when she does

Yes, far too into the style of the USA where they succeed and we fail.

She didn't grab me personality wise early on, but after that mesmerising paso last night (a great collaboration between her and Kevin) I have been won over.

I like Susanna and can understand that others don't but I cannot get my head around the posters who accuse her of all sorts of things which never happened.

What on earth is that all about?

We love Susanna in our household. She's hardworking, lovely and talented. She's really progressed. This discussion looks rather like a Daily Mail 'Knock a successful female' article.

I suspect that it's an anti-natalie vote, making sure she doesn't top the poll.

She does have a snobby sneering expression We watch BBC breakfast tv and I have always thought this and have never been able to take to her. I have always thought her unfriendly too.

I didn't much care for the Paso last night and I don't like Susanna. She isn't just desperate, that I could deal with. She's way, way OTT with the facial expressions and the drama of it all. It doesn't really fit with the woman I've watched on my tv for a long time - yet she isn't an actress that I know of. I suspect Ms Susanna has had quite a few dance lessons - for a 43 year old woman to be able to cartwheel the way she did on her first night, I suspect she has been having gym lessons also. This lady hasn't come into this as a beginner but she would have us think she has.

She's fake, I said it in the beginning and I'm saying it now. Her paso was passe as far as I'm concerned.

It's a poll for favourite last night. I voted for them because I loved their dance last night, but they are not my favourites overall.

Why do you say that? She's not at good as a few others, and doesn't deserve to.

I thought the Paso was dance of the night, but Susanna leaves me cold......

Ah, that's why I had to put my coat on. We were watching the Chill Factor. Susanna IS the chill factor.

I was smilling through some anti-Susanna comments until I came across the one above. That's absolutely breath-taking!


Precisely. Well said, Jan!

Why is it ok for you to have a negative opinion of Susanna but nobody can have one of Natalie?