Originally Posted by kaycee:
“Oh I do so agree with this! Clare and John did some beautiful routines. Unfortunately, I have a feeling John put his (lovely!) foot in it.
Because of the lack of dancing on tv, mostly only dancers had any idea of the standing of the pro dancers on the show. To a lot of other people they would have seen them as on a par with the old Come Dancing dancers (who were amateurs when they danced on that show). In trying to explain the standing of the pro dancers, John said "we are the dancing equivalent to Robbie Williams...." [or something similar].
True, but Big Mistake. Sounded too much like blowing his own trumpet, etc. A lot of us cringed at the time, and were not entirely surprised - saddened but not surprised - he and Clare were then voted off.”
“Oh I do so agree with this! Clare and John did some beautiful routines. Unfortunately, I have a feeling John put his (lovely!) foot in it.
Because of the lack of dancing on tv, mostly only dancers had any idea of the standing of the pro dancers on the show. To a lot of other people they would have seen them as on a par with the old Come Dancing dancers (who were amateurs when they danced on that show). In trying to explain the standing of the pro dancers, John said "we are the dancing equivalent to Robbie Williams...." [or something similar].
True, but Big Mistake. Sounded too much like blowing his own trumpet, etc. A lot of us cringed at the time, and were not entirely surprised - saddened but not surprised - he and Clare were then voted off.”
Yes he did kind of put his foot in it though if that was the reason Clair was voted off I am not sure.
John was the consultant to the BBC for the show and did a lot more work for them than he got credit for. Still did the consultancy work for a number of years. He didnt return for series 2 as a pro because he had his school to run and Jane had just had a baby.
He wrote the notes for Craig when he was on ITT doing the training clips as Ian Waite does now. That was to make the public think that Craig knew what he was seeing.
I cant remember at what stage the show changed from being really good to gradually becoming awful as it is now. The BBC have gone too far with the tweaks etc and although I watch it I coldnt care less who wins or who gets voted off. Would be interesting to find out what Brendan thinks as he is the only original pro still there.






