I dont really like what any of the girls are wearing,
Dawn in particular has looked awful, when in her other tv shows she's looked really attractive, usually in Jeans and more modern clothes.
I think Edith looks much better when she smiles, or laughs, she was much more attractive on the link she did with Colin on the Eurovision show because she was laughing...

Last night they had Dawn dressed up like trailer trash and Debra's hair and make-up were awful (and her dress wasn't much better).

I just realised who Edith reminds me of - Pauline Fowler off Eastenders!

...but at least Pauline smiles sometimes!

Yeah, but with nicer thruppennies and a tighter Gareth!

What was it that Edith sung last night?

I know the song but I can't remember the name and I only saw the clps for voting purposes at the end of the show and didn't see the whole show.

It's not so brave if you could sing it without any trouble, say, 1 or 2 hours earlier. Or if, while singing on the show, everything had gone well up to the "something extra" point. Especially since she had a sympathy reason for any problems.

Indeed, she's just as breave even if it doesn't work, right? If not more. She really can't lose with this risk.

She deserves credit for not chickening out, but even a cynical calculation would say "take the risk" in her case.

I also have a feeling that Edith doesn't expect or want to win too much and so doesn't feel she has much to lose. Maybe I'm just being taken in by a nice persona, and she's really cynical, smug, and ambitious; but I hope not.

Also her confidence isn't being undermined. On the contrary, the judges praise her, and she presumably knows by now that she's popular with viewers. (I'm pretty sure Colin told her something to that effect the other day.)

Whereas someone like Kim may feel that the only way she can even stay in (let alone win) is to sing well, for otherwise, against the other good singers and the entertainers, she'll be gone.

My hope is that the good singers have it in them to do something special, and that someone in there (Carrie? David?) is encouraging them to play for higher stakes.

Richard often has good points, but he puts them in such a negative way that they have the opposite effect from what he wants, or at least should want. And I don't think the students understand what he wants. They don't know what kind reaction they'll get when they sing, which is one of the most effective ways to destroy confidence that there is.

The supposedly "too nice" Lesley, on the other hand, gets it right.