At least she'll get a good seat for the fireworks.

If I still had my 40 year old posters (from the centre pages of Jackie magazine) of Sod Off Donny, I'd be burning them now!

Glad mine was David Cassidy now

Never did get the Donny love, All teeth & cheese.

I swapped my 3 page one - did you get the feet in one edition, the Middle part in the second and the heads in the third - with friend for the badge you could put a little photo in.

That rings a bell! His favourite colour was purple, and his favourite drink was carrot juice - which in retrospect explains a lot!


I did hedge my bets and had the odd poster of him too. Once so pretty, almost girly-looking with his Partridge Family hair, he now hasn't aged well.

Just caught up on everything as I was away for the weekend.

Ones I at least vaguely liked:

Pixie: Is still auditioning for Euro-Disney. Excellent *ping* for the smile. My friend commented she looked more like Pollyanna than Belle and now I can't un-see it.

Frankie: Is apparently trying to usurp last year's winner by taking over Abbey's specialist skill - skirt swishing. Nice lines, too much skirt swishing, looked like she was fighting with Kevin at times, wish someone would warn her about her shoulders because they creep forwards on occasion.

Caroline: Is as talented at VT acting as Pasha is. (On a mildly serious note, I wish she'd learn to keep her eyeline up a bit. I noticed it last week as well. When she isn't looking at Pasha or straight at the camera/ a judge etc. she tilts her eyes down to the floor and it bothers me because it just slightly spoils her line.)

Sunetra: Kind of loved her this week and she was adorably excited about getting a 9.

Middling:

Jake: Stilted but I did like Janette's dress and hat. I'm still amazed he managed to look like he was having fun in last week's salsa considering his generally tendency to resemble Grumpy Cat.

Thom: Apparently think "personality" means "opening your mouth," which is... interesting. Didn't look like he was about to drop Iveta this week though!

Simon: Personality = get a band mate in and hope theirs rubs off on him. I can only assume he and Kristina started at the head and worked their way down from there so his face, arms and upper body were ok but the only instruction he'd registered from the hips down were "straight legs!" It was like he had splints on! So stilted.

Steve: Why did they put handles in Ola's hair? Did they think Steve was going to pick her up by the plaits? That appears to be the only memory I have of their routine aside from some monkey noises. *shrugs*

Alison: Aljaz can choreograph a prom dance! Alison can't dance a jive.

The bizarre:

Mark: I have no idea what this was but someone needs to take his skinny jeans away from him. And whoever mentioned Karen's skirt (perdie, was that you?) yes, why put her in something that looked like it was meant to come off but didn't? The random flash of colours from underneath was very distracting.

Scott: So Much Red. Poor guy. His "thanks" to the voters sounded more than a little sarcastic. On the plus side Joanne apparently decided to choreograph a proper routine for him this week (where she could, around the theme) and the music choice wasn't actually terrible. On the minus side... everything else.

The bad:

Tim: More Fagin than the Emcee. Specifically the bit at the end of Got to pick a pocket or two where Oliver's trying to "subtly" get the great long handkerchief out of Fagin's pocket and they both nearly fall over.

Jennifer: Apparently decided to give up on dancing and audition to be Meryl Streep instead. At least she looked like she was enjoying the singalong.

Judy: On the plus side she didn't look like she thought she'd catch something nasty if she let Anton touch her this week! And there were some actual steps in the routine! On the minus side she still looks like someone stuck a pole down her dress and the only parts of her body that can still move are her legs.

Massively unappreciating Donny as a judge. He was just pointless. I supported Anton talking back to him. Anton. Normally I want Anton to stop talking asap. How many times did we hear that he was bottom of the leaderboard in week 7? (Which, incidentally, was only 3 weeks before the final so is a fairly different proposition to being bottom of the board in week 3. Also isn't the same as being in the bottom 2 due to being middling on judges' scores but bottom of the vote.)

TTF has said on Twitter that he split his paso trousers on Saturday night.

Somebody posted that in the things you may have missed thread. I've got it recorded and if it had happened to Aljaz I'd be going back to check.

Same or Tristan as well but not him

Scott has been giving notice since at least ITT last week, that if it's OK with us, he would quite like to go now, please.

On the programme last night, he had the look of a man who will be going round to the people who voted for him, and saying 'thank you' nicely but please can you stop now if he has to stay another week.

It's like Flavia and Craig Kelly in reverse.

Has there ever been a series where this early on so many of the bottom leaderboarders look like they will are eyeing up each other and the distance to the exit and working out how they can outsprint each other? Jennifer and Judy went for the giving up on the dance completely route, Scott on the pleading eyes and Tim for the dead pan super enthusiastic. Be interesting to see how they up their game next week given that the voters seem not only to be ignoring them but wilfully putting people in the bottom 2 that actually want to be there,

I'm sure it's been said before, and in my household is being said over and over again, but does Darcy, Len and Bruno actually have any score cards that are less than 5? The only judge we listen to and take note of the scores now is Craig's because his scoring seems to be actually accurate.

I suspect we've got a few this time who thought (or hoped) they might be better than they actually turned out to be. Gregg admitted that was the case, Judy's used to being good at sport-type things, Scott could have vaguely assumed that at least being young-ish and and relatively fit would mean he'd be middling instead of bottom. Tim I think just isn't too fussed about the whole thing - thought it might be entertaining and he'd get to learn enough waltz and foxtrot to dance a bit with his wife. I think last series Mark and Ben were preparing leaving speeches for weeks before they actually got to leave but at least that was a bit further on in the competition.

I did like Jennifer's approach to the dance off. Donny gave her rubbish advice (what risks was she supposed to take, exactly, with that routine and up against Simon who she was never going to beat?) so she went out exactly as she'd done the first time and had a whale of a time pretending she was dancing around her handbag with a cute man at her side. It's not as thought taking it more seriously was going to save her.

"That was dreadful, wasn't even a dance, there was no technique, no performance, you fell over and I think you've broken your dance partner. But neither of you died! Many congratulations on still being alive. 5!"

Maybe we could bribe Vicky to use very weak thread on Tristan and Aljaz's trousers? (But steel cable on Anton's).

To be fair to Scott, I think he always knew he was going to be middling to bottom - I just don't think he saw himself being the komedy kontestant for the series, and I think it's being shoehorned into that role which is making him want to flee more than anything.

Way too complicated - put her on eBay.

After Saturday's paso I was thinking that TTF was no George Chakiris when it comes to dancing (never mind the phwoar factor), but after last night's opening number I realised he's no Dick Van Dyke either.

Oh George Chakiris beautiful man, no TTF is not anything like him!

Miss Grimsby was irritating me and Scott on ITT again tonight, I think we ought to barricade the studios to stop her entering next week. Scott may dance a lot better by himself without her as an irritant and if not if he is seen as having broken his partner he may well get voted out.

Or not perhaps people would appreciate him more

I guess Scott put his foot down about the lobster hat.

How old is JFG?

30

ETA: 31 in just over a week.

Exactly aggs. Every time she opens her mouth it makes me fidget and want to slap her for her little girl voice. She's 30 FFS.

I agree re the lobster hat.

I am suffering again from the Clifton Cringe.

I haven't really heard the female sibling speak, and I saw a bit of ITT last night and she talks like a munchkin!

I had to switch off.

Please BBC do not have her back next year or ever.

I don't know, but you do just ŵonder if that while rountine was less about Scott having to be the crab and more about her getting her childhood wish to be Ariel.

Maybe we should ask Vicky to wrap the steel cable around Anton's nether regions to ensure that little Anton can't make a repeat appearance this year... and we could point out that, wrapped around his mouth, it would make a fetching decorative part of his costume. Obviously, it would need to be tied tightly to avoid it coming loose & providing a trip hazard, I mean, I'm not suggesting that it should be tied so tightly that it would be stuck there and prevent him speaking ever again...