Everything, but if you like him that's fine...

And Pavarotti is a better singer than Aretha Franklin. And the orange in my fruit bowl is a better dancer than the apple.

You're not comparing like for like.

You clearly just have a weird personal bias against him which you are trying to pass off as fact.

I don't mind Kevin on the show, he comes across a good hard working and ambitious dancer to me. I would love him to downplay his boyish overacting a little bit though, but he needs not to worry, Strictly has his back, that's for sure.

More than one individual can be 'brilliant'. Especially when they are active in different disciplines and in different eras. To try to compare a contemporary dance professional from a ballroom background with an iconic, long deceased ballet dancer seems off the wall to me.

To be fair your OP did say "I just cannot stand him".

Sounds like some fairly strong feelings to me.

I've no idea what that smiley means but it looks appropriate. Who knows............?

Let's state the bleedin' obvious:

Nureyev and Kevin are both dancers.

Pavarotti is a better singer than Aretha Franklin, but Aretha has the chops to have been an opera singer if she'd wanted.

Kev would never have cut it as a ballet dancer, even just in the corps.

If you luffs him, why not start a fan thread rather than arguing with me?

Nothing you can say is going to alter my opinion of Kevin's dancing, only he can do that...

but when it gets down to it are you latin qualified to judge his latin expertise? yes you can like or dislike based on the person but when it comes to dance Kevin is far from mediocre next you will tell me anton is a great ballroom dancer

This exactly, some will love him, some will hate him.. It's down to whatever makes us happy

As I said I find him really irritating, that does not equal hate.

Ah- I get it now.

You want (and expect) everyone on this thread to agree with you.

Only, it looks like you are in a minority of one.

You said you can't stand him - that signals intense dislike to me.

Nope. I created the thread for other posters who find Kev underwhelming, there were quite a number last year. But the forum's fairly quiet atm and inevitably it's just drawn his outraged 'fans'...

I'm not really interested in what it signals to you, I couldn't muster hate for someone I've not met, who's not shown genocidal tendencies...

I find him irritating in the same way I do wasps.

Difference is-

Not many people would make about 20 posts in 24 hours to say they don't like wasps.

You don't like him. We get it, We understand. an extra post isn't going to change my mind.

I like Kevin too although some of his choreography is a bit twee. Like everyone else, I'm not really getting the comparison between Kevin and Nureyev. Oranges and apples.

Not just to me, as you well know. There are any number of free dictionaries out there >>>>> go check them out if you really need to.

I'll just leave you to contradict yourself.

Oi, lay off the wasps!
And the Kevs

I like wasps. You just have to centre your chi and move slowly

They might if they were stuck at their desk writing a departmental report.

"Likeable" is subjective, as is 'talented'. I don't dislike him, he doesn't have enough personality to dislike. Kevin is......bland, yes, that's the word.

Why not look it up yourself as you're so keen (what is it with Kev fans and dictionaries?)
'To be able to endure or tolerate' OED.

I don't do hatred, nor fandom either.

I would have said Acosta but I wasn't sure everyone would have heard of him.

I move my chi and swat fast...

Actually clothes moths have taken the place of wasps since one ate holes in my favourite jumper.

Makes no difference. Still oranges and apples.

Ah yes Carlos Acosta that famous world champion latin dancer. I stand corrected, that is a fantastic comparison. You are right, kevin is rubbish, all the other pros on strictly could be classical ballet dancers etc etc etc.

This is such a hard hard thread for vegetarian Catholic Atheist fans of Kevin and Artem