That was a lovely ending too with Tim and Natalie in the middle and the other dancers forming a circle round them.

Strictly should adopt that from now on, rather than the general melee they usually have at the end.

My friend has just told me the judges have the final say to make sure the best dancers eventually make it to the end. FFS what has he been watching all these years. Stating the obvious.

I think Judy grabbed a few more votes this week for accidently showing her knickers and for her bravery at jumping into Anton's arms at the end of their dance. They were quite entertaining this week.

I hope Gaga and Bennett aren't touring this new album because that was not a good advert. She lost the plot a while ago and he sounded unsurprisingly terrible.

Mark should never have been in that dance off. he's way better than Judy, Alison, Scott.

Judy was not the worst or even the second worst this week so no reason for her to be in the dance off.

Also wondering why all the surprise at Mark & Karen. They weren't bad enough to be memorable or good enough to shine. All looked a bit pedestrian & skippy to me.

I agree, but he's not got as many people voting for him obviously as they have.


It was a very slow boring quickstep, not enough variety of steps, and a terrible song too !

"I voted for Karen and Natalie!"

You know what I mean!

I wasn't too impressed with the strange combination of Tony Bennett and Lady "Gag Gag" (well she should be). Still, it's the money I s'ppose.

I've a couple of Tony Bennett albums from my youth, but he always struck me as "second division." I liked him, but he struggles to reach high notes (always has) it seems such an effort. But now at 88, I think he's doing remarkably well, compared with some of his contemporaries of all music genres, who still tour but should have given up long ago.
Lady Ga Ga in contrast can hit any not you like, (loudly), but with neither tone nor any real emotion tonight.
Tony Bennett is another artist, lately following in the footsteps of Rod Stewart who turned to the jazz classics as he said it was less strain on his voice. That promoted a revival of interest from the classic tunes of the thirties, forties and fifties and other singers to record similar albums.

What did impress me was, as I expected, how much more suited to dance are the traditional, well-loved dance tunes played by a "big band," as featured tonight, rather than some of the X-Factor chasing crap we frequently have to endure on this show.

To be fair I have not posted anything about Alison.

I was trying to lighten the mood but your comment against me is annoying.

I agree, but if this Forum is anything to go by, he doesn't have much of a following. He is at the bottom of the popularity Poll, even the dire Scott has got more votes.

Quite an emotional dance-off tonight... Tim will be sorely missed, I thought he was very enjoyable to watch and always seemed to enjoy himself and make an effort. His words at the end about Natalie and the whole experience were wonderful.

Mark seemed to take being in the bottom 2 very well really, and I thought he was most humble about it. He seems a very likeable guy and I hope that he starts getting more votes now, as he has potential to do very well IF people support him!

I have supported him from the beginning, but as I mentioned earlier he certainly doesn't have a following in this Forum. I was out last night so he didn't get my four votes, although I doubt that would have made much difference.

I was rather disappointed in their performance tonight as I liked their previous collaboration on Tony's Duets II album...The Lady Is A Tramp. Theyve had a couple of hits Stateside from their follow on recent album Cheek to Cheek. Agree with you regarding the big band feel...it adds another layer of class to complement and dovetail perfectly with the classics.

Takes all of 10 seconds in a 2 hour show.

Like I said only takes 10-15 secs, hardly enough to get worked up about.

I just go and make another rum and ginger beer.