I did see someone retweet a Mirror article saying Pixie was mourning her nan who died a few weeks before the show. It says 'Pixie admits she wishes her Nans were able to watch her'
(But...those didn't really look like real tears- those were dry tears...IMO )

So why wasn't she crying in her earlier dances?

I don't know....Exactly. I'm not saying that was a reason. I personally don't find her tears last night. genuine anyway!

It may not be hate, but it's beginning to look like an obsession. Why do you keep watching recordings to see if you can detect a tear..who cares ? Why worry about her having previous dance experience ?..as you point out, many before her have had the same sort of training.

I just don't think it's that important to most of the celebrities, they probably worry a lot less about who has had dance experience than the posters here appear to do. It's just an extremely popular dancing/entertainment programme, it gives them exposure to millions, so the longer they stay the better. But that's about it really, winning the Glitter Ball must be a great feeling for a few days, but it's hardly the gateway to riches and success judging fron the careers of other winners.

The earlier dances were 'happier' dances, or 'happier' themes?

I don't have a problem believing that celebrities may sometimes be overcome by the emotion of a performance on the night. A combination of the stress of the build-up; everything 'coming together' - or perhaps going a little bit wrong; maybe some real-life emotions that you've tried to put aside until you've got space to deal with them - and the tears may suddenly well up.

It's happened to me at times when I'm watching others perform. It's happened to me at times when something catches me unawares in the middle of the day.

However, as a fully-paid-up serial watering can, my tendency - outside the family - is to try to hide, or laugh off, the tears.

That would mean jumping off the bed, going over to Tess and then mocking myself for being 'so sweaty'! (to explain away any glistening), or 'so silly!' (if there was actual mascara damage).

Sitting in the spotlight, having to be called a couple of times? That doesn't fit in with my experience of public attacks of emotion - for me or for friends/family.

That said, there was glistening of the tearduct area while Pixie was listening to the judges' comments. Maybe she was just sweaty.

I watched because I thought I might be doing her disservice - I wasn't.

Her training and stage appearances would count for nothing if she was open about it. I voted for Natalie all the way through last year because she acknowledged it. Those who try to play down their previous experience usually suffer as a consequence - just ask DVO.

Although your opinions differ to mine I respect your reasonings. I simply disagree with them.

Poor Pixie if she had been partnered by Tristan, Aliaz or Pasha she would be loved but no one likes Trent, as for the tears I put it down to the song

? I think she's very good and looks wise, I've always liked her.

I respect your reasoning as well. I wasn't aware that she had "played down" her previous experience ? I haven't followed all the episodes of ITT during the week. But if she's just not mentioned it, is that really playing it down ?
Denise Van Outen was a bit different, she had starred in Chicago In the West End and on Broadway. She had also been in Legally Blonde not long before Strictly. I still enjoyed her performances, but she really was a pro dancer, even if it was in different disciplines to ballroom.

I've watched it again, and I agree with someone else who said the music ran out too quickly! Seemed to me the story was that she was imagining her ex boyfriend had come back and she was saying "Stay with me", then at the end she realised it was just a daydream and was overcome with sadness, back in her starting position on the bed.

The whole thing about her crying was coming from Tess shouting "What's wrong, my lovely! What are you crying about? What's the matter?" as she came across to the judges, to which she replied "I don't know" because it was part of the dance. She then had to carry on wiping away "tears" because Tess had drawn attention to them. The alternative was saying "I'm acting, you idiot!"

Like someone else replied in another thread...Tessbot not understand emotion.

Ha. If that's what actually happened that's quite funny

We just don't know, it is not unknown for actors to think of something personal to trigger tears during a performance. Quite possible that she did something similar and thought of some personal event in her past.

Well, I believed it, just like I believed Sunetra's tears the week before. I can easily imagine on the night how some dances can feel like an ambition fulfilled if you really loved the dance, music, etc - and at the end it's over and you're emotional. But I am someone who cries easily, so it doesn't seem strange to me. I know it throws people who don't, and sometimes they think you're more upset than you are because of how upset they'd have to be to cry - if you see what I mean.

Perhaps she was supposed to act out some emotion at the end of the piece and a bit of real emotion took over? As well as splitting from her boyfriend it's also been reported that she lost her grandmother a week before she signed up for the show. She's a young girl taking part in a very public process and I'm not going to pillory her over it.

I wasn't watching very carefully on the night but Tess starts shouting across to her while she is still emoting over the photo on the bed, then Trent comes across to get her and they walk to the judges together.

Presumably this was what they had planned, maybe without Tess shouting at her. Or may be *with* - who knows? Either way, it did seem like sitting back on the bed in the pose she started in was the planned end to the dance.

Maybe Tess could build on the shouting, for example shouting up to Claudia to suggest questions - "Ask him if he split his keks, Claud!"

That's how i saw it.

Id be surprised if Pixie was cynical enough to fake it tbh.

Mmm REALLY!!! I like her, I like Trent, I think she has been performing well BUT, it struck me as fake!!! my gut reaction was, as others have said, she seemed to think it was a knockout performance, it wasn't!!!

We don't know what she was thinking.

It all reminds me of last year's Bake Off, if one contestant shed a tear then there were lots of people online who KNEW that there were all sorts of ulterior motives behind it. Others could cry without getting the same reaction. I am sure it happens on other programmes as well.

I was not convinced by those tears

I'm not sure a jive or a quickstep would evoke such things

The waltz potentially could have done, though it had a warm and fuzzy feel at the end rather than a bittersweet one.

Something must have happened to make her upset but I can't understand why.

But her rumba moved me to tears but not quite like her tears!

That isn't the impression that I got. I thought she might have cried for just getting through the routine.