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Get a grip
Please celebs and dancers can we stop with all the crying. You are being paid to dance, I get that you put a lot into it but FGS.
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Why does it bother you that much? Honestly, just asking because I'd like to know.
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Please celebs and dancers can we stop with all the crying. You are being paid to dance, I get that you put a lot into it but FGS.
![]() TOWIE bloke = The One Who Is Emotional. |
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I think the BBC pays extra for crying. I can cry on demand - with tears. I perfected it at primary school.
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I love all the soppy stuff! And I think the crying is genuine - it must be a mixture of relief, tiredness, excitement - I am glad to think the contestants invest so much emotionally into their efforts.
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I do a lot of dancing (only showcase and medal comps in past) and understand how the celebs feel. Less so the pros. There is a lot of emotional investment that goes with all that work, plus rhe fact that you get the adrenalin going before the performance and then have to wind down.
I could understand why Mark broke down like that. Nice to see they all care so much. |
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It's Mark Wright and Christina that get on my goat the most. When you leave or win you can blub as much as you like but just because your name is not called out first. Man up get some dignity. Thom and Yvetta had a lovely leaving then you see Simon blubbing.
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I do a lot of dancing (only showcase and medal comps in past) and understand how the celebs feel. Less so the pros. There is a lot of emotional investment that goes with all that work, plus rhe fact that you get the adrenalin going before the performance and then have to wind down.
I could understand why Mark broke down like that. Nice to see they all care so much. |
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One of the things I always preferred about SCD to Simon Cowell's Sob-Fest was that the whole thing wasn't as emotionally OTT.
On X-Factor everyone is in such a highly charged emotional state all the time and it's all just too much. SCD has always had more perspective - That at the end of the day it's just a silly dance competition not life or death. But increasingly emotions have started becoming heightened which I find kind of Ugh... |
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Please celebs and dancers can we stop with all the crying. You are being paid to dance, I get that you put a lot into it but FGS.
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It's getting tedious now. I loved Judy's face when Mark was crying.
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I don't have a problem with it. I think it shows that they are trying and hoping to get further and/or win the show. I dislike Mark Wright, always have, but I felt for him tonight and Simon.
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See me I'm more cynical. He will have more family on next week no doubt crying
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I can quite understand why Mark was emotional, it was cruel to leave him waiting right to the end, especially after his dance off last week.
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This isn't a particularly new thing. Lisa Snowdon was a constant snivelling wreck (and very irritating it was too). Perhaps people are more surprised/annoyed by a man who seems to cry easily?
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On X-Factor everyone is in such a highly charged emotional state all the time and it's all just too much.
SCD has always had more perspective - That at the end of the day it's just a silly dance competition not life or death. To be fair, for a serial reality tv person like Mark, he probably is pinning his career on a successful run, but that's exactly the problem with having someone like Mark on. |
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I've always found Mark Wright to be phoney and him crying yesterday hasn't helped me alter that opinion. Whilst I understand his relief at getting through to next week, at the end of the day, SCD is a light entertainment show and nobody wins anything other than a glitter ball. Excessive displays of emotion and playing up to the cameras belong on The X Factor.
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I think if you have an ounce of empathy, it's very easy to understand why and how the participants sometimes become emotional.
They're outside their comfort zone (for the most part, anyway), which heightens stress. They're constantly being exhorted by the judges to "don't just do the steps, lose yourself in the dance" and "find the connection with your partner" ie encouraged to engage their emotions in the process. They're in various stages of physical and mental exhaustion. Post-dance they're full of adrenaline which has to disperse somehow. They know, as much as anyone, that this is a popularity contest as much as it is about dancing. They've put themselves out there, not just in the 90 seconds of the dance but in the ITT interviews, the training footage, effectively saying "this is the real me...like me!". Each light going off around them while they're getting closer to the dance off must feel like a little segment of the audience saying "nah...don't like you". Given all that, I'm amazed that more people don't cry, male or female! |
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I can sort of understand crying as emotional release. But I really don't want any more encroaching 'journeys', 'personality-plus', kids, babies, nanas, ad nauseum.
Just dancing please.
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I am a self-confessed cry-baby and I hate myself for it but I can't do a thing about it.
The tears flow even when I try very hard not to. Maybe Mark is the same. |
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I can sort of understand crying as emotional release. But I really don't want any more encroaching 'journeys', 'personality-plus', kids, babies, nanas, ad nauseum.
Just dancing please. ![]() |
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