DS Forums

 
 

Caroline's Dance


Reply
Thread Tools Search this Thread
Old 06-09-2015, 08:20
Anne_Cameron
Forum Member
 
Join Date: May 2012
Posts: 915

I couldn't believe what I was watching last night when Caroline and Pasha did their last year's winners' dance. She was awful! Obviously hadn't been much in practice over the last few weeks. I know she has been busy with X Factor but you would think that she would have wanted to dance well on her last Strictly dance.
Anne_Cameron is offline   Reply With Quote
Please sign in or register to remove this advertisement.
Old 06-09-2015, 08:38
edy10
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Jan 2011
Posts: 15,443
She really was awful. ...especially for a strictly champion.
Maybe she didn't get enough time to rehearse ; still that's no excuse.

Worst champion's dance since they have started this tradition. I remember how phenomenal Louis and Abbey's return dances were.
edy10 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 06-09-2015, 08:43
latinloulou
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Cuddling Nel with Denim&Du-Vay
Posts: 1,672
I agree, I couldn't believe I voted for them last year !!
latinloulou is offline Follow this poster on Twitter   Reply With Quote
Old 06-09-2015, 08:52
captain_cherub
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Aug 2015
Posts: 670
Abbey and Louis had a waltz and a charleston though - I reckon they're a lot easier to get back into after 9 months without much rehearsal, whereas salsa seems way more complicated. And with Caroline's schedule, I doubt they got much rehearsal time at all.

(I did laugh at how much they had to slow the tempo down compared to last time)
captain_cherub is offline Follow this poster on Twitter   Reply With Quote
Old 06-09-2015, 09:05
bornfree
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Jun 2006
Posts: 13,434
Caroline didn't look very fit either. At first I thought she was pregnant. She seems to have put on weight around her middle.
bornfree is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 06-09-2015, 10:13
beebopbabsie
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Nov 2014
Posts: 261
Caroline didn't look very fit either. At first I thought she was pregnant. She seems to have put on weight around her middle.
Ouch. Caroline is gorgeous. She just looked out of practice.
beebopbabsie is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 06-09-2015, 10:15
beebopbabsie
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Nov 2014
Posts: 261
I agree, I couldn't believe I voted for them last year !!
In fairness she just looked out of practice. It's a shame they didn't do their Charleston but I doubt it was their choice. They were very worthy winners last year.
beebopbabsie is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 06-09-2015, 10:15
Ignazio
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Jan 2008
Posts: 17,110
She was Strictly Awful.
Ignazio is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 06-09-2015, 10:31
DiamondDoll
Forum Member
 
Join Date: May 2011
Posts: 14,001
In fairness she just looked out of practice. It's a shame they didn't do their Charleston but I doubt it was their choice. They were very worthy winners last year.
Seconded.
DiamondDoll is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 06-09-2015, 10:54
Guy_Welbourn
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Jun 2014
Posts: 25
Looked like a first week effort, wooden, stiff and awkward.
Guy_Welbourn is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 06-09-2015, 11:21
Steve9214
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Jun 2010
Posts: 6,547
She didn't dance with Pasha on the Tour either, so she danced actually more with Tristan than she actually did with Pasha.

If she was relying on "muscle memory" then having a different partner will definitely not have helped, plus (if she did that dance on the Tour - ( I did not go so have no idea) then the choreography would have been changed for the bigger arenas.
Steve9214 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 06-09-2015, 11:22
Sarah_Jones5
Inactive Member
 
Join Date: Nov 2013
Posts: 1,344
Caroline has also been busy with Love Island as well as doing the X-Factor.
Sarah_Jones5 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 06-09-2015, 11:23
Sarah_Jones5
Inactive Member
 
Join Date: Nov 2013
Posts: 1,344
Not that I have ever watched Love Island as it is not my sort of television programme.
Sarah_Jones5 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 06-09-2015, 11:33
Scarlett Berry
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Sep 2011
Posts: 18,808
She wasn't rehearsed enough. If I was her I would have declined to dance. The whole thing looked akward and her dress was really unflattering as well.
Scarlett Berry is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 06-09-2015, 11:41
fatskia
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Jun 2005
Posts: 8,563
I think it just shows that during Strictly, they can get to a higher level by the end of the show, but that level can easily drop (maybe a lot) with time.

Darren Gough went on a program and danced.
fatskia is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 06-09-2015, 11:54
alexandree
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: England
Posts: 1,950
Very mediocre not good but better than what I could do
alexandree is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 06-09-2015, 11:57
holly berry
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Nov 2011
Posts: 6,372
I liked her enthusiasm and the good advice she gave but kept on thinking:

it should have been Pixie!
holly berry is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 06-09-2015, 11:58
Amethyzt
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 2,847
Agree with the general consensus, she performed very badly - Pasha looked as though he was helping a week one contestant to get through 90 seconds.
Think she should have either done some training or declined to perform.
Amethyzt is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 06-09-2015, 12:11
Posy
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Mar 2003
Posts: 1,705
Very under rehearsed, obviously spending more time on X factor
Posy is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 06-09-2015, 13:13
abrightyz
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: in aaron dingle's ermm arms
Posts: 23,942
my first thought was she hasn't been dancing since her win... but i still enjoyed it, bringing back memories of last year although i think i was backing someone else then
abrightyz is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 06-09-2015, 13:20
CloneClown
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: London
Posts: 5,527
It felt strange seeing her on the show given that she's now in a ratings war with it - am surprised she was allowed and willing to do it. I actually imagined a speech bubble coming from Tess and Pasha telling her to s*d off back to The X Factor lol. Pasha even made a quip about that's how Strictly is when she was saying how the show affected her. I have nothing against Caroline and she was a great winner but I wonder if she is feeling awkward about having returned to the more succesful show whilst she is now associated to the less succesful.
CloneClown is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 06-09-2015, 13:23
Elsa
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Dec 2007
Posts: 2,922
They should have performed one of the two numbers she did on the tour, twenty something times, in January - either the Charleston to Istanbul or the American Smooth to Mack the Knife.
Elsa is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 06-09-2015, 13:41
CravenHaven
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: in the Sun (ツ)
Posts: 11,230
I thought the dance was inspirational. "Look, you can get away with this and they won't laugh at you!"
No point intimidating teh beginnerz with actually good dancing.
Caroline didn't look very fit either. At first I thought she was pregnant. She seems to have put on weight around her middle.
Is Caroline pregnant?
CravenHaven is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 06-09-2015, 13:51
Arcana
Forum Member
 
Join Date: May 2011
Location: 🖥⌨🖱
Posts: 29,243
I gave her a Len 7.
Arcana is offline Follow this poster on Twitter   Reply With Quote
Old 06-09-2015, 14:00
-Sid-
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Sep 2009
Posts: 28,896
It made me realise just how much she'd improved over the course of last series and I probably didn't give her enough credit for that at the time (I'd sort of formed the impression in my mind that she was a secret ringer for whom it was pretty effortless).
-Sid- is offline   Reply With Quote
 
Reply




 
Forum Jump


All times are GMT. The time now is 07:38.