Which shoulder is it (left shoulder would cause more problems)?

I guess he won't be doing any leading.

It is going to be difficult to keep his hand in place and adjust without straining his shoulder or losing his posture. It means his brain is going to have to concentrate on that while doing the dance.
Oti probably will not be able to lean on his arm or try to help him make corrections.

Its his right one.

if it was the arm he wasnt doing much with in the jive then I would say right......... who knows tho

he was in training with a sling on and Im pretty sure it was his right arm - could be wrong tho!

and the male must lead the dance.

it's a disaster waiting to happen, it's a shame, because he got potential.

Might take back what I said about seriousness of right shoulder injury against left. If his injury is SO bad that he can't lift his right arm enough to put his hand beneath her shoulder blade then that is a big problem. It will look weird. You could dance without the left arm raised, sort of American Smooth style.

He shouldn't need to take any weight from Oti on most steps, but some steps may put stress on the shoulder as a result of torque.

He shouldn't need to lead. Oti knows the routine. So they can work round that. Some lead is done through the right hand pressure on the shoulder blade but a lot is through body.

i think Oti is a good teacher, my favourite professional after Giovanni.

I don't understand why Anthony was deemed physically able to take part in Strictly. Surely all the celebs undergo a physical? His injury would have ruled him out, I would have thought. It's a shame because I think he has great potential.

i have the same thoughts about Anthony, i would've rather seen him next year, or if he's 100% recovered with his shoulder.

Well, we're guessing about the state of his shoulder, aren't we? I've dislocated both of mine more than once and the recovery time was different each time. A couple of times I was right as rain within a week or so, but once it took about a year to fully heal and for several months I had a very minimal range of movement. It seems they had difficulty signing up male celebs this year (according to James Jordan) and they may just have had to accept he would be restricted (same as they seem to be accepting that Iwan clearly isn't able to commit the time needed).

I have had a few injuries including breaking my arm at the age of 9 that excluded me from participating in P.E at school for at least 6 weeks and on another occassion spriaining my hand that only took up to around 3 weeks so I only had to claim ESA for a short while.

t_macmanusfocus, is that a request or an actual twitter id?

Anthony had dislocated his shoulder and had treatment on it in the past, then in his fight with Schlev in July, he dislocated it again in the 2nd round, had it pushed back into place, dislocated it again in the 3rd round, had it pushed back into place again and finished the 6 round fight fighting with one hand - and won.

Its likely that a lot of damage was done to the joint, so I'll be surprised if it heals quickly.

The main thing is that he doesn't damage it on Strictly, so he will have to be very careful and controlled.
Tough task for Oti on her first series.

Its a pity, as they make a great pairing and would do well if he was fit.

Just looked on twitter and found this tweet from the editor of Closer magazine .
Katie Banks ‏@misskbanks 4h
Caught up with my fave @MrPeterAndre last night taking time out of the quickstep! #teampete #petetowin !


So looks like he has a quickstep then .

Crumbs! Sounds horrendous

Dances and songs on bbc site now.

Katie and Anton are dancing to Telephone by Lady Gaga and Beyonce which is all sorts of twisted.

Can someone post on here

It's enough to test the strongest of faiths, isn't it?

Also, I'm torn about Anita & Gleb; I immediately identified Charleston as the dance I most wanted to see them do after their Cha-Cha-Cha, but two Latins is giving me a twitch.

Ainsley and Natalie will be serving up a Salsa to ‘Don’t Touch My Tomatoes’ by Josephine Baker.
Anita and Gleb will be performing the Charleston to ‘Pencil Full Of Lead’ by Paolo Nutini.
Anthony and Oti will be Waltzing to ‘If You Don’t Know Me By Now’ by Simply Red.
Carol and Pasha will be performing the American Smooth to ‘Isn’t This A Lovely Day’ by Irving Berlin.
Daniel and Kristina will be performing the Charleston to ‘Let’s Misbehave’ by Cole Porter.
Georgia and Giovanni will be Waltzing to ‘Georgia On My Mind’ by Ray Charles.
Helen and Aljaž will be performing the Cha Cha to Uptown Girl by Billy Joel.
Iwan and Ola will be performing the Cha Cha to ‘Sexy And I Know It’ by LMFAO.
Jamelia and Tristan will be performing the Cha Cha to ‘Don’t Cha’ by Pussycat Dolls.
Jay and Aliona will be Waltzing to ‘See The Day’ by Dee C Lee.
Jeremy and Karen will be performing the American Smooth to ‘Happy Together’ by The Turtles.
Katie and Anton will be Tangoing to ‘Telephone’ by Lady Gaga feat. Beyonce.
Kellie and Kevin will be performing the Cha Cha to ‘Don’t Go Breaking My Heart’ by Elton John & Kiki Dee.
Kirsty and Brendan will be performing the Salsa to ‘Can’t Touch It’ by Ricki Lee.
Peter and Janette will be Quickstepping to ‘Valerie’ by The Zutons.

We can, yes. You're doing it right now.

(seven re-used songs there by my count, possibly eight depending on the version of Valerie used)

It's a total of seven different dance styles, the same as week 2 in 2013 and 2014, and compared to those years the only curveball is the inclusion of Quickstep so it's not as odd a mix as it seems at first glance.

Daniel doing Charleston. Oh my.

Just a thought - if we're going to have all the dances and songs confirmed for us so early in the week this year, is there really much point to this thread as there's a separate one created when the songs/dances come out?