Originally Posted by jtnorth:
“My feeling is that Iwan, while saddled with a tacky song (apologies to people who love it) will attack the cha cha and put on a gutsy performance, definite potential to be an improvement on the tango, and I think there are quite a few people who could score lower than him. We've no way of knowing yet whether people have taken to him, this board can be spot on and it can sometimes be misleading. But either way, if he's in the b2 with Carol, Jeremy or Kirsty surely they'd have to save him?”
Originally Posted by jtnorth:
“Yes, you may well be right - and things like Iwan and Ola looking so unhappy at that bit where they're all meant to smile at the camera while Tess introduces them, and his general slight sense of desperation that won't help him. What was I was trying to say was that regardless of his public vote, I think he's got a fair chance of ending up in the b2 with someone who is worse than him.”
Jeremy, Carol or Kirsty may well be worse than him but I think their fanbases may save them. The only one who perhaps does not have this advantage is Jeremy - but he has cleverley (if not deliberately), positioned himself as the 'crowd pleaser' - much in the same way as Karen's previous partner Hairy Biker Dave did (maybe Karen has a knack for creating this). That will win Jeremy a few weeks more than he probably deserves.
Iwan & Ola have not had a lot of positives going for them from the moment they were paired - there was the claims that Ola was clearly & visibly not happy to get him as a partner (regardless of whether they were true or not), the wardrobe malfunction on Launch Night, the lack of training, dancing a poor tango to an inappropriate song in Week 1, the ridiculous song he has been given for Week 2...it almost seems written in the stars that they will be making their exit on Sunday.
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