I have loved Anita from the first dance when she was clearly clearly capable and she gave a woo cos she was loving it. Think she has been consistently underscored but Glebs choreography is simply stunning and the marks will have to get better. The tango tonight was top class and I look forward to seeing them each week.

Anita is fabulous, and I do not understand the under marking.

She's a total sweetheart too. Loved her when she was featured on Who Do You Think You Are?

Loved the tango. Personally I think she is marked fairly. Her dances are brilliant (concept, music, choreo, wardrobe) but I don't she isn't technically as good a dancer as she appears hence giving the impression of being undermarked.
I think she is incredibly lucky to have Gleb as her pro partner, anyone else (bar alijaz maybe) and she would not be perceived to be as good as she is with Gleb's routines.
I absolutely adore Gleb (not just because he is gorgeous) but I can see her lacking in some aspects.

I thought, relative to others dances, she was very much undermarked. Great choreo, and danced very, very well.

The scoring itself was respectable, though one 9 would be deserved. Then when everyone else was scored, I couldn't help thinking how the best dance of the night (imo) was being over looked.

It seemed obvious to me that much of the scoring is already calculated before the show. It seems some dances on the night that should have been good, have a mishap or are danced under par, but they are still marked on expectation. Some dances tonight, that were meant to be show stoppers just weren't danced to their full potential. They still got high scores.

Not once watching Anita did I feel nervous for her. She was confident in her steps. Most of the other dances tonight you could see wobbles and issue that make you less confident.

My sentiments exactly. I have also wondered if they have already decided on the marks prior to the show. .. from the final run through prior to the show perhaps?

If I may:

Anita only appears to be a good dancer but technically she's not? That's odd. IMO, you can't appear to be a good dancer if your technique is seriously flawed. SCD, at least, is not like figure skating where you're still deemed to be a bad skater when you take off from the wrong edge even if you land a triple jump cleanly and appear to be very, very good.

If it's relative or comparative marking then Anita's been consistently under marked compared with the high scores they're dishing out to others.

All strictly celebrities are lacking in something but let's give credit where it's due. Gleb is great. He's my No. 1 pro currently but all pros are of the same calibre (except perhaps Anton's Latin) and since he's the newbie; I think it's he who got lucky in the pairings. Anita can dance extremely well and she has the right frame and size, enabling Gleb to slot in throw-heel-clicks; flips; etc. in the choreography. You think he would or could even consider putting a between-the-legs flip in his tango if he was dancing with Carol?

I don't mind new ideas being incorporated into the dances so long as they're not too much of a departure from what they're supposed to be and there's (for example) enough in hold during the Ballroom. I don't think Artem always got that balance right and I don't think Gleb has (Charleston, VW) or always will. But I can't fault the Tango choreography, it was different and exciting but still clearly a Tango with plenty of steps (just wish the music had been different - an orchestral arrangement of Sweet Disposition would have worked better I think, or something different altogether). When the Artems and Glebs do get it just right, their routines are brilliant and memorable.


I don't think that's giving Anita enough credit. From the way she applies herself and her natural ability to perform, I think she'd make a good partner for quite a few of the pros. I wouldn't say it's just a case of Gleb's choreography making Anita look good - she's making his choreography look good too. It's a team effort, both are bringing something to the table. It's just a case of refining her raw talent.

She has been a revelation to me and is definitely one of the better dancers, I don't want her to win though.
I cannot get past that she is a truly terrible presenter, which is her day job, though. She just grates on me, so I would rather someone else won.

I LOVE Anita and Gleb! I agree she truly has been a revelation and I hope so much she makes the final.

I'm so glad this thread is here. I thought I was watching a different show to everyone else! Anita is my favourite - and that's unusual for me, I love the programme but I'm not usually too fussed who wins. I trust in the public.
ANITA and Gleb or win.

I like Anita and I think she is a good presenter too IMO. I think she is an extremely articulate and driven person and I see no wrong in that.

I love these two. I think her and Jay are my top two at the moment.

I would love to see them do Paso Doble, Salsa and Argentine Tango and possibly Jive. Thaughts of their Paso Doble and Argentine Tango are genuinely exciting pospects.

Indeed she has been a revelation. Along with Kellie she's probably the most consistent celebrity taking part, and the best all rounder - I don't think she's done a bad dance yet. Whether she has the popularity to win I'm not sure, but she certainly has the ability to reach the semi's at least.

Apologies, I think I was unduly harsh with Anita on my earlier post.
Just to explain myself, someone who appears to be better than technically is, is someone who excels at performing the dance from a expressive and musical way, which I think Anita does. Technically (ie how perfectly she executes her steps and the difficult of such steps) I believe she isn't quite as good as some of the others. I speak from experience in my case (not ballroom) but when I used to danced people always commented how good I was, yet I have little rhythm and can't learn a routine for toffee. But I am great at perfoming and very musical, so I could perform it really well, but technically I wasn't strong at all.
I don't think that all the pros are of the same caliber at all. Some are great at everything, some are just great at something or some dances.

I agree on the first paragraph.
On the second, too. I just don't think people are giving Gleb enough credit for her success.

I didn't know that much about her before SCD. I've occasionally watched Countryfile and seen her but not loads. That WDYTYA episode was one of the best I have seen. It was such a shock at the end! What a story.

I look forward to her dances every week and she has never disappointed me. Of course it's down to Gleb choreography too but I honestly think she would have been just as good no matter who she was with.

Agree with this.

Considering she's never danced before she's doing amazingly well, she could surprise us as the public vote often gives credit to those who make the biggest 'journey' (sorry for using THAT word).

But she needs to avoid a dance off against any one of the celebrities with dance or stage training as the judges will vote for the 'better' dancer.

I had never seen Anita before that episode of WDYTYA, which was one of the most moving and most shocking I have ever seen. For someone without dance training or experience, she is doing fantastically well, which is what this show was supposed to be about. Gleb, as well as being astonishingly good-looking, is coming up with some brilliant, exciting choreography. Together they have amazing chemistry, which is the indefinable ingredient that makes a pair special.