I like them all except Lisa so there you go.

Anna turned out the best Charleston I've ever seen, was so pissed off Cassidy won.

That said, he would've been a deserving 2nd.

Yup, that Charleston just got better and better as it went on.

Can I come round yours and do the drying up?! It'll be the first year I've deliberately missed the Xmas show. What an utterly dire line up. I loved Tom when he won with Camilla but he now thinks he's Fred Astaire.

So glad to see Abby returning I loved watching her dances with Alijaz.

Abbey rather

I was hoping for a new line-up of "celebs".

Me too and I'm dying to see how the celebs get on with different pro partners.
Aljaz would have had a tough show otherwise

Awwww Abbey, Lisa, Brendan , ( involving Pasha ) banter on twitter about this Christmas special is so funny and cute

real shame the queen of strictly ***** ALIONA ***** is not included

She's still in the main show - it's only the pros already eliminated or the ones without a celeb this year who are taking part in the Christmas show.

are righty ,that makes sense , i'm just greedy

Not happy about Tom Chambers, didn't like him on the show, didn't enjoy him as a judge on tour last year, plus he spent how long on the West End? ..... doing a ballroom based show!
His 'slot' will be my chance to make a cuppa, I realise that plenty do like him, I'll be rooting for Abbie or Lisa ........ 👍

Abbey is dancing the waltz with Brendan .

Why do people hate Tom so much?

She has danced with Brendan before on Britains Top Model.


I don't know. He was so enthusiastic about dancing, where Rachel was always so reserved.

To be my perfect nightmare line up. I'd have to replace Harry with Russell Grant and Alison with Lisa Riley. Then add in Widdy and Julien McDonald and leave out Cassidy.
Also James Jordan would have to feature .. pref dancing with Widdy!

I bet 10 quid that:

Tom will complain he's been under marked.

Lisa will giggle. And cry. Then giggle again.

Abbey will bleat on about her "nehves" because it's a long time she hasn't danced.

Harry will have delicious arms and will be entirely pleasant.

Alison will still be adorably bonkers even without the magical partnership she had with Aljaz.

Did Tom used to complain?

It wasn't complaining, he was just pointing out the injustice of the fact that the judges hadn't yet given him loads and loads of 10s. And pointing it out over and over and over and over and over and over again. Occasionally demanding them like a petulant 3 year old.

But not really "complaining" per se.

Apart from Cassidy the Strictly fairies seem to have shaken up their celebrity tin and spilled out all the people that I cannot stand on Strictly in one lump. I officially couldn't stand a single one of them during their series. It could only be worse if Bruce was back (oh hang on he is) I won't be watching sadly.

However if Snowdon was to reprise the bacofoil show dance I might be tempted.

Yeah with the exception of Cassidy, this year's Xmas Spesh are all the ones that annoyed me or robbed the ones I wanted to win (or both!).

Guess I was spoiled last year with Rachel and Sophie.

Ones I'd like to see return for a Christmas show one year - Natalie Gumede, Scott Maslen, John Sergeant.

Abbey, fantastic, I just adore this lady, she for me, best SCD contestant ever. The rest of the line up, bleurgh, but I will suck them up just to see Abbey again.

We used to see brand new people (like Elaine Paige etc.)
Much more interesting. We more or less know what we're going to get with this lot. Anti climax.

Elaine had already done a CIN/Comic Relief Special before she did the Xmas Special, so she wasn't entirely new. The same was true of Rochelle in the same year actually, who was the same year. It did suggest rather that they were running out of ideas for people for one-off specials.