How can we forget.? I am still recovering from your screen shot of her as the blow up nurse doll, fingering her butt while leering to camera...
Last edited by MorticiaA : 02-12-2015 at 13:40

Indeed.
This series I've seen him as hot doctor, hot mummy and hot mechanic.
All I need to do is work out how to persuade the Strictly producers to introduce a theme week entitled " topless Aljaz and topless special guest star Artem wrestling in chocolate sauce to music" and I'll be a very happy little ovary voter.
Aside from the outfits and the tight trousers, Aljaz does come across as a really nice guy, and he does seem to genuinely want to give his celebs the best possible experience. His choreography always seems to be geared to making his partner look as good as possible - it's never all about him.

Unappreciating I'm supposed to be going to the theatre on saturday, tickets booked months ago and I've got a stinking cold.

I've said it repeatedly over the years so it could have been me Only a few of the pros over the years have started with teaching the basic steps and then moving on to incorporating them into a routine. However, it did happen more in the earlier series' when they actually danced a proper attempt at a recognisable 10 dance.


Hope you're not so battered today Tabby

I would unappreciate pulling a muscle in my back that was torn earlier this year, but instead I need to unappreciate standing up in the wrong place in the attic and giving that tender spot a huge thump, as if it wasn't bad enough already. Hmmmph.

Aww, honey, get well soon xxx

You speak my mind I cannot stand it and even the version done by the Pros has me cringing and generally wanting to chuck stuff at the telly. It's over exaggerated when it should be a beautiful dance of love and poetry in motion.

Having said all of the above, if given a contemporary twist (while maintaining enough basic to keep Len happy) the rumba can get more of a feel of an unconventional pas de deux and blow me away. But I've never seen that done on SCD.


Awww hon, get some Deep Heat sprayed on it toot suite!

Kara and Artem got it right though didn't they? I can't actually remember noticing Artem which means he can't have been doing too much of that exaggerated hip swiveling/undulating. Seemed to choreograph to all the right accents in the music etc. I remember it wasn't in the least cringe anyway.
Trouble is, it's no good Aliona being the focus here .. she needs to showcase Jay and how you do that in a rumba I don't know .. without making the male celeb look like a twit. I'm not keen on the much celebrated Colin Jackson one .. it's too 'Ian Waite' for me I trust in OurLeona though .. of course I do!

I think in a weird way that many of the characteristics of certain dances have been exaggerated on SCD over the years. Paso and tango have to be snarling, face-pulling aggressive things. AT must be at least half ganchos. Rumba is writhing and looking constipated. Jive - kick and flick and kick and flick.

It's weird, because a lot of the others have become quite watered down. Cha cha, salsa and samba do genuinely run into each other, as seen by Kellie's generic Latin with lifts. Foxtrot and waltz frequently are indistinguishable. Very odd.

Sorry I went back and edited and added a bit more in. Yes Kara is probably my second favourite of all the female rumbas we've had on SCD but hers isn't typical because of the added background of what was happening between her and Artem.
So we get to see a romantic emotional rumba because they WERE romantic and emotional - if you see what I mean?

My favourite is probably Natalie Gumede's. It's one of the few of her routines (add in Artem's more contemporary styling) where I think she did show an emotional connection to the dance itself not just a clinical demonstration of the steps and her technical ability to perform them.
And it had lots of balletic styling with the arabesques and arm choreography which appealed to me.


Absolutely yes! It's like they've almost become a parody of the dance highlight just one aspect of it rather than the whole beautiful package. For me nothing is more beautiful in ballroom than a well performed Foxtrot, it's elegance and grace and finesse and refinement and glamour.
But that's when danced by someone like Fred and Ginger!

I am unappreciating that I've been going around today looking as though I've been pulled through a hedge backwards, because my hairdryer started emitting an alarming smell of burning when my hair was only half-dry. Now I'm scared to turn it on again, but it's a Parlux that cost a bomb so I don't want to junk it. I'm due a haircut on Friday, dare I take it along and ask my hairdresser's advice or would that be weird?

Is there a fluff filter that might need a good clean out?

Must be a British thing then

Why weird? I'd go for it...but I'd also google it

Nobody tell Sofakat about that AT training I actually burst out laughing 😳

In that case everyone needs to tell her!

I watched from behind spread fingers as soon as I had seen that sacada. If that doesn't imporve she should end up at the bottom of the pack. She won't though because so long as she looks as if she wants to be ravished the judges will love it.

Unappreciating that I have spent years trying to achieve a double bounce action and it seems I have wasted my time. Aliaz says you bounce just once in samba.

Kitkat. I agree check the filter.

Cell Block Tango for AT? WHAT? The last thing I danced on stage was Cell Block Tango and I was a murderess (Pop)!


I lurve Mark Kermode (he's brilliant) and I utterly despise and loathe that cretin Danny Dire Dyer. ugh!


What training? Where? Tell me! NOW!

Ian Waite's look at Anita & Gleb's AT, it's hilarious, terrible and weirdly fascinating all at same time. Don't think you'll be impressed. 😂😂😂

I think you might be again on Saturday unless someone holds you back. It won't be me though. I will be holding your instruments.

I was horrible at the AT when I tried to learn it, and I love Anita, but that training looked...

...somewhat less than amazing...

Drums fingers waiting for Sofakat to catch up.

If that AT still looks like that on Saturday, this could be the epic mess of awful that PP let us down so badly with.

Sofakat is going to burst a blood vessel and that's just from 15 seconds of training video.

But it will a performance! probably overmarked and for sure every fan will cry undermarked!

I am popping off to the far galaxy of DS called General Discussion. I am sure I will hear her when she returns', even from there.

Is that weird low to the floor one leg stretched out twirl powered by a geriatric mixer, the new must do move for AT? 😨