You only forgot that all the Scots of Stowe clothes seem to heavily feature beige. Which for last night Louise was in full on beige.

I love Oti, but I also just love Danny, so they're like my dream couple

All that stuff is in the latest Coopers of Stortford catalogue Not that I read all that rubbish

She is beige personified. I get the impression she & Jamie call each other Mummy and Daddy even when alone. I actually find her quite scary, in a Stepford sort of way.

And then she is paired with TTF who, for the purposes of Strictly, is 1940/50's twee in human form. All of their dances are going to nice and neat and precise but sterile and TTF will end up wild eyed and flailing as he attempts to inject a bit of pizzaz.

Come finals night, he will be rocking in the corner. He thought he'd finally got a Jill Halfpenny this year - instead he has the standard Strictly girl band pop-bot.

Can you imagine their rumba? Will it be an ode to platonic love? Or will that be the one dance he tries to skip?!

Her outfits are really annoying me. OK, she's a little thicker than she used to be. That's no reason to have a sack. Is there nothing in between "reveal as much as possible" and "sack" that she could wear? That... thing last night showed her legs. How is that allowed Come on wardrobe, it doesn't have to be skintight, but neither does it have to be a variation on "sack".

I cheered when I saw Naga's dress. Yes, it was revealing, but she had obviously resisted the scissors. Considering that her hip action was... er... restrained, the longer length worked better. Wardrobe are too intent on making everything shorter.

One thing with Naga's dress was the underskirt seemed to have been overly shortened so it looked like it needed another row of the gold bugle beads.

I think it is no longer "Poor Louise" but maybe MimsyL or StepfordL or even Beigenapp, as the dresses are her choice.

Sacknapp?


Given that she wore red last week.

Really disappointed in wardrobe, one of the reasons for watching the show are the dresses and then they do this weekend😒

True, I think they started with the underskirt too short. Why, I don't know, but we are in the realms of people who think head to toe fringing is a good idea.

I think fringing must have been on Summer Sale down the market. If it moves, tasselate it seems to be the mantra this year.

It was awful, so disappointed that she's somehow turned Ore so 'meh' in such a sort time

Haven't seen it all, but Go Ed

I'm guessing that Will and Ore were supposed to provide the competition for Danny, with Will not being as good as expected and Ore being paired with Jo's choreography, Danny could walk it, or it could make way for one of the girls to sneak through on a journey.

Unappreciating the fact that, after all this time, Toss and Claude still totter on stage like two apologetic little housewives, overcome with terror, forced to make a terrifying public speech at the WI Summer Fest.

For f***s sake, you are grown women (not girls) with day jobs on television, and in the public eye. A lot.

What's with the simpering, clumsy, faffing and giggling?

And fast forward.

Unappreciating all the judges bar Darcy this year.

Darcy - you've found your flow. To hell with the others. Give that woman her own bar tender.

For me the absolute star this year is the beautiful Oti. Boy can that girl choreograph a routine!

And she is a spellbinding dancer. Love watching her. She's fabulous.


As for Danny Soap Boy - I don't really care about his utter lack of any personality and his blank canvas of a moron face, as long as he can keep up that dancing and let her shine.

This should be her year.

Mr Wigeon and I had a device free Saturday so I couldn't read or post here until this morning. Bereft.

Firstly, I think Vicky Giggles needs to hoof it down to Superdrug and stock up on Tubigrip, cos she's going to have to stitch it into a fair few costumes given all the injuries occurring. Greg's thighs, Will's pulled something and Anasrasia's mystery malady - it's like a Strictly Casualty Mash Up.

Secondly, I need to allow Dannimac to be his own man. Because at the moment he is face of Peter Duncan (circa Blue P) and personality of Mark Wright just because he's soapy and I hadn't heard of him. But he does scrub up well, seems fairly modest, and appears to work very well with Lovely Oti.

Incidentally, while Vicky's down the shops she might want to pick up a 'Doreen' for Oti because she has NO support last night!

Naga - fit, gorgeous, bright - should be able to dance but so can't.
Such fun.

Working out the the changes to the roles in the professionals.

Tony Beak is still Anton
Brenda has become an alternative Robin without the soft exterior.
Aljaz has become Brenda
Pasha has become Curtains
TTF is the shorter persons Darren
Giovanni is Pasha
Gorka is Vincenth

Karen is the new Erin
Goddess Nat is still Natalie
Jwanne is another Camilla
Oksana is a cross between Kristina & Iveta
Katya reminds me of Flavia
Oti seems to be unique but channelling Ourleona
Janette is Ola

How things change but still stay the same.

I got the feeling the production is 'managed' to the nth degree to get any natural flair out of the person ...
I LOVE Oti in all her glory .... I am glad she's got an able celeb to work with
Oksana is doing brilliantly too ...

It's Nat and Oti all the way for me
I actually think Nat did well to get jive and tango out the way early doors - now she can weave her ballroom magic.
Smug Oti is just glorious in every way. That's how to have personality without overshadowing your partner.

Jwann has managed to emasculate Ore and put him back into the safe kid's presenter box in 2 weeks. How can a sexy man, a fireman's pole, hot stuff and more innuendo than a Benny Hill show end up being so pre-watershed?

Have you ever been to Grimsby? It's not exactly a hot bed of passion. 'Hot stuff' in Grimsby means a nice new checked blanket and a mug of cocoa.

I feel a tad mean saying this but I'm going to do it anyway.
Louise is meh. Good but meh.

She's 200g of meh creamed with 250g of meh, add 250g of sieved meh, beat in three mehs and mix to a meh consistency before putting in the oven at meh degrees, remove, ice with meh and decorate with meh.

She makes Rachel Stevens look like personality personified.

I am not, thus far, a fan. I'm not sure if that comes across.

I'm kinda with you there but I have enjoyed both her dances - although not her hair! Saying that she did do Kevin's little kick he always does at the beginning of the show which surprised me, think he will start rubbing off on her and she will come out of her shell a bit more.

I live about 40 miles away and have family there
They neither talk like Jwann or have the urge to cover the table legs for fear of frightening the Vicar
I think The Family Clifton live in Pleasantville minus it's Jennifer

Totally. She makes Frankie Bridge look edgy.
I think she is this year's Georgia for me - nice, competent, pretty and utterly forgettable - which for someone partnered with TTF is some work.

Ore, what a pity he wasn't paired up with Katya. That would have been glorious.

Will, very disappointing. But Karen has improved massively in my estimations.

I like Louise. I think there is more to her than appears. She and Tristán would have been more fun.

Still can't stand Gorkas accent. Too close to home! But I like him

Don't care about DannyBot lack of personality. His dancing, face and more importantly Oti fab dancing and choreo make up more than enough for me. Great VW choreo.

Agree with everyone about Louise's dresses. Why don't they just glue some sequins onto a sack to save some money?