Thats becasue mannequins have no legs.

Actually I have a better solution than the bubble wrap. If you want to make a body form for making or adapting your own dresses try this.

Get an old tee shirt, not one you like because its going to be ruined. It needs to be at least as long as mid way down your thigh (past the fattest part). Put it on with nothing underneath.

Then get a friend, and it has to be a very good friend, to wrap you round and round with gaffer tape, like they are mummifying you. Bear with me ladies its not how it sounds. The friend needs to wrap around your upper arms individually and right round your body to mid way down your thighs. It takes 2 or 3 rolls of tape.

Once this is done you won't be able to move si you need the friend to cut you out of it, carefully with scissors using one straight line cut up the back. Then you take it off. Tape up the back and stuff the shape with nespaper (anythign actually) insert a coat hanger before you do so. This allows you to hang it up later when you are working on your dressmaking.

Voila one perfrect you shaped body form.

I don't think Helen is going anywhere, much as I think this dance may not suit her. She'll be in the middle of the board with the judges at least, maybe even still top if her rumba scores are any indication, and I think they'd save her over everyone bar Jay and Georgia.

Actually do you remember on ITT we had a glimpse of the spare trousers drawer.

And then Helen had the spare skirt one dance, see I think this just confirms that Kellie wants to wear what she wears, otherwise she would be raiding the spare skirt and top drawer every week. I mean you would wouldn't you

And one not so perfect you with packing tape burns, scissor blade cuts and an ex best friend 😜

Yeah, but poor Karen had to wear the rejected Helen dress. Think that was the week Helen had the balloon boob dress, so maybe they don't have as much hanging around as we think. But surely they could recycle something from years past?

I do think you're right though, I think Kellie chooses to look like that or Kevin makes her buy into the theme.

The tee shirt protects you from the tape. And it needs to be gaffer tape ( the stuff with reinforcing threads in ) Don't whatever you do get them wrapping you tightly in tape without the teeshirt backing. It wil be a very awkward hospital vist to get it off again.

Well, you say that, but my idiot friends would miss the t-shirt & tape me, as I would them to be fair 😳😂

Also, the temptation to roll them down a hill whilst taped up would be too great for me to resist. 😳😂

Actually exactly the way I got my me shaped dummy. Being short I need to adjust most things, every skirt and dress adjusted, every pair of trousers tailored, I am only 5 foot 1 too, Those shops that have petite ranges , pah , all they are are shorter versions they haven't moved the waists or bust darts etc.

Any wonder I love knits and jersey fabrics !

This is exactly it.

and I know it's been mentioned a thousand times, but this show is meant to be about the progress of a celeb learning to dance. All the remaining contestants bar Anita have had some form of dance training, they have all studied it previously. In terms of progression and a "journey" I think Anita should be applauded for what she has pulled off!

I think she is much more deserving of a spot in the final than at least 4 other contestants.

Ha ha. The image

It does need to be a good friend because you are pretty helpless so it needs to be someone you trust. My friend hada whale of a time. He thought it was hilarious. I wasn't so enamoured, it got pretty hot in there.

Same height as me.

I hope they don't do to Anita what they did last year with Mark Wright, bigging him up and focusing on the beginner angle until he got to the final and then do an about turn and go 'Lol - No. Sorry' .

I thought it was hilarious when they dropped him like a stone but Anita deserves better treatment imo.

No, that isn't what the show is meant to be. That is what it's meant to be to you. It doesn't mean that's what it is or should be to me or anyone else watching.

You get pleasure in Anita's journey? Brilliant. I don't, nor do I have to.

Sighs really, if you want to go against the grain in here, there is some spare armour in the back but really for heavens sake honestly no one cares, you like Anita and think her foot work is fine. I don't and neither does a lot of this thread. Some still,like her.

I have been put off Anita as a dancer by being told repeated by her fans and judges that she is a fabulous dancer, when my own eyes can see the constipated cat faces she pulls and the way she isn't closing or pointing her feet 9 times out of 10.

Anita the person and the presenter I still really like, don't for heavens sake put me off her.

Use the armour if you want or remove your self from the thread but telling anyone in here they are wrong over their feelings is not going to work.

And I for one am heartily board of it. Sighs, any more people want to come out of the woodwork and defend Anita? Because perhaps you could all do so tonight between 3 and 4 .15 I am sure you can all agree amongst yourselves then and feel happy and the rest of us can avoid you and then all of us can be perfectly happy 😃

Shushhhh there are some Spanish native speakers among us!

Not really. This show is entertaining and very popular fluff for prime time Saturday. It isn't meant to be anything bar a ratings catcher. It can be anything you want it to be - appreciation of a "j******!", love of a great dancer, the combination of dance and personality, a wonderful partnership, a great @rse/pair of legs/boobs/torso - who are we to judge? You pays your money (or don't as the case may be) and you vote for whomever you like for whatever reason you like. Even if that reason is merely to piss off a load of other people you've never met, are never likely to meet and don't really care about.

Be glad I don't have an N with a little sqiggle!

And others have just mortally offended Google translate

One of these? Ñ? The joys of usiñg añ iPad 😜😜😜

Vamos, un coñazo!

Indeed! Switching keyboards plus predictor in an iPhone makes for very interesting whasapps.

No, it's really not.
It started as a money spinner for Sports Relief and while that and the Children in Need part have gone west amongst a flurry of mis-named puss cats the original 'Vote for Your Favourite' part remains.

And your favourite can be anyone of the celebs for any reason from the way they jig to the feeme toon, to the pro they're paired with, from doing a cracking dance to half heartedly plopping out a cannon.

Every celeb brings something of their life and job experience to the show, be it ballet, musical theatre, learning pop routines or knowing the ins and outs of live tele. By the time it gets to this part of the competition even the relative dance beginners have had a quarter of a year of intensive one-on-one training so technically no one is now a beginner.

COÑO Thanks muchly. Just what I needed.

And be warned before you google translate that one. But to be fair its used very casually in Spanish. It doesn't have the same connotations or strength to the C word here it seems.

The great thing about speaking a second language is that you can use all the swear words without the inner flinch that stops one using taboo words in one's own language.

The bad thing about speaking a second language is that when you really want to cuss it out of your system the vocabulary doesn't have the same purgeing effect.

I get some brilliant texts and messages from my friend Maria from Madrid.