I'm also warming to Danny as the weeks go on. There is a personality in there, maybe he was nervous about live TV early on!

Just catching up on ITT

That spare bloke Pro dancer is still too eager and still annoying me.


Is he related to the Cliftons?



Can someone please get Nancy's glitter coffin out of the Props store and lock him in it?

Totally unappreciate the Halloween theme. Despise Halloween too.

Don't care what they wear. Has zero effect on me. Just dance well for heaven's sake.

Although in some cases makeup and a cossie is a blessing when you're TTF or pimply Brenda! Disguise.

It also gives some 'glam' where none exists *eye roll*

I blame myself.
I assumed - extremely good looking guy, extremely good dancer - I assumed he would be big headed and in love with himself.

I assumed wrong.
I'm just enjoying watching him dance without being annoyed at all.

No, just desperate. Wish he'd bog off. I do not like anything abut him.

Same here - cannot stand it and refuse to have anything to do with it. Don't open the door on Halloween as despise the idea of trick or treat.

And as for shoe-horning dances in to inappropriate music just because it contains the word 'magic' or 'spell' - just let them dance properly FFS.

I just scoffed some Halloween mini buns. They had fondant eyeballs on them.
From M&S - not bad. Eyeballs were a bit sickly though.




Re Halloween unappreciating........... at least this year it is a Jordans free zone.
Small mercies and all that.

I have got to get this out of my system. I do not think it's an incredibly high standard this year. I think it's a very average year.

Me too on Strictly and in general. I simply don't get the occassion. Why are all the dead people it portrays (which is questionable already) the victims of some bloody demise, that means they spend eternity in ripped clothes and covered in blood. Most people meet their maker in their Sunday best or whatever respectable or favourite outfit their loved ones bury them in.

ick!

Erm, maybe more like Carrie Fisher...


BIB - Yes and Yes. No wonder he pulls funny faces, because he's been given funny - according to some - routines. Maybe he would pull a romantic face for a romantic routine? I do hope we'll find out soon!

And - completely devoid of unappreciation - like many here, I rather like Danny. Enjoy his dances, and find him and his partnership with Oti quite pleasing - not artificial, not trying too hard to be 'someone'. Just rather likeable.

Another post I agree with.

Each year I'm amazed how much parents will pay for Halloween costumes for their kids, it's all peer pressure. Looking at how much space stores are prepared to devote to Halloween stock is indicative that it's grown to being really big business. Probably helps to off-set the yearly decline in sales of Easter eggs.

You'd think costume sales would decline after Claudia's little girl got so badly burned when her store bought costume caught fire.

I think Asda is responsible for a lot of the Halloween merchandise filling our stores.
They are American owned and because Halloween is so huge over there, they go crazy with stock and their rival stores have followed suit to try and compete.

Hmm, his faces in the American Smooth weren't much better than his latin faces. I have a feeling that when he goes into 'performance' mode he can't control the faces he pulls; his attempts at paso (tango?) faces on ITT this week were no better.

I'd never heard of him before this and although he appears to be rather witty, those faces are enough to put me off.

I'm already sick of being told how wonderful Louise's Charleston is going to be - maybe its just me but it didn't look THAT great in the training footage? It just feels so blatant that its being hyped up as "the" dance of the night and will probably get 10s chucked at it just because they want someone different to top the leaderboard for a change.

I know the Cliftons aren't too popular in here, personally I like them - but Louise just bores me. I wouldn't miss her at all if she left soon, barring a major breakthrough (as in an actual one, not being told she's had one!) I hope she doesn't get to the final.

I think Jwann might be contacting James for tips on how to shake off a super invested celeb.

The Charleston is being set up as her performance breakthrough - the sign posts have been pointing in her direction all week. We can only hope she pulls a Greyson-jive and cocks up on the night, leaving the judges flustered as their carefully-constructed scripts and 10s fall to the wayside...

Mark Wright! That's who he reminds me of... been vexing me for weeks that has. Thank you

The Charleston is only on the dance card these days to be 'your breakthrough dance'. How many times is it now? It must be pushing injury porn for top slot storylining.

Nah, Danny is far more clued up than Mark Wright. He knows that Oti has his name written on her hand to remind her who is and that he is only there as glitterball facilitator Ore is the one who has taken over the weepy humble crown 👑

(Overtone second from right as you look at the tele - is that Danny sorting out life after Strictly? )

Though it pains me to say it (because I honestly thought he'd be my favourite), Ore does seem to have constructed a 'media persona' that he thinks will play well with the Strictly audience.

Well, it's turned me right off ya, mate!

Maybe it's just the accent and how he finds the training so hard every week, together with the severely limited vocab on ITT. Honestly... um... honestly... um... Really! Etc. Seems like a match. But I dunno. A lot of Mark Wright's qualities have disappeared from my memory.

Ore's emotions aren't under control but that's a good thing in my book. I like the unpredictability of him and Jo. Wonderful umbrella routines or the pushbike. Who can tell what we'll get?

I think Ore is genuine, he comes over that way. He's certainly no Peter Andre who probably had everything to say on ITT written down for him before the show with all the big words spelt phonetically.

I do like him more than Danny, who I like but don't love. I am finding the weekly stuff about how hard it all is a bit off-putting. Ditto his comment the other day that he'd have been happy to gets 2s from the judges - yeah right!

I was chuffed when he was announced - like him on Breakfast and <shallow mode> he's easy on th eye. He seems to have cherry picked all the bits of past celebs that irritated me (Dr Hammy/Greyson/MDF) and mounded them into one. I do still like him but he's on thin ice