With regards to Danny and Oti I've noticed the line used disparagingly towards her. I, too, find it difficult to comprehend how someone could watch that samba for example and not recognize Oti as the pro. Danny worked his tush off and it showed but to say it was difficult to separate the two or worst he looked like the pro is frankly bizarre.

I keep thinking about that awful outfit Joanne was given to wear.

Awful skirt that looked like dirty net curtains that have been trough a shredder.
Pin stripe top with a blouse like that of an Edwardian lady.
The only thing missing was a Cameo brooch.
So maybe the story was she had lost her brooch and looked under the table for it.
Louise was also helping her look for it because she couldn't take her eyes off the floor.

Yes, that must be it.

I think it's just one of those things people say when they don't know what to say. Like when you tell someone their new hairdo looks amazing and takes years off them, when you really want to say 'bloody hell, I haven't seen a hairdo like that since the Bay City Rollers broke up'.

I'd just say 'it captures the Zeitgeist of now'

You've been dying for an opportunity to use that haven't you Aggs

And congratulations again.

This weeks offering from jo7 over on the BBC site, enjoy

To be honest it really did look like a zeitgeist version of Mary Poppins complete with a play suit.

But I have no idea why Mary Poppins would wear a play suit, dance a paso, or need to prop up a billiard table at the end of the dance.
I think it's one of those things it's just better to explain as , it is, rather than find a logical reason for it.

We never did find out about the bicycle, fire mans hose, stuffed trousers with sweeties.
Oddly enough all these things were choreographed by Jo.

When you add them up with the Rose tiara and glitter wellies from ITT and the lobster suit somewhere along the line there appears to be a disconnect with normality that is beyond most people's comprehension.

They just are.

Acceptance is the only way or you may enter a well of unknowing that may completely frazzle your brain.

Like Jo's

To be fair, I don't think Joanne choreographed the sweeties down the trousers Charleston. However, having said that, I presume that as external choreographers are creating a dance for a particular couple, they work with them to reflect their character and abilities. You're not going to try and fob off Oti with twee, and you'd be a fool not to take Claudia's gymnastic abilities into account, and that Charleston reflected the stop-starty choreography I've come to associate with Joanne, never mind her perplexing psyche.

And now, PoorOre has to be Willy Wonka. I hope in his head he's not seeing himself as the Johnny Depp version ... because between Joanne (Violet Beauregard*? Verucca Salt? Mrs Bucket?) and Ward Robe no chance. They got a full pack of those carpet tiles - it's a wig, at least.

I wonder, if at the end of the series he ever hears Robbie Williams 'Candy' he will hide behind the couch, curled in a ball and have to be calmed with a Hobnob?

(* that would be worth it just for the challenge to makeup and props, and to see what Bruno could come up with. Would make Gavin turning Katya bad by messing her hair and changing her frock look very small fry)

Considering that the Producer seems happy to throw Joanne and Ore under the bus, possibly to deflect from their Pro Kevin Agenda, I'm fully expecting Joanne to be dressed as an Oompah Loompa

No, on the contrary, I though he did really well and gave it his all. They are great together and I think it's a very strong partnership.

Ah, but you should know by now that senses sometimes have to be blunted to avert meltdown of horror.


Yes. To be blunt, the problem is how short and sturdy Cloudier's legs are, and this lifts just emphasised that, over and over. They were ugly. I love that she can do them, but they could have been made more graceful and less flashy. Did her no favours at all.


Lovely man. Despite any public bitching about him, it looks to me like he was very popular.


*Applause* Post of the day for me!

That's true

Daft, isn't it - for all that Ore can make me eye rolly on Strictly when he pops up on Breakfast like yesterday, he reminds me why I do actually like him. Man has charisma in his day job.

I think TPTB might have backed the wrong Clifton.

No, I am not a Clifton fan, but if Jwann won over her silly brother I'd find it very amusing. Just to see TTF's appalled fake smile would make my day.

More entertaining for me would be for the 2 Cliftons and Oti and Danny in the final. Doti lifts the glitter ball and Kevin and Joanne end up in a full blown punching and screaming brawl on the floor over who came second

Then Brucie makes a surprise return brandishing The McFly Memorial Broom.

I find the treatment of Ore & Joanne utterly baffling (for the record I really like them). Some weeks they have been hyped to the hills and given very generous scores, others they get lumped with some absolutely dire music/theming/costumes and treated like an afterthought by the judges. It's bizarre. That Charleston was a complete mess by any stretch of the imagination - hideous concept!

fully expect the producers to copy Laura and Vals set etc for Ore and Jo - looked ok but was a very odd waltz think FT will fit better - though don't like it when they copy DWTS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axmTPPwLmgo

Should be no doubts this year if they follow the usual format for 3 couple final.

It would be entertaining, but not my first choice outcome.


This, on the other hand, is what I'm praying for! Although, on second thoughts, as it's a 3-person final we'll know who came second/third won't we?
edited to add - just seen Mona's post, she beat me to it!


Make. It. So.


This has been perplexing me too. They seemed all set for a Danny-Ore-battling-it-out storyline then it seemed to get forgotten. Now it seems to be back again. Maybe they got distracted by Ed's usurpation of the Komedy Krown?

The awful person that is in me somewhere would LOVE to see that!

I can't work it out for love nor money
They get a genuine NDB momentum going with the AS, jive and ... Waltz? ... and then derail it completely with the Charleston. I don't think they'll ever pull it back now, to be honest.

Everything about it was wrong. It was like it was a dance ear marked for another celeb shuffled across to them last minute.

I have wondered, if in the storyboard of the mind of TPTB they wanted a Mr&Mrs battle -not having learnt anything from the one they tried to engineer for the Jordan/Logan year - and were aiming to pit Kevin and Louise against Will and Karen?

The storylining this year has been odd - nothing seems to last longer than 2 weeks
Louise wears frumpier clothes than Mrs Overall then tah-dah leotard and leg warmers.
Nope, still no breakthrough let's try a Charleston.
Or an AT.
Rob Rinder is Komedy.
No, he's a NDB.
No, he's Komedy.
Ed is a NDB
No, he's Komedy ... no, that's Rob ... let's make Rob a NDB then
No, that's Greg - he's a NDB sportsman.
What about Ore?
He's a NDB ... oh heck.
What about the other woman?
Don't worry about them, they're all injured and dropping like flies.