Nope, that would be the Del Monte Fruit Salad Samba/Salsa/whatevs, with the Frey Bentos Tango coming a close second. It had as much to do with Argentina as a tin of corned beef but about the same amount of bull.

That made me genuinely LOL and few things are doing that at the moment, so I had to POTD it.

What a lovely way of putting it. That's just how I feel.

I think Even if Danny doesn't win he's got a long career ahead of him. I do want him to though because I feel like him and Oti are the only ones fighting for proper ballroom dancing in a show that is increasingly becoming all about Latin. His quickstep in the top hat and tails was brilliant, same with their waltz and american smooth. Every other pro seems to base their ballroom around props and gimmicks, but Danny and Oti don't.

This is so true... Louise's dances looked SO week 1. People (not in here obviously!) sneered at me for daring to suggest she's not improved, but she really hasn't. Any result other than her leaving this weekend will be awful IMO, she's so far behind the others its not even funny and when you consider that she used to judge dancing for a living, well....

Oo, thank you

Like others have said, I don't find Danny sexy (sorry if you're reading this, Danny) but I do think he's a lovely bloke and he seems very caring. He is the sort of bloke who would be your very best friend and you could have all sorts of laughs with, and tell him anything knowing he wouldn't hold it against you. I have a male friend like that and he's my life saver, I love him to bits but only in a platonic way. We just get each other, and I think Danny would be like that. And I want him to win because I think he is a superb dancer and I love watching him.

Completely agree.
She started out as really quite good, and has remained quite good. There just isn't anything about her that makes her stand out from the others. On actual dancing she should definitely be in the dance off, and IMO, booted out. But I strongly suspect that she is a shoo-in for the final. ( For once I have resisted the temptation to look at the spoiler, so I could well be all kinds of wrong ).
I do feel a bit sorry for her. She is utterly inoffensive, and some of the bile directed at her has been OTT. It's not her fault she was lumbered with the man who puts the grim in Grimsby and the ridiculous overdancing into bloody everything. For all we know she could be one high knee lift from giving Kev a right hook.
Actually, maybe not a right hook. Perhaps a slightly strongly worded telling off, before sending him to his bedroom with no dinner.

Brilliant comment!

It was a turd of a dance

If he did this to raise his profile and get people to see him differently, he has succeeded. Very good move on his part and that of his agent, whoever they are.

I don't find him remotely sexy, but have been surprised at the way he has gradually emerged as a very likeable guy when I feared he would be another tasteless tool like Mark Wright.

I would add Ore to people who haven't improved, he peaked around about the jive and both he and Loiuse seem to coast along expecting praise, sadly getting it too.

Incidentally I now see a family failing from the Clifton siblings, they don't appear to understand their partners or be able to correct their faults as teachers.

Telling Loiuse she's brilliant hasn't worked, she looks scared stiff half the time, and telling Ore he is brilliant also hasn't worked, he needed some of his bumptious ness knocking out of him, but he has fallen for it hook line and sinker.

I have never got the Clifton family dynamics, winning even if it is the silly ITT challenge seems to matter much to much to both of them. You know both are desperate for that glitterball and if both are in the finals there will be no supporting your family from them.
If they do that I want Danny or Cloudier to sneak past the sibling rivals straight on through to that glitter ball.

Interesting Interview with Danny on This Morning about why he decided now was the time to do Strictly.

He definitely has never learned how to find the camera.

Yeah, I expected him to be another "Cheeky Chappy Cockney Spiv" like Mark Wright but he's absolutely fantastic. I just get mesmerised by his dances and I think he'd be amazing in something like Singin' in the Rain or West Side Story.

Indeed

I feel that THIS is his 'J', his perceived arrogance etc at the start, to showing us some of the REAL Danny Mac.
In his initial interview he said that being himself worried him, adding 'I didn't become an actor to be myself'.
I'm another who expected a very different persona, don't fancy him (though he is easy on the eye), but I do like the person he's shown himself to be, which seems a gentle, all around nice guy.

Or as our mothers would say "A nice young man" that you would not be worried about meeting the relatives.

BIB - unlike Ore!

Yes, thanks for this. Very interesting - and he comes across very well.

Yep. As MY mum said to my girlfriend, "See, that's the type of bloke you want to take home to meet your parents, isn't it?" whilst I was sat in the room with them...

You have a wicked Mum.

See for me the issue is squarely with Louise - though I do feel a degree of sympathy as her husband looks like he is in a coma whenever he comes to 'support' her, and genuinely seemed repulsed by her dancing so close to Kevin. I mean, he feels threatened by Kevin, really!? There is a marriage in crisis if ever there was one!

Actually her week 1 jive was probably better than whatever she did last night. But that tango was hideous in every way possible for me - I still feel angry about that glitterball conveyor belt b****cks. What on earth was that all about? Some sort of subliminal message about how many glitterballs Kevin will need to win before the PTB finally give him a duffer?

That's a more rational explanation than anything I've come up with so far.

While you're on a roll, have you got any ideas about what Joanne's week 1 bike riding, bench bothering, horn rims wearing tango was all about? I keep pondering about it in moments of quiet, but I've still not come up with anything remotely coherent, or sane for that matter.

Its like they get an idea and roll with it regardless of the song.

in danny its admirable.

in louise it seems to be almost anaethmic.

thems the breaks

I was thinking something similar. I've been very tough on Louise (her dancing bores the knickers off me) but I have noticed that her other half really does seem to hate watching her getting up close and personal with someone else, even if that someone else is also married and looks like Kevin (sorry Kev but you must know what I mean ). For the first time this series, I actually felt sorry for Louise; part of the reason she can't properly let herself go may well be that Jamie is there every week glaring poison daggers from the sidelines.

Have I stumbled into the Danny Mac appreciation thread? The encomiums above would fit right in with the gushing found in some of the long-established threads upstairs


I remember various bags and suitcases and phone boxes and piers and a leap last night that made me think Greg the Jumper had returned.

Yeah, but I don't understand their ideas.

Is the bench, or the conveyor belt or the bike some sort of metaphor? Maybe I just don't get the zeitgeist of now?

Thank goodness Kafka isn't so impenetrable.