That is the thing.Two perfect dancers just kill the mood or two mismatched ones.The wife and I watched Gleb dancing with Natalie and Oti and he may as well have been dancing with a dummy.Dance too perfect .Both women too big and in the case of Oti with all due respect...too different to be appealing to watch as a couple.So too perfect and too big and too different. A. somehow did look good with him and after her intial awe of him there seems to have been a deeper affection where she wanted to nail it to win it with him. Their dances are quite electric even if she places her feet inwards on occasion.I think for me apart from the the obvious touching and caressing....its where she says...."he is my world absolutely ".....do women say that about anybody unless it mean something on a personal level ??

I think he is ambitious and will go far and not just on SCD.He and his wife seem a good couple.She has not been signed up yet but you can tell they both want her to be so I hope she is.

Is that the one where she says " I can't believe I won't see you on Monday ......" ....?

No, it was before that. But I do remember that comment as well.

You're wrong.
I would like to ask you to refrain from repeating Russophobic propaganda which demonizes the country and its leader on this thread. Thank you in advance.

No, Gleb is not going to do it.
There have been talks about his involvement in DWTS season 22.

In fact, they met at a dance studio in Moscow when they were both 18 years old. And when Gleb invited her to America to be his dance partner for the show in 2004 they had only business relationships at the beginning.

His wife is much more ambitious than Gleb. Moreover, I would even call her a locomotive of his dance career.

How do you know this? That's not the impression I get at all

I don't think Maggie is being Russiaphobic by the way. I think we all know that it's not easy to oppose the establishment, well in some cases it's been fatal but I think we should keep politics off this thread I think.

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Thank you.

Thank you Vodka and I agree that politics should not feature in the thread, which was not the point of my post ...

Speaking of Russia, I have a cousin who worked there for a while. His job takes him all over the world, but he always said the most beautiful people in the world are Russian.

I might go there to find myself a husband

I agree with that.She seems to wear the trousers but in a nice way.I seem to remember reading that he will be doing the Russian DWTS and our SCD.She has not been signed up for SCD yet but it appears that they both want her to be as she keeps posting the same link over and over on her twitter and FB where media reports indicate "Strictly bosses considering Gleb Savchenko's wife" She was here all through the series as well and was pictured backstage with various people including Anita and Gleb after EVERY one of their dances.

I do get that it wasn't stellar as an AT, I just mean I'm more forgiving of that. That was already so deep into the competition and Anita just doesn't have the ability (nor could she) to do anything spectacular dance-wise comparable to what the other dance-trained celebs could do.

Elsewhere you mention that you're concerned Strictly might get too show oriented, but I think there's no need to worry about that. Even lots of Gleb and Anita's dances were largely traditional, and some of the other pros and the ringer celebs they have each year ensure that it remains dance-focused. I think the producers do a good job of having a mix of pros and dance approaches to appeal to everyone. It's still a long way from being as shallow and light-on-dancing as Dancing with the Stars.

BiB Sometimes I think the purists downstairs just use the technique moaning to go at couples they don't care for. I just can't imagine that they're so naive as to think Strictly is a real dance competition and that the celebs who haven't been dance-trained can hope to become great in a few weeks.

BiB You and me both. Theirs are the only dances I've repeatedly watched.

BiB: What makes you say so? This had been my thought (with nothing but my imagination to back it up) when people were wondering about her reaction to the all the lusting after him on Strictly. I imagined her pushing Glebster to tweet sexy pics and do the calendar

According to her twitter, she was back and forth between Hong Kong where her daughter goes to school and Russia but was certainly very visible during SCD. I think they are a business oriented couple that promote themselves well, probably with good advisors. Some posters elsewhere go on and on about vanity etc. but I think it's smart to reap the benefits while they can, it is a business after all. They are based in Hong Kong and suspect they don't have any other citizenship except Russian.

I can't help but notice that you started it.

Ок. She just copied the anti-Russian propaganda demonizing my country.

It may be so in your country, but not in mine. I live there and you (and Maggie) have no competence to discuss it.

I agree with that and I hope that this question is closed once and for all.

Just want to add that I have been loving Gleb's partnership with Joanne Clifton during the tour. They look good together and hope we see more of them on the tv show. Many thanks from Canada for all the wonderful clips that fans have posted during the tour.

Didn't know you were from Russia, Lana. We are just going from what we hear on the news in the UK, which is very probably biased to be fair.

It was said a year ago (April 2015) in an interview regarding his future plans: SCD, tour of England and then DWTS, plus another recent source. But things may change. We will know soon if Strictly producers is going to lend out Gleb to Americans.

Joanne is the best female pro on Strictly by a mile. People gush about Natalie but Jo is another league, a genuine world champion in ballroom. People have just taken against her because of who she's related to, she's the one I most want to get a ringer next series.

I think Strictly is a much nicer environment for a dancer than DWTS. There is a hierarchy amongst the pros that doesnt exist on Strictly, basically everyone on DWTS plays second fiddle to Derek Hough. What's happened to Artem should be a lesson. He's been shoved in a dance troupe and not had a partner yet, whereas on Strictly he was the most popular male pro and always got a celeb, three of whom were very good. Fern was his only duffer.

All her actions, words, her very active PR in Russia, plus Gleb's words: "if it wasn't for my wife, I would sit somewhere in Bali and calmly drink a beer." She also helps him with the choreography.

She was here up to the day after SCD voted Anita and Gleb off . Then according to her twitter she went to HK to collect the daughter...over to Moscow (where he joined them ) and then the US.

Apparently Gleb and Anita are having tremendous success on the tour .They have won 6 and runners up on every one of the rest so far.Basically his profile is way up there now.Totally unknown here prior to this.Anita has helped his persona in praising him constantly and basically how she is in awe of him to put it mildy. In training he is quite sharp with her but otherwise Behind the Scenes...he is not and she has said as much.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8z0Ft9nK2U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lySlBevTxCA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcpdRaSbEAU



Problem is he can't change his face and people do assume he is vain.I don't think he is.The wife likes him. One clip she showed me ..... he and Anita are talking to Zoe about the flying Gleb where he lands on her face and Zoe asked him "where is it from" and he did make us laugh where he said..."well I don't know.I just came in on Monday and I said..Anita I have something special for you today......." Brazen and funny at the same time and we are all sitting there accepting it as a bona fida dance move.......

Ive got on very good authority from someone with backstage connections that Gleb is very nice behind the scenes. So are Joanne, Alijaz and Janette, Brendan, Natalie and Kristina as well.

An intelligent, witty woman like Claudia would never obviously swoon over a man who was vacuous and arrogant, she could barely hide her contempt for Peter Andre for this reason.

Ooh nice post and the bib made me really smile. (Btw is Kevin not nice ..? )