I do wonder if Ed's time might be up after his Oooh Aaaah Halloween high.

I just read it was the Jive and thought they just did a flat Jive version, now I can see her hips.

Agree re the Jive/Samba thing - bit confusing.

They will kill off Ed with kindness, so slightly boring quickstep to 'nice' song, unfunny clunky theme (Jeremy Vine's Going Underground mining cart) and some bland 'well done but not quite your dance' faint praise judges' comments.

I do wonder if they will give it a go on his QuickStep.

I kind of feel that Ed has done everything he set out to do on Strictly and could leave on a high with quite a bit of goodwill at this point...

My feeling too LL, I don't think he can top Halloween and his earlier Charleston.

Another one chiming in to say that red carpet dance clip is a samba not jive, I imagine some poor intern wrote the caption or something!

It is going to be at least a good Samba on Saturday and might, just might, be great. Here is hoping her leg stays strong throughout training.

I'll be watching the In Training clips of the other couples with interest!

No Laura and Gio tomorrow so it must be Thursday or Friday for them on ITT.

Well that's a little bit hypnotic, isn't it?

I fail to see what Laura has done to attract such ire besides being pretty and having the audacity to be partnered with Giovanni. Her hips were very decent in the salsa and look to be so in that little clip too, so I'm cautiously optimistic

She is getting a hard time on the MF at the moment from some posters. Fair enough if you don't like her dancing but I don't think she has done anything to deserve these personal comments

The Salsa she danced was good, hip action, armography, amazing spins, so much energy between them. It was the lifts, particularly the middle one that were a little clumsy and interrupted the flow.

With that music and brilliant choreo from Gio Laura has the potential to dance one of the top Strictly Sambas (if her ankle holds up).

There are some posters who have really fixed views and it just isn't worth the debate.

(Unless you list hitting your head against a wall as one of your hobbies and interests )

No I wouldn't call that one of my favourite things to do I am not saying another word, there is no point.

They have got a very good song for a Samba, and so far, Giovanni has been choreographing very well and last week, they did an excellent job with much reduced training time.

They will do their best and quite possibly will be high on the Judges' leader board.

Then all we can do is vote and hope the public will let one of the worse dancers go to the D O.

Please leave out discussion of other threads and posters guys x

Absolutely. There is no point.

Edit: There is an Alert button that DS provides if a post doesn't meet the guidelines - then the Moderators can decide. Its better to leave things to the mods really. (But what Ochre said is absolutely spot on. This thread is on topic for Laura and Gio appreciation).

Fatskia - you are so right. I always think that every week, if one of the bottom 3 judges' scores go home, I might not like it, but it is a fair result.

Discussion of other threads and posters is against the guidelines. A warning was already posted, this thread could just be closed without further warning and that would be such a shame.

This is a place to discuss and appreciate Gio and Laura, I don't understand the desire to bring arguments from elsewhere in here. There's PM too.

Sorry everyone, I think it was me who first hinted at the outside goings-on. I didn't mean to start anything.

Anyway, so we know when they might be on ITT?

I did it too. My lips are sealed (or I am sitting on my hands)

Hello Shap

Don't know re ITT. Other than Thursday or Friday by a process of elimination. Thursdays show is filmed today (I think?), so we might pick up from social media who is appearing.

For some reason, I think that ITT Friday is the 'best' slot to have. The atmosphere is more jolly with the live crowd and I just enjoy the interviews more.

Edit: No Laura Glamour blog this week.. Shame - I did enjoy reading her articles.

Yes I like the Friday slot on ITT too.

Just a note that it doesn't say you can't mention other threads in the T&C and the 'community guidelines' link is broken, I know I had no idea it was forbidden until people mentioned it after I put my foot in it 😳 so it might be worth anyone who knows how to do these things reporting the broken link because some people might not know.

Oh dear. It's like an old fashioned hotel's bell-rope, broken through overuse

I'm in two minds about 'other thread' mentions. Surely that doesn't mean we can't say, 'hey, there's a poll on the MF' or refer approvingly to another thread. It's the derogatory mentions that need to be stamped out. Because they are ones that might be reported to the Mods

I can see them by clicking on "Rules" in the bar just underneath where it says "DS Forums" at the top of the page.

Hi everyone - Just came in to say that I caught the end of Loose Women today and they said Laura will be on the show tomorrow.

Back over i go