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Old 06-10-2016, 17:59
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I'm going on a combination of dance level plus cliched pigeon-holing...

Anastacia- Claire King, Pamela Stephenson, Zoe Lucker –quite good, strong older woman, “big personality”
Claudia- Danni Harmer/Louisa Lytton v good dancer, young, cheerful, “babied” for age & height
Daisy- Jodie Kidd- quite good, fairly relaxed, good SOH, TALL
Danny- Ricky Whittle- looks getting in the way of discussing actual dance ability, criticised for having looks over personality
Ed- Don Warrington- reserved older guy who doesn’t get to stay long enough to relax into the show and reveal more of their personality. Not completely bobbins- just a bit.
Greg- Ben Cohen (pre divisive relationship issues) Steve Backshall- very likeable guy who people would like to do well, but is only ok at dancing.
Laura – nope. Can’t think of another non-neurotic, talented female presenter without dance experience.
Lesley- Stephanie Beacham, although this doesn’t really work beyond the cougar cliche and Lesley’s a good dancer. We’ve had too few good dancers of >60.
Louise- Rachel Stevens- pop singah ringah, pleasant, pretty, deemed beige by some.
Melvin-DJSpoony –cheerful, likeable, small amount of ability but a DJ and therefore not much fanbase within the Strictly audience
Naga- Kirsty Gallacher –fit&sporty but wooden at dancing, serious
Ore- Tom Chambers -good, larky & enthusiastic, may get on some’s nerves
Rinder- broken the mould.
Tameka- Pamela Stephenson- for feistiness combined with dance talent, Alison Hammond for the incessant laughing
Will- Aled Jones- quite good dancer, darling of the middle classes.
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Old 06-10-2016, 18:02
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Laura - potentially Caroline Flack (not sure if she had proper dance experience?)
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Old 06-10-2016, 18:06
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Laura - potentially Caroline Flack (not sure if she had proper dance experience?)
I thought of her- but I was trying to match dance experience and as far as I can tell, Laura's had very little beyond the Irish dancing. I also found her a bit needy whereas -so far- Laura seems pretty chilled. Time will tell, eh!
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Old 06-10-2016, 18:19
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I get Georgia vibes from Claudia, and Natalie Gumede/Denise Van Outen vibes from Louise. I agree with the Alison Hammond comparison with Tameka, maybe a bit of Kellie Bright too.
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Old 06-10-2016, 18:21
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Laura – nope. Can’t think of another non-neurotic, talented female presenter without dance experience.
Anita Rani?
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Old 06-10-2016, 18:23
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I thought of her- but I was trying to match dance experience and as far as I can tell, Laura's had very little beyond the Irish dancing. I also found her a bit needy whereas -so far- Laura seems pretty chilled. Time will tell, eh!
Indeed Dippy! I think Danny might be a better dancer than Ricky - who was pigeon toed (the curse of Greg this year!) but i agree about his looks might be talked about more than his dancing - i am already guilty of this ( I mean look at his eyes)!
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Old 06-10-2016, 18:24
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Laura - Carol Smillie.
I would say Lesley reminds me of Fiona Fullerton.
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Old 06-10-2016, 18:29
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Good call: both cheerful, both sporty, both with potential to improve.

Laura - Carol Smillie
Yeah- both pretty upbeat, but I can't remember if Carol was any good as a dancer? *heads off to Youtube...


ETA- can't find any decent clips, but from what I saw- yeah. Not a bad comparison.
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Old 06-10-2016, 18:32
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Laura - Carol Smillie.
I would say Lesley reminds me of Fiona Fullerton.
Yep- fair call. But in my head I always put Fiona with Cherie Lunghi and Felicity Kendall- all genteel and wafty. Lesley's got more oomph for me. But pretty close.
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Old 06-10-2016, 18:33
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Laura - potentially Caroline Flack (not sure if she had proper dance experience?)
Caroline was actually a ringer....

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ED-dancer.html

She also took part in Dancing on Wheels, partnering a wheelchair user in European championships, so must a have had a bit of ballroom training!

She was likeable though, and got away with it I think.
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Old 06-10-2016, 18:36
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Good call: both cheerful, both sporty, both with potential to improve.


Yeah- both pretty upbeat, but I can't remember if Carol was any good as a dancer? *heads off to Youtube...
Carol's best score 34, worst 25...so not bad at all.

Here is her video diary where she documents her first dance (VW) for which she got 25 on the night.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXX3imM_GAs
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Old 06-10-2016, 18:37
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Caroline was actually a ringer....

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ED-dancer.html

She also took part in Dancing on Wheels, partnering a wheelchair user in European championships, so must a have had a bit of ballroom training!

She was likeable though, and got away with it I think.
Yep- that's why I can't in my head liken her to Laura. Struggling to think of a young female presenter without dance experience. Laura may be an anomaly ... within the media, and not just Strictly
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Old 06-10-2016, 18:38
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Yep- fair call. But in my head I always put Fiona with Cherie Lunghi and Felicity Kendall- all genteel and wafty. Lesley's got more oomph for me. But pretty close.
Fiona nowhere near as good a dancer as Cherie nor Felicity. She was also stronger than those two also.

If you talking 'oomph' then Lesley is Nancy Dell'olio with slightly better moves!!!
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Old 06-10-2016, 18:40
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Fiona nowhere near as good a dancer as Cherie nor Felicity. stronger than those two also. If you talking 'oomph' then Lesley is Nacy Dell'olio

Haha- there's oomph, and then there's delightful delusion...
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Old 06-10-2016, 18:46
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Rinder- broken the mould.
He's reminding me of Lisa Riley - surprising first dance which everyone is talking about, spends every week after trying to recreate the same effect and goes out around 5th/6th as 'people's champion'.
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Old 06-10-2016, 19:03
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He's reminding me of Lisa Riley - surprising first dance which everyone is talking about, spends every week after trying to recreate the same effect and goes out around 5th/6th as 'people's champion'.
Very good call. Damn my gender-blinkered thinking...
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Old 06-10-2016, 19:12
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Lesley= Ann widdicombe
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Old 06-10-2016, 19:22
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Lesley= Ann widdicombe
Nah- nothing like, for me: one can't dance AT ALL, the other dances pretty well: one has the cougar-cliche tag, the other.... doesn't. One was a joke contestant, the other would be a contender if she were 40 years younger.

I'd put Widdy in the same bracket as John Sergeant or Russell Grant.
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Old 06-10-2016, 19:40
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I'm going on a combination of dance level plus cliched pigeon-holing...

Anastacia- Claire King, Pamela Stephenson, Zoe Lucker –quite good, strong older woman, “big personality”
Claudia- Danni Harmer/Louisa Lytton v good dancer, young, cheerful, “babied” for age & height
Daisy- Jodie Kidd- quite good, fairly relaxed, good SOH, TALL
Danny- Ricky Whittle- looks getting in the way of discussing actual dance ability, criticised for having looks over personality
Ed- Don Warrington- reserved older guy who doesn’t get to stay long enough to relax into the show and reveal more of their personality. Not completely bobbins- just a bit.
Greg- Ben Cohen (pre divisive relationship issues) Steve Backshall- very likeable guy who people would like to do well, but is only ok at dancing.
Laura – nope. Can’t think of another non-neurotic, talented female presenter without dance experience.
Lesley- Stephanie Beacham, although this doesn’t really work beyond the cougar cliche and Lesley’s a good dancer. We’ve had too few good dancers of >60.
Louise- Rachel Stevens- pop singah ringah, pleasant, pretty, deemed beige by some.
Melvin-DJSpoony –cheerful, likeable, small amount of ability but a DJ and therefore not much fanbase within the Strictly audience
Naga- Kirsty Gallacher –fit&sporty but wooden at dancing, serious
Ore- Tom Chambers -good, larky & enthusiastic, may get on some’s nerves
Rinder- broken the mould.
Tameka- Pamela Stephenson- for feistiness combined with dance talent, Alison Hammond for the incessant laughing
Will- Aled Jones- quite good dancer, darling of the middle classes.

Omg do you read my mind ? Because I agree with most of these lol.
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Old 06-10-2016, 19:43
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Never. Anita had so much personality. Laura is just bland, boring. ... no omphhhhh whatsoever even though she's a great dancer.

She reminds me of Holly but then again holly had some personality. ....ohhh I know who she reminds me of : Rachel Riley; just in terms of personality.
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Old 06-10-2016, 19:45
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Never. Anita had so much personality. Laura is just bland, boring. ... no omphhhhh whatsoever even though she's a great dancer.

She reminds me of Holly but then again holly had some personality. ....ohhh I know who she reminds me of Rachel Riley.
You may want to keep in mind Laura is my favourite this year, as was Anita last year
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Old 06-10-2016, 19:47
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Never. Anita had so much personality. Laura is just bland, boring. ... no omphhhhh whatsoever even though she's a great dancer.

She reminds me of Holly but then again holly had some personality. ....ohhh I know who she reminds me of Rachel Riley.

I did consider her- very similar personalities- but Laura seems a much better dancer.

As for the similarity to Anita, I agree with the poster in terms of dance background and dance talent, but not personality.
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Old 06-10-2016, 19:47
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Omg do you read my mind ? Because I agree with most of these lol.
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Old 06-10-2016, 19:54
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Anastacia- Patsy Kensit
Laura- Helen George
Louise- Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Tameka- Jessie Wallace
Claudia- Louisa Lytton
Naga- Sunetra Sarker
Daisy- Penny Lancaster
Lesley- Fiona Fullerton

Melvin- Spoony
Will- Gethin Jones
Greg- Michael Vaughan (with more ability)
Danny- Scott Maslen
Rinder- Julian Clary
Ore- Mark Wright
Ed- Mark Benton
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Old 06-10-2016, 20:44
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Anastacia- Patsy Kensit
Laura- Helen George
Louise- Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Tameka- Jessie Wallace
Claudia- Louisa Lytton
Naga- Sunetra Sarker
Daisy- Penny Lancaster
Lesley- Fiona Fullerton

Melvin- Spoony
Will- Gethin Jones
Greg- Michael Vaughan (with more ability)
Danny- Scott Maslen
Rinder- Julian Clary
Ore- Mark Wright
Ed- Mark Benton
Agree/agreeish with 8/15 .... not saying which

NB- hope Danny doesn't have Scott's overwork meltdown around week 9.
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