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.
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.




