I'm a novice dancer rather than a dance teacher, and even I could see there were jive steps in that routine. How well they were danced is another question entirely, but dancing them badly doesn't mean it's not a jive, it just means it's a jive danced badly!

It contained as much if not more than Karen's famed salsa to a Soca track. And I say that as a die hard Mark R fan.

I think it's interesting what someone in Greg's position can do. As a fit good-looking man he can't go down the comedy route. I think that if Greg had attempted to do something on the lines of Ed's gangnam style dance it would have seemed silly rather than funny. Not for anything lacking in Greg I don't think Ore could do it either, or Danny if some weird reason he tried. Natalie tried going for drama rather than comedy to 'entertain' but they were picked up on not enough content (though if she had done a straight rumba he'd have gone sooner). I don't know what more they could have done other than Craig's oh so helpful suggestion of surgery.

i think for someone with Greg's lack of natural ability, and his feet and legs, getting as far as Blackpool should be seen as a real success, evidence of his popularity and recognition of his improvement. Ed is a news story and it's hard to compare them. Greg goes out on a very good dance, before the cha cha-thon and going to 2 dances, which wouldn't have suited him, and while I will miss him I don't think that has been a bad result for him.

Karen said "Gangnam - 10, Salsa - 1" and then said Ed's basic technique wasnt good at all. I don't remember her saying anything about lack of content.

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Claudia v Greg

GREG OUT

Congratulations to our Spoiler time winner Mabbus Cattus 11.10 pm

Thanks to our Moles

Agreed and the result doesn't so much annoy me as some of the mean spirited rejoicing about it. He's probably done his career a lot of good.

Thank you Monaogg and the mole for the Spoiler !

I will be. Although Ed might be getting the odd vote too.

I mentioned a few weeks ago that all most of us knew about Greg was what we saw on the long jump runway at many athletics meetings. No way to judge someone's personality when in such a stressful situation.
But he came across quite well when interviewed on this show, a pleasant personality, not a show off and spoke very well. I suggested at the time he would, when he retires, be an ideal replacement for BBC Sports, for Jonathan Edwards, who has since gone "independent."
Those who remember will be aware he almost literally jumped out of the sand pit straight into the commentary box, minutes after we'd seen him complete his last competitive jump at an athletics meeting covered by the BBC.

I was on early this morning for the spoiler result but did'nt get to post my thanks. Many thanks again to all who brought the spoiler and organised and updated this thread.

Thank you.


I'm not talking about Karen's dance or anyone other than Ed.



Surely Salsa - 1 refers to the amount of salsa content? Not lack of content generally but lack of salsa content

To adapt a Morcambe and Wise line, seems like Ed has all the right steps but not necessarily in the right order. A dance DISAAAAAAAASTER.

Danced extremely badly! I reckon my dog could do a better jive than that

His steps are often a long way from perfect, but they're usually recognisable and he's always on the beat. In other words, he doing quite well for someone with no experience. He's surely due some Ballroom in hold now and he's much better at Ballroom. I hated his Paso lowest point IMHO) and last night wasn't great, but it wasn't 5 points behind Claudia.

Was not a fan of Greg but I agree with this. Ola tried the comedy/entertainment route with her athlete partner whose name I've forgotten, and they lasted like 2/3 weeks. I think that Nat and Greg were a good match

My point is for all her credentials in International 10 Ballroom and Latin and her authority in those dances, she , in common with Len, Craig et.al wouldn't know a salsa if it bit her on the nose.

I think Greg was very likeable, and having a decent stab at it as somebody coming in with zero experience. I was voting for him and would have liked him to go further. But not everybody feels the same and he got fewer votes, that's just the way the show goes *shrugs*. No good tying yourself up in knots with all the "why?"s and "what-if"?s
He's gone, I've moved on and will throw the extra votes to Ed or Judge R.


Peter Andre's jive was abysmal, no doubt about it. But didn't he get 9s and 10s from the judges? Is somebody going to tell them it wasn't a jive?

Agreed.

Regarding Ed Balls, whether you like him or not, whether you want him to win or not, everyone should respect each others views.

I can see both sides but I personally want Ed to go but I don't blame anyone for wanting him to stay.

No, Craig gave him a 6, Darcey a 7, and the other two 8s. It scored lower than any dance at this Blackpool other than Ed's.

Thank you. I guess my overriding memory of PA in last year's show was him being over marked for every mediocre dance he did.

Those scores were still way too high for such a terrible dance, though. No wonder the shouts of 'Fix!!' got a little deafening after that!

Nothing much has changed, has it?

Sweetheart, just let it go. Ed is still in, because the voting public have voted that way, that's how it works.

I can see this isn't to your liking, but no amount of argument from you is going to change it.

It's a tv show, not life or death. Breathe in, and slowly out. And repeat. And I mean this kindly, believe me, I do.

thank you for the spoiler Monaogg
having just watched the D/O Claudia was not good at all as much as I like Her
made me think of PA last year

the judges painted themselves into a corner last night with Her marks, IMO they had watched the rehearsals and had already made their minds up who they wanted at the top, Len said as much on ITT last year

Wow!

While this isn't aimed at me I find this post disgustingly condescending!