Me too. Great song. I would have loved to have seen their showdance too!

I really hope the song choice is better this time

Let's be fair, there is so much wonderful music to chose from they are spoiled for choice

How they can come up with some of the rubbish they do, is quite beyond me

Just looking at this and wondering if any series previously has had any (let alone 2) celebs who haven't scored under 30 all the way through....

Is Monkseal about.....?

On BBC Radio Stoke, AJ said he and Claudia have the Salsa this week and he mentioned lions.

Louise has to do a Salsa or a Samba this week, if not ..............

Kara Tointon, Natalie Gumede and I think Frankie Bridge never scored under 30.

Aha - thanks Ellie...

Lions? Lion King? Sounds like the producers are going back to making them kids again.

So she has the Rumba in the semi? That's a tough break.

Both Katie and Jay missed out the samba last year.

I know there are some changes as they go along, but aren't the dances generally decided in advance? I remember a pro saying they knew they would only have a certain dance if they got to a certain week.

That would account for there seeming to be a lot of salsas and sambas left, rather than a more varied set of Latin options.

Also, there a quite a few tangos left too, with the only one out of the remaining five to have danced it being Ore.

Louise can still do the Salsa. I am still pissed off that when most of the celebs hadn't even danced a Salsa or Samba, Laura had to dance a Samba with an ankle injury
and she had already danced Salsa on week 3. To make it fair, I think they should make sure all the celebs had danced a Salsa or Samba, before asking them to do the second dance. They are both similar and very hard.

In terms of finalists, Alesha, Rachel, Ricky, Kara, Natalie and Frankie all made the final without ever dipping below 30. So this would be the first time they' ve had two finalists manage it.

Thanks Monkseal - but interestingly, only 2 of those actually went on to win....

So there's hope for Ore/Claudia/Judge yet

Here's hoping 😊
This is SCD and they might get the umpa lumpa song

used on the Strictly Tour too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvSTcJrJ1rs

I'd love to see Danny & Oti's Foxtrot again without the mistakes. I really liked the concept, but Len hated the business with the chord connecting them together so I'm not sure the judges would choose that for the redo dance.

Claudia not rumba dodging then? Yikes. If she gets through this week, I suspect she'll be out in the semi final.

Interesting that Claudia is skipping either quickstep or tango - quickstep was also a dance that Louis skipped in Series 10 (although IIRC he did do a quickstep based American Smooth). Maybe it's a gymnast thing, Nobody's ever skipped tango before, so it'd surprise me if it was that.

He didn't *hate* it just didn't get it, and they can always do it without.

Do the pros/celebs decide which dance they want to skip or is it the producers?

I'm wondering if it is a height difference thing re Quickstep? Louis was a fair bit taller than Flavia wasn't he?
AJ's propensity to make dances too quick for Claudia would not work in a Quickstep. You could imagine him being all 'I'm going to make this the faster QS Strictly has ever seen', and in the meantime Claudia's legs are scrabbling like Fred Flinstone's just to try to keep up.

True, but that would spoil the effect.

Gleb adopted the "appendage" idea for his freestyle/show dance just a week ago and Len loved it and said it was a fascinating concept so he's definitely on board with the chord and no longer bemused. That foxtrot really has the potential to be something special if it's possible to tweak a few things i.e. new costumes and no Halloween makeup.

Robert said on the Scott Mills Show this afternoon that his dance this week is 'a lot more upbeat' than the Rumba. (Mind you isn't anything??) He didn't name the dance though, but sounds like a Waltz or a Tango. Definitely not an AT.

It'll be unfair if they give Louise the jive. It was her first dance wasn't it? .... and a dance she enjoyed and was good at. The marks just indicated that we were at the start of the series. If she'd danced it last week then prob it would have got 9's at least.
To give that to her and the foxtrot to Danny ... which was more recent and with mistakes .. seems unfair and smacks of Jay's 'My Generation' QS nightmare vs Kellie's 'You Really Got Me' tango.
I fully expect that to happen though should they both get to the final.

I really don't want to see oti and Danny foxtrot again . I doubt even the dance without mistakes is going to make me love it . I I just hope that the judges won't choose that dance for them to redo.
It's just like Jay 's Quickstep from last year. I didn't like it . I couldn't get over that dreadful music. OF course the judges choose that dance in the finals ( to my dismay ) . Even with no mistakes, I still didn't like it .

Anyways , going back to this thread. ..wow so they're saving the rumba for Claudia in the semi ? NOT good.

I can't wait to see everyone's dances today and the music. IT will be very interesting to see who ends up in the bottom 2.