Len on BBC Breakfast Today

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sofakat

07-12-2016

Originally Posted by Mou Mou Land:
“That does beggar the question - if Anton is not qualified to judge, then what the hell is Ms Bussell doing on the panel?”

She is one of the world's most famous Brit dancers in the ballet world - we call them prima ballerinas. Ballet is a darn sight harder than ballroom, so she is an expert in her own field - which is dance. Actually.

Bruno does disco I think and Craig is the Stage dance expert.

But I expect you knew that. Good lord, if all the judges were ballroom people what the heck would they know about AT and salsa?

Oh hang on...

sofakat

07-12-2016

Originally Posted by komentaightor:
“Miaou to you too! I wonder if the BBC would have done anything so blindingly obvious as to ask the opinions of the Pro dancers.
And as for the other blindingly obvious solution - just three judges?”

3 judges - why ever not? Makes sense to me.

Who'd fight over the Head Judge post?

Ann_Dancer

07-12-2016

Originally Posted by What name??:
“He's been on the show what seems like decades and hasn't even managed to work out what a salsa actually it much less the technique involved. He's not a qualified judge. He's biases will be questioned every year with him on the panel. And he's an annoying pillock.”

I was talking about knowledge of the ballroom and latin 10 dances. There is a problem with knowledge of any of the dances that fall outside that range (I wouldn't want to see Karen Hardy judging an AT or Charleston). In any case I don't want him as a judge and did say that.

Mou Mou Land

07-12-2016

Originally Posted by sofakat:
“She is one of the world's most famous Brit dancers in the ballet world - we call them prima ballerinas. Ballet is a darn sight harder than ballroom, so she is an expert in her own field - which is dance. Actually.

Bruno does disco I think and Craig is the Stage dance expert.

But I expect you knew that. Good lord, if all the judges were ballroom people what the heck would they know about AT and salsa?

Oh hang on...”

Your own description means she is therefore not expert in either Ballroom or Latin does it not?

For someone used to being 'en pointe', she shows a lamentable lack of knowledge in using feet.

CravenHaven

08-12-2016

Originally Posted by kaycee:
“Apparently it wasn't the fact that Alesha left for a rival tv show that upset the Strictly bods, it was the way in which she did it. A lot goes on behind the scenes that we do not get to hear about.”

Originally Posted by Christopher D:
“Yes she was rather sneaky about it and told nobody until she left. I thought it was disappointing given how much she owed Strictly but there you go in the past.”

Don't see what other way there was of practically doing it. The channel is not going to be pleased they lost a star to Cowell the direct rival in a time slot, even if BGT was not on the same time as X-factor. If you make a clean, immediate break there's less chance a PR campaign or behind the scenes weirdness precedes your departure. Alesha attracted implicit criticism from newspapers re taking over a much older woman's job, and over criticism from viewers who thought she had little to say that was penetrating analysis. She was probably grateful to leave for the harmless fluff that was BGT.

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