with Saturday night? Was anyone else disappointed? I was. The only people who impressed me were Zoe and Ian which was strange. I was kinda expecting more people to jump out and be good. Instead I was nauseated beyond belief by most of them.

Who else here didnt think that Colin Jackson deserved four 8's. I found myself embarrassed to watch him and most of them come to think of it. I had to keep changing the channel due to the shame lol

Well i didnt know who a few of the celebs were for a start
Zoe was brilliant and i thought James Martin and Camilla were great to watch.
Bill the newsman was also good.
Poor old fiona....I cant stand Brendan so i feel sorry for her to have to dance with him.

same here. he thinks he's above the rules

thought it was funny when last year's girl said she was welcome to him

Brendan should have got voted out, he knew it and his fans must have helped him to stay in

Not a Brendan fan myself.

Has any of his partners ever liked him?

I thought the judges marked some couples too high for the standard at this point in the competition. If they are worth an 8 now, how do we look for improvement?

I thought it was a travesty that Siobhan was voted out, when the judges were unfairly harsh on her. Also Will Thorp didn't deserve the criticsm for this stage of the competition.

Fiona was very poor, but Brendan is just an egomaniac who made things worse and made her look isolated instead of supported!

I thought Zoe and Ian were good, and I thought Camilla and James and Darren and Gloria looked comfortable and promising. I also liked Jaye's attitude. I thought Bill's perforamnce showed much more potential than I thought he had

One thing is for sure - despite my great dislike for Fiona, she doesn't deserve to be treated like that, and I hope, because of her poor performance, and his arrogance, they go next week!

Natasha

Yeah, remember that one, though think they are particularly well matched.

Arrogant is a word that springs to mind.

I'm not a fan od Brendans either, sooner he goes the better, and I feel so sorry for poor Darren getting Gloria Hunniford after the fabulous Gill last year, what a come down!

And no, I wasn't disappointed at all, in fact I thought the standards were far higher than this time last season, and with more couples one assumes it will be a longer series and give the better dancers more time to learn moves for the final... it shoudl be a good one

I love Strictly Come Dancing, but very plesed that I taped it- as I was able to fast forward Brucie and his corny jokes, I find him embarrassing to watch now. I also thought Zoe and Ian were great. I can't stand Brendan and enjoyed seeing him getting a smack back. I am not a big fan of Gloria Hunniford and thought she looked a little out of place among the young ones.

That's my trick for watching it as well

Loved it, Zoe was great, really well matched with Ian, Dennis Taylor had me in fits of laughter - at one point I was sure he was about to break into a jig but good on him for entering into the spirit of it so well along with Newsman Bill.

So funny seeing Brendan's face, add me as another who can't stand him, arrogant twerp.

You know what from their performance yes but part of me really wantd Brendan to stay. I still cant explain y. I mean I dnt particularly like him but I really didnt want him to be the first to go out.

On another note the relationship between Karen and "Ballroom" Bill is quite funny. Possibly because out of all the professionals she actually looks the most amateurish so its kinda like the blind leading the more blind lol but I guess its cos shes been out of competition for like 6 years.

However that aside they look like they're there to have loads o fun and their choreography is refreshing. I wonder what they'll do next week? I hope its the Rumba and equally hopefully, Gloria is doing the Quickstep cos I will throw my TV out the window before I watch Gloria Huniford do the Rumba with Darren Bennett.....that or I could just turn it of but throwing it out the window I think is more rock lol

No i think Darren is doing the rumba with Gloria so looks like that tv will be out on it;s ear sooner rather than later!! Just think anything is an improvement from Carol Vordermans!!!

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Oh please, Carol Virdermans face had to be a highlight of the show!

God yeah. ANYTHING would be better that that monstrocity. Even a one legged dog with a blind fold could do a better rumba...u know if dancing was its life and stuff. Urgh nightmare pursd lip face but thought it was sexy face *shudders*

I nearly brought my dinner up when I first saw that.

I wasn't disappointed at all to be honest. Last year there were two clear couples who were good and then alot behind who were goodish, okay, bad.

This year two couples stand out but the ones just behind them have great potential, and the male standard is much better too...I am really looking forward to the rest of the series.

Karen Hardy Amateurish ? Nevah!!!!!!!!!! do you know her background?

Aside from the one who liked him far too much... , doesn't seem like it.

He was bloody horrible to Sarah last year, and when the footage was shown of him bullying her... ooops! out they went. I seem to remember that he tried to blame her for that as well, saying she wasn't fully committed , rather than the fact that people just didn't like him.

He came across as thinking that she should give up her career to focus on dancing, rather than realising that without her career, he'd be without a partner, and wouldn't be on the telly at all.

I don't like him.

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Possibly because out of all the professionals she actually looks the most amateurish so its kinda like the blind leading the more blind lol but I guess its cos shes been out of competition for like 6 years.

Out of all the professionals she is probably the best qualified, she reached the top when she was dancing and now judges..... not bad for an "amateurish" kinda dancer.

I think she had a lot to do with it too! She seemed to think it was all about her where as it should have been a partnership. Remember that line where she said 'U have to follow me round!'...well that is not the case at all - as Brendan said about him and Natasha it was compromise and that he went where she was but if he couldn't they would work round it and she would come to him. Sarah showed no respect for him so it is no wonder she got none back. Like on the results show on Saturday - the first thing out of her mouth was an insult! Think brendan got unfairly blamed for that when I think it was her fault as much as his.

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I didnt mean anything bad by it and u are right she is the most qualified cos of what she has achieved but if you look at her steps in comparison to someone like Izabella or Camilla they looked dull. The other girls just looked sharper....Keeping in my mind I'm talking about her feet not the performance, the performance was brilliant. She even admitted that she hadnt trained, tried on the dresses or the high heels or the makeup in like 6 years and had kinda forgotten what it was like to be on the dancefloor. Im guessing by next performance shes gonna be back to her old self. What with muscle memory.

But u have to admit that he is relishing this bad boy image. In the first series he was no way like he was in the second and now third. Instead or trying to do away that arrogant bully image created in series 2 he has kept on doin it. Fiona didnt help last night on ITT when she kept saying that Brendon was gonna shoot her and "I cant repeat what he said to me when we were doing the Rumba practice". They're gonna go on Saturday nite for sure unless they pull of a good rumba or one of the favourite under dogs (the snooker guy....I forget his name) falls down or sumthing cos right now everyone is talking about Brendon and Fiona for the wrong reasons.

....Keeping in my mind I'm talking about her feet not the performance, the performance was brilliant. She even admitted that she hadnt trained, tried on the dresses or the high heels or the makeup in like 6 years and had kinda forgotten what it was like to be on the dancefloor. Im guessing by next performance shes gonna be back to her old self. What with muscle memory

I'm sure she kept it as simple as she could to help Dennis out.

Nat i agree with you 100%. Sarah was as much to blame as Brendan. For whatever reason during the 2nd series it suited the BBC to make him into the great big bad boy(they didnt want him winning again) which has been carried on into this series.
So what if he did a lift on saturday night. I recall Darren and Jill doing a few lifts but it being totally ignored.
The show is worth alone watching for the characters that are Brendan, Anton and even Ian to a lesser extent.

And on another note it completely staggers me to think that anyone would think Karen Hardy is "amateurish". Shows some have no clue about the world of dance.

Doesn't that suggest something more to do with the editing than with the actual guy! I reckon he was tough with Natasha and she responded well to that and understood as the professional he knew best but Manners thought she was the centre of attention in that partnership and di not repsect his talent! If that is the way he is used to working and it gets results then why not - i would hardly call it bully boy by anymeans - not like he is threatening to kill them (and if u took Fiona's comment to be serious then u have less clue about the world of dance than what Laura82 suggests.)

Brendan is arrogant I will admit that but it is hardly a crime. If I was that good at my profession I'd be arrogant too!

Nat
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