Thanks for that. The way he was laughing while he said it sounded like the words "flobadob-dob" being spoken underwater to my ignorant ears.

By the way, Raphael has put up an interview featuring Drew and Cheryl appearing on a US daytime TV chat show. It's a bit like "Loose Women" on ITV ... Not that I have ever ... um, watched that kind of thing ... what with being a man's man and all that.

* Cough *

Hello Folks. Haven't posted in ages. Thanks to this thread I managed to cath up on DWTS (Raphael deserves a medal). Have to say the standard of dancing appears to be higher on DWTS and doesn't have the same number of excruciatingly BAD dancers that SCD had.
Having said that I was surprised at the "tame" judging on the show....and surprise suprise Len Goodman was actually the bad guy on the show. And not only were 10's handed out like smarties but also perfect scores of 30 and 2 in one show. I'm smelling the hand of network interference.

But all in all Drew was a worthy winner, and would be nice to see him in sort of UK vs US final if that could be arranged

Hey Diamondlife,

You must have had fun catching up with this series on Raphael's site. The standard was extremely high, thanks to the professionals who are really top calibre dancers. Only Kenny Mayne was the Quentin Willson of the show, but at least he performed with gusto. Master P was a questionable presence as he seemed to be putting in less hours than the rest.

I actually thought that the crowd were going to be baying for Bruno's blood at some points - he seemed quite riled by the American crowds. Len was more interested in seeing European style dance and as for Carrie-Ann I thought that she was tame in comparison to the comments that both Craig and Arlene have dished out to contestants.

If it were to come to pass, Drew might end up facing the series four winner at this rate! I don't know about the likelihood of a UK/US dance off, but I'd love to see it.

Well Estolibre I never thought I would be in agreement with Len Goodman about anything but I actually wanted to see more of the couples dancing in hold instead of breaking off into moves it seemed are inspired by Hollywood musicals in their heyday (altho I did love Colin and Erin's American Smooth, there is a clear difference between Ballroom and the rather more freestyle element in the American Ballroom).

Master P was just plain annoying. I totally understand that he may not be able to dance but he could have at least tried. I hope his partner gets his fee as she was most definitely dancing for the two of them.

Bruno deserves all he gets after his shameless overscoring of Zoe. It would be most interesting to see a dance off especially from the professional's point of view. As apart from Cheryl Burke I didn't see any REALLY interesting choreography from the professionals. Ian Waite, Lillia Kopylova, and Camilla Dallerup would definitely show them how it's done in that respect.
Those sugary bits at the end when they said goodbye to the eliminated couple made me wanna heave but apart from that it was great all round entertainment

Ha ha Estilo! You're more and more the Billette! hehe

I still haven't watched all the videos from the last show but have downloaded them all and the interviews. As advised I watched Drew & Cheryl's freestyle first. I lovvvvvved it! (Apologise if this is old hat in the thread by now as I haven't checked back yet and had resisted reading until watching the videos). I am thrilled he won and absolutely adored the routine. It was such an American freestyle!!!!! Loved it loved it loved it!

It was a real firecracker wasn't it? I guess with your appreciation for American guys you must have really enjoyed the brashly energetic nature of the routine, the crazy lifts as well as the interaction between Drew and Cheryl - I loved Drew's gunslinger pose at the end with Cheryl blowing off the "smoke" off his finger. I think my eyes almost melted while watching it. I never thought I'd like country type music, but it was a great tune.

Shame about Stacy and Tony's freestyle, but I liked Jerry and Anna's wiggy routine.

I haven't watched the rest yet.

I used to hate country music with a passion! But as of about 2 years ago I started liking it. I loved Carrie in American Idol last year and her country style! The other day I was watching bid.tv - yeah I'm addicted! hehe and they were trying to sell country DVDs. I was really enjoying the tracks and my fingers opened the website and bid for them! I'm shocked at myself. hehe Maybe it is my American influence. I've been travelling to the south of USA for the past 6 years and have heard live bluegrass bands and loved them! Maybe part of it is age too. I must be getting old! hehe oh well..


Edit: Estilo!!!! You just passed post 1234!!!!! Congrats! But I missed it

I hadn't gone back to the site after the final so thanks for letting us know about the interviews

I'm lucky enough to have a DVD of the final. I love it all but have watched Drew's freestyle cowboy routine ten million times.
The show is 2 hours long but takes about an hour without the ads!

Yeah they show a ridiculus amount of ads in America. That would drive me nuts!!!!!!

It drives me nuts when I'm there! They put them in the most ridiculous of places too! They'll play the opening credits then go to commericials... then every 5 mins they have more.. then at the very end they'll have the commericals before the punchline... or they'll have commericals and the play the closing credits. It doesn't make sense!!! And most of the commercials are for lawyers!!!

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The security guards see Estilolibre peddling his dodgy wares again and have him physically escorted off the thread.

Just wanted to do a cheeky bump of this thread to mention a new series will be starting in September.
With SCD4 starting in October, looks like a Strictly and Dancing With The Stars overdose for the Autumn

So will Len and Burno do over here or in the states ?

I don't know which they'll be doing. TBH I don't know why they are on the American one. Is there a shortage of judges over there?

ooh maybe we will get some new judges

Not sure about the judges but celebs I've read that are likely to be in the new DWTS series:

Harry Hamlin who starred in TV program 'LA Law' ages ago and is Lisa Rinna's husband
Mario Lopez who was in Saved By the Bell
Vivica A Fox from Kill Bill

but not 100% confirmed

They're doing both, so I heard Len say, flying back & forth for the first 3 weeks Of SCD4, I think.

Both. Really?? Strictly starts in October and DWTS in September, so there'll be a lot of travelling more than 3 or 4 weeks

I was just thinking about this. Looks like we probably will see a lot of Craig and Arlene on ITT as opposed to Len and Bruno if they're flying back and forth to America. Is Dancing with the Stars filmed in Newyork do we know? (Speaking of which I'm going to NY next week )


Jerry looked like he was going to be a lot of fun in DWTS. I wonder how long he'll stay... ooh.. also going to search and see if that kind Raphael is putting up videos of DWTS on the web again this series.


Edit: http://journals.rpungin.fotki.com/dwts/category/s3/
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Dancing with the stars is filmed in LA and Iam gutted that Max and willa got the boot

That's a long plane trip to make each week!

I haven't seen any of it yet... I didn't realise it had started so soon over there.. I just didn't think it would be scheduled for the same time as our SCD. And my American guy won't record it for me... love him as I do... he obviously doesn't love me enough to record and send me DWTS each week! (Off topic.. he also won't send me new series of Lost! Grrrrrrr) Need new American guy! hehe