I thought Emma and Darren's performance on Saturday night's show was reallt really poor. If they want to stay in this competition she is going to have to start taking it more seriously. They only trained for a few hours this week and it really showed to be honest.

Hopefully people agree with me. Why is she still in this competition? The others want it much much more.

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DancingDiva

for my money darren thought he had it won when he saw his partner!!

she aint that good!! and to be honest not keen on them as a partnership too cheesy

Carol & Matt's foxtrot was the best of the night.

I can't get excited about Emma & Darren at all. They lack spark!

I don`t even enjoy watching their training sessions and interviews

Definite lack of humour in their partnership and something is missing for sure. No chemistry, natural or forced I think.

Yes it looked like it. But I think it is a good thing that Emma is not amazing, I'd like to see how much her and Darren can work on making Emma a good ballroom dancer. How good of a teacher is Darren. Their foxtrot was a disappointment

I would have thought their CIN video was preplanned and they would have worked harder in earlier weeks to prepare. I remember Camilla did something similar last year when James had a lot of work one week they had prepared for it.
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I thknk that Emma has just took to much on with her doing this years charity single for children in need cant see her getting into the final stages

I think doing the CIN single will help her get into the final, permanent publicity - I don't mind but I want all the places in the final to be earnt

The moment I heard Emma was going to be with Darren I thought it would be magic - evoke the Jill and Darren magic which started my Strictly obsession off but I have to be honest and say that so far, I'm very dissaointed.

The quickstep was very good indeed, but then their jive which was heavy and cumbersome and lacklusture, and the Foxtrot forgettable. I have to say it seems that Emma doesn't seem to have the *passion* for it, the drive. She wants to be there, no doubt, but I dont' know, the 'x' factor isn't there.

If she can overocme her nerves, make sure knows the routine back to front and goes on stage and puts 110% in, it could still be magic. I'm waiting !

I don't know what to say about them... Ok their quickstep was really good... But their Jive was overrated and their foxtrot was horrid... Emma as a person is growing on me slightly but I don't know about all this hype about her dancing...

I hope she does improve on the foxtrot and gets on with it... Because she might be one of the better dancers but if she doesn't start earning all the praise and all the high marks she's gonna have people dislike her for something that ain't even her fault...

I actually think they're in trouble this year, but it's mainly down to Craig, and to an extent Bruno, and his marking - it was frankly ridiculous last night, and I imagine that the Zoe factor could come into play against her. Not her fault at all, but another medicore performance nearer the end, and she might not have the public support to see her through. A lot of people noticed that Carol was unfairly marked in relation to Emma, and I wouldn't mind betting she won the public vote out of those two.

So far - Fair quickstep, but I'm still convinced it went wrong at the end, Jive was not good and very overmarked, and a flat and dull Foxtrot, a lot of the celebs are busy, Bill was presenting all during last time, Aled was out on tour, Matthew has to travel to Scotland to train with Carol, James was invovled in cooking shows etc etc They all made time, so I don't see that as much of an excuse.

Emma Burton = Zoe Ball 2006

Mrs Cook was not my favoutite but I could never understand all the bitchy comments about her

It isn't just me then? The weird bit with her just jigging about? I haven't seen anyone else mention it so I thought maybe that was how it was supposed to go, but it was a weird way to end a good routine.

Or was it something else altogether you meant?? LOL

No that't the bit I meant, they just ended up standing there with Emma jiggling her shoulders - if it was meant it was a very strange end to the routine

Glad it wasn't just me that thought it was strange. I'd kind of forgotten about it but as soon as you said - yes, it was a VERY weird ending, and I was surprised at the time that no one commented - I assumed it was some sort of mistake, or mistiming. Very odd.

Ho hum.

I mentioned it at the time! I was quite surprised the judges didn't since it looked so stupid.

Emma's a fair enough dancer but she's not as amazing as the judges make her out to be. That puts people off of voting for her because they see it as unfair - no one likes a teacher's pet if they don't deserve it. Also she can be rather whingey at times - yes, Emma we're all aware it is rather hard but when you've got people like Peter, Ray, Mark and Carol who barely ever complain, constantly hearing from you about how hard it is gets tiresome and doesn't endear you to people...

Let's face it, the judges (especially Craig) are trying very hard to get her to the final. I can anticipate what's going to happen in the next few weeks, whether she fall, walk or stand still, she'll be highly praised and be given at least 7 or 8. As regarding other dancers, if they are excellent and VERY, VERY lucky they can get a proper mark. As for Clare and Brendan, if they are very good, it's too clean, no filth, if they are not very good, then it's the worst, if they break the rule, then they should be punished - whatever the case, they can't win with the judges. Fortunately this is not what the viewers think.

I totally disagree with anyone that says they are in trouble, as with this competition every celebrity is in trouble, as you put it. Considering this week she only trained for 2 days, and seeing as she suffers from her nerves being up first must have been her worst nightmare. I still think their best dance is to come. Watch this space, Darren will get her good. End Of.

In short, she's trying to say 'I'm a Spice Girl, I'm so special, I'm not used to hard work, it's SCD's great honour to have me as I'm far more superior than the others.' The big difference between her and the others is that all of the others work very hard for what they've achieved.

I would have thought suffering from nerves being first up is a blessing, get it over and done with

They could have made time to train though... I.e extra training in the jive week. Louisa and Vincent had about 4 hours of training and look at their jive! Emma just wasn't that good at the foxtrot and/or they didn't work hard enough at it. For me they are one of the only couples that doesn't seem to have connected really. They bore me to be honest...

P.s: Lousia suffers from nerves a lot too, and Mark always looks like he is about to brick it before he goes on, I don't think it can be really used as an excuse for that foxtrot tbh
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True - just watch the footage of Mark before he comes out. The cha cha is a perfect example - behind the curtain he looks PETRIFIED, he comes out, smiles, and gets on with the job. The guy is shy and gets nervous, and he can still dance...

To be brutal, if her nerves are that bad then she never should have done this show because it won't be good for her. All the contestants seem to look nervous. I know she's had problems with her nerves in the past but if she can't cope with it she should have been sensible enough not to put herself through it in the first place. As it is, she chose to be here and I can't give her any sympathy based upon how nervous she gets when many of the other contestants go through the same thing.

I don't know - I can and do sympathise, actually.

BUT, it won't make me vote for her if she doesn't deserve my vote, based on "she would have done better if she hadn't been nervous."

Isn't Louisa professionally trained in Jive, if so then that wouldn't surprise me that she was so good. Not everyone is good at every dance, and maybe the Foxtrot isn't the best dance for Emma. I think with all the promo that has to be done for CIN, Emma did quite well. I still think that all the celebrities are in trouble, because Spoony went on a shock exit, and celelbrities like Mark and Louisa could surprisingly go aswell, the fact is that this competition is unpredictable, its a bit unfair to target 1 celebrity and say Oooo she's in trouble just because she has a bad week.

uhhh surely that would mean she wouldn't be able to do the show as she would be by definition: a professional.


I'd say it's more 'oooh she's in trouble because she had bad weeks but still gets bumlicked by some of the judges'

Also I never said she should go soon. She is a good dancer and hopefully they'll stop being complacent/busy and actually work for the praise. I just think it maybe the Zoe factor all over again.
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