I'd be quite happy to see any of them win it as they all 3 appeal in one way or another.

It would be nice to see Marie win as she'd be the oldest winner ever (and she CAN actually dance!), Helio is the journey man and Mel is just fantastic.

BUT - like SCD its as much a popularity contest as it is a dancing contest - and with Thanksgiving coming up, the only all American partnership left will score well with the American public.

I agree
I'm pleased that Jonathan has made his first final. I also appreciate Marie's performance the fact she puts her all into it and at the end of the day that's all you can ask for.

From the Louis Van Amstell article in Holland recently:

Just this tidbit so far, my friend will dig it up and tell me more later...


I was intrigued to see him dance, and thankfully the early series videos are still up on Raph's site, and watched LVA's Waltz from series 1.

Was also tres surprised to see that Kenny Maine's Cha Cha in series 2 received 4, 5, 4 from the Judges!
Now either he was a truly terrible dancer, or there was less overinflated marking back then?

During the DWTS off season, must catch up on videos of all the series so far.

Oh, do watch them all!

Yes, Kenny Mayne was terrible. However, he was not as bad as the awful Master P. He only came in late, to fill in for his son who was injured playing basketball, but I felt so sorry for his poor partner, you could see she was really really trying but he was terrible. He scored a 2 for one of his dances, off one of the judges.

WOW! That is surprsing, as even that very tall basketball player in series 4, who couldn't dance at all, seemed to complain when he got a score below a 7!

I'm so looking forward to having a DWTS fest on Raph's site sometime soon. Shall I admit this publically?....I have a slight crush on Kenny Mayne, he's actually a bit fanciable.

BTW re Louis van Amstel, he lives in Utah aswell, like the Houghs, must be a dancing hotbed over there!

Yeah, Ashly DelGrosso - one of the pros from seasons 1-3, who left to have a baby - is from Utah too. Lots of Mormons, too - Ashly is one, so are the Houghs and so are Benji and Lacey Schwimmer and Heidi Groskreutz and Allison Holker from So You Think You Can Dance!

That's so interesting to me, as the only Mormons we'd ever heard of before were the Osmonds, going back to the 1970s. Other than them, Mormons and Utah were only mentioned in terms of ultra religious people who believed in multiple marriages and had very home loving, dowdy children. So seeing the likes of Julianne Hough and all these glamorous dancers is so weird. I guess the Mormons got into the 21st Century!

Did you watch the last televised - in Britain - series of So You Think You Can Dance? The winner, Benji and his cousin Heidi (who came third) are also Mormons. In fact, Benji was a missionary who just happened to dance...

No, unfortunately I haven't got Living, only Freeview.

So I've only seen clips on youtube.

There's a load of clips, both SYTYCD and their professional comps etc of Benji and Heidi on YouTube.

http://uk.youtube.com/results?search...enji+and+heidi

Cheers quacka!

Yes I agree, I liked all four in the semi-final tbh & would have been sad to see any of them go .
Did you hear how many million watch the show . Our SCD pales into insignificance.

Yeah, but they do have a population of 250 million.

This week's dances:

Monday:
Helio and Julianne - Jive (new choreo), Freestyle
Mel and Maks - Cha Cha (new choreo), Freestyle
Marie and Jonathan - Samba (new choreo), Freestyle

Tuesday:
Helio and Julianne - Quickstep (reprise)
Mel and Maks - Unknown (but it will be a reprise)
Marie and Jonathan - Tango (reprise)

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Oooh ooh, thanks for the update! I'm excited already!

Good news on the Louis van Amstel front - he's just bought a house in Hollywood, where his new Dance School is, so a strong chance he'll be back for DWTS 6 as it's filmed in LA.

New update: only two couples will get to do their Tuesday dance. One couple will be eliminated, the top 2 will dance their ballroom dance and be scored by the judges and then all the scores combined to find out who the winner is.

Still no news on Mel and Maks' ballroom dance.

I've just been looking back at some old vids. Funny to think what perceptions were of the contestants before the show started! Jimmy Kimmel (a talk show host) predicted it would be:

Winner: Helio
Floyd
Jennie
Albert
Mel
Sabrina
Wayne
Cameron
Jane
Mark
Marie
Josie

(And LOL at Tom on Star Trek: Enterprise!)

Getting quite excited for tonight's final, definitely more excited about DWTS than awful SCD.

Hope it's either Marie or Helio to win , any of them is good for me as long as it's not Mel Brown!

I want Helio to win but would also be happy if Marie won. I don't like Mel for some reason - I like Maks but can't warm to her. She never was my favourite Spice Girl

I'd love Mel B to win because I think she's the best dancer, but I think Marie will win because 1. She's the only American left and 2. She 's got a massive fab base (including me ) - don't care much for Helio.

I finally got to hear Julianne's single! It's good, I like it

I'd really like to see a Mark and Julianne pro demonstration, they're one couple we haven't seen dance together (there was the Dolly Parton thing but I mean a couple dance not a group dance) that I'd really like to.

Is it this one playing here? I like it too.

http://www.juliannehough.com/

She's got a lovely warm voice, very Country. The Hough talent is never ending. TBH who can blame her & Mark, and Derek for leaving competition dancing behind and turning to *Showbiz*? I would've done exactly the same in her shoes with her amazing talent.

Yes, it's called "Will You Dance With Me?".

And yes, I agree, they're all very talented, the Houghs and Mark. Hope we get to see them again next season.

Thats a bit harsh, mel has been the best dancer of the series, like or dislike her you can't deny her obvious talent on that dancefloor.