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No wonder I find it hard to warm to her and it explains why she looked so miffed at being in the bottom 2.

Well....its a factor in why all the celebs are doing the show really.

Lets not single her out for it.

You'll never convince me a single celeb/pro/judge/presenter does it for any other reason!

Rachel has her head screwed on, clever girl

Same as Alesha last year.

I do think for some it's a greater consideration than others.

I think Jodie, maybe slightly, but she does have a history of doing things because they're fun or she wants a challenge.

Christine, I don't think so as much, she's on prime time tv every night. I think that BBC employees have their arm twisted a little.

Cherie, yes, I think she did it to further her career, I suppose older women do find it harder to get their names out there.

Tom, definitely.

Andrew Castle, nope, just think he was the latest GMTV to have their arm twisted, a little like Christine.

Austin, probably. He finished rugby, got a job in a bank, didn't like it. He could probably do any number of things though, like public speaking, it's very lucrative and I imagine he would be very good at it. But maybe he wants a tv profile?

Don, same as Cherie probably.

John, I don't think so. He's winding down from all of his political stuff, he probably thought, oh it'll be fun for 2 weeks.

Jessie did it for the publicity as did Gillian I would imagine.

Phil Daniels, I have no idea.

Gary, his ego led him, I think.

Lisa, again I'm not sure, she's on Capital's breakfast show, but I guess it could raise her profile.

But Rachel, I suppose, is the most obvious as needing a new career. Her pop career failed, she's not doing anything else. She needs the publicity the most, I would guess.

I've probably forgotten a few though.

Good points. Yeah I'd agree its a bigger factor for some than others.

Agree with most of that Alli.

I suspect Don saw it as more of challenge than anything though.

Of course their career is a consideration for all of them when they agree to the show, but for some it's the prime if not the only reason for doing it.

Rachel it seems is in that catergory and it explains her desperation to do well and why she's not great to watch. imo

Strange how the article doesn't say what the thread title claims.

There's a big difference between hoping to help your career (which is what the article does say) and doing Strictly only for that reason.

Also strange that it's not a new story, yet the DS repetition of it gives no source.

I understand when you say she's just being honest and to a point I agree but I wonder whether she will live to regret being quite so open. She has already struggled one week in terms of public support and some of her voters might find this off-putting.

It's the only reason any celeb does any reality TV show.

They all give stories such as wanting to challenge themselves etc, but if you took away the fee & the tv coverage how many of them would still spend four months learning to dance or sit in a jungle eating bugs, etc etc?

I do agree but I also think many like the challenge and want to learn to dance on top of this.

I also think a lot of the celebs who have taken part in SCD would never go to the jungle and eat bugs.

*Obviously excepting Esther Rantzen *

Ah but it was well publiscied that she always wanted to be a dancer; but never got the opportunity when younger.

The whole Rachel thing just seems pointless now; if she doesn't really wanna dance; she may as wlel go

The thing that always amazes me every year is how the celebs clearly love being on the show and desperately don't want to stop. You'd think they'd feel by 6 or 7 weeks in, 'OK, raised my profile, got half way, exhausted, let's go in a sporting way and everyone will love me,' but no, they desperately want to stay. Lots of them talk about being in a 'bubble' when on the show. I think Rachel is an ambitious woman - good for her - in an incredibly unstable, unreliable job, but I do think she is genuinely loving dancing with Vincent and doesn't want it to stop.

I think 'desperate' tends to be in the eye of the beholder and it's much easier to see it in the celebs you don't like than in the ones you do.

So? She was still in great need of a career boost.


Where does the article say she doesn't really want to dance?

BTW, where was the original of this story? It's not a new one, but DS seems to have repeated it (or parts of it) without giving any source.

Why are any of them in there? They're all the same. But I think it's a mistake for Rachel to actually come out and say it - this could cost her votes, especially as a lot of people couldn't warm to her anyway.

I don't get how Rachel has worked this one out:

winning UK Strictly Come Dancing= career in Hollywood

If she was that serious about it then she'd go to acting school or try and get any bit-part in a TV show or something to get some experience, since she has turned her nose up at reality TV in the past. Clearly she just wants the cheap way to get a life of being famous and the glitz and glamour.

I think this was why the judges disliked her (until last week), because they could tell that she was looking past the whole competition to the opportunities it would bring her and only giving enough effort to get through each week rather than giving it everything she had.
She learnt her lesson though by being in the bottom two.

I never heard her say she doesn't want to be there. Do you have to have longed to dance all your life to be part of SCD? I loved Alesha, but let's face it, she wouldn't have been there if she'd had the same success as a Beyonce with her solo career.

Where did you get that from?

There's nothing about it in the article.

She's already been down that route ~ it didn't work out very well for her......

To defend her slightly they all are.

But she does win this years "Gaby award" for being the most desperate.

That's showbusiness.
You have to go looking for the next job.
Rachel is doing a very good job of advertising herself on SCD, just as Jill Halfpenny did.

Before this people justified their dislike of Rachel by saying she did not 'perform'.
Now she has done the Rumba, that reason does not carry a lot of weight.

absolutely

So book some private lessons then perhaps.


I've no doubt Rachel is enjoying the dancing, you don't put in that much effort without loving it, and she wants a career boost, just like most of them, including Alesha

It's not in that article, but a previous article said that she was desperate to make it in Hollywood and that she has already attempted to in the past, but no-one was interested in her over there.

Very well summed up! John, Jodie and Christine are the ones I think care least about raising their profiles.

Don't think it's a problem really, it's why most of them do it every year, isn't it? Possibly not the wisest thing for Rachel to have admitted though, knowing the way people's minds can work...