Next week it's on for 2 hours: how much padding/adverts can we take?????

I agree the cardboard comment was uncalled for imo

Melinda is 37.

What has age got to do with it anyway? Jayne's older than that. Karen's older than that. Ruthie older's than that. Ruthie can dance. Jayne and Karen can dance and skate.

Colleen must be nearing 50

Almost as bad. Havn't done all the perms but it looks as if Colleen is likely to be second in the public vote for doing nothing much. (we know that because we know she beat Melinda and we know Roxanne beat Melinda - the only way she can be lower is if Jessica and Zoe came very low in teh vote) Melinda got no credit for doing really well and Roxanne is doing better than her marks for being no better than Gemma. They might as well all have come on and had a competitive falling over competition.

I think she's 43

they need to get rid of jason, he is a plank, gota say jessica was great tonight.. hope she wins it.... and at the end of the day they all should be proud of themselfs, becasue they tried there best and are not ice skaters!!!

Melinda got more votes IMO than Gemma because of Fred's massive fan base...

What does that matter how old you are? Didn't realise there was an age restriction in DOI?

She is. 44 on March 12....

I must send her a card

I bet they'll celebrate it on LW

Nice to see Suzanne in the audience this evening too... no doubt there to lend support to Matt.

It's a lot harder to learn to skate the older you get. Karen and Jayne can still do it as they've been doing since they were young and continued. Very different to learning it fresh at that age.

In general the younger you are when you start skating the easier it is to learn. Far less bad muscle memory to overcome and usually much less of a fear factor too.

I hadn't expected to like Melinda much but was very impressed with her (and she's same age as I was when I learnt to skate!). She kept smiling and didn't let the wobbles put her off and just picked it right back up.

Jessica was good as expected and Zoe was the surprise as she had some complicated footwork and a difficult routine which she performed well.

Wasn't impressed with Roxanne at all - I think maybe Dan is inclined to do too much lifiting and carrying as I'd have expected her (being a youngster) to have thrown herself more into the actual skating but she didn't move for ages and then got lifted a lot.

Gemma came over badly on the VT (I dont' watch the soaps so didnt' know her) and then didnt' live up to her own hype. The back drag and spirals were good and I was initially surprised at the low score but looking at it again the overall impression wasn't very good.

Colleen probably got through on her popularity but she did make a good effort and actually managed to look more comfortable on the ice than Gemma.

Happy with the result though! So glad Melinda and the lovely Fred stayed.

Andrei is very popular - Gemma's personality was very unappealing.

Whoever she had partnered, I reckon she would have been a goner.