Ricky Whittle & Natalie Lowe – Foxtrot
Please Natalie I hope you’ve sorted out Ricky’s odd head movements as they really do grate for me and often it ruins the whole look of the routine. Significant improvement in the head department, though he has to avoid looking down at the floor. Can’t see his footwork but a very good performance, not perfect…
Read MoreChris Hollins & Ola Jordan – Waltz
A dance that needs elegance and romance, and I think Chris has what it takes to pull off a good one, but let’s see what happens. I’m not personally happy with his head position, it’s stretched a little oddly but the dance is looking good aside from that, although he really does need to incorporate…
Read MoreLaila Rouass & Anton du Beke – American Smooth
I was really enjoying the start, up until the slip in the spin. She really does have to watch those shoulders too. The dance does look like Anton is throwing her round quite a lot, and I don’t just mean in the lifts! Started with lots of promise but I don’t think it delivered and…
Read MoreAli Bastian & Brian Fortuna – Tango
Another dance where Ali won’t be able to ‘float’ round the floor so will be interesting to see how she copes with the passion and aggression required in this dance. Slight slip in the spins at the start and they appear to be incorporating rising into the dance at points. Ali is looking quite unsteady…
Read MoreSorry for the delay
We were away for the weekend, and even though i’d dutifully taken my laptop with us so that I could blog during the show, it turned out that the forest in Cornwall had zero phone reception! I would have posted yesterday if we hadn’t have got stuck on the M4 motorway, stationary for 1 1/2…
Read MorePaso tips from Vincent Simone
Looking to improve your Paso Doble (albeit we don’t teach it in our classes!)? Here’s the top tips from Strictly Come Dancing’s Vincent Simone:
Read MoreWeek 11 in 60 Seconds
If you missed Strictly at the weekend, or haven’t got time to go through my comments from the weekend (individual videos now added), here’s a 60 second run down:
Read MoreThe moment of truth, dance off, and result
Is it unthinkable for Ricky Whittle to be in the bottom two…let’s find out! Still on target for a Ricky & Laila dance-off, but wait it appears Anton is more popular than Natalie. I preferred Natalie’s original Rock and Roll performance to Ricky’s but I think it’ll take a miracle for Natalie to be saved…
Read MoreJudges Competition Scores & Combined Leaderboard
What’s their individual breakdown then? Ali & Brian – 10Ricky & Natalie – 9Laila & Anton – 8Chris & Ola – 7Natalie & Vincent – 7 So apart from getting Ricky & Natalie Cassidy the wrong way round, it went as expected (though to be honest I never thought Ricky would score as low as…
Read MoreCompetition Viennese Waltz
So the first time that the competitors have been required to actually compete against each other, let’s see how they cope with a normal dancing competition scenario. This will be made difficult by the camera angles, very hard to compare when it keeps jumping around. For me I still think Ricky’s frame is not the…
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