Jimi Mistry & Flavia Cacace – Quickstep

I’m hoping their performance in front of his daughter’s school was early on in training, as it did look pretty awful! Thankfully that does seem to be the case.  Again a little too much faffing about at the start (as Len would put it) but once they get going it’s fast-paced and intricate.  Jimi needs…

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Strictly Come Dancing – Saturday 16th October

  Not having seen any of Strictly Come Dancing, It Takes Two this week I have no idea how anyone’s training has gone.  I’m also watching the recording at 8am on a Sunday morning so give me some slack if the blogging’s not up to the usual standard 🙂 Up first Kara Tointon & Artem…

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Ricky Whittle & Natalie Lowe – Quickstep

Perfect marks in the final for their Quickstep makes this a strong contender, though hopefully there’ll be some new choreography. Thought there was a slight slip up in the middle, but otherwise a very good performance, will the judges overlook the lift at the end though? Technically it seemed perfect but have to knock off…

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Ricky Whittle & Natalie Lowe – Quickstep

Up first then is Ricky to bring in the Grand Final. Looking very good so far. Ricky’s head is very much improved over what i’ve seen in recent weeks, needs to make sure he keeps looking up and doesn’t look at the floor when they’re apart though. I would say a faultless performance and I’m…

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Natalie Cassidy & Vincent Simone – Quickstep

Natalie performed a good Jive last week, how is she going to cope with the energy levels required for this week’s Quickstep? Natalie has to control those shoulders, which do raise up at times, and the dance seems to have a very laboured start – though it does pick up after that. A slight mistake…

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Ricky Whittle & Natalie Lowe – Quickstep

I hope Natalie has worked on Ricky’s frame, as that’s the one part of his dancing that I’ve felt has been particularly lacking.An energetic performance and hard to fault at times (though he needs to ensure he brings the feet closer together during the scatter chasses). I really found it hard to fault and this…

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Ricky Groves & Erin Boag – American Smooth

Ricky and Erin have decided to choose a Viennese Waltz as their American Smooth dance and from the training videos I think that could prove to be a good choice.Shame he was out of time at the start there as they came together. An excellent performance, with a cheeky bit of Quickstep thrown in for…

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The result

Based on the dance-off I’d put Lynda through.Rav really let himself down in that dance-off, with a worse performance than actually during the competition. Hat off to Lynda though, i’d written you off but you upped your game in the dance-off and definitely deserve to come back next week. So, another week, another celebrity going…

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Leaderboard

Leaderboard is as follows:1. 35 points – Ricky & Natalie2. 32 points – Ali & Brian3. 31 points – Zoe & James4. 31 points – Jade & Ian5. 30 points – Laila & Anton6. 29 points – Ricky & Erin7. 28 points – Natalie & Vincent8. 25 points – Lynda & Darren9. 24 points –…

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Phil Tufnell & Katya Virshilas – Quickstep

So Phil has a knee problem and is going in for surgery tomorrow, let’s see how it affects this quick and high-impact dance.I wonder if Katya had to adjust the routine after Phil’s knee diagnosis? Nice start though needs to relax the shoulders and they lose connection just as they’re starting the scatter chasses. A…

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