Well, what a turn up for the book. The two involved in the dance off were Gabby and James and Ian and Penny. The judges were totally flummoxed by this and it was clear they profoundly disagreed with the results. Of course the final two should have been Kenny and Ola and Kate and Anton and there were gasps all round when they got through, not least from the contestants themselves.
Shame Brendon and Kelly got through. Kelly was looking very tense and very relieved when their names were called out. He really is an arrogant prat and should be chucked off the show. He deliberately flouted the rules and put in an extra life just as he did last year and used the excuse he wanted to show 'off this wonderful girl'. The judges, with the exception of Bruno who gave him a ten, were furious and a row between them broke out today with Len asking if this was just a popularity contest why bother having the judges there at all?
But the British public are a funny lot and vote for the underdog and if they take agin someone, that is that. Last year for some reason they took against Emma Bunton and no matter how well she danced she was always in danger of going out. I think Gabby Logan has shown her competitiveness far too much and also showed how taken aback she was at the judge's comments in the first week. She had obviously expected wholesale plaudits and was very disappointed when she did not receive them and don't think this attitude went down well. Last week she did a cartwheel and the splits and more acrobats this week. The British do not like a show off!
So, getting interesting and wonder what is going to happen next week.
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I think part of it is that some of the contestants have got block votes behind them: the Eastenders fans will vote for Letitia and Matt, teenage girls will vote for Aleesha and Gethin, GMTV viewers and those who like to support the underdog will vote for Kate, teenage (and older!) lads will vote for Kelly etc. Problem is that Stephanie and Willie don't have a particular fan base and neither do Gabby and Penny - will BBC sport viewers even be watching and does Rod have that many fans these days? Whatever the judges think, it IS a popularity contest to a large extent, especially early on.
And does Tess have a particular love of wearing dreadful belts with otherwise nice frocks? And I think it's all getting a bit much for dear old Brucie.
PS - think you should move these posts to Random Jottings as I think there's probably a bigger overlap than you think! Even the most literary love Strictly!
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