Goodbye Ed and thanks for the entertainment
We are big ‘Strictly’ fans
in our house and during this best ever series this autumn it has got so that we
have to have something very easy to prepare for dinner on Saturday night so
that we can be seated in front to the box by the time the dancing starts.
Like a lot of other people
we had started to think that Ed Balls could not last much longer and we were
sad to see him pushed out this weekend. Ed has been the most entertaining worse
dancer ever in the history of the programme. Last night we did not agree with
the judges because we thought that Ed and Katya were much better than Judge
Rinder who they quite amazingly saved after the dance off. Steve and I were not
impressed with Judge Rinder’s dancing the first time we watched his dance with
the lovely Oksana Platero. It seemed to us the he did very little actual
dancing and an overdose of arm waving and poor side to side hip movements
whilst his beautiful partner did all the dancing for both of them and obviously
magnetising everybody’s eyes to her skills to cover up for Rinder’s lack of any
pure dance ability.
We admit that Ed has never
had much in the way of a professional quality ‘Top Line’ that they are always
banging on about but he has worked as hard as anybody since the very beginning
of this series. We both thought that he genuinely deserved one more week before
there was not any longer a chance of him surviving. So yes, as we sat and
watched the result programme last night we were shouting with dissatisfaction
at the telly after the judging. Apart from Judge Rinder, we are very happy with
the remaining couples that got through to the quarter finals next week.
Danny Mac has been my tip to
win from week one. That young man is a worker and has head firmly on as straight
as can be. He is obviously taking in every tip his superb dance teacher, Oti
Mabuse passes on to him and works and works and works until they have
perfection. Over the last few weeks we have thought that he is the only male
celebrity ever, ever, ever to have worked so hard that if you did not know, you
might ask which one of them is the professional because he is so polished and
does not have a part of his body that he is not in total command of. Everything
moves, and brilliantly. In addition to that he is an actor and plays each part
so well. He has to win.
Ed's Tango that cost him his place
We also love Ore Oduba and
Joanne Clifton who are also giving excellent performances every week. My own
favourite professional is Kevin Clifton and I think he has done a wonderful job
bringing out the best in Louise Redknapp but I don’t think they can win.
Neither do I think Claudia Fragapane can stay the full course as hard as A.J.
Pritchard works her unless he can coax a lot more personality out of her very
quickly, that is an area that she has not been able to show as yet. In addition
to that it as been very difficult for AJ with her being such a tiny dot because
it is so hard to make her look any more graceful because of the height
difference, sadly for her they cannot make the shape perfection required. She
again has worked her socks off all throughout and improved astonishingly.
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