Strictly Come Dancing

Very poor show tonight. Not what they needed.

Katya looked very tentative in that dance, not like her at all. She came over as very nervous, I doubt she really meant to say it's been an amazing week. Neil kept his distance when they were being interviewed.

Good demonstration of the importance of decent music. Stuck with that terrible song even Pasha and Ashley couldn't breakthrough with their Tango.

Katie was terrible too. Stomp stomp stomp. Ok, props to her for a bit more acting (if you can call putting your hand to your mouth in Japanese giggle motion acting) but other than that, useless. I think if a judge is commending you for the colour the wardrobe department put you in it’s probably time to go. 

Charles, hated it. But nice to see a smidge of humility after last week. 

Seann and Katya.... noticeably less touchy. At one point he tried to peck her on the cheek and she almost recoiled haha. I don’t think they’ll be bottom 2. 

It used to be mainly the professional but they've been strongly hinting for a while now that the production team decide a lot of it these days.

Which makes sense given how unsuitable some of the music is. Hard to believe a professional dancer would choose inappropriate music.

I bet that cake was barely edible.

Shaunn was just as gangly, ridged and awkward as Joe and didn't get half the critique, it was just weird and uncomfortable.

Agree with all lack lustre.

I have just skipped through the show at high speed and I thought it was a really poor week from a lot of people.

To be fair, it was one of the better weeks for the costume team. But the music choices were, on the whole, awful.

Voting seemed random.

Gorka looked particularly cute in green.

I could quite happily send more than half of them home right now. Weak week.

There's usually one routine that is memorable for good or bad reasons, but the only outstanding thing last night was the mediocrity of it all. Music, costumes, concepts, choreography, performances were all a bit... meh! Must do better.

Oh dear...

The cake incident just about summed up the show tonight.

They’re an odd bunch of ‘celebs’ this year with some even odder partnerships: the older men seem to think they’re significantly better than they really are (top of the list is the pink-clad cricketer), and some of the women lack any personality (with poor Katie lacking any dance ability either, bless her...) So it’s left up to the pros to do all the work- providing the dance content and the charm. Let’s face it- these days the pros are now far more celeb than the ‘celebs’!

I ria-lly don’t fink ah can tayke much mowa of Staycey Doolay’s aksent. I used to like some of her ‘documentaries’ where she spoke normally... I bet the Queen was quite relieved she didn’t turn up for her MBE.

I don’t think I’ve ever disliked a couple more than Vik and that Graziano. He needs a good few more of Craig’s put-downs.

And I got a bit fed up with the ‘It’s my mum’s/dad’s/granny’s favourite song’ routine. I hope that’s knocked on the head PDQ.

Loved Lauren and AJ’s quick-step, the Doc and Janette’s Paso (great to hear some proper music which took me by surprise) and loving Joe who seems a nice enough chap with no ego and plenty of quiet enthusiasm (and some ability) for every new dance.

Dare I mention the charleston? No, I don’t think I can...

Should Graziano have been pulling all those faces in that Quickstep last night? I thought those shenanigans were restricted to Latin.

Even though I knew the outcome from reading the spoiler results, and (genuinely) think that in this case that Charles was the better dancer all round, that was little emotional wasn't it?

BTW Backsteet’s back (alright)