Well the third dancer has gone and it was Naga and Twitter was awash with accusations of racism which the Daily Mail has picked up on and given prominence to. I was somewhat heartened to see that most of the comments under this argument were more or less telling the Mail to piss off and nothing of the kind. One assumes that if Lesley Joseph, aged 70 had gone there would have been cries of agism. No doubt when Greg goes as he will in a few weeks, there will be calls of 'Gingerism'. Of course if three lily white slebs had been kicked off nobody would have said a word. Whole thing is barking.
Quite a fun show on Saturday. Judges favourites are pretty clear this year: Daisy and Louise. Not their fault but it is clear that they are lined up to be Teacher's Pet. This could cause problems down the line when the Great British Public get Fed Up with it and Turn Nasty. Both of them seem to be really sweet nice ladies though Daisy emoting about her recently passed Grandfather in week one was a tad over the top (whatever happened to keeping grief private?) and Louise wheeled her kids in the other week. No doubt she has a grandparent lurking offstage somewhere for when the going gets rough. Laura, in the dance off last week, wheeled out her cute fluffy little dog to make sure it did not happen twice.....
Lesley Joseph was terrific doing a great Charleston with Anton. If I was half as fit as Lesley and I am now approaching the Big 70, I would be a happy woman though I do wish people would stop going on about it in a condescending way ....yes Tess I do mean you.
I know Danny Mac has had dance experience but that does not stop me from enjoying his superb routine in white tie and tails to 'I won't dance don't ask me' a la Astaire. Sheer delight and I loved it.
Louise and Kevin - very nice
Daisy and Aljaz - underwhelming rhumba. Mind you I was watching Aljz most of the time so perhaps I should not criticize
Brendon and Anastasia - awful
The Munchkins/The Borrowers whatever you want to call them - Claudia and Aj sickeningly sweet. I find this couple slightly creepy. Don't ask because I don't know.
Greg and Nat - like these two very much. Salsa was ok but relied a bit on spectacular lifts and will he manage them or not as the poor guy had a wrist injury during the week and we had a scene filmed with it being looked at by an anxious doctor. Of course we knew he would manage it.
Highlight of the night was Ore and Joanne Clifton (the only good thing about Will Young leaving was that we had one less Clifton to put up with but blimey they are everywhere) doing a stunning jive which garnered a 9 and three 10s. Ore is black and came top of the leader-board which rather puts the racism lot to sleep. Great dancer, lovely chat but Gawd he never stops weeping. This gave the Ghastly Wooden One aka Tess a chance to pat him on the cheek and say Poor Baby at which the comments on the Guardian blog went into overdrive. As one we all think she is DREADFUL. How she keeps the job I do not know. I think the BBC feel sorry for her, after all she is married to Vernon Kay who has a penchant for sending slutty texts to ladies so perhaps she needs to get out of the house and leave him behind.
Ed Balls was truly awful this week in his paso. I mean not even funny awful, just plain awful. He was dressed up as a knight slaying a dragon which was totally pathetic and has nothing to do with a paso at all. Lots of people have made the comment that the BBC should stop making him the comedy act and let him be given a decent dance to do. I gather he has the American Smooth this week so let us see. Same applies to Judge Rinder. Lovely Viennesse waltz but danced dressed in lederhosen to the tune of Boom bang a bang which Lulu took to the Eurovison song contest some thirty years ago. Once the BBC have you in a slot, ie Funny Man or Funny Camp Man or Funny Two Left Feet Man then you are made to stay there.
Naga was booted out and quite rightly, she never looked as if she enjoyed it and her Charleston was pretty poor and it had to be poor to be beaten by Anastasia and Brendon in the dance off as she is pretty poor too, but she is a Brave Woman who has Gone Through a Lot so she will be kept in a bit longer.
Of course did my usual and found out who was eliminated before I went to sleep by logging onto a certain website. This means of course that I sleep easy and can sit and snigger at the show the next day which tries to fool us into thinking it is live when EVERYONE knows it was filmed two hours after the show on Saturday night. About time the BBC dropped this pathetic farce but as they specialise in treating viewers as if they were pig ignorant it will continue.
But knowing who left also meant I had one thing less to worry about on Sunday morning as it was time to watch Andy Murray in the final at Shanghai and my nerves oh my nerves were shredded as per. Still he won it and I could not be more delighted. Keeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep playing Andy!
