I think I have now got sorted out who the assorted Slebs are. I think. No actually I don't think I have, but it doesn't really matter.
This week was Movie Week and usually the themed nights are dire but this year it was surprisingly good. All the Guardianista bloggers (I am one) who appear on the live blog were in agreement on this. Mind you we have Halloween Week coming up which is pretty dreadful and of course, BLACKPOOL!! The HOME OF BALLROOM! FISH and CHIPS! DONKEYS! ILLUMINATIONS....must stop am feeling faint.
Judges say they do not have favourites. HAH!! This year Daisy Lowe is clearly the one they all love and want to get through. She is rather sweet and looks gorgeous and dances well but so far has not earned the superlatives heaped upon her. But she is dancing with Aljaz (never know how to spell his name) so for that reason alone I hope she stays in to the end just so I have the pleasure of looking at him. Well, a girl has to have something and now Gleb has gone 'sob' what am I to do?
Anastasia and Brendon - felt she should have gone. If you can't dance in the dance off then you should not be there. Brendon looks fairly cheesed off this series. Actually, Brendon looks cheesed off most of the time. The year he had Lulu he hit rock bottom in the cheesed off stakes. He came up against the biggest Ego of the lot and that really really cheesed him off. Too much cheese this week - see my thoughts below on Ball and Boe.
Joe Varney (Giovanni) and Laura (who?) were in the dance off tonight and quite honestly, I think it is because nobody really knows who she is. I gather she is a friend of Georgia who danced with Giovanni last year and they fell in lurve and then he dumped her just before this series started and Laura is a friend of Georgia who was so cross she stopped following her on Twitter but now I gather is following her again and wishing her luck and the papers are going potty and IT IS ALL TOO MUCH TO BEAR.
Judge Rinder or Rhiner whatever - quite sweet and we know you are gay darling but you can overdo it you know. Also would help if he shut his mouth occasionally and stopped drooling when he is dancing.
Will Young who is dancing with Karen who is now married to Kevin and is therefore a Clifton. There are far too many Cliftons in this show and we all hate them. He is lovely. Watching them dance I thought of the old joke about Ben Hur. Loved him did not like her. But want him to get through so we will have to grit teeth and think nice thoughts about Karen. I am sure it can be done....
Kevin Clifton (husband of Karen) is dancing with Louise Redknapp (wife of Jamie footballer. I know I should not describe her as just his wife but not sure what else she has done. Think she was in a girl group. Isn't everybody?) Her dance was to Got a Feeling from Flashdance - heroine in this was a welder I think which always struck me as being seriously weird. Anyway she was pretty good and gave it some welly.
Claudia Fragipane and AJ somebody. Why is he called AJ? Perhaps he has awful names and is embarrassed by them. Algernon Josiah? Aloysius Jerome? Arbuthnot ... sorry have run out of ideas. Anyway he looks about twelve and so does Claudia but they did a wonderful Charleston to Bugsy Malone and chucked cream pies around and it all got a bit childish. As they both look as if they should be in school this fitted in well.
Greg Long Jump and Natalie - Nat is my favourite lady dancer, she is gorgeous and kind and fabulous and I love watching her. She and Greg danced to everything I do from robin Hood which is one of the cheesiest songs ever but I love love love it and this was a great routine.
Tameka and Gorka - he is the latest Russian/Bulgarian/Ukrainian take your pick to join the show and is rather fetching. This week he and Tameka, the obligatory East Ender with a laugh that would shatter glass, did a tango dressed as policeman. Don't ask. Even the sight of Gorka's truncheon was not enough to save them from the dance off.
OK getting tired now and longing to go to bed. I now have a super duper mattress topper on it and would happily spend all day there if I could so I am going to finish up and leap under the duvet and snuggle with cries of joy.
BUT must end up with Ed. Did a totally barking mad samba dressed with a green face - Jim Carey film the Mask I gather - and got through because people are getting such joy out of watching him. Craig was as sarcastic as ever about it. We know Ed is not going to win, the funny turns never do, so do wish that Craig would just embrace it all and have fun the miserable sod.
The results show tonight hit rock bottom with the rendition of Somewhere from West Side Story, a simply glorious touching duet between Maria and Tony, sung by the utterly ghastly out of tune awful pair of Michael Ball and Alfie Boe. Michael Ball is beginning to look like one as he gets more rotund each time I see him. That is not often, admittedly, as I do not exactly rush when I hear he is around. Alfie Boe made great play with the fact that he was a trained tenor and was at Covent Garden but hated the snobbery of it all and so decided to sing for the 'people' instead and be a cross over artist. Seems to me being a cross over artist means you sing badly in both genres. He is pretty poor and the combo of him and Ball made my eyes and ears bleed. I suppose I should be grateful that Andre Bocelli wasn't there either (he will be no doubt in a week or two) and then the three of them could have sung Three Little Maids from School from the Mikado.
I know I have not written about everybody but there are still Too Many of Them.
I am just glad that Ed got through and lives to make us laugh another day.
Oh and just to finish off the evening Claudia was wearing a white dress that looked like she was being prepared to be taken down to theatre...
Keeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep dancing!
Oh forgot to say, Tameka gone.
