What dance did Shirley and Craig watch for them to pick Mike over Catherine?

Well that wasn't Catherine and Johannes' best dance, but how anyone can say Mike and Katya did better in that dance off is obviously smoking something weird or getting whispered in the ear by the producers. Then again, given what Craig and Shirley did to Aston and Janette two years ago that's not surprising how they voted tonight.

 

'What they did' :lol: by which you mean, follow the rules?

 

I guess it depends if you think the original scores were fair, but in both cases, Mike & Mollie were ahead on the leaderboard. And when they repeated in the dance off, both improved (Mollie particularly, as she had stumbled on the main show) and the other either did the same again (Aston) or fumbled more (Catherine)

 

Going by logic, there's no other thing to do than to send home Aston and Cath. Were they the better dancer overall? Yes, unquestionably (and PARTS of Catherine's dance were better than Mike for sure) Did they do the better dance on the night? No. Unquestionably so in Mollie's case.

 

It's Bruno, Motsi, Darcey that in their votes are actively DOING something to rock the apple cart by seemingly voting on an overall basis rather than what they just saw in the dance off

Dances this week:

 

Alex & Neil - American Smooth (Ain't No Mountain High Enough)

Chris & Karen - Commercial/Street (Let's Get Ready To Rumble)

Emma & Anton - Rumba (Woman In Love)

Emma & Aljaz - Samba (I Don't Care)

Karim & Amy - Quickstep (Mr Pinstripe Suit)

Kelvin & Oti - Viennese Waltz (Say Something)

Michelle & Giovanni - Paso Doble (Another One Bites The Dust)

Mike & Katya - Charleston (Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines)

Saffron & AJ - Salsa (Instruction)

Will & Janette - Waltz (Weekend In New England)

Crap song but Michelle seems like she should be perfect for a paso :wub:

Does anyone know for sure if Will's confirmed to be dancing this week yet? I only ask because he wasn't at the Pride of Britain Awards with Janette last night - she Tweeted him a little message to the effect of 'Rest up champ'.

 

I imagine Chris' dance this week is either going to be a total train wreck or talked about a la 'Gangnam Style'. No inbetween.

Edited October 29, 20195 yr by ThePensmith

Will has quit due to his injury, that was just confirmed on the Strictly Twitter.

 

I wonder if we'll have a non-elimination this week. No doubt the rabid Catherine fans (I was annoyed too, but god some of them on Twitter!!) will be like "he should have dropped out last week and she'd still be there!11!" if that does happen :lol:

Will has quit due to his injury, that was just confirmed on the Strictly Twitter.

 

I wonder if we'll have a non-elimination this week. No doubt the rabid Catherine fans (I was annoyed too, but god some of them on Twitter!!) will be like "he should have dropped out last week and she'd still be there!11!" if that does happen :lol:

 

That's a shame... i'm guessing it will just be a 3 person final - that's what happened when Will Young quit.

Sad to hear, but expected. For me his Couples Choice dance on Week 5 has been the best one all series. Hope he recovers OK and gets better soon.

I’d much rather a four person final but it seems likely it’s gonna be a three person one unless they cancel an elimination show and have the scores over two weeks combined one week like they do a the start.

 

This is quite sad though. Will was the only male I felt could win other than Kelvin.

 

He was a massive contender for making the final in my opinion!

 

I’d say it’s now looking like Kelvin, Alex and then a toss up of Saffron, Michelle and Karim for the third spot in the final.

 

I Still stand by my theory now we’re losing people this is when Karims public vote will be tested. I don’t think he’s doing well on that.

I also think Emma Barton is beating Michelle and Saffron on public votes too.

 

 

What a odd show tonight more enjoyable as a whole than last week.

 

Unpredictable series this is turning into though.

 

Emma Barton was treated a bit harshly. 5’s when Mike got an 8 and Chris even got a 9!

 

I gave all my votes to Emma B tonight but realistically I do think she could escape the dance off.

 

It’s likely Emma Weymouth vs Saffron for the dance off I’d say.

 

Mike is still in it guys!

 

The judges saved him yet again in the dance off. Emma Weymouth is out.

 

 

^^ tonight’s spoiler result

 

(Just need someone to say If it was unanimous or a Shirley deciding vote

It's official. I am done with this show. Chiefly after catching sight of Chris Ramsey, lovely though he is, attempting something that resembled a bad facsimile of street dance to Ant and Dec in a shell suit. It's gone too far.

 

If I'm honest the show jumped the shark for me after Aston-gate c. 2017 (although no one here seems to agree with me on that then or now) but this and other questionable choices of recent weeks means it is so far removed from the show I used to enjoy.

 

This sort of thing certainly wouldn't have happened under Len Goodman's or even Darcey Bussell's watch. The producers have now turned it into the kind of show that X Factor started becoming six years ago, and look where that is now. It will come back and bite them on the arse sooner than they think.

It's official. I am done with this show. Chiefly after catching sight of Chris Ramsey, lovely though he is, attempting something that resembled a bad facsimile of street dance to Ant and Dec in a shell suit. It's gone too far.

 

If I'm honest the show jumped the shark for me after Aston-gate c. 2017 (although no one here seems to agree with me on that then or now) but this and other questionable choices of recent weeks means it is so far removed from the show I used to enjoy.

 

This sort of thing certainly wouldn't have happened under Len Goodman's or even Darcey Bussell's watch. The producers have now turned it into the kind of show that X Factor started becoming six years ago, and look where that is now. It will come back and bite them on the arse sooner than they think.

 

Len definitely wouldn’t be a fan of many couples choices like routines he’d have hated Chris last night!

 

It’s the scoring what I thinks been off pretty much most of this season tbh and the way they critique certain contestants compared to others too.

Edited November 3, 20195 yr by Jordan Lee

It's a tough one with the Couples' Choices because I love the variety they bring and there are always some great ones, but with Chris' and to some extent Alex's, it felt like an easy cop out for a fun routine that would score them highly when they really needed it. Like with Alex's, she had a breakthrough with that Charleston and then it happened to be that she had Street next. With Chris, he of course is a big personality and suits that kind of dance down to the ground, so much that they kind of forgo the fact it was pretty basic technically and it's week 7 now. There's no way that what he did was worthy of 9s, which would put it on par with Dev's from Week 3!

 

I totally appreciate that it's an entertainment show, and for that reason I don't mind the dances being there but it's the fact as said above that it seems to be one rule for one, one for another. It's not just Couples' Choice either, it's happened most weeks for Mike :lol: The scores/comments for his Tango and Charleston were both ridiculous, not to mention when he got a 9 for his Quickstep! Just because his ability is lower doesn't mean that him being "not shit" is worthy of 8s and 9s. It just seems to be that if say Emma missteps it's a total disaster and her score dives but Mike is "fun" so it doesn't matter.

Agree with all of that Liam especially the one rule for one, one for another part of the post!

 

With Emma Barton it seems a bit obvious. I still don’t get how she got 5s and 6s but Chris managed a 9 for something what really wasn’t danced much better (I know they done very different dances). With Mike as well he deserved 6s for that Charleston, if anything the over scoring is doing him more harm they’d probably have more public support had the judges scored him more fairly. Chris has been better scored across the series as a whole which is likely why he’s avoided the dance off.

Edited November 8, 20195 yr by Jordan Lee

Karim could be in the dance off this week. Could we be looking Aston 2.0?

 

Realistically he’ll probably stay though. I can only see Chris or Mike joining him in the dance off.

 

So glad they liked Emma B this week.

I can definitely see Karim there - awaiting the spoiler now! Agreed that he's going nowhere though, it's gonna be Chris or Mike with him and there's no way they'd beat him.

 

Michelle was the best for me tonight, I can't believe she didn't get a single 10 when Saffron got 3! Saffron's dance was lovely but there was no way that was 3 points clear of Michelle.

 

MICHELLE was in the f***ing dance off............

 

 

Mike went though thank god but what the actual f***

 

 

I never had Michelle down as a possible winner tbh but I’m shocked she landed in the dance off after that dance this week. She had my personal favourite dance tonight too that’s a surprise. She must’ve had the lowest public vote tonight to land in the dance off I’m guessing?

 

I’m feeling Karims mistake may have helped his public vote tbh I’m surprised he survived tonight without a dance off. Now Mikes gone were going to get unpredictable dance offs now!

 

 

 

Michelle isn't on the tour :') Seems very odd as she is one of the highest scorers week in week out!