Not sure if my OH will be watching Strictly after tonight. His 2 favourites have now gone out- one after another

Couldn`t fault anyone`s performances last night, hard to decide who should be in the bottom 2. I particularly liked Louis and Lisa`s dances.

Just got round to watching this. I loved Dani and Vincent's tango, I could have watched them dance it for hours. Everybody turned in a good performance, although there are obviously some who are weaker than others it will be interesting to see who goes out tonight.

what has Caig got against Louis?
I see he may not be a judge next series. Have to say that I would miss him.

I`d definitely miss Craig, and would be broken hearted if Bruno went as well, I love him! Not sure if the right one went tonight or not, they both danced well, but, I may be wrong, but I thought that Kimberley teetered a little on one of the turns. I`m getting a little bit fed up with the judges obvious favouritism towards Denise van Outen, she may be good, but I think she has definite advantages over the rest.

I wonder how many votes Denise gets. Surely most folks must agree she has such an unfair advantage? I dont dislike her but what on earth were the organisers doing taking on a professional dancer in the first place?

You're right, Kimberley took a couple of hops when she was being turned by Pasha whilst balancing on one foot but it is a really difficult move. Ferne though completely lost the timing in the middle of her salsa and only got back on the beat when she was back in hold with Artem. So I think that the right person won the dance-off but whether they were the right people to be in the dance off in the first place is another matter!

As for Denise, I completely agree with Fiona, she's danced on the West End stage in a show where Arlene Philips was the choreographer and dance director! Someone like Michael Vaughan really doesn't stand a chance against that sort of opposition!

SM

Its someone like Michael who deserves to be in as he has shown a lot of progress. As had Ferne. However, they were all good yesterday.

I don't think that Denise gets obvious favouritism from the judges , she got 9s from Darcey , Len and Bruno for am immaculate performance and they gave the same marks to Louis who was very good but did have faults , if Denise had her head wrongly placed or thumbs sticking out they would have marked her down .
Craig is the best judge , he calls it as he sees it , he doesn't get moody like Len or over emotional like Bruno , he is very picky though , but obviously feels that if you have been practising a 2 min dance all week then it should be perfect .

I was surprised to see Kimberly in the bottom two , but then she shamelessly plugged her album in her VT before the dance and bought along her bestest friend to upstage her ! The camera homed in on her quite a few times , it was obvious the BBC were delighted to have a former employee of SyCo . It's a shame really as Kimberly seems a really nice and genuine person I think she's been stitched up and perhaps viewers were turned off and didn't vote for her ?

Ok , so Denise has danced on a West End stage ( over 10 years ago ) so she has an advantage of experience , I'm sure she was also picked because she can sing and act quite well which would be more relevant in appearing in a musical , I would think that there were better dancers in the production because they earn a living from being a professional dancer , Denise was probably picked because she was a "big" name at that time and she was trained to learn how to dance the routines , so she has dance experience which gives her an advantage in the strictly competition but she is not a professional dancer , Craig even said that she wasn't a professional dancer by saying that her routine on Saturday made her look like a professional dancer on tonight's ITT show , so in his words she isn't actually a professional dancer .
In a previous competition Jason Donovan appeared and he has starred in west end musicals , no doubt he was trained by dance choreographers especially after seeing his shocking pop videos from the 80s , but it never helped him as he didnt win despite his brilliant Priscilla Queen of the Jungle routine which was so good because of his west end musical experience .

In every series there has been differing levels of ability , and its only an entertainment show with the viewers having the decisive vote in who actually wins , which in effect becomes a personality competition .

If Michaels confidence dancing Latin routines improves then he has a great chance , because he's a likeable guy who's trying really hard and voters love a trier .

The point about Chicago is that the stage production is almost non- stop dancing! A far cry from the film version which didn't use the original stage choreography. But given that she described herself in an interview talking about Chicago with Parkinson as a singer and dancer and said that the best thing about being in Chicago was the opportunity it gave her to get back to doing what she'd trained for, perhaps we should leave the last word to her.

SM

Strictly is going to be so much more sedate with Richard gone! Terrible dancer but great fun to watch!

SM

I agree that he should have been in the dance off, but the other one, I thought, should have been Victoria, not good at all this week, I thought that Nicky`s jive was great. But the right one has gone, so no matter.

So Victoria has had to get on her bike at last! We're getting down to the serious contenders now.

SM

Couldn't agree more - VP needed to get on her bike!

Neither Victoria nor Michael were much good this week, and even in the ddance off it was hard to call, she was clumsy and untidy, and he was wooden, but I`m glad Victoria was chosen to go, I`m fed up with the girly giggles and tears. Michael will probably be saved by a ballroom dance this week, which, admittedly, he`s quite good at.

But at least he was dancing in time to the music! Victoria was bad enough first time around but in the dance off her timing as truly awful!

SM

Yes it defiantly was her time to go she was dreadful, don't understand it really as she always looked the part she just didn't seem to be able to memorise the steps properly, let alone move on to actually give a performance.

Well, after last night`s performance, Michael should definitely be in this week`s dance off, but who should be joining him? I couldn`t really see anyone else who was bad enough.

I'd have to say Lisa is down there.
At the moment I reckon it could be an all girl final with Denise, Kimberley and Danni