Strictly Come Dancing 2015 cleaning up at the bookies thread

[TightEnd]

Jeremy will rack up votes

carol we know is popular

i will say jamelia and katie with jamelia going finally

[Tal]

Perfectly possible, Tighty. The public tend to know when it's someone's time to go. Katie can't win this competition now for me.

There's very little between the top six: Jay, Peter, Anita, Kellie, Georgia and Helen. Peter and Jay have hit their ceiling, IMO. The others could really leave them behind.

[Doobs]

Carol and Katie, Carol goes.

Georgia very good tonight

[TightEnd]

Tal

Kellie 33-1 skybet, 7th favourite, fyi

[Doobs]

Tal

Kellie 33-1 skybet, 7th favourite, fyi

Skybet knew though.  Looks an excellent price, but Jay wins the polls every week.  Even when he messed up completely he still topped the poll.  It is like the comp is going on in a parallel universe where people see a different Jay.

[TightEnd]

Anita and Gleb will be performing the Quickstep to ‘Don't Get Me Wrong’ by The Pretenders.

Georgia and Giovanni will be dancing the Charleston to ‘Hot Honey Rag' from Chicago.

Helen and Aljaž will be performing the Tango to 'Hold Back The River' by James Bay.

Jamelia and Tristan will be performing the Samba to ‘A Little Respect’ by Erasure.

Jay and Aliona will be dancing the Foxtrot ‘Lay Me Down’ by Sam Smith.

Jeremy and Karen will be performing the Quickstep to ‘Going Underground’ by The Jam.

Katie and Anton will be dancing the Rumba to ‘Never Never Never' by Shirley Bassey.

Kellie and Kevin will be performing the Samba to ‘Boom Shake The Room’ by Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince.

Peter and Janette will be dancing the Viennese Waltz to ‘You're My World’ by Cilla Black.

[Tal]

Kellie and Kevin will be what-ing to what, sorry?

[AndrewT]

I suppose one way to stop criticism that the singers on the show murder the songs is to get them to do a Cilla Black song.

[Tal]

You know the 1990s? Well that's what this is:

[Tal]

Mr Waite making an awful lot of sense tonight. Agree with everything he said about the training footage.

[Tal]

Is 8/15 value for Jeremy lowest scorer? Only Jamelia can get close and she'll find 24 in a latin dance, so long as she remembers the steps.

9/1 Kellie for a judges' bounce after the dance off and finish top? 10% chance may be ok. Concern would be whether Len has any idea what is going on. Don't suppose Kevin could choreograph a basic dance to show off his dancer's skills? No way I'm backing Georgia at 5/6.

Peter looks poor. Katie looks fantastic and has the dress of the night, but Craig will hate an old fashioned, traditional rumba, without the aggressive and accentuated light and shade of the modern version. Very surprised to see beyond a 7. Could really spilt the judges and get 7-8-9-7.

Not sure I like Helen's legs in the tango training footage. She's kissing the floor rather than driving into it. All a bit too delicate. Jay solid but unspectacular again.

Interesting night ahead. No forties tomorrow.

A Strictly "mole" has told Yours magazine Bruno has been told to be nastier and the producers have wrested back the decisions over song choices, as expected.

[tikay]

The mind boggles - a strictly mole.

[Tal]

For a bit of fun, a demonstration of samba, paso doble, rumba and jive in 1979 by the godfather of latin dancing, Alan Fletcher OBE:



Then, by the mid-80s, Dornie Burns MBE and his partner, Gaynor Fairweather, changed everything:





Much more pronounced hip rotation. And more sensual in tone. It made Fletcher's prim and proper version look prehistoric, despite being just a few years later.

Amazing how times change.

[TightEnd]

a strange week with odd song choices, laughable wardrobe and the entertaining jeremy flung to the sidelines

did anyone see Tristam's look to the skies and grimace when he survived the dance off? hilarious. I suspect Ms Jamelia is quite hard work

[AndrewT]

A Strictly "mole" has told Yours magazine Bruno has been told to be nastier and the producers have wrested back the decisions over song choices, as expected.

After reading Tal's gossip I thought it was noticeable how Craig twice went out of his way to criticise the song choices. Kevin in his Fresh Prince garb was the most unbearable I can remember one of the pro dancers being.

a strange week with odd song choices, laughable wardrobe and the entertaining jeremy flung to the sidelines

did anyone see Tristam's look to the skies and grimace when he survived the dance off? hilarious. I suspect Ms Jamelia is quite hard work

He'll only have a week left - Jamelia is 1/6 to go this week.

Despite my live bets on this I'm still mostly just anti-railing Jay and Peter.