Strictly Come Dancing 2021 #25

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Blue Rose said:
I think as the competition is supposed to be completely about the celebrities ability and the judging is always directed towards the celebrity it doesn’t seem to matter. I know it’s the professional who teaches the celebrity and is the one who’s going to help and show their partner how to take on the improvements they’re given, but at the end of the day it’s always the celebrity that gets the corrections and judgment on the night.
Then again she did win twice in a row with her sister on the judging panel.
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I think the only reason it’s not been more at the forefront is that Oti was only ever in one dance off (I’m sure someone will correct me if I’m wrong) and she did go for the other couple when that time did come. Motsi, imo, overmarks most couples so that’s not just limited to Oti.

The dancing world is small where everyone knows everyone so it would be difficult to get people totally impartial from the circuit. But there are strong connections, past and present and I think Anton has done a good job of treating his colleagues fairly (but sometimes a bit leniently imo)
 
MidCenturyMadOne said:
This came up on my yt recommendations just now. I don’t remember seeing it back then . For all our ribbing of Male AJ, this is pretty impressive, making the most of an Olympic gymnasts core strength
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this is one of the most underscored dances in strictly history (in my humble opinion 🤣) and probably my favourite argentine tango ever - i was SO MAD that they didn’t get a 10.
 
MidCenturyMadOne said:
This came up on my yt recommendations just now. I don’t remember seeing it back then . For all our ribbing of Male AJ, this is pretty impressive, making the most of an Olympic gymnasts core strength



So did I!
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I can say in all honesty I’ve never ribbed AJ about his dancing - I liked him on Strictly. He seemed like a good partner to his celebrities and he had some cracking routines.

Whatever that was in Hollyoaks - that’s 100% fair game 😂. Even the clip where he sort of danced was nothing like his time on Strictly. At all. No sir. It was like he’d never danced before. Or acted in any way, shape or form. Or been on a roundabout. Or had ever had interaction with another human.

Totally different 😂
 
I really don't see the issue with Motsi judging her sister. She's never shown any favouritism and really why would she? It's not that deep. They're judging the celebrity more than the pro and the judges don't control who the public vote for. As for Oti winning twice- Kelvin was the best dancer that year and Bill had the best journey and was the most popular/well-known of the finalists. It's a non-issue imo.

I don't believe the click-bait about the other Mabuse sister. It's not even confirmed that Oti's leaving and the other sister has a totally separate career. I'm kind of curious to see what she'd be like though in comparison with her sisters.
 
LennyBriscoe said:
I can say in all honesty I’ve never ribbed AJ about his dancing - I liked him on Strictly. He seemed like a good partner to his celebrities and he had some cracking routines.
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I know that AJ left Strictly because his ego couldn’t handle him not being the star, and his lack of any charisma and personality means him and his brother will never be the next Ant and Dec, but I can’t get over how ridiculous it was for him to walk away.

He was an excellent professional who would have had plenty more years on the show. He made three semi-finals back to back and even Saffron stayed in until Week 10. That’s a run some other professionals could only dream of. His choreography and teaching were strong and he was getting to dance for an audience of 10 million each Saturday with tours the rest of the year to boost his income. To walk away from that due to a misguided belief that him and his annoying brother have what it takes to succeed in light entertainment with zero experience is both baffling and hilarious.
 
Do you think AJs post strictly career would’ve been more successful if it hadn’t happened in the middle of pandemic ?

I know we’re fairly critical of his decisions here and he’s a bit of a laughing stock online generally but I can’t help but wonder if covid hadn’t been a thing and his show hadn’t been cancelled whether things would be a bit different for him.
 
Guitarwarrior said:
Do you think AJs post strictly career would’ve been more successful if it hadn’t happened in the middle of pandemic ?

I know we’re fairly critical of his decisions here and he’s a bit of a laughing stock online generally but I can’t help but wonder if covid hadn’t been a thing and his show hadn’t been cancelled whether things would be a bit different for him.
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No I don't think that matters he doesn't appear to have any talent (or even Brains) beyond Dancing. Outside of Strictly he was always destined to be a Z-lister.
 
Guitarwarrior said:
Do you think AJs post strictly career would’ve been more successful if it hadn’t happened in the middle of pandemic ?

I know we’re fairly critical of his decisions here and he’s a bit of a laughing stock online generally but I can’t help but wonder if covid hadn’t been a thing and his show hadn’t been cancelled whether things would be a bit different for him.
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I honestly think he would’ve had a better shot if he hadn’t done Hollyoaks. Maybe they thought with Ant’s drink driving/accident/rehab and the stories surrounding Philip Schofield that there might have been openings in the ITV daytime ‘family’ but I think they were both misguided and deluded to think they would have been in with a shot.

I always thought Curtis must have been the driving force in him leaving Strictly, maybe he was jealous? And he was there in the interviews with AJ’s girlfriend after her accident, like a gooseberry. But I’ve never understood how he walked away when he did, he could have had a brilliant run.
 
LennyBriscoe said:
I honestly think he would’ve had a better shot if he hadn’t done Hollyoaks. Maybe they thought with Ant’s drink driving/accident/rehab and the stories surrounding Philip Schofield that there might have been openings in the ITV daytime ‘family’ but I think they were both misguided and deluded to think they would have been in with a shot.

I always thought Curtis must have been the driving force in him leaving Strictly, maybe he was jealous? And he was there in the interviews with AJ’s girlfriend after her accident, like a gooseberry. But I’ve never understood how he walked away when he did, he could have had a brilliant run.
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Curtis really is a hanger-on 😅 During this series of strictly they were both always on BBC Breakfast giving critiques and predictions of Saturday's performances. What has Curtis got to do with strictly! They're both so desperate.
They've done themselves no favours by being joined at the hip either. They would probably have been far more successful if AJ had stayed on strictly for a few more years and Curtis was making a slight name for himself after love island and being involved in that greatest dancer show (though he never really did anything on that either - he was just there 😅) Their awkward little double act is just bizarre.
 
Sprezza said:
Curtis really is a hanger-on 😅 During this series of strictly they were both always on BBC Breakfast giving critiques and predictions of Saturday's performances. What has Curtis got to do with strictly! They're both so desperate.
They've done themselves no favours by being joined at the hip either. They would probably have been far more successful if AJ had stayed on strictly for a few more years and Curtis was making a slight name for himself after love island and being involved in that greatest dancer show (though he never really did anything on that either - he was just there 😅) Their awkward little double act is just bizarre.
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someone in another thread here posted that really odd (and vaguely homoerotic) photoshoot they did and it put a whole new level of ick onto their double act for me. don’t google it. no don’t. i warned you!

i’m sure that curtis was once a pro on the irish strictly though, or am i thinking of someone else? it is odd to give critique on the version of the show that you weren’t involved in though i guess!
 
Guitarwarrior said:
Do you think AJs post strictly career would’ve been more successful if it hadn’t happened in the middle of pandemic ?

I know we’re fairly critical of his decisions here and he’s a bit of a laughing stock online generally but I can’t help but wonder if covid hadn’t been a thing and his show hadn’t been cancelled whether things would be a bit different for him.
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I don’t think so because he really doesn’t have anything to offer beyond dancing - and there was never going to be a bigger opportunity for that than Strictly. He jumped with zero safety net and I’ll never understand why the people around him advised him that that was a good idea.

Kevin’s career suffered with him leaving right before the pandemic but he’d already done stage shows and his own sell-out tours with Karen. He’d proven he had at least some talent and that audiences would pay to see him so he’s already back onstage. Whereas AJ had done nothing else and yet seemed to think that TV executives would be lining up to employ him and Curtis. And it speaks to his ego when the likes of Anton and Oti got given mainstream presenting opportunities and continued to stick by Strictly while AJ ditched it without a single offer on the table.

AJ reminds me of Tanya Burr who quit YT to become an actress even though she had no experience or talent. She expected it all to just work out for her because she wanted the fame and glamour of being an actress with none of the hard work and effort. AJ and Curtis are the same. They want to be stars immediately even though they have very little talent and no sign of anyone wanting to work with them.
 
LaBlonde said:
someone in another thread here posted that really odd (and vaguely homoerotic) photoshoot they did and it put a whole new level of ick onto their double act for me. don’t google it. no don’t. i warned you!

i’m sure that curtis was once a pro on the irish strictly though, or am i thinking of someone else? it is odd to give critique on the version of the show that you weren’t involved in though i guess!
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Yes he was on the Irish strictly and quite a decent dancer on there.
 
Guitarwarrior said:
Do you think AJs post strictly career would’ve been more successful if it hadn’t happened in the middle of pandemic ?

I know we’re fairly critical of his decisions here and he’s a bit of a laughing stock online generally but I can’t help but wonder if covid hadn’t been a thing and his show hadn’t been cancelled whether things would be a bit different for him.
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I doubt he would have done much better. I thought at the time he might have seen it as an opportunity to reschedule his tour in the September and that's one of the reasons he decided to leave just after all the spring tours were cancelled (back when we thought covid would all be over in a few months 😩). He's far too wooden to succeed in acting or presenting, pandemic or no pandemic

I do take the piss, but honestly that AT with Claudia was my favourite dance of that series. I quite liked him that year, but his ego got in the way after that
 
I'm just not sure who they thought their target market is - like who was going to go watch their odd cabaret style act on their tour? I think they were lucky Covid cancelled that as I don't think they'd sold many tickets.
 
LaBlonde said:
someone in another thread here posted that really odd (and vaguely homoerotic) photoshoot they did and it put a whole new level of ick onto their double act for me. don’t google it. no don’t. i warned you!

i’m sure that curtis was once a pro on the irish strictly though, or am i thinking of someone else? it is odd to give critique on the version of the show that you weren’t involved in though i guess!
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I am 99.9% sure that was just their heads photoshopped onto someone else's bodies. It didn't look anything like them to me.

And yes, Curtis was a pro on DWTS Ireland.
 
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