Strictly Come Dancing 2023 #25

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Fillyjonk said:
I think Katya is having a tricky time supporting Nigel when she just wants to let loose and have fun. It probably is a bit frustrating when you know your partner is really, really good and you want to chuck everything at the choreo but then it goes a bit wrong. It isn't Nigel's fault and it isn't her fault, but I think living in the shadow of the ever present judges crying "mistake!" has dulled their shine.
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Katya must have nerves of steel, to keep facing down the judges with a smile - while they ignore her as if she is invisible.

I'm thinking back to last year too. All the hard work she put in with Tony and the judges scoffed and laughed no matter what. The night he left, Craig told him he was what Strictly was all about, and Tony said something along the lines of I wish you had said something like that before now.

I think the judges need to be more balanced in their feedback. If they are going to ignore mistakes from some celebrities, and hone in on others, that's simply unfair.

And I know I said it after last week, but surely Anton is paid more than enough to form complete sentences. He was worse, if anything, last night. The 'woohoo and wey hey and ooh 'allo' is not feedback. Imagine the ones who get through replaying the feedback in the following week to see what they could learn from it? 🥴
 
soccergirl said:
God, DS is an absolute binfire. Just joyless sniping all over the place: angry Nigel fans berating people, anti-Layton rants, Gio fans people who hate Vito slagging off Ellie...

I know we're supposed to be the mean place, but I think there's much more tolerance here (apart from when some very sick people say they fancy Neil). And maybe ultimately we understand it's a reality TV dance contest, not the Pan-Pacific Grand Prix (niche reference).
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Lead me to the carnage! Which thread?? 😂
 
Holmessk said:
Ohh, Carlos just made me cry 😢Angelas dance was wonderful. Craig was a proper Debbie downer last night wasn't he!
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To be fair to Craig he is the only one of the judges who has taken time to learn about the AT and his comments about it are usually the most correct … although to be fair to Angela, she did seem to be one of the few celebs who ‘got’ the caressing the floor aspect of it.
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Holmessk said:
Lead me to the carnage! Which thread?? 😂
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Any with Layton or Nigel in the thread title are good for a bun fight.
 
ChastityDingle said:
Katya must have nerves of steel, to keep facing down the judges with a smile - while they ignore her as if she is invisible.

I'm thinking back to last year too. All the hard work she put in with Tony and the judges scoffed and laughed no matter what. The night he left, Craig told him he was what Strictly was all about, and Tony said something along the lines of I wish you had said something like that before now.

I think the judges need to be more balanced in their feedback. If they are going to ignore mistakes from some celebrities, and hone in on others, that's simply unfair.

And I know I said it after last week, but surely Anton is paid more than enough to form complete sentences. He was worse, if anything, last night. The 'woohoo and wey hey and ooh 'allo' is not feedback. Imagine the ones who get through replaying the feedback in the following week to see what they could learn from it? 🥴
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I actually wondered if Anton was feeling unwell last night, apart from not completing sentences he was mispronouncing words, said in genuine concern I was a bit worried about him last night.
 
ChastityDingle said:
Katya must have nerves of steel, to keep facing down the judges with a smile - while they ignore her as if she is invisible.

I'm thinking back to last year too. All the hard work she put in with Tony and the judges scoffed and laughed no matter what. The night he left, Craig told him he was what Strictly was all about, and Tony said something along the lines of I wish you had said something like that before now.

I think the judges need to be more balanced in their feedback. If they are going to ignore mistakes from some celebrities, and hone in on others, that's simply unfair.

And I know I said it after last week, but surely Anton is paid more than enough to form complete sentences. He was worse, if anything, last night. The 'woohoo and wey hey and ooh 'allo' is not feedback. Imagine the ones who get through replaying the feedback in the following week to see what they could learn from it? 🥴
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He was dreadful last night. You can see how nervous he is. Can’t string a sentence together. His attempts at humour off camera are toe curling. How he won judge of the year is baffling.
 
ChastityDingle said:
Katya must have nerves of steel, to keep facing down the judges with a smile - while they ignore her as if she is invisible.

I'm thinking back to last year too. All the hard work she put in with Tony and the judges scoffed and laughed no matter what. The night he left, Craig told him he was what Strictly was all about, and Tony said something along the lines of I wish you had said something like that before now.

I think the judges need to be more balanced in their feedback. If they are going to ignore mistakes from some celebrities, and hone in on others, that's simply unfair.

And I know I said it after last week, but surely Anton is paid more than enough to form complete sentences. He was worse, if anything, last night. The 'woohoo and wey hey and ooh 'allo' is not feedback. Imagine the ones who get through replaying the feedback in the following week to see what they could learn from it? 🥴
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Spot on comment.
Are the judges harder on Nigel because they want to keep getting digs in to Katya for some reason? Seems very unkind.

And what is it with Anton? He is so inarticulate and random - 'well we had some wahayy over there and a little bit of doodly flick with a lovely oooooh just there so only one word - wow'.
Honestly any one of us could do a better job these days.
 
hannah123 said:
Catching up on yesterdays show and sad for Nigel, but him frustrated and annoyed reminded me of why I fancied him so much in Eastenders 🥵 why did that make him so hot?
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I happened to watch an episode of Classic EE recently and there he was, smouldering at Sharon 😁. Oh and I was randomly half watching The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side (Agatha Christie) recently and I recognised his voice before I actually looked at him properly.
 
hannah123 said:
Catching up on yesterdays show and sad for Nigel, but him frustrated and annoyed reminded me of why I fancied him so much in Eastenders 🥵 why did that make him so hot?
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I've definitely thought about that angry little eyebrow raise he did in the Clauditorium more times than I'm comfortable with!

soccergirl said:
I know we're supposed to be the mean place, but I think there's much more tolerance here (apart from when some very sick people say they fancy Neil). And maybe ultimately we understand it's a reality TV dance contest, not the Pan-Pacific Grand Prix (niche reference).
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I think even the people who are willing to publicly admit to fancying Neil know that that viewpoint is one that deserves the intolerance it gets.
 
jfletcher said:
I think even the people who are willing to publicly admit to fancying Neil know that that viewpoint is one that deserves the intolerance it gets.
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I don’t think the stylists are a fan of needy Neil either.
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I've said it before but Anton does sometimes give quite insightful/technical feedback, like discussing Nigel’s rotational hip action (complete with demo 😂), and I think it was Angela S's weight distribution which was causing her to be a bit juddery in a dance.

But other times he's just in Cloud Cuckoo Land. I wonder if he's been designated/encouraged to fill the "Bruno" role of "unhinged judge" rather than actually plough his own furrow.

I know he's a bit of a character in general but if you listen to him talk in other venues he's much more interesting and thoughtful.

Or maybe I'm reading too much into it and he's had that bug that's going around and took too many cold & flu pills 😂
 
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