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Strictly Come Dancing 2022, Halloween Week: Anton Du Beke gives a controversial 10 to Tyler West
The judges were even more divided on this Spooktacular special. Read my full Telegraph article here
Posted in Dance, Journalism, TV
Tagged 10, anton du beke, bbc, beetlejuice, blog, celebrity, dance, dancing, ellie taylor, halloween, judges, recap, review, strictly, strictly come dancing, telegraph, tony adams, tv, tyler west
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Strictly Speaking: Week 5
In a firm bid to counter the Sean(n) Scandal of ’18, Strictly gave us lots of new things to gripe about this week – from Couple’s Choice (of which much more anon) to someone channelling the medicated enthusiasm and incoherence of Bruno … Continue reading
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Tagged 10, alfonso ribiera, ballroom, bbc, blog, bruno tonioli, cha cha, charles venn, claudia winkleman, couples choice, dance, dance off, dancing, dancing times, danny john-jules, eliminated, graziano, jive, judge, katya jones, quickstep, recap, review, seann walsh, shirley ballas, strictly, strictly come dancing, strictly speaking, tess daly, tv, vick hope
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Strictly Speaking: Week 6
Oh Strictly Halloween. Every year I forget how grim your Fright Night will be, and every year I am gripped anew with its frightfulness. Read my full Dancing Times blog here
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Tagged 10, alexandra burke, american smooth, aston merrygold, ballroom, blog, celebrity, cha cha, charleston, claudia winkleman, dance, dance off, dancing, dancing times, debbie mcgee, devil, eliminated, halloween, judges, kylie minogue, latin, mollie king, paso doble, recap, review, shirley ballas, simon rimmer, strictly, strictly come dancing, strictly speaking, tango, tess daly, the saturdays, viennese waltz, week 6
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Strictly Speaking: Week 4
No theme this week, thank the Strictly gods, unless you count the tidal wave of emotion that saw a nation reaching for more Kleenex. If an overcome Alexandra wishing her late mother could have seen her 10s-scoring jive didn’t get you, how … Continue reading
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Tagged 10, alexandra burke, ballroom, bbc, blog, brendan cole, charlotte hawkins, claudia winkleman, dance, dance off, dancing, davood ghadami, eliminated, jive, latin, morecambe and wise, quickstep, recap, review, shirley ballas, strictly, strictly come dancing, susan calman, tess daly, tina turner, tv
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Strictly Strictly Week 7
Phew! A return to form following last week’s Halloween hellscape, with some great performances, the series’ first 10s, and Jeremy Vine riding a horse. All that, AND copious amounts of genuinely informative training footage? You’re spoiling us, Mr Ambassador. Read … Continue reading
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Tagged 10, american smooth, argentine tango, bbc, carol kirkwood, celebrity, charleston, claudia winkleman, competition, dance, dance off, georgia may foote, halloween, jay mcguiness, judges, kellie bright, len goodman, peter andre, remembrance sunday, samba, scd, strictly, strictly come dancing, tess daly, tv, waltz, x factor
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Strictly Speaking: Week 3
Ah, Strictly theme weeks. Regular readers will know I look forward to these about as much as emergency root canal surgery with a rusty saw. We reached a nadir last year with the addition of Donnie (Baby!) Osmond during Movie Week. On … Continue reading
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Tagged 10, ainsley harriott, andrea bocelli, anthony ogogo, ballroom, bbc, boxer, bruno tonioli, carol kirkwood, celebrity, cha cha, claudia winkleman, competition, dance, dance off, dancing, elimination, experience, film, gleb, happy feet, james bond, jay mcguiness, jive, judges, latin, leaderboard, len goodman, marilyn monroe, movie, movie week, paso doble, penguin, pulp fiction, quickstep, ringer, rocky, sam smith, scandal, scd, sing, song, spectre, star wars, strictly, strictly come dancing, tess daly, the wanted, theme, training, tv
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Ten great plays set in summer
To coincide with the opening of Three Days in The Country, Patrick Marber’s new adaption of Turgenev, I’ve rounded up 10 other great plays set in the summer, from bucolic romance and adolescent yearning to fiery conflict and family combustion. Read my … Continue reading
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Tagged 10, A Midsummer Night's Dream, a streetcar named desire, adaptation, adolescent, all my sons, american dream, arthur miller, august osage county, best, chekhov, child, childhood, comedy, court, drama, Eugene O’Neill, family, fourth of july, hay fever, heat, hot, independence day, jury, law, love, lust, magic, Mark Gatiss, may day, meryl streep, national theatre, noel coward, parent, patrick marber, play, romance, romeo and juliet, russia, russian, sex, shakespeare, simon russell beale, summer, summer solstice, sun, teenager, tennessee williams, the cherry orchard, theatre, three days in the country, top 10, tragedy, trial, turgenev, twelve angry men, young, youth
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