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Strictly Speaking: Week 5
Well that’s more like it. After a rather exhausted, grouchy hangover show last week, Strictly was back on form with several really impressive routines, a scattering of 10s, a new bread-based-ography, and the judges wandering idly down memory lane. Read my full … Continue reading
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Strictly Speaking: Week 4
Ah, the theme week hangover. Saturday’s show was very much the bleary, old contact lenses stuck to eyelids, two Alka-Seltzers dissolved in ginger ale, nibbling at cold leftover pizza while moaning softly morning-after to Movie Week’s night of ecstatic clubbing. … Continue reading
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Tagged ballroom, bbc, blog, dance, dancing, dancing times, greg wise, judi love, recap, review, sara davies, strictly, strictly come dancing, strictly speaking, tv, week 4
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Strictly Speaking: Week 2
Welcome to the Thunderdome! Week 1 was all pats on the back for even finding your way into the studio; now, the real Strictly judging begins. Read my full Dancing Times blog here
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Tagged ballroom, bbc, blog, dance off, dancing, elimination, nina wadia, recap, review, strictly, strictly come dancing, week 2
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Strictly Come Dancing 2021, Week 2
Tilly Ramsay cooks up a leaderboard-topping Charleston, and Nina Wadia is the first to leave the ballroom. Read my Telegraph talking points for the main show here and results show here
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Strictly Speaking: Week 1
We’re off! This opener had everything we love about Strictly: dance, drama and dance-drama; a bewildering costume lottery; Tess patronising people to within an inch of their lives; scoring that began sane and then descended into utter chaos; and, most important, … Continue reading
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Strictly Come Dancing 2021, week 1: AJ Odudu, Adam Peaty and the first all-male couple top the leaderboard
My talking points for the first show – from a surprise jive to a history-making tango. Read my full Telegraph article here
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Tagged adam peaty, aj odudu, blog, john whaite, review, strictly, strictly come dancing, talking points, telegraph, tv, week 1
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Strictly Speaking: The Final
What an extraordinary end to the series. The Strictly final aired just hours after Boris Johnson made his latest screeching u-turn, announcing that millions of people would have to cancel their festive plans and spend Christmas separated from loved ones. … Continue reading
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Strictly Speaking: Week 8
Can we believe we’ve only got one show to go? Sob! Anyhow, this was – understandably – not a vintage semi-final. It feels like the celebs have barely begun, and yet here we are asking them to learn two dances. … Continue reading
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Strictly Speaking: Week 6
A rather mediocre performance week, with some improvement in scoring, and alas still some glaring biases. However, poor Clara Amfo really doomed herself with an error-strewn jive that was actually marked quite kindly, yet cemented her place in the dance-off. … Continue reading
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Tagged ballroom, bbc, bill bailey, blog, celebrity, clara amfo, dance, dance off, dancing, dancing times, eliminated, hrvy, jamie laing, jive, judges, latin, maisie smith, quickstep, recap, review, strictly, strictly come dancing, strictly speaking, tango, tv, week 6
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Maisie Smith’s footwork was this week’s real Strictly triumph
This week saw Clara Amfo try to shake her tail feather in a redemptive Tina Turner jive. But she hit the (Nutbush City) limits of her recovery skills when an early mistake tripped her up – and a deluge of errors … Continue reading
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