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Tag Archives: halloween
Strictly Speaking: Week 6
A dark curse has been placed upon this series of Strictly – by a very powerful witch, or possibly a disgruntled ex-pro. How else to explain…THE INVASION OF THE DANCE-SNATCHING DAD-DANCERS. For not only did David “Vacant” James outlast genuine … Continue reading
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Tagged ballroom, bbc, blog, catherine tyldesley, celebrity, cha cha, dance, dance off, dancing, dancing times, eliminated, foxtrot, halloween, johannes radebe, judges, kelvin fletcher, latin, michelle visage, mike bushell, recap, review, strictly, strictly come dancing, strictly speaking, tango, tv, week 6
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Strictly Come Dancing Week 6: Who danced it best?
With a couple of spook-tacular exceptions, Strictly’s Halloween show missed the mark this year. Scarily bad music choices hampered the dancers, while the judges’ frightening scores – once again, over-rewarding improvement in the weaker dancers – skewed the leaderboard. Read … Continue reading
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Tagged ballroom, bbc, blog, catherine tyldesley, celebrity, cha cha, dance, dance off, dancing, eliminated, foxtrot, halloween, johannes radebe, judges, kelvin fletcher, latin, michelle visage, mike bushell, recap, review, strictly, strictly come dancing, tango, technique, telegraph, tv, week 6
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Strictly Speaking: Week 7
Post-Halloween Week, and it’s possible the judges were still hopped up on Haribo and egging unsuspecting strangers, with the series’ most inconsistent show so far in terms of scoring and comments. Of course, Strictly is a mix of dancing and … Continue reading
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Tagged argentine tango, ashley roberts, ballroom, bbc, blackpool, blog, bruno tonioli, celebrity, charles venn, couples choice, craig revel-horwood, dance, dance off, dancing, dancing times, danny john-jules, darcey bussell, dr ranj singh, eliminated, foxtrot, halloween, janette manrara, kate silverton, kevin clifton, latin, quickstep, recap, review, samba, shirley ballas, stacey dooley, street, strictly, strictly come dancing, strictly speaking, tess daly, tv, viennese waltz, week 7
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Strictly Speaking: Week 6
Ah, Halloween Week – the annual dumbing down of Strictly. Why have subtext or delicate concepts when you can instead bumble about dressed in the most thuddingly literal, kids-dressing-up-box interpretations of groaningly repeated and/or entirely insane songs? Read my full Dancing … Continue reading
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Tagged ashley roberts, ballroom, bbc, blog, cha cha, charleston, couples choice, curse of strictly, dance, dance off, dancing, dancing times, eliminated, faye tozer, graeme swann, halloween, jazz, katya jones, latin, michael jackson, recap, review, scandal, seann walsh, shirley ballas, strictly, strictly come dancing, strictly speaking, tess daly, theatre, thriller, tv, viennese waltz, week 6
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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 6
It gives me no pleasure to report that Strictly’s annual Fright Night was even more frightful than usual. Well, some pleasure. An Ed Balls cha cha amount of pleasure. Yes, against all odds, 2016’s fifth-strangest political happening lives on. Meanwhile, … Continue reading
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Tagged anastacia, ballroom, bbc, blog, brendan cole, cha cha, daisy lowe, dance, dance off, dancing, dancing times, ed balls, eliminated, halloween, jive, laura mvula, paso doble, recap, review, scd, strictly, strictly come dancing, strictly speaking, 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 6
Bitter experience has obliterated all possible hope for Strictly’s annual fright fest – best watched several dozen drinks in, when the more disturbing details begin to blur round the edges – but this was an abysmal show even by Halloween … Continue reading
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Tagged ballroom, celebrity, charleston, costume, dance, dance off, dancing, danny dyer, dressing up, eastenders, eliminated, georgia may foote, ghost, ghostbusters, halloween, jamelia, jeremy vine, jive, kirsty gallacher, latin, rocky horror picture show, scd, strictly, strictly come dancing, tango, the addams family, thriller
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