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Strictly Come Dancing Week 9: Whose technique helped them conquer Blackpool?
The giant, sprung floor at Blackpool’s Tower Ballroom can offer a boost to our celebrity dancers – or it can prove exposing. Continuing this series of shock exits, frontrunner Michelle Visage fell victim to Blackpool’s vastness with a vogueing Couple’s … Continue reading →
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Tagged american smooth, anton du beke, ballroom, bbc, blackpool, blog, celebrity, charleston, competition, couples choice, dance, dance off, dancing, eliminated, jive, judges, karim zeroual, kelvin fletcher, latin, madonna, michelle visage, quickstep, recap, review, saffron barker, strictly, strictly come dancing, technical, technique, telegraph, tv, vogue, week 9
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Strictly Speaking: Week 8
Rejoice, for our long national nightmare is over! Finally, Mike Bushell has left the Strictly dancefloor, taking his “comedy” with him. And about time – lord knows what tricks Katya was going to introduce next in sheer desperation (Katya hangs … Continue reading →
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Tagged american smooth, ballroom, bbc, celebrity, competition, dance, dance off, dancing, dancing times, eliminated, kelvin fletcher, latin, michelle visage, mike bushell, paso doble, recap, review, saffron barker, salsa, strictly, strictly come dancing, strictly speaking, tv, waltz, week 8
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Strictly Week 8: Whose technique failed them in a dramatic dance?
Celebrities can get away with a certain amount on Strictly by adding comedy elements or a cheeky grin, but those “triers” are often exposed by the more serious dances – unless, like John Sergeant’s infamous paso doble, their playing it straight … Continue reading →
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Tagged american smooth, ballroom, bbc, blog, celebrity, dance off, dancing, judges, kelvin fletcher, latin, michelle visage, mike bushell, paso doble, recap, review, saffron barker, salsa, shirley ballas, strictly, strictly come dancing, technique, telegraph, tv, waltz, week 8
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Strictly Speaking: Week 5
Which was more incomprehensible on so-called Super Saturday: wherever we may or may not have landed with Brexit, or guest judge Alfonso Ribeiro’s “critiques”? For the sake of my sanity, the latter shall not be recorded here. Suffice to say … Continue reading →
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Tagged Alfonso Ribeiro, ballroom, bbc, blog, celebrity, cha cha, contemporary, dance, dance off, dancing, dancing times, david james, eliminated, foxrot, guest judge, jive, johannes radebe, judge, karim zeroual, kelvin fletcher, latin, mike bushell, recap, review, saffron barker, salsa, samba, strictly, strictly come dancing, strictly speaking, technique, the fresh prince of bel air, tv, week 5, will bayley
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Strictly Come Dancing week 5 – who danced it best?
Following last week’s overinflated quickstep scores, David James came crashing down to earth with a dismal jive. Taking big, heavy steps meant he was always behind the beat, and he failed to disguise numerous mistakes. Read my full Telegraph article … Continue reading →
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Tagged Alfonso Ribeiro, ballroom, bbc, blog, celebrity, cha cha, contemporary, dance, dance off, dancing, david james, eliminated, foxrot, guest judge, jive, johannes radebe, judge, karim zeroual, kelvin fletcher, latin, mike bushell, recap, review, saffron barker, salsa, samba, strictly, strictly come dancing, technique, telegraph, the fresh prince of bel air, tv, week 5, will bayley
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Strictly Come Dancing, week 4: which celebrities scored too highly for technically mediocre routines?
The judges can mark on either performance or improvement, however it makes a mockery of the leaderboard when they vastly overinflate the latter. So it was that we lost the talented Dev Griffin, penalised for dropping his level slightly in cha cha … Continue reading →
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Tagged ballroom, bbc, blog, cha cha, contemporary, dance off, dev griffin, elimination, emma weymouth, jive, karim zeroual, kelvin fletcher, latin, recap, review, rumba, saffron barker, strictly, strictly come dancing, tango, technical, technique, telegraph, tv, week 4
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Strictly Come Dancing, week three: who had the best technical chops?
My Oscar winners for Movie Week were Kelvin Fletcher, Michelle Visage and Catherine Tyldesley. Though Fletcher didn’t land the clean routine suggested by nabbing this year’s first 10s, with some lift hiccups, he excelled in both the Charleston basics (strong “swivel” foot action) and … Continue reading →
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Tagged 10, a star is born, aladdin, american smooth, austin powers, ballroom, batman, bbc, blog, cabaret, catherine tyldesley, celebrity, charleston, chris ramsey, dance, dancing, dev griffin, downton abbey, emma weymouth, film, foxtrot, fred astaire, judges, karim zeroual, kelvin fletcher, kung fu panda, latin, magic mike, mary poppins, michelle visage, movie week, movies, paso doble, pokemon, quickstep, recap, review, rumba, saffron barker, samba, score, street dance, strictly, strictly come dancing, swing and sway, technical, technique, telegraph, the hunger games, top hat, tv, week 3, will bayley
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Strictly Come Dancing, week two: whose technique set the dance floor alight this week?
Anton du Beke may be the (self-styled) King of Ballroom, but it was Karim Zeroual who took the crown in this week’s Foxtrot battle royale. Good footwork on the basics – leading with the heel, then toe, toe on the slow, quick, quick … Continue reading →
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Tagged alex scott, american smooth, anneka rice, anton du beke, article, ballroom, bbc, blog, catherine tyldesley, celebrity, cha cha cha, charleston, chris ramsey, dance, dancing, david james, dev griffin, emma barton, foxtrot, james cracknell, jive, karim zeroual, kelvin fletcher, latin, mike bushell, paso doble, recap, review, saffron barker, salsa, samba, strictly, strictly come dancing, technical, technique, telegraph, tv, waltz, week 2, will bayley
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Strictly Speaking: The launch
Hello and welcome back to the safe, lovely, happy, sparkly world of Strictly Come Dancing! Here there are no rogues proroguing (just the odd lord – or maybe viscountess – a-leaping), and the only Article 50 we are concerned with … Continue reading →
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