Support for Alesha Dixon from her friend Cheryl Cole.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/st...-a-strong-woman.html

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/st...to-alesha-dixon.html


Max Clifford sticking his nose in per usual.

Strictly Come Dancing, Alesha being a judge, BBC One
Publication date: 22 September 2009

The complaint
We've received some complaints from viewers who feel Alesha is a poor choice of judge for Strictly Come Dancing.

The BBC's response
We're delighted with Alesha's debut performance as part of the judging panel on Strictly Come Dancing and that so many millions tuned in to enjoy the show.
Having won the contest in 2007 Alesha understands exactly what it takes to excel as a dancer as well as knowing just what the celebrity contestants are going through in the competition. Her knowledge and direct experience add a different perspective to the panel which complements the whole judging line up.


They were obviously going to defend her and good on them, no choice really.

I wonder who asked Max to comment and give his views.
If you go around asking you will get 50% that are for, with 50 against.
You can then keep the 50 that suits you depending on which side you are on.

That's what they used to do with the evidence in trials.

Don't always watch SCD, but wanted to come on this thread and say I'm sick of people slagging off Alesha   She only won the show, has been in a girl band and is a successful solo artist and she's a talented dancer also What people don't seem to realise is there's voicing your opinion and there's going to far, she is a real person with real feelings, everyone should just lay off her and stop their jealous ranting!!

I'm not jealous of Alesha Dixon. I don't like her much, but I promise you I am not jealous; not even a tiny bit.

Strictly Come Dancing: Arlene Phillips Naked And Alesha Dixon Shot

STRICTLY Come Dancing: It’s the row the media are itching to call Arlene-gate and many viewers are calling dull – will Alesha Dixon find her own way to hold a card with a number from 1 to 10 written on?

S&M Come Dancing

Daily Mirror (front page): “STRICCTLY GAGGED- Exclusive: Clamp over Arlene”

And now appearing in the fetish Gimp dance, motor-mouthed point scorer extraordinaire Arlene Philips….

Arlene Phillips Is Dead

“Strictly-ites, who happily scoffed as Arlene stumbled clumsily over her painfully scripted flights of alliteration, suddenly insist they miss her more fervently than their deceased relatives.” - Vanessa Feltz

Arm Done

So no comment on Arlene Phillips, as the BBC directive commands. And as Alesha Dixon tells theRadio Times, the BBC’s TV schedules organ:

“Maybe people wanted to start a catfight. But I didn’t see it as an argument between Arlene and me. We were just caught in the middle. I haven’t even spoken to her about it. Why would I? Was I wounded by some of the comments? Sure. Some of them were very stereotypical and judgmental.”

Arms off the table when you’re talking, Alesha. Arms. Arms. Arms.

“When I read that I only won in 2007 because I was half-naked, I did take that seriously. That’s not someone offering a considered opinion, that’s someone being a bitch.”

For sure: a considered opinion on a reality-TV show dance contest that isn’t a real contest is dull; bitchiness is entertaining.

Wattle. Wattle. Bingo Wings!

ARLENE PHILLIPS acted with dignity when she spoke out in support of ALESHA DIXON - the half-her-age singer who replaced her as a judge on Strictly Come Dancing.

But here’s betting that in the privacy of her own home she danced naked through her living room while shouting ‘whoop whoop’ and punching the air - Martel Maxwell, The Sun

They Shoot Horses

The Sun (front page): “Dance show stretched to 2hrs 15 minutes - Strictlt bum-numbing”

Strictly - hosted by Bruce Forsyth - will run from 7pm to 9.15pm to feature dances by 14 couples in its third-round show. The X Factor starts at 8pm and finishes at the same time.

Last man still watching wins.

Alesha Dixon The Metaphor

YESTERDAY London traders were not downbeat at the prospect of a Lib Dem mansion tax on their docklands pads. No, the assumption that the party will ever get to power in any real sense is an oxymoron but talk of a so-called Tobin tax could be more vexing. Nobel prize-winning economist James Tobin first proposed a tax on currency trading as far back as 1972. The idea, like Alesha Dixon on Strictly Come Dancing, was received with mixed reviews and it was not until the dying decade of last century that a think-tank proffered the suggestion that such a tax could apply to all financial transactions - Tim Jenkins, Western Mail

Your Scores, Puh-leeeeze

ALESHA Dixon-bashing shows no signs of abating, with a staggering 900 viewers complaining about the poor old former Mis-teeq singer’s turn on Strictly Come Dancing - Sun

Strictly Come Dancing is already under fire, with nearly 5,000 fans complaining about 66-year-old judge Arlene Phillips being replaced by Alesha Dixon, 30 - Star

Fact

What would Alesha have done if her pop career hadn’t worked out? Well, she’d have probably been a PE teacher. “I was really good at sports and pretty bossy - the perfect combination. I even did a diploma in sports studies,” she admits. - DS

The Criticism Writes Itself

How I longed to hear her brisk verdict on Kristina Rihanoff and the human wardrobe that is Joe Calzaghe. Joe is a gorgeous bloke and a great boxer, but he is to dancing what David Miliband is to romantic comedy. Kristina, the Siberian siren, was doing everything she could to loosen Joe up, short of making him a father on the spot. Alas, it was still like moving bits of heavy machinery. Alesha’s verdict on the couple was: ‘You was smelling her hair. It looked like you were smelling her hair at one point.’

Pitiful. I felt embarrassed for her.

Briefed by her BBC minders, Alesha dismisses the criticism against her as ‘a storm in a teacup’. Some teacup. She’s going to be in hot water for a while yet - Allison Pearson

Alesha Dixon Is this Year’s John Sergeant

There’s some bloke off EastEnders; a muscle-bound behemoth from Crimewatch, the Oxo Mum, a couple of soap actresses, some sporting has-beens, and… oh, I can’t be bothered to go on. There’s no John Sergeant to care about, no Cherie Lunghi to root for, no Austin Healey to lust after. Where are the personalities? Where is the glamour? The sex appeal? Where is the talent – even if it’s the talent to fail magnificently? - Liz Hunt, Telegraph

Where is the talent…eh?
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Food for thought. 

But they are not listening to hundreds of complaints made to them by members of the Brisith public who don't feel Alesha is right for the job.Another slap in the face from Auntie Beeb.

But a few hundred complaining is nothing to the millions of people who loved having her as a judge with didn't write in or phone to say so.
It's only those that complain that get heard.
The silent majority should be taken into consideration as well.
Which was probably about millions.

Strictly Come Dancing contestants told not to criticise Alesha

September 23rd, 2009 by Lisa McGarry.

Hickey,actually forgive my error, the papers today are saying the over 4million+ I reapeat 4 million odd complaints have worked their way to the BBC. Not to mention all the forums flooded with complaints that the girl is not up to the job
You like Alesha as a judge, I don't. Both different opinions but both valid wouldn't you say. Thank God we have forums which gives us both the opportunity to put our point accross.

They should back off and leave her alone, every movement Alesha makes now the press will be commenting on it and stirring it up even more which is a plus for those on the backlash. But what they should consider is that if they complain doesn't mean everyone else agrees, wow a complaints in a the thousands doesn't represent the millions that watch and maybe some people can't be bothered to moan over a TV show and see it as fun but there is a right to express your opinion and complain so those people are using it but it's this kind of drama every series started by the BBC then people on the backlash that is making the series a mockery imo as some are going way OTT.

Kristina ends night with Joe

The Strictly Come Dancing pair left the Russian dancer's 32nd birthday celebrations in a taxi and headed back to a private address in west London.
 

 

While brightly-dressed Kristina seemed sober as she left Whisky Mist club, her boxer partner looked a bit worse for wear - suggesting that rehearsals won't go too smoothly today.

Before hitting the nightclub, Joe, 37, had turned up for a meal at Babylon restaurant at Kensington Roof Gardens with Kristina.

The two have been spotted cosying up to each other several times in recent weeks.

Yesterday Joe was snapped tenderly stroking her cheek, while she in return gave him a kiss.

But they are not the only Strictly pairing acting like a couple at the moment.

The Bill star Ali Bastian also seems to be getting close to her partner, Brian Fortuna.

The pair attended Kristina's birthday bash and ending their night leaving together.

TBH, I'm getting tired of the series of SCD being all about Alesha.  She will stay on the panel or not, and although I don't think she is qualified to judge, I don't watch the programme for the judges anyway.

I was a bit disappointed in ITT yesterday as I felt they had too many guests on and none of them really had much time to speak.  They are probably trying to fit everyone into this first week in case someone has to leave.  Also, they didn't need to show so much of Jade's feet injuries !

I am also Suzi even as a fan of hers but as long as people keep on complaining, the press stirring it all up and jumping on the bandwagon and the BBC getting all this publicity then i'm afraid it will continue till the end. John Sargeant last year was an example although he gave in to the pressure but also some people rang his housephone and spoke to his wife ranting about the whole saga, he said a couple of days after he stood down how pathetic over a TV show?. I hope that Alesha isn't gettting any abuse in the street, but as you know some people are like that.

Well, Darlo, I am of the society that believes JS outstayed his welcome.  I found him endearing in his waltz, incredibly funny in his paso, but he became quite tedious after that.  No one should be put through that type of abuse - especially over a television programme.  I think it's a sad reflection on society that people can become that abusive over a difference of opinion.

There's really no right or wrong about Alesha being a judge, not really.  The viewers always have the option of switching off.  I really don't care who the judges are, as long as they judge based on their expertise.

Do you ever listen to the professional commentary when the dances are danced?  I didn't notice if they had that this year, but I liked listening to the experts explain the different moves.

Whatever people thought of JS he got the public vote and deserved to stay on that merit he wasn't the best dancer he was quite bad but he tried his best. According to the figures that were released to the papers after he quit he got 1.7 million votes the week Lisa and Cherie ended up in the dance off way ahead of everyone else so would have possibly won if he stayed but as he said winning would have been a joke too far.  Cherie had the lowest votes according to them also so maybe her fans should have voted more to save her?.

I did watch a bit off it the year Alesha was in and a couple last year on the red button but after that couldn't be bothred, might try it again soon for Ricky Whittle and Laila.

I like listening to the commentary - but my husband doesn't!   I think it's because I say stuff like "he messed up that heel lead"  or "what a fantastic rondle' (sp)" just to wind him up.  I'm quite good at the winding up!

I think the judges take the show a bit serious.
I'm sure that 95% of the viewers watching would never have noticed most of the things pointed out by the judges.
In other words it isn't really going to influence our votes.
I just look at how the dance is flowing with the 2 dancers, you would think that the judges were judging the world finals instead of a few people that have never danced like this in their lives, and have just started.

Just wanted to comment.. Why would the BBC. try and fix something which wasn't broken???

Couldn't agree more!

If you look at from a different angle, if they didn't change anything what would they have to print in the papers etc.

It's just a publicity stunt, looke how many people are commenting, and how many column inches it's creating.

It's working isn't it.
Free Publicity.

I think you've hit the spot  Hicky. There's no such thing as bad publicity is there? No one seems to be even slightly interested that a former world tennis superstar has been kicked out, quite unfairly imho, in the first week.
Once the Arlene/Alisha nonsense sinks into the sunset the search will be on for the next John Sargeant. Any candidates?

Good morning everyone. 

As I said, I'm tired of the Alesha/Arlene saga.  The judges have never and will never be the "stars of the show".

So far, the John Sargeant has to be Joe Calzghe (sp).  Poor Kristina, lumbered with the two worst men in her first two series!

Hear, hear!   OK, I think she's a waste of space as a judge, but it would never stop me (or, I believe any true fans of the show) from watching.   I also couldn't give two hoots about Arlene.    Unless Alesha suddenly starts saying exactly what I think, I'll just continue to glaze over while she's telling everyone how 'fierce' they are and listen to the technical comments from those who are qualified.   

While I'm on a rant.... I'm also fed up reading about the 'ratings war'    In this age of V+ and Sky+ surely it's a complete nonsense to say any programme 'wins'?

BTW - it looks like Kelly Osborne has done well in Dancing with the Stars (Monday - 9 pm.)  That'll annoy me... can't bear her, but have to give credit where it's due!

Why is the BBC getting all the grief for this "ratings war" anyway?  What is ITV showing that is so important?  The Cube?  A bluddy game show!

Strictly Come Dancing: this weeks group dance is a Michael Jackson tribute

September 24th, 2009 by Lisa McGarry.

i like Alesha but I can see also see why people are moaning about her as a judge

OK, she cant comment on the dancing as professionally as Arlene, of course, but saying that - the judges all cant agree anyway - if there were rules for dancing and contestants dont stick to them - ALL the judges should agree - surely ??

Having Alesha is giving a different perspective on the judging, after all, she has been through it all

having said that ... all i can say is   COME ON RICKY WHITTLE  CWORRRRRRRRRRRRR

Well I think the judging has been far too critical for the first week.

They have only just learnt the steps they aren't dancers for heavens sake, with they would chill out.

A bit of help would be ok, but the things they say is rediculous.
I think Alesha is doing fine, at least they have someone that understands what it is like out on the floor from the beginning.
The other 3 are in a fantasy world, they think that they are judging proffessional dancers for a world title, for gods sake ease off, it's just an entertainment program.

I thought the majority of the scoring was a bit high for the first week.  Giving out 7's and 8's right away doesn't give the dancers much to aim for.

I suppose they just wanted to make a point in showing the difference between the dancers.
Those at the top/bottom.
But the judges didn't really give the same marks, but they are looking at different aspects of the dancing.
Not sure what Alesha was looking at but I think she is just giving the dancers support, whereas the other judges are pulling their work to pieces which makes it very difficult for the proffessionals.

I think the first few weeks the dancers are more concerned about remembering the steps, not worrying about their mouth/finger position.

Roll on Friday!  Actually, my favourite part will start next week when all the couples dance on the same night.  It's much easier for me to compare the dances and the dancers and to pick who I like the best - although that usually changes from week to week!

ricky groves mouth was funny they showed it on BBC2 It Takes Two

Ricky blew me away!  Even though he looked like a fish out of water with that mouth!  I was really surprised as I didn't expect that from him at all.  I was expecting Gary Hobbs!

I think they will show the rehearsals footage tonight - I hope they have someone good commenting on it.

I couldn't believe he was dancing round with his mouth open like that.
He obviously didn't realise he was doing it.

Richard Dunwoody teaches Strictly Come Dancing partner Lilia to ride

Abigail Butcher, H&H news editor

24 September, 2009

Richard Dunwoody turned the tables on his Strictly Come Dancing partner Lilia Kopylova this week, by taking her riding.

 The former three-times champion jockey is one of 16 celebrities learning to dance on the popular BBC One series.

 On Tuesday Richard took Lilia for a canter on the turf at Wimbledon Village Stables. And the professional Russian dancer took to riding like a natural.

 "Her balance was good, she was getting the rising trot and really loving it," said Liz Ampairee, Richard Dunwoody's spokesman.

 "She wants to learn to ride — and would have been cantering if the BBC let her!"

 As well as teaching Lilia to ride, Richard had to gallop his chestnut horse for the cameras — for a show to be broadcast this weekend.

 "He's practising every hour of the day," said Liz. "He's found it very hard — but Richard being Richard he's put everything into it."

 The 45-year-old former jockey will perform the waltz on Friday's Strictly Come Dancing and the cha cha cha on Saturday.

 In an interview with Racing Post TV, he said: "With horseracing, there's no absolutely correct way — you can't say that Tony McCoy is doing it right, or Ruby Walsh is doing it right. Whereas with dancing, you have to get it absolutely right — and it's tough."

 He admitted to waking up in the night and going through his steps. And despite his dedication, Richard is still a rank outsider with the bookies.

 "The racing and the horse industry must vote for him on Strictly Come Dancing," added Liz. "He really is getting better."