Well, it's becoming a joke now, when dancing well doesn't matter anymore.

How are they expected to get better when the public are screwing the show up.

People are going to be turning off if this farce carries on.

Night-night everyone!  Thanks for the company!

I guess Ali's odds at the bookies will take a tumble now.

nite nite all off have a laugh at most haunted

I love Rod Stewart!

Rod Stewart ooh that will be awesome.

Good night, people  - I won't be in next Saturday.. being dragged out to some fund-raisng thing, much to my annoyance.  Don't people realise my Saturday's are sacred?!

Well thank you for the company this evening, on the whole out of those two the right ones went out, but how can Craig stay week in and week out?  His dancing is of the "dad dancing" variety, he's rapidly becoming the John Sergeant of this year, but without his charm, he made me smile last year and I LOVED seeing Arlene working herself week after week over him staying.  Craig does not make me smile in the same way.

I feel that Ali deserved to be in the bottom two tonight, her dance both the first time round and in the dance off looked messy and not very tight.


Im shocked they voted Zoe out to be honest.

Thanks Everyone.

I'm going to watch my X-Factor recording now.
Great night, strange result though.

Lets hope Karl doesn't feel unwell tonight.

Night all thanks for the company

I was utterly gobsmacked that Ali and Brian were in the dance off.
I thought Ali & Brian and Ricky & Natalie were the best two couples tonight.
Zoe was rather clunky I thought, with hardly any bounce.
I am not surprised that Alesha Dixon voted to save her because I think she has overmarked her throughout the series.

It's all rather odd when poorer dances get through and better dancers are in the dance off.

I can only hope that the public felt they need not vote for Ali and Brian because they thought they would be safe. But it doesn`t necessarily work like that.

Craig was the worst dancer tonight, and the constant mentioning of Blackpool., and his birthday got right up my nose.

I know he's trying really hard, and I love Flavia , but he will never be a dancer.

He should have been in the bottom with Natalie Cassidy.........No idea where the positive comments came from for her........she was flat footed , and laboured in my opinion.
 
Another one that states every week that she really wants to go through, and the next week is always her favorite dance .

Oh and ps I agree with Bruno......Laila's  waltz was a bit skippy.

natalie is grating on my nerves

Is it being held in Blackpool next week? On the assumption it is being the softie I am after hearing it means so much for all of them to dance there I'd have loved it if they all had a free pass - so no public voting - so they could all experience it. Then again tv progs like everything else these days is about profiteering so it wouldn't happen

The british public have done their duty for Craig now and have taken him to Blackpool...I will bet any of you anything that he gets knocked out of the show next week.

Craig was annoying last night going on about Blackpool and saying he thought he was good,I like him as an actor but that is it .. Craig you cant dance get over it

Hope so. What a complete joke!!!!!! Lets see how he feels getting eliminated in his home town.

Ali Bastian, she'll be concentrating on next week. It's not Craig's fault at all she and Zoe ended up in the dance off they didn't have enough votes end of but I do hope he goes soon. For the last couple of weeks the person in 3rd place in the leaderboard has ended up in the dance off.


I was delighted when Chris and Ola got through, so much I screamed.

Here's hoping Craig comes in third on Saturday!

I must be the only one who prefers Chris Hollins instead of Phil Tufnell and Ricky Groves.

I like Chris, but he is in my top 3.  I think my top 3 are Ricky G, Jade and Chris.

I do like Phil and Ricky G they have lots of charisma like Chris, but they don't make me sit up and take notice like Chris does he goes for it more unlike Phil who can dance but is a bit lazy but Ricky also works hard.


 I can see Phil getting to the final because he is very popular, but I would really love Chris to be there but it's almost kind of obvious Ricky W and Ali will be there but anything can happen.

Very true, anything can and often does happen.  If Ali and Ricky W were to be in the dance off one week, it would really throw the whole competition open.

I like Tuffers, but as you say, he is quite lazy in his training.  It's getting to the point where he is going to have to really work hard to stay in.

I like the personality that Ricky G brings into every dance.  He is one of the few this series that really makes me smile each and every week.  And there is something about Jade that I really like, but can't put my finger on it.  I worry for her this week doing the Jive - not a great dance for tall people!

It could be a disaster but Jodie Kidd didn't do bad last series but though Jade very nice. Phil has got to work hard more harder I did read that Katya is getting fed up of him being lazy but he can't keep relying on his personality to sail through the dances he's got to put more effort in.

Dances confirmed for next week:

Laila and Anton- Pasodoble
Jade and Ian- Jive
Phil and Katya- Rumba

Ricky W and Natalie- Tango

Ricky G and Erin- Salsa

Chris and Ola- Foxtrot

Ali and Brian- Viennese Waltz

Natalie and Vincent- Quickstep
The celebs and pros also are doing a group dance so will be tiring having to learn two routines again.

I really like him too and doesn't he look so well now with his weight loss.

Just watched my recording of this from last night.

Ali and Zoe in the bottom two was a surprise - I'm sure they said Ali had hurt her foot?

Shame Zoe is gone - I'm afraid I would rather have seen Craig or Phil Tufnell  (is there any "celebrity" show he hasn't been on yet?) gone this week. 

My favourites are still Ali and Ricky G

And I have to say Natalie looked ridiculous in her outfit. 

Miss S, I'm a Natalie fan but absolutely hated her outfit. It was all wrong...bless

strictly dancers criticise tour pay


 Ooh the claws are out. If true though they do deserve more pay even more than the celebs for the talented job they do.

Can't believe they pay the Celebs double the amount of the Professionals.

IMO, the pros should be getting MORE than the Z-list celebs. After 7 series of SCD,the dancers are much more of celebrities than at least 75% of the celebs in this series.

The judges even get more than the pro's I think. I remember the year before Tom Chambers won the 3 male judges and Arlene when she was there threatened to quit if they didn't get a pay rise apparently.

 

I wonder how they would all feel if they were forced to work for Equity rates?

http://www.tmauk.org/ratesofpa...ychoreographers.aspx

Someone should really have had a word with the designer of that dress - it just didn't suit her shape at all - very unflattering.

arlene: keep len and craig apart


No thank you. I prefer Bruno sitting next to Alesha they have such a laugh together, where as the other 2 are more serious. Although Len did work well with Bruno.

It's a load of tripe.  Len and Craig have differing opinions and are looking for different things in each dance.  Talk aobut making a mountain out of a molehill!

Tonight on It Takes Two... departing couple Zoe and James and Chris & Ola!. BBC Two, 6.30pm