Week 7 Stories from rehearsal

Ali mentioned that she would draw upon her experiences in The Bill to find her aggressive side for the Paso Doble as she was used to catching criminals, throwing them over the bonnets of cars and cuffing them as part of her role! Craig Kelly has said that dancing in Blackpool would be ‘a proud [...]

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Source: Daily Mail They entertained the Strictly crowds with her gawky dancing and his outbursts at the judges, but Jo Wood and Brendan Cole have finally been given their marching orders. The former model and fiery New Zealander lost out this week in a dance off with Olympian Jade Johnson and her partner Ian Waite. [...]

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Poor Jo eh! She didn’t really stand a chance with that Samba did she? She knew it, Brendan certainly knew it and so did the judges. The public voted her into the bottom two along with Jade and Ian, who also danced the Samba. All four judges voted to save Jade and put Jo and [...]

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Well week 6 has been and gone with the samba and the american smooth. Ali and Brian were top of the leaderboard and scored the highest mark of the series so far and got their first 10. In contrast, Jo and Brendan got just 14 points for their excrutiating samba. Ali Bastian and Brian Fortuna [...]

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What a coup eh? I asked Chris and Ola a few sneaky questions about Strictly Come Dancing. Chris – How do you feel you compare to your fellow BBC newsreader Bill Turnbull? Can you get further in the competition than him? I think Bill was much smoother and a more consistent performer. I keep letting [...]

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