Absolutely. Watching it last night reminded me just how many technical mistakes there were in it but for me it dosent come close to ruining it. It’s iconic and as you say it’s “the showdance”. I will always pin every other showdance up against it that’s how much I love it. I think Camillas choreography is so good in it too, Tom is the star of the show not her. His personality comes out whilst getting lots of different styles in. No gimmicks or messing just dancing.
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I always thought Ola !ooked like she was in some kind of hostage situation with James! She was still in the show and he was making disparaging remarks until she too had to leave. Now they are doing sleazy ads and dance routines. I feel its all him. I dont know either of them but like you say they just look really ill matched and like there is a power dynamic with her being so sweet and him beingso aggressive.
I loved the top 25 dances show. I enjoyed it more than the Christmas Specials.
100% agree with this! When you rewatch it you can see all the messy bits but at the time it was on another level - it just stood out from the rest of the dances in this series: plus the song is great. It was different but didn’t feel gimmicky if that makes sense? Plus I remember feeling it was justice for Camilla after the Brendan situation after all that time.
Many show dances either fall short or feel gimmicky. A bit like Maisie’s? She danced beautifully with Gorka and you couldn’t fault the standard but I won’t remember it in 2 years time...
I think it's definitely him who caused all of the problems between them & SCD. I hope she's OK with him and it isn't a bad situation. All I can say is that I would never enter a relationship with a guy of his personality myself.
I 100% agree with you! Tom's show dance is my all-time fave show dance, it was just perfect for him and his Fred Astaire style. I know it doesn't look as impressive as some dances these days that have all the lifts and contemporary style to them, but I was 14 or 15 years old when Tom won and for teenage me it was the best dance ever at the time
I loved Camilla's harlequin pants too (I miss Camilla!)
It really did set the tone for the show dances that were to come in future series, turning the show dance into a theatrical performance. They created something unique and it’s telling that so many of us still remember it twelve years later.
Does anyone else remember Lisa and Brendan’s showdance from the same night? They were eliminated and got to perform it as a farewell. Lisa was in a silver leotard and it was one of the strangest show dances I’ve ever seen (second only to Colin, Erin and those puppets).
Almost certainly the producers call. I'd like if they went a bit more back to basics though I do see an argument for them to go all out on the showdances.
Sorry to derail the topic, but whenever I've seen I've seen Shirley on other TV shows or in magazine interviews recently, all she talks about is her boyfriend all the time. I remember reading in an interview recently that she hoped her boyfriend would propose soon and that she's already picked her bridesmaids. They've only been together a year or so and she's had two or three marriages prior?! Shirley reeks of desperation, and she's always thirsting over the young blokes on Strictly. Makes my skin crawl a bit.
I think she has shocking self esteem and feels validated with a guy. She’s obsessed with being slim, I read that in an interview with her.
You're in for a treat. It was such a good series. I liked Claudia and AJ's charleston and quickstep from that year too. Would've preferred them in the final to Ore or Louise tbh xI was hoping for a Kara danceAnd I think Ed Balls deservedly got to number 4. I giggled like a schoolgirl for the millionth time #sorrynotsorry
I missed Danny Mac's series for the most part but.... Wow. I'm going to have to YouTube him now.
Could not agree more with your words about Jill. One of the most memorable dances ever for me. I remember Amy saying on ITT last year that her and her sister used to watch strictly growing up and were obsessed with Jill’s jive and even taught themselves the choreography which is sweet. Shows how iconic the dance really was.
I didn’t watch SCD much back then but do you know why there was such a drastic change in how the female pros dressed? Was it different producers or was the fashion in the professional world at the time to hardly wear anything? You’d think that it would be more sexy now but compared to what the ladies used to wear, the female pros look like nuns these days
I’m now totally obsessed with watching Jills jive. It was just so perfect. I do love Jays jive too though so am glad that won.
Was anyone on Digital Spy forums at the time of Jay? My god, he acquired some extremely 'dedicated' fans.
even though this song irritates the crap out of me, Taylor Swift, shake it off would make a good jive I reckon
and does anyone remember that song in Mr and Mrs Smith after they had the sexy fight scene? That would be my rhumba choice
a LOT of Christmas songs make good strictly choices I’ve noticed over the past few days
I've always imagined myself doing the Argentine Tango with Pasha to Life Of The Party by The Weeknd
They'd have to edit a lot of the lyrics to make it appropriate to sing it on Strictly though...
Oh yes I remember.
In those days there were two lots of votes on the night.
We voted at first and they eliminated the couple with the least votes during that round of votes.
Which meant the couple voted off didnt get the chance to do their "showdance" because the performance of the showdances was saved until after the first couple had been voted off.
Lisa Snowdon and Brendan were SO convinced their showdance was the best thing ever and they pleaded for the chance to dance it so the viewers could witness this fantastic dance.
They were allowed to perform it and throughout it their facial expressions were SO serious!
It was clear how great they thought the dance was from their faces.
Sadly, most of the viewers disagreed and stifled laughter all the way through.
That awful silver costume Lisa wore didn't help but she and Brendan believed they had just danced the best showdance that could ever exist.
Bless.
It is certainly memorable but not for the reasons they think.
I don’t remember this. May have to rewatch
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