Strictly Shocking!

Spoony and Ola are out! I blame that old mid-table, they’ll be safe voting mentality. The judges scores have saved the top few couples and the public save the bottom few, leaving the ones in the middle to lose. It’s a shame as they were much better than some of the remaining couples, but then it wouldn’t be Strictly without some shock exits.

Out of my previous picks, both Ray and Camilla and Mark and Karen proved that they can be as good at ballroom as they were at latin. Peter Schmeichel and his partner Erin Boag were very good at the tango. They’ve yet to dance a latin dance, and I think they’ll cope with next week’s Paso Doble, but I worry how he’ll cope with the bouncier latin dances which seem to suit shorter people. We’ll have to wait and see. Of the girls, Carol and Matthew were ok, although not as good as I expected from last week, but they could still be a slow burner to watch out for. Louisa and Vincent blew away the rest of the competition with a fantastic jive which earned them the first 10 of the series.

And it had been confirmed that Jimmy Tarbuck has had to pull out of the competition due to his health, which is sad, but understandable. Although the question is now how they cope with the extra week created by technically losing two couples this week … ?