[Nicky91]

alright welcome to our 2025 series of Strictly Come Dancing, and dancing first for us this first show are Vernon Wells and his dance partner Dianne Buswell with a Samba to Further Up (Na Na Na)

VT

we are shown highlights of Vernon's acting career, and he also tells us that this year Strictly has the honours of the FIRST EVER POWER RANGERS VILLAIN to compete on the show as well as being in a dynamic down under partnership with last years REIGNING CHAMPION Dianne Buswell

we cut to the training room, Dianne tells Vernon their first dance is the samba, and there are a lot of difficult techniques in this dance, such as botafogo's, volta's, samba rolls, Vernon asks what song they are dancing to, Dianne says a recent banger by Pitbull and that he'll be playing the role of a DJ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3BQmbeXPok

Performance

the routine begins with Vernon behind his DJ booth doing his thing, the music starts and everything goes like you would've expected it to go for a man of his age, 79 YEARS OLD, a bit pedestrian but he hits those volta's, botafogo's quite nicely, although in the samba roll he looks like channeling his inner john sergeant which looks quite awkward, musicality wise his timing is quite precise, the choreography also well done by Dianne, not throwing her partner under the bus with something too complicated

Craig: 3

Motsi: 6

Shirley: 6

AJ: 5

=
20

decent score for this enjoyable samba