[Nicky91]

Originally Posted by jet

Not usually a disadvantage ……These past winners all had a lot of or some previous dance experience.

Alesha Dixon
Kara Tointon
Tom Chambers
Abbey Clancy
Caroline Flack
Jay McGuiness
Kelvin Fletcher
Bill Bailey

I'm not sure if the average casual viewer even thinks about/knows who has previous dance experience and who hasn't, they likely just consider how well they are progressing from week 1 onwards and base their opinions on that.

as far as i know, Abbey, Kelvin, Bill didn't have past dance experience though?

the one thing that worked in Bill's advantage, was besides being a comedian, he also is a musician, that and the fact it was a covid pandemic reduced series


Kelvin is a natural i think, which came across more impressive since he was a late entrant (instead of Jamie Laing who was injured after the launch show group number)


Abbey was kinda mediocre early weeks but gradually turned into a dancer all thanks to Aljaz's brilliant teaching skills as well as after the halloween week shock dance off appearance ignited her fire to improve more and more




you forgot Jill Halfpenny, an actual ringer who went on to win