[Livia]

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
Jill Halfpenny
Jay McGuiness


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.

I went to dance classes when I was a kid, you could never say I had real previous dance training, maybe some of these did the same kind of classes too? However, Tasha also studied commercial dance at uni, which means she would have studied a wide range of dance styles. Ashley Roberts studied dance her whole life, in fact, her mother owns a dance school and Layton Williams had already starred in a West End production of Billy Elliot. These are the dancers the judges will push through to the final but who the public will never allow to win.