[Kate!]

That was lovely. Somewhat ethereal.

[joeysteele]

The music was poor for me for Annabel.

Nice routine but not memorable.
Sadly.

[Kate!]

I think Annabel is going home

[joeysteele]

Originally Posted by Kate!

I think Annabel is going home

Sadly yes, I can see that happening.

[Vanessa]

Originally Posted by Kate!

I think Annabel is going home

It depends who is top two with the public. I'm thinking Ellie is definitely through. The second one either Annabelle or Bobby.

[Vanessa]

Ellie and Vito couples choice. This should be good.

[Kate!]

Originally Posted by Vanessa

It depends who is top two with the public. I'm thinking Ellie is definitely through. The second one either Annabelle or Bobby.

Yes, fair point. I guess she could turn the leader board around. Hmmm. It's gonna be an interesting one.

[Kate!]

It wasn't undermarked

[joeysteele]

I don't think couples choice should be in the quarter or semi finals.

However good luck Ellie but she can't top the leaderboard now even with a 40 score.

[Vanessa]

Originally Posted by joeysteele

I don't think couples choice should be in the quarter or semi finals.

However good luck Ellie but she can't top the leaderboard now even with a 40 score.

It's allowed. Remember Will and Nancy has theirs in the semifinals as well?

[Kate!]

Originally Posted by joeysteele

I don't think couples choice should be in the quarter or semi finals.

However good luck Ellie but she can't top the leaderboard now even with a 40 score.

Oh I love couples choice though. There have been so many amazing ones. X

[Vanessa]

I'm loving this. It's a bop

[joeysteele]

I don't mind them during the series and in the final.
I just think not in the quarter or semi finals.
It was really good however.

[Kate!]

That was amazing!!

[joeysteele]

Really strong semi final though.
Really enjoyable.

[Kate!]

It's a shame for whoever goes home

[Kate!]

Voted

[Vanessa]

Voted Ellie and Vito.

[Mystic Mock]

I loved Bobby's song choice for the Paso.

Imo though it's very blatant that the Show wants Annabel to leave so that Ellie has an easier time in the final, it's somehow managed to be more rigged than Hamza last year.

[Nicky91]

alright, quite a competitive semi final (although apart from the continued overhype of one particular annoying pest)

Bobby & Dianne

Quickstep: simply breathtaking gorgeous traditional ballroom at its finest, wow 10

Paso Doble: his face but honestly this was great, those shapings were clean, precise, the attack throughout i agree with Shirley could've had more breathing moments maybe but all in all strong competent paso 9


Layton & Nikita

Rumba: he added ballet moves in a rumba, he made that possible lmao, too little hip action for me and indeed danced way too aggressive rather than soft, sensual moves 6

Charleston: no way near a perfect 40 for me, i only saw one forward swivel, which also was rushed through, wasn't executed cleanly, was this even a charleston idk, didn't see much charleston content, and those acrobatics is just clownery what i don't pay attention to, disaster, almost forgot wasn't in sync in the beginning with the umbrella prop and halfway through as well also not in sync 4


Annabel & Johannes

Salsa: a shame she made mistakes couple times, also in the beginning, good effort but sadly this is the semi, no place for just efforts 7

Viennese Waltz: undermarked, this was beautiful, elegant, enchanting 9


Ellie & Vito

Cha Cha Cha: had expected to be seeing worse and lesser straightened legs honestly pre-performance, strong performance for sure, great musicality and chemistry either 10

Couples Choice: so you can dance different dance styles to dua lipa music, thank you Ellie for proving me wrong those lifts PHENOMENAL, a champion worthy couples choice! dance of the series for me personally 11

[AnnieK]

Lol Nicky, I love reading your opinions but you are letting yourself down with the Layton critique by allowing your dislike of him to cloud your judgement. He is an amazing dancer, should he be in a competition like Strictly, possibly not but he didn't book himself, have a go at the BBC but to slate his dancing is silly. The Charleston was fantastic

[Nicky91]

Originally Posted by AnnieK

Lol Nicky, I love reading your opinions but you are letting yourself down with the Layton critique by allowing your dislike of him to cloud your judgement. He is an amazing dancer, should he be in a competition like Strictly, possibly not but he didn't book himself, have a go at the BBC but to slate his dancing is silly. The Charleston was fantastic

i didn't see any swivel, and swivel is the main technical ingredient of a Charleston


Craig i am disappointed in him for not saying anything about this, but yeah his bias towards theatre boy

[AnnieK]

Originally Posted by Nicky91

i didn't see any swivel, and swivel is the main technical ingredient of a Charleston


Craig i am disappointed in him for not saying anything about this, but yeah his bias towards theatre boy

And your bias against him

[Nicky91]

Originally Posted by AnnieK

And your bias against him

what then, should i lie and praise him as a god or something


lying is wrong, so yeah he's my least favourite



i haven't been completely super positive solely for Bobby either, only since halloween week he's warmed up to me, and i love Shirley, Anton who really like him, and finally Motsi said something great either how he is peaking at the right moment


Annabel i've loved since week 1, but now i couldn't really look past those mistakes in her salsa, was thankful she made a good recovery in her VW but i had hoped for a slightly higher score than being ridiculously underscored, almost like throwing her under the bus, bottom of leaderboard already is a dangerous position, but seriously that harshly underscoring her compared to the other 3 couples is mean i really felt for her and i had a moment like ''yeah she's a likely goner'' but honestly she's the tennis star who got the furthest of them all so far



i do defend Bobby though, annoyingly to some others on here maybe, but i just don't get why others dislike him, he comes across as a very sweet boy and deffo one what strictly is all about, one who grows in a competition rather than Layton whom more is like Ashley Roberts contestant wise, already was a dancer, no journey




one of my fave strictly charlestons is Faye & Giovanni lonely goatherd or Debbie & Giovanni to Frankie (halloween week)

[joeysteele]

I think it wrong to hold against Layton his musical theatre background.
Nigel had a similar background too.

Nikita's routines are challenging and for me they've all been entertaining in various ways to watch from all contestants this series.
Even Angela Rippon at 79.

Layton has had unfair stick however if people even genuinely don't like him, that's up to them.

However to deny he's a superb dancer and that he hasn't overall delivered mostly what he's been asked to by Nikita.
That's very sad to see.

They've all tried their very best and for me this is one of the very strongest series ever of Strictly.

My choice for winner would be Ellie.
However whoever of the 3 win, were I there I'd applaud them loudly.

Well done to all of them.
Good luck to Bobby, Ellie and Layton in what I'm sure will be a great and worthy final from ALL their efforts and work they'll put into it.