[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by Nicky91

as long as Amber will be the one to take vile ringer Lewis in a shock halloween dance off, i'm okay with it

What's Lewis done wrong?

[Vanessa]

Originally Posted by Livia

Replacing Dani with yet another trained dancer who the judges will push through to the end when the public will vote them off. What's the point?

Yes. They could have them start on week 2.
But Amber is already a dancer.

[Vanessa]

Amber is a trained dancer. Probably more of a ringer that Lewis is. Will take the hear off him. Thank you

[Nicky91]

Originally Posted by Vanessa

Amber is a trained dancer. Probably more of a ringer that Lewis is. Will take the hear off him. Thank you

Lewis done Billy Elliot musical though, which is literally about a boy who becomes a ballet dancer


i reckon that ballet training will help Lewis for this weeks Jive, same way it helped Karim for his Jive

[Nicky91]

i already can't wait for what Amber and Nikita will bring to the shows


she seems lovely too, and honestly musical theatre experience isn't latin and ballroom experience, it only helps you in terms of performing/selling a routine



and comparing musical theatre's, i wouldn't say Lewis won't get any heat, like Billy Elliot is a musical about dancing


anyway Amber is well respected by many west end colleagues as well, because besides her own west end career, she also does interview some of her colleagues on her youtube channel



i'm hoping for a mid table position tonight for her, after 2 days of training for the waltz




pretty sure Lewis, Ellie, Alex will be in the top 3, i am confident about Ellie's cha cha because Vito is a phenomenal latin dancer and teacher, and JoJo is a new king of ballroom out of the current pro's he'll glide Alex through that as long as she trusts him fully

[Nicky91]

but jeez louise, who cares about trained dancers, be glad not all 15 contestants are duffers, that would be so boring anyway


and i'm never against theatre ringers, and no, sorry i won't be too harsh on Lewis, okay, he has done nothing wrong to me, but please from the bottom of my heart, don't be too nasty on Amber either then? they are more or less quite evenly matched



btw Lewis, was judged by Aston on Got to Dance in 2013, where Lewis finished as runner up


so if there are people who want to be critical of Amber, they need to do the same for Lewis, and otherwise just ignore the experience

[Livia]

A couple of years ago Layton Williams, who was also was a dancer in Billy Elliot, was pushed through every week while non-dancers who were improving week on week were sent home by the judges. Tasha Ghouri, who studied dance at uni, was pushed through to the end. Ashley Roberts, a dancer since she was a child and whose mother owns a dancing school, made the final. But none of them ever win because the final say is ours, not the judges', and the public won't allow cheats to win. Not sure why the BBC doesn't get that and continue to slip in these already-trained dancers every year.