Strictly Come Dancing: Week Four

Well, it was Foxtrot and Paso Doble week. The Paso is always quite dramatic,the man is supposed to be a bullfighter, with the lady as his cape or the bull. The Foxtrot is quite tame, and apart from a few good twirls and a bit of bobbing up and down, I found it quite boring to watch.

Denise and Ian kicked of this week, with a Foxtrot, she was very elegant and graceful and they scored reasonable marks. Sarah and Brendan than danced a Dracula version of the Paso. The judges gave them only average marks (compared to their normal scores). Watching the BBC2 support show It Takes two, it appears that Brendan is not particularly liked by the public who phone in, since he slagged off Sarah last week.

It was then Aled's turn to Foxtrot, with his partner Lilia, and he got his lowest score as he failed to bob up and down. Julian and Erin then came on for his PasoDoble, for which he had admitted to be worried about as the aggression required for the male dancing role, did not come naturally to him. He did seem quite wooden, and not comfy and scored lower than last week.

Roger came up next, he did manage to bob up and down, and his partner, Camilla, looked fabulous. Most of the judges comments were positive, but Craig Revel Horwood, thought they were a bit boring. However, they still got their best score, and ended up in joint third place. Dairmund and Nicole came up next. He had also not had a good week, as he said felt humiliated by the judges' comments and that he didn't deserve to be in. He also injured himself whilst rehearsing the Paso. Their dance, whilst still getting the lowest scores, was considered quite good for them. The show closed with Jill and her partner, Darren, who have always scored highly with the judges and are current favourites, closed the show with their foxtrot which put them into first place and even earned them a couple of '9's'.

During the second show, the bottom two were revealed to be Sarah & Brendan (see my IT2 theory, above) and Dairmund and Nicole. It was only fair that Dairmund went, and he did.

I don't know who I want to go next, as all those left are quite good. Probably Sarah and Brendan as I cannot warm to them. However, a good dance from them next week would mean good judges' scores, thus minimising the impact of poor audience votes.