Strictly Come Dancing: week two – as it happened

  • 9/30/2023
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Thank you and goodnight - for now That concludes Saturday’s liveblog larks. But we’ll be back right here for the results show, which airs 7.15pm Sunday on BBC1. I’ll fire up the blog at 6.45pm for build-up, so I hope you’ll rejoin me then. In the meantime, I’m @michaelhogan on Twitter, so do swing by and say hi. Thanks for watching along with me, keeping me company with all your wit and wisdom. Until tomorrow, Team Sparkle. In the meantime, you know the drill: keeeeeep dancing! Slim pickings in the schedules TV viewers can flip to Sky Arts for Beatles Night or Channel 5 for some guilty pleasure royal and showbiz documentaries. If you’re in the market for a film, I can recommend at 9pm, chef drama Boiling Point on Film4. Or, you know, just lie down in a darkened room humming AC/DC and Shampoo songs. Finally, a respectful nod to those we have lost from MikeMoonlight: “As a special tribute to his recently departed lookylikey, David McCallum, Nikita will be performing a special one-man show dance tomorrow night where he will wander nonchalantly around the dancefloor, shaking glitter from cleverly-concealed pouches in his trousers.” When oit comes to the Angelas, Ms Scanlon’s jive went down a storm. tomatopincushion says: “Yesss Angela S! And what a tune. Take me back to the 90s!” Fascinating Flamenco adds: “Has Angela done Irish dancing as a child I wonder? Something about the way she moves reminds me so much of the kids doing the dancing with the straight down arms and very fast feet. Fab-u-lous!” Victoria Wood fan BoadiceaOverall says of Ms Rippon’s look: “Sorry Angela R - but all I can see with that wig is Dame Edna.” This calls for a glass of tonic wine and as sponge finger. Krishnan Guru-Murthy continues to be a firm commenter favourite. emilyscatnaps says: “Aww, I love you Krishnan and you definitely make me smile. Also, I love Lauren hoisting your elbow up whenever you’re in hold.” YodaknowsAll adds: “I love seeing someone falling in love with dance, and this year that is Krishnan. Not the best, but the smile is infectious.” On the elimination, avenueman says: “If Les gets through, it’s only because the chickens from Big Brother are voting for him.” On the musical choices, secretpuddlejumper says: “Nirvana last week. AC/DC his week. I hear Dave Arch has requested some Slipknot next week.” One can only hope, SPJ. My clown and pig masks are ready. Brummiegirl77 says of that strangely random soft play ball pool for Annabel Croft’s quickstep: “I’m not sure the terrible props are doing Annabel any favours. The tennis-related stuff was horribly inevitable for week one but I’d like her to be allowed to just dance without a gimmick.” Your verdicts are in A rapid-fire vox pop of readers’ comments. Avenueman says: “I’ll say it again but thank goodness for Craig who criticises AND praises where due on dance technicality, as opposed to the other judges who seem to dwell on how the dance made them feel. I don’t need a judge to tell me how to feel about a dance but I appreciate an expert telling me if it was what it was supposed to be. Rant over!” Nervous wait now Layton Williams finishes at the summit of the leaderboard on the night with his whopping 36 points. Combined with last week’s scores, he’s still top, followed by Amanda Abbington, then Ellie Leach in third. Down the bottom, it’s dear old Les Dennis, fully five points below Nikita Kanda. Jody Cundy is a single point above her. The first eliminated celebrity will surely come from those three, barring a seismic shocker. And I don’t rate Nikita’s chances. It’s only the Golden Glitterballs! They’re the most coveted awards in, er, this liveblog. Here’s this week’s gong-getters… Best dance: Layton’s quickstep, obviously. Four points better than the rest but Amanda and the Angelas were also a-may-zing. Worst dance: Les Dennis’ sailor samba sank and definitely didn’t swim. Jody Cundy’s paso was pretty poor too. Best music choice: There were some classy jazzy standards and proper Latino bangers but I had a soft spot for Trouble by Shampoo, soundtracking Angela Scanlon’s school playground jive. Worst music choice: Somebody Told Me for Adam Thomas’s tango. A Dave Arch cover of a Måneskin cover of The Killers. A cover cubed. Best outfit: Honourable mentions for Ellie’s candy striped dress, plus pros Katya, Nancy and Lauren. But judge Motsi Mabuse’s sculptural monochrome creation clinches it for me. Worst outfit: Zara McDermott in brown. Brown on Strictly never works. Best judges’ comment: I enjoyed Shirley’s audibly creaking knees when she stood up for a demo time. But Anton’s putdown of Craig just takes the prize: “I saw Craig attempt a double knee-spring once. It took him 20 minutes and he needed a double hip replacement afterwards.” Even Craig himself found it hilarious. The judges were a little snippy with each other tonight, no? Worst VT: Nigel Harman’s cheapo awards show was up there. So was Layton and Nikita’s repetitive bickering about the word “basic”. But Nikita Kanda’s girls’ night out and playing of the mum card was a bit of a blatant attempt to stay in, so takes the prize. Best Claudia quip: Not so much of a quip as an enquiry, asking handsome Vito what the arms of an octopus are called. “Tentaculous,” apparently.

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