General Chat

I am still not convinced its not rigged somehow - look at the list from the BBC
and see if anyone has noticed anything - apart from the fact we dont know what the dancers have chosen for their own favorite

Grand Final week has arrived, and in a bid to win the glorious Glitterball Trophy, our couples will be performing three separate routines.

As part of Saturday's show, each celebrity will perform a dance picked by the Judges, a brand new Showdance and a previous routine of their choice.

Ahead of the Grand Final, we can reveal the Judges' Pick and the Showdance. The final routine however, will be revealed on Saturday night's show, starting at 6.30pm.

Take a look at eight of the dances below, let us know know if you agree with the Judges' Pick and which Showdance you are most looking forward to.

The Judges' Pick

Debbie McGee and Giovanni Pernice will perform a Salsa to Can't Take My Eyes Off You by Boys Town Gang

Alexandra Burke and Gorka Marquez American Smooth to Wouldn't It Be Lovely from My Fair Lady

Joe McFadden and Katya Jones will Viennese Waltz to Somewhere My Love from Dr Zhivago

Gemma Atkinson and Aljaz Skorjanec dance the Paso Doble to Viva La Vida by Coldplay

Showdance

Debbie McGee and Giovanni Pernice will Showdance to One Day I'll Fly Away by Vaults

Alexandra Burke and Gorka Marquez will Showdance to There’s No Business Like Showbusiness by Ethel Merman

Joe McFadden and Katya Jones Showdance to You Make My Dreams by Hall & Oates

Gemma Atkinson and Aljaz Skorjanec Showdance to Show Me How You Burlesque by Christina Aguilera

Hmmmm, I would have had Debbie doing the Argentine Tango, and Joe dancing the Cabaret number.

Cant suggest something for the other two, cos I've fogotton!

On Take Two, there was Tom Chambers, Ore and Chris Hollins, all saying who they wanted to win, are we being led there too?

Just out of interest, is there anywhere that shows the voting numbers? Otherwise how do we know?

Am I getting sceptical? Maybe!

I can't remember the markings but I know that the Salsa was not Debbi's highest marked dance was the American smooth Alexandra's.

Maybe the couples were able to make their choices first and would have chosen their favourite dances (i.e. the one they got highest marks for if they had any sense.)

I would have expected the judges to give them all their previously best performed dances to level it out a bit. But if they had already chosen that dance they wouldn't be able to.

I don't actually see how it can be fixed as it is public vote only. Unless there really is a way of fixing that. As that would probably actually be illegal and therefore possibly a criminal act, and as somebody would be bound to leak the fact, i don't think that can be what happens. :-S

I dont watch take two - who did they want to win on Saturday

Either Joe or Debbie. But they said that Alexandra had a lot of negative comments on Social Media.

I am not on any of those platforms, so I don't know.

The dancers......
STRICTLY COME DANCING: BEFORE THEY WERE STARS

Tonight 9 o’clock Ch 5.



http://www.channel5.com/show/strictly-come-dancing-before-they-were-stars/

I did see that Mr. M. I dunno if some of them are STARS though!

The Final tonight! From 6.30 to 9pm. What a long old stint!

Very excited, but dreading the outcome if I am not happy with the result, still, we can but vote with our fingers.

Mr Magoo I have recorded that to watch later.

Looking forward to tonight, should be a good evening's entertainment. :-) :-)

Make up a flask and get a Gazunder, its on for a LONG time.

:-D :-D :-D

Haven't got my seasons score sheets with me at the moment, so can't check how each couple did in the dances that the judges have picked.

I understand though, that the judges chose dances that they think the contestants can improve on, now that they have more experience.

From this I understood that it wouldn't be either their worst or best dance, or one that they had done in the last couple of weeks.

If I have time before the show starts, I will get back to you.

Meanwhile I'm going to have a well earned nap.

I've decided :-0 :-0 :-0

I would like to see Debbie win :-D :-D

Have now had a quick look at previous scores.

Debbie - did Salsa in Week 8 Scored 35.

Alexandra - did American Smooth in week 3 Scored 33

Joe - did Viennese Waltz in week 3 Scored 32

Gemma - did Pass D in week 4 Scored 35.

Without counting Week 5 which was the week with only three judges. -

Debbie has six dances marked lower than 35.

Alexandra had two dances marked lower than 33

Joe had three dances marked lower than 32 and also scored 32 for his Fox Trot

Gemma had ten dances marked lower than 35

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Salsa details. Only seven couples danced the Salsa. This includes all four finalists,
Debbie came second Alexandra came top.

American Smooth details. Eleven couples danced the American Smooth. This includes all four finalists. Alexandra was beaten by all the other finalists.(as well as Davood)

Viennese Waltz details. Eight couples in total danced the Viennese Waltz. This includes all four finalists. Joe came third, being beaten by Debbie and Alexandra.

Pasa D details. Thirteen couples danced the Pasa. This includes all four finalists. Gemma came =3rd with Dzvood. She/they were beaten by Aston and Alexandra. Who scored 38/36. Note Joe danced Pasa in week 5. He scored 26, as he got a 10 from Shirley, he could have got a high score from Bruno too. (Shirley and Bruno seemed to mark close to each other). Just mentioning it so that a true comparison can be made ( or guessed at).

Pleeeeeeeeze let Debbie or Joe win.

I feel we are being led by the judges though!

Finger on the button!

Well mine were but it did look very pointed tonight

Its been an amazing year.

Thank you so much for the thread and for being a wonderful group of people

Loved it this year so much

Added an Edit

Amazing Joe was the winner so very excited last night even OH did did a very loud yes and fist pump.
If not him i would have liked Gemma as she was really good last night and both her and Joe were not dancers when they started.

I loved Debbie but she had done ballet and run a ballet dance school for children.

Was very pleased to see that Alexandra did actually congratulate Joe on his show dance and Charleston very nice to see - perhaps she has learnt to be a little humble after all.

I think Alexandra would make a good Tina Turner in the new story of her life..

Yay!!!!!!

My Joe has won. Would have liked Debbie to win too, but they both could not have won it.

Thank you to all of you who have added to this thread!

<3 <3 <3 <3

Have to agree MotownGal. :-D :-D :-D

Really pleased that Joe won :-D

Wow so very well done Joe, such an unassuming nice person so pleased that If Debbi couldn’t win he did. Thanks for the thread MTG and thanks everyone on the thread Tess most impressed with your records lol!

I'm so pleased, Joe was such a joy to watch :-)

Have really enjoyed the thread, thank you so much. MTG.

I seem to be the odd one out as I wanted Alexandra to win. I thought that she was the best and didn't get any of the bad vibes from her that the rest of you did.

However I liked all the finalists, and think that Joe made tremendous improvements. He chose the right dance Charleston, and was interesting, entertaining and wonderful all evening.

As the judges marks have no bearing on the final result I don't think that they really matter all that much. Perhaps the fact that he was marked behind Alexandra worked in his favour, encoraging people who mightnot ha e voted, to actually do so.

I am very pleased for him, he has said intakes Two that as a youngster, he wanted go get into musicals. Strictly should help him to get his wish.
A worthy winner.

Good luck k to Joe and as the other contestants ; especially the finalists) in the future.

Good luck Joe. I wanted Debbie to win it but Alexandra was pulling out all of the stops tonight and I thought she had won it hands down and I think the judges thought that too.


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