Personally thought Ashley was the best, the final is about popularity rather than pure ability.
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[Misc] Strictly Final
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Thunder Bolt
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The public won't vote for a professional dancer & choreographer. She also had a bit of an attitude of thinking she was the best. Her face was a picture the first time she went into a dance off.
Very happy with that result.
Well deserved.
Well deserved.
Pavilionaire
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- Jul 7, 2003
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I predicted 120 to Ashley but a Stacey win, enjoyable final.
It is ironic that Ashley was in the dance off many times and didn't get the public support and yet when the tour hits the road she's the dancer people will want to see.
It is ironic that Ashley was in the dance off many times and didn't get the public support and yet when the tour hits the road she's the dancer people will want to see.
Agree re the public.
Completely disagree with the attitude comment, personally think she was realistic enough to know as a ‘foreigner’ she was an underdog. (Sorry).
She comes across IMO, as a decent human being.
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This. Couldn’t agree more.
The fact she was in the bottom two, just showed she was bottom of the popularity charts.
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BensGrandad
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The papers were saying last week that Joe was the viewers favourite for the final but the BBC wanted Stacey to win as they see her as their next big star. Fix or no fix I wanted her to win.but I am sure tomorrows or Mondays papers will say it was a fix.
I saw the final with my mum, having not seen any of the others. I thought Ashley was the most athletic, but would describe her routines as more akin to a partnered gymnastic display - very flashy, but not really dancing. The best dancer? For me, Faye, by a mile.
It’s hard to see how anyone could place Stacey above at least one of Ashley or Faye. How often do the public vote for someone who didn’t place in the top 50% according to the pro judges? Makes a bit of a mockery, no?
It’s hard to see how anyone could place Stacey above at least one of Ashley or Faye. How often do the public vote for someone who didn’t place in the top 50% according to the pro judges? Makes a bit of a mockery, no?
Delighted for Stacey, she’s great. Beautiful too, not obviously but something about her.
Love the way she calls him ‘Kev’ too.
Love the way she calls him ‘Kev’ too.
The Spanish
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Seen her plenty of times on the train to London (from Brighton not Luton).
She’s tiny.
Using the Brighton and Hove buses or Marina walk of fame criteria for who is a Brightonian, she more than qualifies.
macbeth
Dismembered
Not from Brighton.
Born in Liverpool, Grew up in Luton
However I think she lives in Brighton judgng from this pic: https://www.instagram.com/p/BrKwNONhPWA/
(That's Walpole Road, for those who aren't familiar)
clapham_gull
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- Aug 20, 2003
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She has already made tons of docs for the BBC, she is already their their BBC Three "star" and is the Luton Louis Theroux for the hard to get younger audience.
I'm not sure how winning a dancing competition increases her core audience, unless they have lined her up to present the lottery.
clapham_gull
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I've never watched it, but you'd be surprised who watches it.
mickybha
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arewethereyet?
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Lives in Brighton.
Not from Brighton.
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
Just like women shouldn't be allowed to watch football or post on a football forum!
Btw, lots of men watch Strictly, just as men also dance.
She was in the same school class as a certain Stephen Yaxley- Lennon, although I think he was only a Yaxley then.
Exactly. Great entertainment.
The physique and athleticism of the dancers are better than some of our recent players.....
Ahem...... Kemy
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Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
Slightly at a tangent, I remember Robin Cousens talking about his ice skating, and his cousin, who was a professional rugby player. The ice dancer's training routine was far more brutal.