Wow wow WOW!!! I’m still on such a HIGH from Thursday! What a night. I loved everything about it … the dances, our songs, my dresses and the choreography. And then the cherry on top… not one, but THREE 10’s from the judges!!!
I don’t think I’ve ever jumped on so many people before! Dave was shaking as he stood up in his box after our Rumba, telling us that our dancing gave him goosebumps. He looked like he needed a hug and I found myself overwhelmed with emotion so I ran up and squeezed the daylights out of him! To be followed by Sandy, Grant, our designer Kurt, the camera teams and anyone and everyone I bumped into along the way …
Dancing is not just a physical experience, it’s an emotional one too and I can’t tell you how ecstatic I am when I’m out there on that dance floor. I knew I’d love this experience, because when I go out clubbing with my mates, I can dance ‘til 6 in the morning - when the cleaners come and kick us out!
Obviously all those nights of dancing on Manhatten’s small stage have come to good use… at least I have some kind of natural rhythm that’s helped me tremendously on this show (although Grant cringes and pretends not to know me when he sees how I dance at clubs…).
I think one of the reasons our Rumba worked so well was because it epitomized my love-life. The song, “Ain’t No Sunshine When She’s Gone,” is about a man who is miserable because the love of his life is away and he doesn’t know when she will return. I’m quite a free spirit but also very passionate, so I think that helped me convey the emotion in the dance.
I could hardly contain my excitement after the Rumba, so it took all my control to stay calm for our next dance, the Waltz. Another superb song, “You Make Me Feel Like a Natural Woman,” which I could also relate to in the context of this show, because Grant has honestly brought out some kind of grace and elegance in me that I never knew I had. Coupled with the magnificent dresses I get to wear, it’s the perfect formula for feeling like a true woman. No more tomboy.
The end of the evening was weird. For some reason I felt really strange during the dance-off, like I knew something was wrong. And now I know why… WE were apparently meant to be there! It’s funny, cause Grant and I had warmed up just before the elimination, preparing ourselves for the dance-off. In fact, I said to him that I’d actually love to dance our Rumba again.
So our BFG (Big Friendly Giant, or Big Friendly Garth) was sent packing, finishing off the night with a heartfelt and eloquent goodbye, like a true gentleman. The poor guy had to go through all those “end-of-a-journey” emotions, only to be invited back into the competition the next day, due to the computer “glitch” that swayed the results.
It’s great to have him back and I do believe the producers have done well in admitting to something that they could easily have hidden. On OUR side though, the fairest way to finish last week’s events properly, would be to start the next show with a dance-off between the contestants that were MEANT to be there, dancing those same dances, ie. Anele and Brandon, and myself and Grant.
I just read in the Sunday Times that a celebrity contestant on UK’s Strictly Come Dancing voluntarily QUIT the show, because he was a useless dancer but the public kept voting him in week after week and “he feared there was a real risk he could actually WIN it. After a month-long battle with the judges that prompted a national debate on the limits of televisual democracy, BBC Journalist John Sergeant decided that enough was enough and that a victory would be ‘a joke too far… a terrifying thought for me and millions of people across the country.’”
This just goes to show that Strictly Come DANCING is being made a mockery of. How can a truly talented dancer ever win this show, if it’s based on popularity?
We all saw what happened to Tamara Dey in Season 2, who was so clearly the best dancer on the show, making history by being awarded four 10’s - a perfect 40 - for her Cha-Cha with Brandon Eilers. Sadly, she didn’t get enough public votes and was knocked out, making “Mr-Two-Left-Feet,” Die NUTSMAN, the ultimate winner! Go check out the write-up on this website, click on Strictly Come Dancing, Season 2, episode 7,
“The Biggest TV Suck-Fest Ever". It’s so well-written.
It’s very disheartening to know that the public and the media are basically ignoring Grant and I, when we’ve been working SO long and hard, against all odds, for the last 4 months. We’ve been given NO media exposure, while the rest of the guys have been given such an advantage by being punted daily in all the newspapers, magazines and on radio shows.
The math isn’t very difficult, if you calculate that our 5 points attained from having the highest judges score, has to be added to 1 point for having the least viewer votes, to give us a total of 6, in order to be below Garth, who was awarded 2 points from the judges, and obviously had the highest viewer votes to give him 5 points to reach a total of 7, to beat us.
It is very obvious that we are in DIRE NEED of public VOTES!!!
Please guys, SMS 3 to 34766 to keep this a DANCING competition!
The sportswoman in me is now taking over and FIGHTING every step of the way towards that trophy. I am literally working my BUTT off, ‘til I fall on the floor, to try and get some recognition in this show.
I’m so passionate about this dancing; it really means everything to me to win that trophy! If we do somehow manage to win it, then it will have been my biggest achievement ever, because it will have been against all the odds.
Thanks a million to those of you who are supporting us with your votes!