You think I fancy Kara Tointon and there is a tiny chance that the next thing I\u2019m going to say is going to convince you.<\/p>\n
She has tremendous legs.<\/p>\n
Now, hang on just one sentence: she has fantastic arms, too.<\/p>\n
I was thinking when we watched Pamela and James tonight that – well, first I was thinking that her dress was dreadful but then I was enjoying the dance. And then I went back to the dress. That frock\u2019s job was to show off her legs and if I meant all this the way you\u2019re thinking that I do, then yes, Pamela Stephenson has good legs.<\/p>\n
But there is something wrong. There\u2019s a kind of lag to her leg movements. It\u2019s not that she has heavy or big legs but they look heavy, they don\u2019t have this much-talked-of musicality in them.<\/p>\n
Whereas Kara\u2019s limbs are all preternaturally light and moving: she doesn\u2019t seem, for instance, to be lifting her legs in a kick or flick, it feels that it\u2019s the music lifting her.<\/p>\n
This is why she\u2019s described as a natural and I completely agree that she is, except that I completely disagree that she should be called it.<\/p>\n
Maybe Kara is a natural but somehow saying that diminishes her work. I got ratty tonight at Len for nicely telling Gavin he was unlucky that his dance hadn\u2019t suited him because he claimed that Kara\u2019s had been right for her. I do believe that certain dances work for certain people but the implication was that Kara hadn\u2019t had to work. <\/p>\n
She did. You do not get to be that good, you cannot ever be good without work. <\/p>\n
It\u2019s great that Kara Tointon makes dancing look easy, but we\u2019re not supposed to be stupid enough to ever think that it is.<\/p>\n
Mind you, did you hear Gavin on one of the video packages? \u201cCounting? You mean that 1, 2, 3 thing?\u201d Did you understand Len\u2019s thing about the two best Viennese waltzes being Kara\u2019s one?<\/p>\n
Then did you hear Bruce Forysth\u2019s jokes? No, I wasn\u2019t listening either, I was looking away.<\/p>\n
Much like the judges must be during poor Matt\u2019s dance. I don\u2019t really doubt them, they are three professional judges and Alesha Dixon, but they did feel harsh tonight. So much so that Matt Baker was visibly crushed and so much so that I felt crushed alongside him.<\/p>\n
Crushed. It\u2019s a funny word: so similar to \u201crushed\u201d, which Matt and Aliona then were.<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t know if tonight\u2019s show was really done live: it felt so but if it was then Matt and Aliona had very little time to get changed for the swingathon. They could\u2019ve done it, we\u2019ve seen fast changes before, but while I don\u2019t question that they could manage to get into the next costume that quickly, I do question the fairness.<\/p>\n
Not just because the swingathon was all about stamina and every other couple had time to recover from their dances. But because if it were live, then Matt was on stage again just moments after the worst bruising he has ever had from the judges.<\/p>\n
I found I wanted him to win the swingathon. If the phone lines had been open tonight, I might\u2019ve voted for him.<\/p>\n
I mean yes, Kara\u2019s dance was everything I watch this show for, but I would say that, apparently I fancy her rotten, don\u2019t I?<\/p>\n
Harrumph.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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