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Strictly Come Dancing 2014 Finalist – Mark Wright

Time for the final of a 4 part series in advance of the live final where I take a look at each of the four finalists and their performance so far in Strictly. In this part, it’s the turn of Mark Wright.

Best Dance

Mark’s best performance was back in week 8 at Blackpool in which he scored 36 points (9,9,9,9) for his Charleston

Worst Dance

Mark’s worst scoring dance was all the way back in week one where he scored 24 points (5,7,6,6) for this Cha Cha Cha

Average Score

For the final time lets ignore stupid elements such as the waltzathon and Donny Osmond. Mark has scored a total of 406 points across 13 dances making for an average of 31.2, the lowest of the four finalists.

Number Of Times In The Dance Off

Mark has survived 3 dance offs, a feat matched by fellow finalist Simon Webbe.

The first was in Week 4 following a Quickstep (7,7,7,8). Mark was unanimously saved over Tim Wonnacott

Mark’s next dance off came in week 10 following his Salsa (7,8,9,8). This time dancing off against Sunetra Saker, Mark was again unanimously saved by the judges.

Mark’s 3rd and final dance off was in last week’s Semi Final after his Viennese Waltz (8,8,9,8) and Rumba (9,8,8,8). Opting to re-perform the Rumba Mark survived the dance off against Jake Wood by the skin of his teeth after Len’s casting vote saved Mark.

Odds of Winning

Mark is a 14-1 outsider with SkyBet at the time of writing this post. Having been in the dance off 3 times it is highly unlikely, but not completely outside of the realms of possibility, that Mark will muster enough public support to win the competition and in all likeliness he will be first to be eliminated at the start of the second live show.

The poll on this site has just 18% thinking he should win and not one voter thinks he actually will.

That concludes this series on the four finalists. I hope you enjoyed it and enjoyed reliving some of their dances. Pop back just before the live final starts for something special for the live final!

20th December 2014

Strictly Come Dancing 2014 Finalist – Frankie Bridge

Time for part three of a 4 part series in advance of the live final where I take a look at each of the four finalists and their performance so far in Strictly. In this part, it’s the turn of Frankie Bridge.

Best Dance

Frankie has scored 38 points on two occasions. The first time was in week 9 with her Viennese Waltz (9,9,10,10). The second time was in last weeks Semi Final with her Argentine Tango (9,9,10,10).

Worst Dance

It feels very strange to have a worst dance section here. Frankie’s lowest score was achieved on 2 occasions when she scored the abysmal score of 30. What was she thinking?

The first was all the way back in week one with her waltz (7,7,8,8) and even though this was one of her worst dances going off the scores she still topped the leaderboard that week. The second was her Charleston the following week in week 2 (7,7,8,8). That week she missed out on the top spot to Pixie Lott!

Average Score

Again ignoring pointless elements such as the waltzathon and Donny Osmond, Frankie has amassed a total of 445 points across 13 dances making for an average score per dance of 34.2. The only celebrity with a higher average score this series was Pixie Lott who was eliminated two weeks ago.

Number Of Times In The Dance Off

Frankie is the only contestant this series to have never faced the dance off, nor has her professional partner Kevin from Grimsby across his two series

Odds of Winning

Frankie is currently 13/8 second favourite with SkyBet to lift the glitterball and on paper is the person most likely to win if clear favourite Caroline Flack doesn’t win. Frankie’s public vote appears to be quite strong as she has never been in the dance off and has been lifted out of the danger zone on a couple of occasions on weeks when she has been weak but the others strong.

The poll on this site has just 12% thinking she should win and 7% thinking she will.

Tune in this afternoon for the final part on Mark Wright and during the live final tonight for something special

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Strictly Come Dancing 2014 Finalist – Simon Webbe

Time for part two of a 4 part series in advance of the live final where I take a look at each of the four finalists and their performance so far in Strictly. In this part, it’s the turn of Simon Webbe.

Best Dance

Simon has hit the dizzy heights of scoring 38 on no less than 3 occasions. The first was his Argentine Tango in week 8 in Blackpool (8,10,10,10). Followed by his Waltz in week 10 (9,10,10,9). Finally his Foxtrot in last weeks Semi Final (9,10,10,9)

Worst Dance

Simon’s worse dance was his Rumba from week 3, a dance the male celebrities often struggle with. Discounting Donny Osmond, Simon scored 23 points for this dance (4,6,6,7)

Average Score

Discounting the waltzathon and once again Donny, Simon has amassed a total of 412 points over 13 dances which makes for an average score of 31.7

Number Of Times In The Dance Off

Simon has survived 3 dances offs. The first was after his Rumba (above) in week 3 against Jennifer Gibney where all 5 judges voted to save Simon. The second was in week 5 after his Viennese Waltz which scored 28 (7,7,7,7). Simon danced off against Thom Evans and made it through after Len’s casting vote saved him over Thom. Simon’s final dance off was in week 11 following his American Smooth which scored 35 (8,9,9,9) and the Waltzathon in which he came 3rd. Simon danced off against Pixie Lott and in one of the more controversial dance off results was again saved by Len’s casting vote which may have been more down to Trent answering back to Len following Pixie and Trent’s dance in the main show as opposed to the actual Dance Off.

Odds of Winning

Simon is currently a 10-1 shot on SkyBet which seems fair since he doesn’t appear to have enough public backing to win the series given his position in the dance off 3 times a feat only matched by other finalists Mark and Karen and Sunetra and Brendan who were eliminated in week 10. A poll carried out on this site at time of writing shows that 33% of voters think he should win but just 23% think he actually will!

Tune in tomorrow for the remaining 2 finalists