Tag: Strictly Come Dancing

13th December 2017

Strictly Come Dancing 2017 Finalists – Alexandra and Gorka

It’s time for part two in my four part series where I take a look at each of the 4 finalists and their Strictly journey so far. Taking them in the order they qualified for the final next up is Alexandra and Gorka

Best Dance

Alexandra and Gorka’s best dance of the series came in last week’s semi final where their Salsa scored a maximum 40 (10,10,10,10). It’s worth mentioning too that they have come 1 point off scoring a maximum on 5 occasions this series

Worst Dance

Alexandra and Gorka’s worst routine, and for the record the only time they scored below 30 (adjusting week 5 for the lack of Bruno) was all the way back at the start of the series in week 1.

Their waltz scored just 24 with the judges (5,6,6,7)

Average Score

Alexandra and Gorka have scored a total of 456 points across 13 routines. Weighting week 5 to compensate for the lack of Bruno this makes for an average of 35.7. The highest average of the four finalists

Number of times in the Dance Off

In spite of their impressive average Alexandra and Gorka have been in two dance offs this series.

Their first was in week 10 after their Rumba. They survived this dance off with Susan and Kevin

Their second dance off was the following week in week 11 after their Charleston when they went from top of the judges leaderboard to the dance off. This time they survived against Davood and Nadiya

Odds of winning

At the moment Coral’s online systems are down but Paddy Power have Alexandra and Gorka down as a 7-1 shot to lift the glitterball on Saturday

Can they do it? On paper they are the strongest contestants in this final with an impressive average score with the judges. But on Saturday it is entirely down to the public. Alexandra and Gorka have been in the Dance Off more than any of the other finalists and actually they’ve been in it as often as the other 3 finalists put together.

Their public support also saw them plummet from joint top of the judges leaderboard in week 11 to the Dance Off. It would take a very strong final and picking up a lot of floating voters for them to be named champions on Saturday but you never know it could still happen and I wouldn’t entirely write them off yet even though it would seem like they don’t have enough public backing to win.

What do you think of Alexandra and Gorka? Are you supporting them? Let me know in the comments or over on Facebook or Twitter for your chance to win prizes in the final week of the Strictly Spoiler competition.

Don’t forget you can still vote in this week’s poll and tell me who your champions are

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Strictly Come Dancing 2017 Finalists – Joe and Katya

It’s time for the first part in my four part series where I take a look at each of the 4 finalists and their Strictly journey so far. Taking them in the order they qualified for the final we start with Joe and Katya

Best Dance

Joe and Katya’s best dance of the series came in week 10 where their quickstep scored 38 (9,9,10,10)

Worst Dance

You have to travel all the way back to the distant past of week 2 for their worst routine. Their tango to Castle On The Hill scored just 22 points (5,6,5,6)

Average Score

Joe and Katya have amassed a total of 413 points across 13 routines this series. Weighting their score to account for Bruno’s absence in week 5 this makes for an average of 32.5

Number of times in the Dance Off

Joe and Katya are the only couple this series to have never faced a dance off this series

Odds of winning

At the moment Coral have Joe and Katya down as 8/11 odds on favourites to lift the glitterball on Saturday.

Can they do it? Over 50% of you guys want them to but my polls haven’t always predicted the correct results before otherwise Danny and Oti would have won in 2016. One thing is for certain this final is currently Joe and Katya’s to lose especially as they clearly have the public backing to keep them out of the dance off throughout the entire series.

What do you think of Joe and Katya? Are you supporting them? Let me know in the comments or over on Facebook or Twitter for your chance to win prizes in the final week of the Strictly Spoiler competition.

Don’t forget you can still vote in this week’s poll and tell me who your champions are

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Strictly Come Dancing 2017 – Week 12 Spoilers

The final is so close but for one couple it might as well be a million miles away. But who sailed into next week’s final and who fell at the final hurdle. You don’t need to wait a day when there is the Strictly Spoiler on hand to tell you the results. So here are the results:

Gemma and Mollie had to dance off. The judges saved Gemma. Mollie was eliminated!

The finalists are (in no particular order):

Joe and Katya
Debbie and Giovanni
Alexandra and Gorka
Gemma and Aljaz

Complaints to the BBC

This week’s spoiler has come from an audience mole through my usual sources and has been confirmed by a second source and should be accurate.

Don’t forget I’ve still got a two for one on on spoilers and you can check out the spoiler that all the newspapers were talking about….. the Christmas Special Spoiler.

I’ve been busy migrating this site to another new web host to try and keep it up this weekend so no winners to tell you about. I will catch up with the prize draws by the end of the series.

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Finally don’t forget you can vote in this week’s poll and tell me who you want to see lift the glitterball next week. Only one option can be selected this week!

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