It's no good, Strictly Come Dancing is just too damn long and eats up too much of a Saturday night. I can't watch it live now, so I'll just have to get my fix with the highlight videos. Does anyone else feel the same? It doesn't help that I recently stumbled upon Dancing With The Stars (the US version of the show), and that show motored along in comparison. A national treasure he may be, but Bruce Forsyth is partly responsible for the longueurs between dances. Anyway, let's take a look at those lovely light-footed ladies:
NATALIE CASSIDY & VINCENT SIMONE
Waltz: No, not for me. A pretty dull dress with a net curtain skirt.ZOE LUCKER & JAMES JORDAN
Jive: Zoe's always great fun to watch, with a huge smile and lots of confidence. This jive number meant she had a cute '60s look with long legs, and got to wear a tiny cyan dress with lots of sparkle.CRAIG KELLY & FLAVIA CACACE
Jive: After weeks of disappointment, this was a decent comeback for Flavia because of some sea-green hotpants I think may have been spray-painted on. Energetic, leggy, and her best look in weeks.RICKY GROVES & ERIN BOAG
Jive: A bit embarrassing, if you ask me – but Erin looked pretty good, in a sexy mum sort of way. The orange dress was a bit garish, like someone had forced her to wear some orange peel. Still, some leggy kicks and a beautiful flat stomach.LAILA ROUASS & ANTON DU BEKE
Jive: The black trousers may have hidden her legs, but it was such a different look that it didn't matter. Open-backed, lots of cleavage, Laila looked pretty sweet doing this funky jive.PHIL TUFNELL & KATYA VIRSHILAS
Waltz: Dull dance, but Katya's dress was understated and beautiful. Long, elegant and white-silver in colour – very fairy tale.JO WOOD & BRENDAN COLE
Waltz: She was like a dancing bush kangaroo. Not in looks, in movement, dummies.RICKY WHITTLE & NATALIE LOWE
Waltz: Now that's a ballgown! Candyfloss pink, open-backed, tight-fitting, and Natalie looked a dream.JADE JOHNSON & IAN WAITE
Waltz: I'm not sure, really. The dress wasn't brilliant, but Jade has a certain poise and stern beauty to her.ALI BASTIAN & BRIAN FORTUNA
Jive: Another of her many fantastic dresses; tiny, sparkly, showing plenty of leg and shapely rear. Very sexy, but she does go to pieces at certain points as the judges pointed out, and Brian tries to cover by overshadowing her at times.JOE CALZAGHE & KRISTINA RIHANOFF
Jive: Kristina sort of overdoes things with her appearance (she looks much better au naturele), but you can't really hate a tiny rose red dress that shows as much cleavage and leg as this.CHRIS HOLLINS & OLA JORDAN
Jive: Enjoy her while you can, because Chris will be out soon. Ola refuses to wear anything but the sexiest outfits, it seems, so here she was in golden underwear with pink frills. High energy, incredibly cute, always great fun to watch.THE RESULT
It came down to Kristina & Joe vs. Zoe & James in the dance-off, and unfortunately it was Kristina who was given the fifth week exit. Oh well, it would have been a shame either way, but I'd have preferred to Kristina to stick around for a few more weeks.
