BBC Strictly - Week 4 - Cherie serious contender

She wasn't favoured before in the competition, but Cherie Lunghi's first two performances in BBC's Strictly Come Dancing Series 6, have been very impressive. Saturday she again performed almost flawlessly to top the Leaderboard after the Judges Votes.

Significantly, she has outscored favoured Rachel Stevens in both performances and seems more than a match for the two favoured men, Austin Healey and Tom Chambers. It seems very likely that the viewers votes are going to end up playing a major part on who the eventual winner will be.

If the competition continues in this vein, the final four left in will be Austin Healey, Tom Chambers, Rachel Stevens and Cherie Lunghi. John Sergeant is the enigma. Clearly no where near as good as these four, his popularity with the voting public is close to awesome. John could possibly spring a similar shock to Julian Clary did a few years back by reaching the final despite not technically being the best dancer.

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BBC Strictly - Week 3: Warrington Man of the Match

Wow! What more can be said?

Strong favourite to go out last week and written off by just about everyone as a 100-1 rank outsider, Don Warrington certainly struck back.

His performance of the Tango with professional dance partner, Lilia Kopylova was a massive improvement over his attempt in week 1. Acting ability certainly shone through as Don delivered an accomplished Tango with both passion and anger. The scores from the impressed Judges totalled 30 points which saw him placed conditionally third.

When the viewers votes were added, Warrington deservedly escaped the bottom two dance-off which later led to the demise of Gary Rhodes. If Don sustains this level of consistent improvement he will stay in the contest a few weeks to come. One suspects that he will be good at the Ballroom dances, but struggle slightly with the quicker dance routines.

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