BBC Strictly Come Dancing - Week 8, Can Heather Escape the Dance Off?

Heather Small must be feeling she's in a bit of a war zone at the moment. She has faced three bottom two dance-offs and survived each time. The Bookmaker considers her a strong favourite again to be in a similar situation, but she is not without a chance of escaping the drama.

This week will see Heather Small perform the Tango and in practice she has looked pretty good. Clearly it is a style of dance she is more comfortable with and she has even confessed to liking the routine. This must be a first!

If Heather converts her good work in training to Saturday night then it could spell trouble for Jodie Kidd and Christine Bleakley. John Sergeant is the unknown quantity here. This deep into the contest, it is going to be interesting to see if he continues to have such massive support with the voting public. I'm suspecting that he will.

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BBC Strictly Come Dancing - Week 7 - John Sergeant, Captain Invincible?

What can one say about Mr John Sergeant in Strictly Come Dancing?

By dance ability alone, he should have been voted out the competition long ago. But, this competition oddly isn't just about dance ability, it's about entertaining the viewing public. And he does this in great big bucketfuls.

Was John Sergeant's Paso Doble with dance partner, Kristina Rihanoff, the fiercest and most energetic Paso Doble of all time?

Well.... quite clearly not. However, it was immensely watchable. John's unique dance style is an entertaining as they come and if the competition were based on viewers votes alone, he surely would be one of the main contenders to win.

This week, his performance scored 21. This was second from bottom, but yet again the voting public saved him. I wouldn't be surprised if John was top of the leaderboard just counting the home vote.

One suspects John will be in the contest for quite a few weeks to come yet and Strictly Come Dancing is richer for it. A wry grin, a witty one liner, Captain Invincible advances safely to Week 7.

Keeping voting for John Sergeant!

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BBC Strictly Come Dancing - Week 6, Scores after the Judges vote

Week 6 tonight of BBC Strictly come dancing saw the celebrities dance either the Paso Doble or the Viennese Waltz.

Here are the scores from Len Goodman and his band of Judges.

Austin Healey & Erin 34
Tom Chambers & Camilla 32
Rachel Stevens & Vincent 32
Cherie Lunghi & James 31
Lisa Snowdon & Brendon 29
Heather Small & Brian 27
Jodie Kidd & Ian 26
Andrew Castle & Ola 24
Christina Bleakley & Matthew 22
John Sergeant & Kristina 21
Mark Foster & Hayley 16

Austin was back on top after a bit of a dip last week confirming his favouritism. Rachel Stevens also bounced back to score 32 which Tom Chambers equalled despite a week which saw him get married, have a honeymoon and only put in 9 and half hours practice!

Last week, Heather Small ended up in the bottom two dance off despite finishing mid-way in the table at this stage. The same thing could happen again as people at home vote in their droves for John Sergeant and Christina Bleakley.

Be sure to watch this Sunday when the 6th Eliminee from Strictly Come Dancing 2008 will be revealed.

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X Factor 2008 - Week 3 - Who is going out tonight?

Tonight is Week 3 of the Live performances of X Factor 2008. This week is Big Band Week! So it could be a challenge for some. It will interesting to see how contest favourite, Diana Vickers' unique style is altered to fit in with this brand of music.

Who will be eliminated? Well, as usual that depends largely on the voting viewing public. Here is how the market assesses each acts chances of being voted out the show.

Daniel Evans 13/8
Ruth Lorenzo 11/4
Scott Bruton 7/2
Rachel Hylton 5/1
J L S 14/1
Eoghan Quigg 25/1
Austin Drage 33/1
Alexandra Burke 33/1
Laura White 50/1
Diana Vickers 50/1

Louis Walsh branded him a Ricky Gervais lookalike, but I'm sure that hasn't anything to do with Daniel Evans now being favourite to go out. Well mostly sure anyway.

Ruth Lorenzo featured in the bottom two last week, but her powerful voice should favour a Big backing band, so she could very well escape the sing off. I'm sensing we could have a shock result this week.

Louis will be praying that his last remaining act, JLS, stay in. If they go out,Mr Walsh would have lost all of his acts in the opening three weeks and will be ribbed by Simon Cowell possibly for eternity.

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X Factor 2008 - Week 2 - Lorenzo, Performance of the Week

As the ITV's exciting 2008 X-Factor competition hit Week 2, it was Michael Jackson song night. The best performance wasn't from a Michael Jackson song though.

Talk about doing it when it really mattered. After the Public vote was announced in no particular order, Spanish diva Ruth Lorenzo found herself in the bottom two sing off with Louis Walsh's Girlband. Here was her response,

Wow!

After that Girlband didn't stand a chance. Incredible from Lorenzo. If anyone can threaten Cheryl Cole's category dominance of the contest then surely it must be Ruth Lorenzo.

Purple Rain, the performance of the Night in Week 2. It was unfair that Ruth was in the sing off, but if she hadn't have been, we never would have seen that fantastic performance. The standard on X-Factor in 2008 is extremely high.

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BBC Strictly - Week 3: Changing Odds

Some minor moves this week in the Strictly Come Dancing betting market.

Joint Favourites to win now are Austin Healey and Tom Chambers at 3-1. Some money has been going on Chambers to win to edge him into joint favoritism. Rachel Stevens holds steady at 7-2.

Not much movement has happened during the week. Celebrity Chef, Gary Rhodes, goes out to a more realistic 66-1 as does John Sergeant. It is predicted that either one of those two will end up in the bottom two dance-off along with Don Warrington.

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