Once again John Sergeant was saved by the public vote and continues to assault our eyes on BBC1’s Strictly Come Dancing. Even the other contestants apparently shunned him when they were saying their goodbyes to Cherie Lunghi according to Patrick Foster, Media Correspondent for The Times Online.
I have been reading hundreds of viewers comments posted all over the internet today and one of the arguments that keeps being posted by those who would have John stay is “it’s an entertainment show” well yeah!! we know and guess what the category of entertainment this show falls under is? Yep, it’s DANCE!, the clue people is in the title “Strictly Come Dancing”. I have always been thoroughly entertained by the act of dancing myself and by watching others dance.
So come on you people, it has gone on long enough, quit voting for John Sergeant. There are people who have now left Strictly who although they probably would not have made it to the final and would have eventually gone, found to their surprise that they loved dancing – those of you who dance know what I mean, once you start you do get the “bug”. Andrew Castle being one for instance, he said the week after leaving how he was surprised at how much he missed it – he for instance may have stayed on one more week and learnt one more dance and improved on his dance skills as well – John is showing no signs of improvement and yes I know what the judges said of his performane at the weekend but don’t be fooled by that they were simply trying a different way to prevent good dancers being in the bottom two!
For me this is a disgrace, dance is such a wonderful and fun form of exercise for any age, seeing people of Cherie’s age up there has given many older people the confidence to go out and find a dance class, it is such a shame to see her voted out before her time.
Whilst I am on the subject of Cherie, I also read how many people believe the wrong person went in that it should have been Lisa – well I have to disagree on that, Lisa is competent in both Ballroom and Latin (which you need if you are to have a chance of the final) whereas Cherie is great in Ballroom but not as good in Latin and there is that little thing of Cherie having dance experience – however, it really should not have been either of them going, for sure, one of them should have been in the dance off but against John Sergeant! grrrr can you tell, I am still so annoyed about all this.
I would love to hear what your views are on this so please come and tell me using the comment section and lets get a discussion going and it’s ok to disagree with me, your comment will still be posted (provided of course you keep it clean).
Oh and before I get asked, “well did you vote” you bet I did! I voted several times for 3 of the dance couples, Lisa, Rachel and Christine but it didn’t stop Lisa being in the bottom two did it..
