I called her being in the bottom two last week. She's a perfect recipe for receiving low votes from what you'd imagine is a predominantly older female group who actually bother to watch Strictly live and vote; young, pretty, in ridiculous shape, a bit arrogant.
The way Shirley speaks about her is exactly the way a lot of people watching the show at home probably do.
A little word on the judging, this gets mentioned a lot. I always think the thing to remember is the male celebrities have to lead their partners while the females are led by their professional partners, so obviously it is especially challenging for the males celebs. The judging on strictly like any other show can be pretty subjective depending on what the judge is looking for. Because of that, sometimes it feels the points are a bit forced or indifferent. But I do think all the judges are pretty fair, they take marks away when people make mistakes which is only right. But they also are happy to encourage the competitors.
As for the public, that's another matter. For some people Strictly becomes a personality show rather than a dancing one. I used to go on the Strictly website on Spy Digital but got put off in the end, so many people being really mean-spirited and having strange personal vendettas against competitors, whose only crime was seemingly allowing their emotion to be overcome. In the end, I stopped going on. I think we just have to accept some people are just very nasty in their make-up and leave it at that.
