Strictly

That is a travesty. If you are unfit, younretire. End of.

I wonder if she will appear next Saturday? I thought that she looked disappointed when she and Brendon were not eliminated.

I hate myself for saying this but...... Ed Balls....

If her physicality stops her dancing one week why wouldn't it the next? I don't mean to sound heartless but it doesn't bode well for any future dance off she is in. Sorry, crabby today.

I can't see Anastasia being able to carry on with all that stretching etc. Stupid to risk her health.

Wilmaknickersfit ..... Lesley Joseph hasn't spent "years playing Jewish women" since she actually IS a Jewish woman.

Anastacia seems like a pouty diva to me. If she is not physically fit they should not have allowed her to be in the show in the first place, sympathetic though I am to her post-op problems. Why didn't she hold her Strictly place over for a year to make sure she was completely healed after her op? I feel sorry for whatsisname who was knocked out this evening, it should have been Anastacia who got the chop, even if she is donating her fee to cancer research.

As for Ed Balls, I'm so glad he's still in. He's a real trier, isn't he? Perhaps he'll be like John Sargent, keep getting voted in by a sympathetic public until he feels he must voluntarily drop out. He'll become so popular that Jeremy Corbyn will plead to get him back in the Shadow Cabinet.

I enjoying watching the ones who cannot dance ,and if not voted out to soon , watching them improve a little each week. This year the majority seem expert dancers

Just back from getting all ready for the dinner party - yes it's Claudia Winkleman I don't really want, not tiny little Frangipane (who was great at the Olympics).

I have to confess I don't know who Danny Mac actually is, but have read on here that he has dancing experience. Hmm.

Gulliegrannie I ve never heard of half of them I didn't know Daisy who you all think is pretty and I don't, I didn't know the Danny or kelvin man or the other black guy or the gymnast or anastasia

I knew of four , Ed Balls, Lesley Joseph, Will Young and the BBC presenter , sorry forgotten her name

I have a soft spot for Will Young ever since the lovely part he played in Mrs. Henderson Presents.

Teddy123 I know that. However, she's an actor who has played the stereotypical Jewish woman. This isn't Pedant's Corner.

I gather from the papers that Anastacia had a 'meltdown' and filming had to be halted for 30 minutes. Brendan not happy and had to be comforted by Anton. Poor Brendan. What a shame for him.

Poor Brendan, voted off in first vote

No he wasn't it was the other couple surely? Or have things moved on since last night's programme?

Brendan is still in Anniebach - it was the other couple - Melvin and Janette who left. Because Anastacia couldn't compete in the dance off it was decided by the couple who had the least public votes. So unfair!

Manrara and Melvin Odoom "went home".
Grossly unfair IMHO

She wouldn't rather than couldn't!

Because they couldn't have the dance-off, the one with the fewest viewer votes had to leave according to the rules, which seems unfair.
I do think Anastacia, plucky though she may be, should have retired gracefully because the other contestant could have won the dance-off and stayed in. Nowhe'll never know how far he coud have got, shame, he seemed a lovely man with all his family cheering him on.
Ana that is normal reconstruction procedure, using back muscle, tearing it sounds drastic and can't see her staying in.

I don't think Anasacia will be in for much longer, She's going to have to be very careful and restrained in her dancing from now on.

Shall we start a campain to save The Strictly One? (Melvin)

Campaign!

Oops sorry didn't mean Brendan

Would. I be harsh in thinking she might have lost some of the "sympathy votes" she might have had previously on account of supporting Cancer Research. Or being cynical?