"When we deserve a 30, we will get a 30"

So that told Ricky, all of us, and certain other contestants out there who may or may not have been "hinting" at getting higher scores....Well said Erin (as usual).

I love Karen in Choreography Corner so much, and it was interesting this week that she chose to comment on three couples who have been perceived as overmarked and the public's champion, widely perceived as undermarked. (Also probably best not to mention Phil and Katya and Ricky and Erin, and least said the better about the funereal rumba).

She managed to put her finger on exactly what I had sort of felt about Ricky and Natalie's jive. I felt somehow that I should have loved their jive, but something passed me by, and looked a little "off". Karen phrased it so well that in terms of choreography it was a mistake to have a novice stopping, doing character work, and then starting again, because not only did it look disjointed, but it gave the celeb too much to do, ie:remembering to dance, do the acting bit, then get smoothly back into the rhythm of the dance, without making it look as if the celeb has gone off time, or is struggling to catch up. Loved her point about Ricky looking like the follower, not the leader. That was what was wrong with Ricky and Natalie's dance! In fact, if I had seen that dance in a musical, with perhaps clear reasons to stop dancing and speak a line of dialogue, or sing a phrase, I would have loved it, but as a dance in SCD....left me luke warm.

It was also really interesting to hear about Vincent's choreography for the foxtrot, in the way that he took standard moves and added a new dimension to them by adding curves to them instead of dancing them in straight lines. I realise that Len would have picked up on the complexity of the routine, but the other three judges would not have done (I believe that Craig even called the dance "simple".

Mind you, Vincent has been doing a very good PR job recently by telling the public about the difficulty of the routines that Natalie has been attempting (including announcing a couple of days before Blackpool that even the other pros were gobsmacked by the difficulty of the quickstep). Good strategy, because everyone, judges and public alike, are pretty clear that Ali and Ricky are the ones that are tackling the more complex choreos, so Vincent is sending out the message that actually, Natalie is getting up there with the leaders in terms of level of difficulty attained. And funnily enough, the judges and public seem to be taking notice of Vincent's brand positioning, and scoring/voting accordingly.

Well it is the season for the filler on ITT, so it wasn't really surprising to find a panel of so-called Superfans. Me, I jogged off to the kitchen to see to my pizza at the sight of Cinderella and her two sisters.