Just as I was starting to feel the JJ love...

...James has to go and ruin it all by saying that if he weren't married to Ola, and Vernon weren't married to Tess, he and Tess would be an item....Oh very dear.

Ricky and Natalie are suffering this series through lack of exposure on ITT. Because of his work commitments, and training in Liverpool, they are only ever on briefly on a Friday, and even on a Tuesday as the "saved" couple, he did a phone interview instead of a live interview. Surely, the BBC could have got one of their crews over from Manchester to interview him via live link, especially as he really would seem to be struggling for votes at this crucial stage. I guess as well that due to the pressured nature of their training, at the end of a busy day, they focus on getting the work done, and not on messing around, so that is why this partnership comes across as cold and uber-focused.

I am gutted - Karen on choreography corner is no more this series. She is off down under to judge the world championships (waving perchance a little two fingers at those BBC suits, who didn't/wouldn't/couldn't give her the contract as a judge this series?).

Anyway, she made some fabulous points as ever, especially about how tough it is for the professionals to have outside choreographers in at this stage, because the partnership is already so well established, and the pros know the celebs strengths and weaknesses so well. And yay - she thinks that Team Cola stole the show, and were undermarked! And I liked the way she pointed out the difficulty level in what they were doing, and that they weren't just relying on selling the goofiness of the dance.

Flavia really came out of her shell this ITT. I get the feeling that before now she has just been overshadowed by her celeb partner, or by Vincent, or even last series when she did a lot of stuff on ITT, by Anton. She has finally found her feet when being interviewed, and can let the real Flavia come out. She didn't pull any punches by calling Brian out for his bad floorcraft, but reverted to the tactful "on message" side by saying how she could understand how the judges could have missed it. I guess she wants to be invited back next year.