The third live show and now out are Charlie and Alice, who performed a hip hop routine, the choreography was good but neither dancer performed it as best as they could have. At some points Alice was dancing ahead and Charlie was dancing behind the music. Alice really attacked the routine but it came across as her trying too hard to impress the judges.

Despite another great performance from Rithy and Shane, yet again, they ended up in the bottom two couples. They did a commercial routine, Rithy kept it sexy and Nigel praised Shane saying it was his best dance so far. The floor work looked a bit messy and little mistakes were made but they made it look good and they nailed the overhead lift.

Another hip hop routine was performed by Kirsty and Lee B, this time being lyrical hip hop, to Bruno Mars’ “Just the Way You Are.” A very powerful song with great lyrics that could be played on, yet this wasn’t done; obviously not down to the couple but the choreographer. It could have been a nice love story just like the actual video for the song. However, what they were given to do, they did do well, apart from messing up the floor choreography, they attacked the dance, were in sync, and were very entertaining.

To open the show, Danielle and Luke performed a very powerful Paso Doble, with judges finally seeing a connection between the pair. It was definitely a better dance for the pair but the music choice was all wrong, it didn’t do the dance justice at all.

Katrina and Tom also picked out ballroom this week, specifically, a quickstep but it was hardly that. There were minimal moves that are typical of the quickstep, it was more ballet combined with tap. Given that this is a hard dance to learn, it’s fair to say that they did try their best. However, considering Tom is a tapper, he should have been a lot lighter and quicker on his feet, judges said he needs to do better, he knows he’s weaker than Katrina, but it seems like he’s not even trying to change that.

We got to see a more emotional side of Bethany-Rose and Israel with a contemporary routine. Now this really did show a different side to both of them and it was full of emotion and great lifts, but they are nowhere near the standard that we are at in this competition. Bethany-Rose is a much stronger dancer than Israel and she always seems to do better than him; she almost outshines him with her technique, the couple had a bad performance last week, although this time it was much better, Israel really needs to step up. Again, he should have been fighting for his life this week.

A jazz routine was done by Katie and Lee C, despite Lee receiving criticism, he kept up well with the dance and Katie who is clearly blessed with technique in every dance she’s done so far. Lee was obviously out of his comfort zone, but he pulls it out each week, he’s definitely getting better.

The phrase, ‘save the best ‘til last’ certainly was true this week, with Charlotte and Matt’s Broadway routine. It was a perfect performance which received a standing ovation from the judges. Nothing went wrong, every step was in sync; it was so fun to watch and was the best routine by far, such an amazing partnership.

Overall a mixed show, some good, some bad, now were down to seven couples, but next week four dancers will be kicked out of the competition so they better pull everything out.

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