Jessie Wallace dances out of Strictly
Monday, 13th October 2008
It was ladies' night yesterday as actress Jessie Wallace was voted off BBC One's Strictly Come Dancing – the second female celebrity to leave the competition.
After performing a quickstep, the combination of the viewer votes and judges' scores left Jessie and her partner Darren Bennett in the bottom two with Heather Small and Brian Fortuna.
Both couples had to perform a second time for the judges' deciding vote.
Of Jessie and Darren's dance the judges said:
Arlene Phillips: "This dance needs a sporty delivery and sometimes you got that and you looked like you were on the dance floor and other times you looked like you were on the football field. When you were doing those two kicks – it was like 'help, help' – that was not good. You have got to make sure that you are ruling your shoes and not your shoes ruling your feet." Score: 5.
Len Goodman: "I'm going to give you a bit of advice now and this is it: If your bosom is pushed against the man's body then your posture is wrong and that's what was happening. Your bosom was pushing on him and that made your bottom stick out – you've got to tuck that under and get your bosom away from Darren." Score: 5.
Bruno Tonioli: "To carry on from what they said, if you get that wrong then everything else doesn't look right. It has a casual and rough look which is not correct for the quickstep which is all elegant and light and ease of movement – it didn't happen. Once your posture goes everything else falls to pieces. But you smiled and that was good." Score: 6.
Craig Revel Horwood: "I have to agree with the rest of the panel – not your finest hour sadly." Score: 3.
The judges gave them a total of 19 out of 40 for their performance.
After the dance-off, Heather and Brian were saved by Craig, Arlene and Bruno who all voted for them to stay in the competition, leaving head judge Len to comment on the couples rather than vote.
Len said: "I totally disagreed. I thought Jessie and Darren improved the most during that performance. Both couples made mistakes, but my vote was with them."
After Jessie and Darren's elimination, Jessie said: "I wish it could've been longer but that's the game. I've had a wicked time, Darren's brilliant."
The Sunday results show saw Simply Red perform their smash hit single Something Got Me Started.
Next week the boys and girls will compete together for the first time to stay in the competition.
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