Strictly 2022: Week 4 Results show
Strictly is ready to show another celebrity the door – but who will it be?
This year’s Strictly is probably the most open competition we’ve had in recent years. No-one is consistently breaking free from the pack – nor is anyone safe as last week’s Bottom Two proved.
How fantastic to see two best friends Luba Mushtuk and Karen Haur dancing together. Oh Luba!! Strictly deserves huge credit for ‘normalising’ same-sex interactions on mainstream media when equal treatment and opportunities seem so at risk. Older generations, especially those who lived through World War Two, would never bat an eyelid at the sight of two women dancing together. And yet the murky depths of social media will pipe up and bemoan same-sex dancing being “thrust down their throat”. It is important that a National Broadcaster like the BBC continues visibility like Karen and Luba’s joyous, passionate moving performance. Bravo!
Fleur seemed very delighted – Tony through (well someone is voting for him), Ellie in her blue Bo Peep monstrosity quite an achievement…..but shock Kym and Graz in the bottom two. Absolutely did not deserved to be there.
Musical guest for tonight’s Results Show was Vic Reeves’ pub singer lovely lad George Ezra. Singing some variation of Shotgun perhaps. No clue. Was just all adorable mumbling to us (us us).
Was there an inevitability of Matt heading to the Bottom Two? “I’ll do my very, very best” sighed an already-defeated Matt, thanking everyone in the room. Awww!
Strictly’s new themed week of A Hundred Years of the BBC (we really did not need another themed week, did we?)
Matt and Nadiya did well – Kym and Graziano did well. Can we scream why isn’t Tony in the Bottom Two yet? Oh well! Matt goes…
Why did Matt Goss leave?
A hugely successful pop star in the late 80s, a massively successful Vegas star in the late noughties, Matt Goss was a brilliant signing for Strictly.
Quiet and almost introverted, he wasn’t perhaps the swaggering popstar we expected. Nadiya’s tribute – the TessBot hug – we are undone.
That there was something “off” about his dances puzzled viewers. There was no discussion on the show about how Matt was living with Poland syndrome, a rare conditions that affects the musculature. When Matt commended the judges on improving his posture, it wasn’t the usual platitudes. He could have played the sob story (and certainly other contestants have this week), but he just danced his best. And The Recs salutes Matt and his decency. Here is his Strictly journey.
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