Strictly Come Dancing Musicals Week – HuffPost Verdict

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After getting off to a slow start, the ‘Strictly’ quarter-final stepped up a gear when last week’s leaderboard-topper Joe McFadden took to the floor. His partner Katya Jones took a risk, with an unconventional song choice and choreography, but their efforts paid off. 

Conversely, while Davood Ghadami and Mollie King’s routines looked like surefire crowd-pleasers on paper – with well-known tunes and familiar dances – the celebs failed to impress the panel. 

The first wow moment of the episode came courtesy of the phenomenal Debbie McGee, who battled through back problems to deliver an emotionally-charged American Smooth.

And providing a lesson in how to bounce back in style, Alexandra Burke reminded everyone why she’s still a favourite to win the competition, barely pausing for breath between cartwheels, lifts and footwork-heavy bars. 

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Bruno Tonioli on joe McFadden:

Divine, decadent and slightly twisted – your character not me.”

Craig Revel-Horwood on Mollie King: 

 

I thought you were dancing by numbers.”

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Ahead of the quarter-finals, Mollie labelled the rumba the “dance of doom” and it certainly seems like she had a point. With ten points separating her from the top of the leaderboard, it would take a lot of viewers votes for The Saturdays’ singer to avoid the dance-off.

It also looks likely that Gemma’s divisive Quickstep will be performed for a second time tomorrow, but Davood and Nadiya’s uncharacteristic lack of chemistry could fast-track them to a spot in the bottom two.