Strictly Come Dancing viewers were left disappointed when they felt that one fan-favourite performer was ‘stitched up’ for their latest effort on the show
Strictly Come Dancing fans have claimed that one star of the show was “stitched up” after their “ropey” performance. Viewers were left disappointed when they saw Karen Carney, 38, perform her Charleston alongside Strictly professional Carlos Gu on Saturday.
Karen and Carlos, 32, danced to the soundtrack of a mash-up of Upside Down by Diana Ross and Think by Aretha Franklin. Their efforts saw them finish mid-table with 35 points, but viewers weren’t too convinced by what they had seen.
Taking to X to share their disappointment in the display one wrote: “She’s been stitched right up with that song choice. Sure not a 10, the lifts were pretty ropey.” A second scathed: “How to ruin a Charleston – make them dance to totally inappropriate music …”
A third viewer commented: “Karen such an energetic dance and so well done just hated the song choice.” A fourth posted: “I’ve no idea what the dance was like, the music put me right off, tho what I did see was fast and a tad messy.”
A fifth social media user shared: “No idea what that was but the music was awful and it just did not gel together at all.” The judges however, didn’t agree, with the routine winning praise from them.
While Karen is best known for her fancy footwork on the field as a professional footballer, she has actually got past dance experience. Fans saw the former England Lioness go to the top of the leaderboard when she performed an incredible jive.
The TV pundit has admitted in the past that she trained as a dancer before she followed her passion for football.
She admitted to the FA in a resurfaced chat: “I enjoyed football when I was a kid and had loads of kickabouts but I didn’t join my first club until I was 11. Until then, it was all about dancing for me.
“We did loads of different routines and genres of music.” She then confirmed she would train for as much as three hours on Saturdays before competing in “big events” on Sundays while she was still interested in dancing.
Karen then admitted that when it came down to it and she had to choose between the two activities, it was football that really held her interest and she quit dancing to focus on that.
She explained: “When I got a bit older and my football matches switched to a Sunday, I had some choices to make.
“I decided to give up dancing when I was 15. My agility, my strength, my power and how I move my feet during a match are all definitely down to dancing, 100 per cent. I was quite little but I was quite strong and that was because all the dancing made my muscles stronger.”
Source: Mirror
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