Strictly Come Dancing front-runner Vicky Pattison isn’t keen on a recent rule-change but, she says, BBC bosses are ‘really behind it as a format and it ‘isn’t going anywhere’
Bosses on Strictly Come Dancing have produced a change to the format this year. But Vicky Pattison, who has been going from strength to strength in the competition isn’t too happy about the most recent change.
In earlier series of Strictly, the couples were divided into two groups, with each one containing a pair who were in the dance off.
But this year, there’s an announcement on the Sunday episode for all the couples who are safe, while the “final four” wait to hear their fate in the second announcement.
On her Get a Grip podcast, Vicky and pal Angela Scanlon had a very mixed view of the rule change, saying felt “vicious” and “awful”, but also accepting that it might help to “level the playing field” for contestants.
Vicky added that she had gone to Strictly bosses with her objections: “I’ve sort of expressed how spicy I think it is. They’re really behind it as a format. It isn’t going anywhere.”
Angela replied that she did understand the reasoning behind the rule change:
“With the dance off, what you end up having is the first cohort that are through and the one person who gets potentially an hour, depending on the run of the show, to get their head around being in the dance off, to have a little run through, to like get themselves in the game.
“And then you have the second cohort. So the second person revealed in the dance off is literally like a slap in the face and then get out there and do it.
“It’s very difficult. So this evens the playing field a little bit for the people who are in the dance off.”
Vicky, alongside her professional dance partner Kai Widdrington, was nowhere near the danger zone last week, but says it’s inevitable that she’ll have to face the “awful” ordeal at some point: “I know at some point, you know, I’ll have to be in a dance off or whatever it is. I think it’ll be it’ll be terrifying.
“It will just be awful, she added. “As we all know, I don’t, deal with nerves very well or pressure. So I’m not looking forward to it.”
Source: Mirror
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