Until now, Chris has been the runaway favourite to win this series, and rightly so (Picture: Guy Levy/BBC/PA Wire)
Chris McCausland is the best thing to happen to Strictly Come Dancing.
Before the first live show of the series, admittedly, he wasn’t on my radar as one to watch which in hindsight is a pretty embarrassing misfire.
Chris is the first ever blind contestant in Strictly’s 20-year history but no one could have possibly anticipated just how magical it would be watching the comedian effortlessly twirl his partner Danna Buswell around the dancefloor, performing tricks few of us with our sight in tact would ever dare to try.
I love him, and so does the public. So far each week he’s the contestant I’ve been looking forward to watching the most, knowing full well he’s guaranteed to either being a tear to my eye or have me full on sobbing into my Deliveroo.
After Icons Week though, I’m afraid he’s losing his grip on the Glitterball trophy and for the first time this series there’s another contestant I’m more excited to watch.
Sarah Hadland may have delivered one of my favourite Strictly Come Dancing performances of all time last Saturday with her Cha Cha to Like A Prayer.
Granted, she was dressed as Madonna which is basically catnip for homosexuals like me so I was sold before she taken her first step, but from the moment she leapt off a five foot platform into the arms of Vito Coppola with total care-free abandon I was mesmerised.
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It’s the first performance of the series I’ve watched again and again, each time impressed by something new. Vito threw Sarah around like a defunct rag doll with perfect posture, her feet moved with lightning precision and it was by far the most electric and – I say this as someone with zero expertise – surely the most difficult routine of the series so far. It was so good I barely even noticed Vito in latex trousers which is some doing.
Sarah Hadland delivered one of my favourite Strictly performances of all time (Picture: BBC/Guy Levy)
The judges agreed, awarding Sarah with three nines and a 10, which still feels like a criminal underscore.
Tonight she’ll be dancing for the Miranda fans, performing an American Smooth to Heather Small’s Proud, the anthem her character Stevie would spontaneously sing throughout the series.
I am not a Miranda fan, but it was hard to escape the excitement from fans who clearly found Stevie’s live, laugh, love humour much funnier than I did on social media.
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But you don’t need to be a Miranda fan to have been completely bowled over by Sarah. If anything, my internalised Mirandaphobia meant I didn’t pay Sarah the attention she deserved until the last few weeks, but I concede that I am the fool who’s been missing out.
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Source:: Metro
