Cherie and James - Strictly Come Dancing Round 5 - BBC One

[staceeey23]

Beautiful and poised, gorgeous.

Could have done with a little more variety ... but she danced it so effortlessly the simplicity really worked.

I adore the song too :)

[iluvtattyteddy]

lol, Laila and Anton did a paso doble to the fierce version of this song.

[IloveJamesAndOla]

"rexbonitas" James has never in his life sang to anyone.. Apart from his wife Ola..

He's never sang to cherie particularly with that song where you got that from???

James is married lol The only person who he would sing to is Ola..

James is right to have said that to be honest, theres far worse dancers than cherie.. James just tells it how it is, good on him.

[rexbonitas]

There's danger in your eyes, Cherie, but I dont care, I'd give up paradise, Cherie, your love to share, Your kisses taste like wine, And when your lips touch mine, I know that any sin with you would seem divine, There's danger in your charms, Cherie, but oh the bliss, To linger in your arms, Cherie, and kiss and kiss, Just tell me when and where, We'll have our love affair, There's danger in your eyes, Cherie, but I dont care James sings that softly to Cherie all the time

[rexbonitas]

This dance is all about the lifts - Mr Otis would have been delighted...

[constantinexviii]

Craig gave this a 7??? It should have been given at least one 10! And I never associate showbiz with the American Smooth...Anyway, an absolutely effortless and wonderful dance by Cherie, as usual.

[shopaholic150]

the song is called Layla

[runemon]

what song is this??? please reply

[Laurenfhammond]

she was amazing - AGAIN! Honestly I thought this was a brilliant effort. The Rumba was made for Cherie and James but the lifts were the absolute icing on the cake. she is such an effortless dancer,and she does it with such great poise and elegance. One of the best contestants. For sure.

[minibex1]

this is the acoustic version of layla, i just downloaded it and i prefer it to the original. its a really good song to do slow blues dancing to ;)

[xjuly91x]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought Craig underscored this. OK, so it wasn't that showbiz, but it was still AMAZING!!!

[GreyCheerleaders]

I hear Craig was the one who underscored this...Not surprising since he knows nothing about subtlety. I really like the song choice - it was nowhere near as dull as Brendan's and Cherie has got genuine poise, too. I would have said the score was fair but compared Brendan and Lisa's, I'd have to say it deserved more.

[happybobby2]

What did James say to Craig and he said "thank you james" or something like that?

[rexbonitas]

I don't know what was said Bobby - and I've watched it several times on my video - the sentence ends with the words - 'choreography and not quality' and it obviously made Craig angry - hence the '7' score...

[Austen1984]

Basically James was making the comment "Quantity over quality" to direct at Brendan and Lisa who did an As which was of a lower standard but more steps,which Craig loved.The week before Brendan had commented on his 8s saying that other couples got 9s for much less - which was a dig at James and Cherie who got nines!

[Oenagh]

That was so much better that Brendan and Lisa! Craig is a bad nut!

[maz59]

by the way, does anyone know if that song was a weird version of Eric Clapton's 'Layla'?

[kelicious999]

wicked stuff but i kinda agree with Craig

James should of put in a little bit more showbiz like Brendan but it wasn't boring, it didn't deserve a seven and i loved the lifts

[maz59]

I agree - it deserved better marking...

their skill in that was more subtle...the way she trusted him at the beginning of the lifts says a lot...the fact that she is 56 is amazing..

[wiseoldbaldrick]

She is so light and graceful...a pleasure to teach I bet.

[TheOrangeFish]

There is absolutely no way that Lisa and Brendan should have scored higher than this! Amazing lift at the end.

[wiseoldbaldrick]

I live in France...so who got kicked out then?

[maz59]

it's being decided on the Results show this evening.