Gordon's WebLog

Week 10. The Grand Final. Each of the finalists, Chris Fountain, Suzanne Shaw and Zaraah Abrahams were asked to dance the "flying" routine followed by their favourite routine form the series. Although Chris and Zaraah did very well, Suzanne was awarded 2 perfect scores of 30/30 for her dances.

After the break the viewers voted Chris and Suzanne into the skate off, where they each interpreted "Bolero". After another tense wait

Suzanne Shaw

was revealed as the champion of the series.

Well done to all of the contestants, and congratulations to Suzann on becoming a very worthy champion.

On Sunday 13th January the 2008 edition of ITV's Dancing on ice program saw 12 celebrities taking to the ice in the first knockout competition program.

The original 12 celebrities were Tim Vincent, TV presenter and actor, Sarah Greene, also TV presenter and actress, Chris Fountain, actor, Aggie MacKenzie, TV presenter, Greg Rusedski, retired tennis player, Suzanne Shaw, TV personality, Steve Backley, retired athlete, Linda Lusadi, Emmerdale star and former Page 3 favourite, Michael Underwood, presenter, Samantha Mumba, Singer and actress, Gareth Gates, singer, and finally Natalie Pinkham, TV & radio presenter.

Each celebrity dances with a professional partner, and are awarded scores by 5 judges. When all have danced, telephone lines are opened and the general public's votes added to the judges. The 2 celebrities with the lowest total scores then dance again, and the judges made a final decision as to who should be eliminated from the competition.

Unfortunately it appears that, as with many of these phone-in programs, the viewers seem to vote for their favourite personality, rather than the best dancers. Thus Greg Rusedski remains in the competition after week 7, causing other, better, dancers to be eliminated. Such a shame.

Results of the weekly competition.

24/01/2008. Michael Underwood unfortunately broke his ankle whilst training and had to withdraw from the competition.
Zaraah Abrahams, actress and standby skater, replaced him from week 3.