Strictly Come Dancing Week 2 Preview

Strictly Come Dancing week 2 will feature the 8 couples who didn't dance in week 1 performing a ballroom dance and a latin dance each. We have been given an insight into each celebrity's ability with the group dance and there were some obvious ones to watch for the right and wrong reasons! The training footage shown on It Takes Two usually sheds some more light as to the level of dancing. Tonight's training footage showed some extra surprises to me in the form of Jo Wood performing far better than in the group dance, and Phil Tufnell showing some real ballroom promise! Hopefully we will get more of the training footage later in the week.

I am going to hazard a guess at some of the celebrities, as far as their dancing standard goes. However to guess who will go out would be crazy due to the public vote which doesn't always follow the dancing alone!

The Good
The one that really stands out in this section has to be Ricky Whittle. He has natural rhythm and movement as well as an understanding of shapes and lines. From the brief glimpses so far he can go a long way. He has many attributes of a great latin american dancer already, let's see what he can do in ballroom too!

The Not So Good
Having seen the group dance there were a couple of celebrities who you have to worry for, Richard Dunwoody and Jo Wood. I think the wood in their surnames may sum the problems up a bit! Richard didn't seem to know where he was or what he was doing in the group dance, and Jo was all out of sorts too. However in training footage, Jo Wood appeared to improve somewhat!

The Surprises
There could be a few in this section! Jo Wood's improvement in training footage was a surprise, whether it lasts or not will be the key! There were 2 who had a hint of style about them that I would never have expected. Phil "Tuffers" Tufnell showed some real promise in both the group dance, with his aerial heel taps, and in training he looked a rather refined dancer! Again Natalie Cassidy looked fantastic in training. It's hard to believe that it's only coming up to week 2. And does Anton finally have a good partner?? Let's hope she's as good as she looks because his latin american has come on a lot from last year.