Dancing With the Stars - Ireland

littlevillage · 19-03-2023 08:54PM

Lots of superlatives being trotted out tonight. Get on with it FFS, starting kicking people off.

pjohnson · 19-03-2023 08:57PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120377241#Comment_120377241

She was out of time.

Damian brilliant again.

fits · 19-03-2023 09:17PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120377257#Comment_120377257

I was wondering were the monitors off for a few seconds. Not like her to be out of time. The monitor speakers I mean.

AMKC · 19-03-2023 09:24PM

That wig is something else on Panti but I think it does not suit her.

AMKC · 19-03-2023 09:25PM

Your man is right about FG and FF anyway.

pjohnson · 19-03-2023 09:26PM

....

AMKC · 19-03-2023 09:26PM

Here we go. Come on Brooke.

😞

Well that's that. It was not a great show anyway.

Time to cancel it.

AMKC · 19-03-2023 09:29PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120377347#Comment_120377347

Ye a bit of an anti climax. Joke really.

Azatadine · 19-03-2023 09:30PM

Popularity contest. He was the worst of the 4.

DebDynamite · 19-03-2023 09:34PM

Disappointed Carl won. Thought he was was the worst tonight. Sadly the best dancer rarely seems to win on DWTS

barneygumble99 · 19-03-2023 09:34PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120377347#Comment_120377347

Competition run by Rte, presented by 2 Rte staffers, won by an Rte employee, handed the trophy by someone who works with him on a radio show

Ryaner179 · 19-03-2023 09:44PM

Hope all people who voted for Carl, enjoy him pushing all the brand deals he can on to you on social media like A love island contestant....

Chirst what an awful winner, literally worst dancer left wins. As for the rte fixing it for their presenter to win again... they will never get another non rte staff member on the show now.

Tandey · 19-03-2023 10:05PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120377386#Comment_120377386

It was likely a fix. He's an employee of rte.

Ozvaldo · 19-03-2023 10:07PM

whos carl never head of him?

DeepBlue · 19-03-2023 10:31PM

Just watching it on the +1 there.

Tbh I'm delighted for Emily. She seems really nice and rarely got a partner that had a chance of winning. Carl obviously the worst dancer remaining in the competition but I think that's obvious to everyone. The show has a history of undeserving winners. I thought it should have been between Brook and Damien.

screamer · 19-03-2023 10:44PM

Well booooo is all I can say, fix it for the staffers, as usual. Wonder what they have lined up for Carl that they needed to push his profile so much. He literally was a clod hopper there tonight and the worst of the competitors. The others were absolutely robbed. Feck off RTE.

Ryaner179 · 19-03-2023 11:24PM

Think it should be the last season on Rte to be honest,

The constant mainipulation for one of their own to win was ridiculous.

Hope virgin media or sky can outbid them for the rights. The format works but Rte dont deserve it

Strazdas · 19-03-2023 11:33PM

A mistake to let the public decide the winner. They would be pretty clueless on talent and would always treat such a show as a popularity contest only.

Perhaps with a mixture of televote and jury vote, you would be more likely to get a credible winner.

Red Silurian · 19-03-2023 11:50PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120377815#Comment_120377815

Thing is, would the jury not be employed by rte and therefore the same problem would exist?

AMKC · 19-03-2023 11:58PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120377647#Comment_120377647

Wonder what they have lined up for Carl that they needed to push his profile so much.

The Late Late Show lol.

maebee · 20-03-2023 12:39AM

Absolutely ridiculous. He was the worst of the finalists. Imo, it should have been:-

Suzanne
Brooke
Damien
Carl

Over and out for me with DWTS.

Strazdas · 20-03-2023 12:58AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120377855#Comment_120377855

I think the actual result was the least good outcome. The worst dancer of the four (by far) was declared the 'winner'.

Red Silurian · 20-03-2023 01:40AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120377978#Comment_120377978

I recall the same thing happening on SCD in 2015, nobody thought Jay McGuinness deserved the win

My point is that judges don't always come to the correct conclusion either, I remember comments from them about Claudia in 2016 about her being "so young" turning the predominantly older audience off her

Immortal Starlight · 20-03-2023 02:52AM

The face on Carl’s mother in the audience when they said he’d won. No smiles and looking like her dog had just died. Brooke was robbed she was the best dancer of the four finalists.

Purple Mountain · 20-03-2023 04:19AM

I'm not disputing that Carl was the weakest of the 4...but...

A. Kudos to him for his journey. He never danced before and to be fair he came a long way.

I'd give him the highest marks for most improved certainly.

B. He is a presenter on a national radio station. Therefore out of the 4 finalists, he was the best known and would certainly have a larger audience to canvas votes from compared to the other three.

Especially Brooke and Damien.

The reality is, with the public deciding the winner, it's a popularity contest, not a talent contest and these shows are always going to be based on a public vote. The show needs revenue and the voting is the revenue.

So while I do agree, (and I'm sure Carl himself would probably agree too) that he didn't win on talent, there was no RTE 'fix'.

And whoever above said about Emily not ever being paired with a talented celebrity, they clearly have forgotten Johnny Ward. Now, there was a celebrity who was robbed of the win!

fits · 20-03-2023 08:05AM

He did improve massively to be fair.

I dunno I have no issue with Carl winning. It’s an entertainment show not the olympics.

Heroditas · 20-03-2023 09:20PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120378112#Comment_120378112

Well said.

To be fair, plenty of BBC employees have won Strictly.

Three of the 6 DWTS winners have been RTE staff - Carl, Mairead and Lottie.

Aidan, Nina and Jake weren't employees.

Purple Mountain · 20-03-2023 09:31PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120381087#Comment_120381087

One could argue about Aidan winning due to the GAA vote too.

He was the weakest in that final too by a country mile.

Trampas · 21-03-2023 07:20AM

Technically speaking they’re not employees of rte and contractors. We all know it’s a popularity show. We just like to pretend it’s not.

I prefer the one that improves all the way through and not the one who’s done stag or dance school and prefers to say they’ve not. But each to their own

littlevillage · 21-03-2023 08:45AM

My opinion is that RTE are scarlaa at Karl winning, he was a poor dancer and won on a popularity vote (mainly, because he was the least smug of the remaining contestants, imo). RTE know well it looks like a fix... and will now probably have to abandon the show. (and come up with some other scutter to fill the schedule)

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