Dancing With the Stars - Ireland

Wait they have students? In what and where?

Absolutely delighted that Katelin is in the final. If her or Tulu wins then brilliant but Paudie winning it would be so wrong so I might even vote next week and I have not so far this year.

Hope Paudie wins from here. Just to make a complete laughing stock out of the show 🤣🤣

At this stage, I've accepted that paudie will win it. I thought Jordan's and tolus dances were meh last night, paudie with Laura was very elegant almost like a bride dancing with her dad on her wedding day. The gagnam style dance has me in stitches laughing, whereas Jordan's beatles dance was boring, Eric was best trio dance.

It's more than the dance though, it's the staging, the song, the costumes and their popularity, and last night overall paudies was better in those areas. I remember Jordan's story of my life dance that saw him in the bottom two and the costumes, the staging, all brown and boring, even though the dancing was good.

I love the show our whole family watch it, and my kids have Paudie picked from the start, go Paudie.

I expect that half the watching audience were in stitches laughing at gagnam style dance, that's harley a compliment to Paudie though ! 

Paudie has played a blinder. Despite not winning, can you even name anybody else from the Traitors?

He's also bossing DWTS.

(obviously it helps that the other 'stars' are low wattage nobodies)

He will probably front a few documentaries or something next..... Who knows maybe he will present the Late Late Show or Prime Time!!

My fathers family is from Limerick and there very loyal to there own.

A few other years that happened as well.

Johnny Ward was every bit as good as Mairead Ronan, if not better.

Ryan Andrews was far better than "Loddie"

Nina Carbery's year was an exceptionally close final where any of the 4 finalists deserved to win

Here's a theory. Paudie is so far ahead with the public voting that the producers know he's going to win. As a result, they're sugar-coating his performances, e.g. giving him the American Smooth on Sunday (easy to make him look good) and also the Gangnam Style routine - a "fun" routine again that was easy to make look (passingly) good.

They're doing this to save face and try to give some credibility to him if he wins. It's not like they're giving him a Jive or Rumba which would be car crashes

They have to be careful though because if it's too much of a farce, they could see sponsors have second thoughts about giving money to a show which appears to be ripping the piss.

The media coverage has been very I testing this week. Jennifer Zamparelli was interviewed in the Times and one of the subjects was her saying "not always the best dancer wins". I might be paranoid but c'mon, it just seems that they're doing their damnedest to give him credibility.

I won't be watching it live this evening. Mother's Day dinner etc and it seems like an awful anticlimax this year, particularly after last year's humdinger of a final.