AJ Odudu and Kai Widdrington Charleston ✨ BBC Strictly 2021 

I know! It deserved 40. I’ve never seen such challenging and risky lifts on this show. I feel like Craig is extra picky with Charlestons

totally agree !!!!!

Totally agree. They are definitely my favourite couple on the show

According to Craig, this and Angela Rippon’s are both 9’s then. What an absolute joke, used to trust him to score more fairly than the others.

They all think AJ is lying and has loads of dance training that's why. It's funny cause the fan favourite Rose actually has loads of dance training but no one's questioning her dance experience. Only when it's a black woman do people seem to try to be demeaning her and dismissing her hard work.

@@ania5038 I absolutely adore AJ but please drop the race card. She doesn't deserve that last comment of yours.

@@venicawood3894 I was defending AJ... I think she deserves all of her success...

@@venicawood3894 it’s true though. Rose won because she is deaf not because she was the best dancer last year. I don’t know if you’re an ethnic minority but I am (mixed race) and the race card still applies in this day and age would you believe but those with white privilege cannot empathise or relate to this. We don’t just throw the race card unless we need to. Let’s just say it’s instinct. I didn’t take offence to the commenter in this instance as she is factually correct. Rose got the sympathy vote albeit so much dance experience but she wasn’t the best. And before anyone comes attacking me I have two disabilities 😂

Truly amazing 🙌🎶💜

True RIDICULOUS. He said AMAZING. THEN GIVES THEM A 9. WHATS going on

@@amylouise1842 experts yet their scoring this series has been all over the place!

@@amylouise1842 then why didn’t voice it in his criticism he has tendencies of underscoring them them giving all positive feedback and no criticism

@@amylouise1842 He's great at giving constructive criticism, so why did he simply say "amazing"? If he doesn't award a 10 that means there was something wrong. He should have told her what she needed to improve imo. I think the others are too generous with their scoring at times, but I've always appreciated Craig. It's clear that he's passionate about dance & wants people to dance well. That means learners need to be told what their mistakes are. How can AJ improve& het a 10 from him if he doesn't tell her why he's not judged it higher?

Wrong Tom deserved all 10 on Saturday

Underscored? This was almost 40

@@bessieburnet9816 should of been a 40 not 39.. in my opinion this dance was perfect … as did James Jordan on Twitter , Shirley , Motsi , and Anton

@@annabelleharris1264 Love following James's twitter comments during Strictly too!!

@@michellekennedy4426 yep I find him very honest

@@annabelleharris1264 and of the 5 only Craig is a Charleston expert....

My guess is he's the only Charleston expert on the panel and something must have been wrong, though I must say I was expecting 40

@Laura they've been handling out the 10s since week 3... if Craig didn't give it a 10 I suspect it's because he saw something we and the other judges didn't see...

It is all about Craig, he likes to make an impact when he gives a 10. I fail to see what they could have done better, that was perfection👏👏👏👏👏👏

@@han-oq6bo he should have said then what the problem was

They want Rose to win and it has become nauseating.

can’t wait until she performs it in the final and gets a 40 😂

I can’t believe it either. No way was Tom’s performance on the same level as this! Craig had no reason to not give this a 10

@@mariancounsellor tom was my fav tonight

Maybe he has a favorite!

@@amelialaird2281 good for you but not the point. He criticised Tom, didn’t with Aj, but they get the same score. Aj’s was a much tougher routine and executed perfectly.

@@dorispotter1435 Rose !

totally agree

They can't both win

@@henrymanley4116 I know but I’m saying they’re my two favourites and I want either of them to win

@@lucy2028 I know, I was just joking

@@lucy2028 rubbish Tom was the best dancer

Yes yes yes....my vote is for KAI and AJ ... Show stoppers ...

That’s right to win 🏆….

That’s facts #teamkjforthewin. They won’t succeed this year.

Best Charleston was last years Gio and Faye from sound of music

@@lil5306 faye wasnt on it last year 💀

Yes I agree. My favourite up until now was Faye and Gio's Lonely Goatherd as it was so unique and fun, but this one for me has blown it out of the park. I feel it's been such an underrated dance this season. The choreography, the timing, the characterisation, the amount of proper old timey charleston steps packed in... just an outstanding dance in my opinion.

I agree, he resents that a non dancer is making it look easy imo.. AJ is amazing, too amazing for some ..

She is genuinely humble and doesn't realise how blooming wonderful she is, she is perfection

yes

I will gladly bring Craig their myself

Nope. Rose's Tango

No Tom's dance was way better also he was the lead dancer it's harder for a guy to lead a Dance

@@chesterred4460 that’s absolutely fair enough. Please don’t come on here and spam by constantly saying Tom is better. You have every right to feel that way but we AJ fans, don’t do that on Tom videos. You Rose, and Tom fans wouldn’t like us to do that to them, and I’m sure both Rose and Tom wouldn’t like you bushing their friend AJ. Stop it please it’s becoming annoying. Also it’s quite concerning that Tom, and Rose fans are bushing AJ like this, what did she do to you. I would never tell someone what to do. However when you’re actually coming across to hurt peoples feelings. You need to rethink things. Would you like somebody to do that to you? I usually don’t say anything or comment in regards to this. But this is ridiculous. Just leave us alone please. We don’t come on Rose and Toms page so don’t come on AJ‘s page with this rubbish please. One more thing she was undermarked. This woman literally hurt herself multiple times with the lifts. I would love to see you try. As she deserved every 10 she got. In fact she should’ve got the last 10. Have a good one!

@@rebelhenz you are literally the sweetest person I have ever come across in my life wow

@@chesterred4460 this literally had no opportunity for Kai to lead her, she had to pull her own strength. She did. It was amazing

They were brilliant, the Charleston, salsa and A. Tango dances are choreographed by other professionals that are brought in by the producers so Kai didn’t do this one. But still he is a fab teacher 💕⭐️

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@@sergioroman2920 But it wasn't their fault AJ injured herself

@@sergioroman2920 so you think that the haters pushed AJ to do over complicated steps that injured her? I see that view point if so

@@sergioroman2920 Well I'm thankful that Dan was gone before AJ :). Bez did go too far but he didn't go further than anybody who could have won atleast

Agree

hahahahaha

It's not as if he hasn't given a 9 with 0 criticism before. I hope he does offer his critique today at least, I don't think he's been underscoring her before now especially, which dance did you think was underscored

I feel like Craig is extra picky with the Charleston for some reason

@@Aaron-he3qd he's the only expert on the panel, the others dont know for sure what is good and what is brilliant

@Lottie no Tom's better

@@polljones8921 um he might know little about ballroom. But Charleston is not ballroom. When it comes to the Charleston he is a bigger expert than the other three, which is why he is normally the only one to properly critique it.

I agree.

I think he wants to see them do it again in the finale and then give it a 10

My bet is that he’ll say something about her feet. He’s obsessed with them being too turned out or in or whatever it is 😂

He said in the results show that her left foot was lacking a bit in swivel.

FABULOUS. COSTUME. JUST BEAUTIFUL XX

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I couldn't agree more. Craig is just an attention-seeker!

totally agree