MIRANDA star Sarah Hadland has impressed millions with her smooth prowess in the BBC Strictly Come Dancing ballroom.
But viewers were left disappointed by her average score on Saturday night for her foxtrot and now many are suggesting that she is being undermarked.
Sarah Hadland has brought elegance and grace to the dancefloor[/caption]
But with a score of 27, viewers believe that Sarah is being undermarked[/caption]
The 53-year-old who is partnered with last year’s champion Vito Coppola, was given a collective score of 27, while contestants Wynne Evans and and EastEnders Jamie Borthwick both got the higher mark of 34.
Now viewers are saying that she’d getting the rough deal.
One said: “I swear each week they judge Sarah so much harder than everyone else.”
Another said: “Sarah was undermarked surely.”
And another viewer commentated: “Sarah – Should’ve easily been in the top half of the leaderboard! Imo she was stronger than Sam, Pete, Chris, Shayne and Jamie – criminal to have been behind them.”
Meanwhile another observer noted that the men including Wynne are being overmarked by comparison.
They said: “Anybody else feel like the judges are really baby-ing the male contestants?
I feel like almost all of them – particularly Nick and Wynne – were way over marked? Then you have the likes of Montell and Sarah who were totally undermanned. Punam got way harsher scoring than her male counterparts who also made mistakes.”
In the forth live show, Sarah, who danced to Billie Eilish‘s hit track Birds of a Feather, admitted the song meant a lot to her family and her child.
In her VT, a tearful Sarah said: “It would be really lovely to show how I feel in the dance.”
Sarah then took to the dancefloor to perform the elegant routine – but it received mixed reviews by head judge Shirley Ballas and Craig Revel Horwood.
Shirley said: “The spotting on the spins were flawless, you did it twice. Some nice footwork at the beginning but it didn’t glide.
“I loved the role reversal when you changed from man to lady.
“Foxtrot is a gliding dance, that’s what you need to keep working on when you move into the ballroom dances.”
While Craig said Sarah was “trying too hard” and “attacking the dance”, but did praise her for being a “clean dancer”.
Indeed viewers concerned that she’d been given the ‘death slot’ which is the second person in the running order to dance, which is thought to be forgettable for the voters.
It comes after Toyah Willcox danced in the “death slot” last week and was eliminated in the results show.
It has left fans to suspect that the Beeb secretly wanted to get the 80s pop singer out by giving her the spot.
Writing online, one fan said: “Toyah has the death slot, seems like they want her to go now that she’s made it to Movie Week.”
But it seems that Sarah’s happy feet helped her to escape the dreaded danceoff.
Prior to her successful career known for her role on the BBC’s Miranda and also ITV sitcom, The Job Lot, the mother-of-one starred in West End musicals, Cats and Grease.
Strictly Scores Week 4
- Tasha Ghouri and Aljaž Škorjanec – 39
- Sarah Hadland and Vito Coppola – 27
- Shayne Ward and Nancy Xu – 30
- Dr Punam Krishan and Gorka Márquez – 20
- JB Gill and Amy Dowden – 30
- Chris McCausland and Dianne Buswell – 30
- Sam Quek and Nakita Kuzmin – 28
- Wynne Evans and Katya Jones – 34
- Jamie Borthwick and Michelle Tsiakkas – 34
- Montell Douglas and Johannes Radebe – 33
- Pete Wicks and Jowita Przystal – 29
- Paul Merson and Karen Hauer – 23
- Nick Knowles and Luba Mushtuk – 21
Sarah and Vito wait anxiously for their scores[/caption]
Its not hard to see that Sarah has some natural flair and technique which comes through in the ballroom[/caption]
But the judges are still quibbling over a few points of her technique[/caption]
