What a lovely dance! They told the story very well! I could've done without the supporting dancers, but I guess production felt that they should be integrated so that we have some nice flying skirts. XD It detracted from the story being told, though. Also, the camera was really struggling to follow along with all that stage decoration. XD

I'm a huge sucker for this show or rather, the German version of it (called "Let's Dance"). And I feel that we're still quite behind representation in this way? Or rather, they'll always make such a big deal about it here, like, "Ohhhh this celebrity is gay and is dancing with a man!" or in the pro dancer challenge, where they had one f/f and one m/m couple, they were like, "Ohhh aren't we progressive, this is soo normal, look at these same sex pro dancer couples, aren't we such a progressive show?" Like... ugh shut up, just let them dance without commenting on it all the time, you're a shitty TV channel and this is your only flagship show left, so stop being so fake about it all. 🙄

But there have been some gorgeous same sex routines, like those by Layton Williams & Nikita Kuzmin, all of them were amazing! We had a gay celebrity who made it into the final show (he didn't win because he wasn't as good as the other two contestants, but he was a lot of fun) - I've got his Charleston uploaded here. There are pretty much no videos on Youtube because the TV channel only last year discovered that you can upload stuff to Youtube and it might actually be... good PR?! 🤦‍♀️