Lacey Turner Strictly Come Dancing performance and body language, Digi Mart USA News: Strictly Come Dancing fan favourite Lacey Turner could face a “setback” as the competition moves into week seven. During last week’s Halloween Special (October 31), Lacey, 38, and her professional dance partner, Vito Coppola, 34, clinched the top spot with a score of 36 for their Charleston to Cheryl and Tinie Tempah’s hit “Crazy Stupid Love.”
YouTuber John Nellis, 33, and Katya Jones followed closely in second place with 35 points for their Tango. Two couples tied in third place with 33 points each: model Cash Mercer, 25, with Maddie Ingoldsby, 21, who danced an Argentine Tango, and singer Delta Goodrem, 41, with Kai Widdrington, 31, who performed a Viennese Waltz.
During the live show, the hosts revealed that for the first time in Strictly’s 22-year run, there will be a three-way dance-off involving Emmerdale star Lawrence Robb and professional dancer Jowita Przystał, the fifth couple eliminated.
On Saturday evening (November 7), Lacey will again aim for the top spot as she dances the Rumba to “Yellow” by Coldplay. As Lacey moves on to the next stage of the BBC show, body language expert Judi James has warned the EastEnders icon, who played Stacey Slater, to show Strictly fans that she is enjoying her performances.
“Lacey is a difficult watch as she tends to exude non-verbal messages of being on the show under duress,” Judi said on behalf of Paddy Power Bingo. “During the weekend’s VT we saw her speaking to the camera sitting hunched up into a little ball in a corner as though hiding from a Raptor.”
James added: “Her knees were pulled up to chest level, her tone was low and quiet, and first she sat with her arms folded over her knees, then she wrapped her hands together crossed at the wrists, then bent and clasped. Her smile looked fake as she told us she was ‘really looking forward to letting go,’ and her whole pose shrieked a desire to self-protect and hide.
James said that after her Charleston, Lacey told Emma she’d “had the best time,” but her two hands were strangling the neck of her microphone as she did so. Her dance lacked some of the quirky, cheeky, comic charm of a perfect Charleston.
“It’s the kind of comedy and sense of era acting that Will always manages to inject into his dances, and which make his scores strong despite technical errors.”
James explained that Lacey has a good chance of reaching the Strictly final but needs to display a softer side. She added: “Lacey deserves to be in the final two with Delta, but her body language is suggesting she really does need to unlock a sense of genuinely playful joyousness and exhilaration in her dances if she’s going to beat Delta’s intense elegance and old-school ballroom charm.”
Actor Jaime Winstone will not perform in Saturday’s Strictly Come Dancing, the BBC says. Jaime has a torn abdominal muscle and has been told to rest by doctors.
Strictly Come Dancing week seven airs live on Saturday from 6:40pm, while the results show airs Sunday at 7:10pm on BBC One and iPlayer.
