Dancing On Ice

[thesshhh]

No way Torvill & Dean performed live tonight, despite efforts to make it look like that. As for Gemma, did she really fall by accident or deliberately dive?

[gness]

Evening, thesshhh....well of course they didn't perform at that point in the show.....would be too difficult but they did perform and so beautifully...could watch them for ever.... a perfect and still sensual partnership.....bliss....:-)

Did Gemma fall or dive? I thought you were going to say fall or was she pushed....she wasn't pushed because I wasn't there behind her..;-)
It is really difficult to fall forwards on ice.....backwards is the way to fall.....I have the head bumps to prove that.....so maybe a dive to excuse low marks she anticipated....or a sympathy vote?
I have no idea who she is or why she's a celebrity but I'll be glad to see her the back of her. Of course I know why she is staying in....apart from some numpties voting for her I guess.....and not voting in the spirit of the show.
Perhaps, with luck and fair vote counting, she'll go next week and let the real skaters compete........I really hope so.
I can't stand the woman...you may have guessed.... :-)

[tonyav]

Definitely deliberate.

[tonyav]

[gness]

Thanks, Tony.....love the first one! Yep.....a dive.... :-)

[anneasquith]

You think deliberate tony .". She was taking a chance falling on ice ,

[Ken4155]

Surprised she didn't reduce the rink to ice cubes :-/

[gness]

Anne....when I played ice hockey if I felt I was losing balance I'd try to fall forwards......little damage that way.....even if one was as flat chested as I was....the more well endowed bounced....when the ice takes your feet and balance away from you and you have no control you go backwards...and that hurts.

[tonyav]

you have no control you go backwards...and that hurts.

Happened to me a few times in the early 70's at Silver Blades rink in Brum. It is not cool when the girls your trying to impress are laughing :-(

[gness]

But if you’re a lass, Tony you just lie there til some dishy chap comes to help you up. ..... :-)

[tonyav]

I know, gness.
My mates were to busy laughing ( or falling over their selves ) to help a fellow male.

[gness]

Mind you......if a chap was dishy enough I wasn't slow to give him a lift up..... ;-)

[margarettom]

I'm sure her fall was not deliberate. On the replay at the end of her dance, you could see her blade catching in the ice. It 's easy to do this with the serrated tip on figure skates.
Sadly, because she is such a dreadful person, it just made me laugh and laugh.

[DarceyK123]

She will probably have sustained an 'injury' so will have to gracefully bow out. Ha ha!

[gness]

Hi, Margaret...I've looked at the clip a few times and the toe pick was nowhere near catching the ice....it wasn't possible for that to have tripped her. You have to bend a leg to make the pick come into contact with the ice to stop you.....she didn't.
Her left foot was flat on the blade but she appears to push hard with her right leg. That may have sent her forwards but I think she's looking for a way out. She didn't appear with the others in the chat line up as she was "hurt and in tears" so as Darcey says....a way of bowing out.....I hope so......x

[sunny-dave]

[ducksie]

Snap dave, I was about to say, Clint shot her

[margarettom]

Fair enough gneiss, but I think you would have to be mad to deliberately fall forward on the ice like that. Having fallen myself a good few times I know how painful it can be.
Cracked a bone in my elbow trying to save myself once. So what really surprised me is Gemma didn't appear to be trying to save herself.

[Ken4155]

Looked more like Chuck Norris than Clint?

[ducksie]

She probably thought her 'partner' would pick her up ..
She should be gone

[ducksie]

You're right Ken, it is chuck norris