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Unfortunately, Sophie Anderton is out of the competition due to a leg injury. We will really miss this extremely talented young lady who was a pleasure to watch. Although she was not able to keep up with training due to kidney illness and modelling commitments, her performance was always brilliant. A natural. Emma B had made nasty remarks about her not training as much as the others, for some time, so she will be relieved to have less competition to cope with. Emma B has also made remarks about Grace getting too much attention but they have since become ‘friends’. Watch your back Grace.

Tonight we saw the celebrities performing their tricks without any safety nets or protection of any sort, for the first time.

Grace Adams Short opened the show with her best performance ever, on the ‘advance cordilese’. Pulling off a multiple of tricks, gracefully and effortlessly, including wraps, folds, drops and inverted splits. She commenced by rising to the top, hanging by the neck and gracefully performed distortions, half angels and many more very daring manoeuvres both fast moving and near perfect. Her entrance was as exquisite as ever with her own choreography. She ended by executing a very daring triple head over heels to the ground. How the judges came to give her a mere 25 points out of 30 is beyond understanding. Were they deliberately under marking her?

Andy Kane, James Donovan and Kenzie impressed the judges on the aerial strap, performing twists, wraps and lifts. The men were taught by Valeiria, the Russian, from last week. They had to do floor shows followed by manoeuvres on the aerial strap, performing various tricks and then the pendulum swing. All were strong and graceful with good lines. James and Andy earned 21 points each and Kenzie 22, thanks to a generous 9 from Judge Louis Spence, which compensated the poor 6 from Judge Anne.

Emma B was disappointing on the advance cordilese although her entrance was good and some of her manoeuvres had excellent lines. She stumbled around and got twisted in the rope and failed to pull off her final tricks. The first half was good but the second half, embarrassing to watch. Her manoeuvres were not as daring as Grace’s or as well executed and yet the judges gave her the same score. What are they playing at??? Emma B has always been over marked, finding unfair favour with the judges but this was inexcusable. Grace totally outshone Emma B.

Sophie Anderton made a brief appearance, hobbling on one leg supported by Albert the head trainer. She told a booing audience and all in the tent that she had to leave due to her injury. More booing as she was carried out. Do people get paid to boo or are they just rude and cruel???

Lee Mac Donald was welcomed back, in Sophie’s place.

Ninia Benjamin surprised us with her well manoeuvred tricks on the rope but she is weeks behind the other contestants and earned a generous 17 points. She and James were the bottom two contestants and Grace had to decide who was to go (Why not Emma B as Grace has had to vote out fellow contestants twice in the past). Was it because, if Grace voted to keep James, (which would be the fairest thing to do, he being a far better performer) then she would be unpopular with the audience, who loved Ninia? Is this an attempt to pull Grace down from favour so that the favoured Emma B can win? Grace being an honest person, of course voted Ninia out. What will happen next? Let’s hope the public see through this second attempt to pull Grace down, as she deserves to win. She has worked harder than anyone else to get to where she is and has not only been consistent but the most outstanding performer.

More challenges to come next week but let’s hope the judges get their act together. We are getting very tired of their yelling, bickering and weird point distribution.

This article was written by Evelyn Lewis, one of our contributors at Unreality TV. Thanks Evelyn!