The first episode of Strictly Come Dancing’s 5th series danced onto SABC 2's screens on Thursday

FEMALE GROUP DANCE

The five female celebs were dressed to the nines and impressed with a creative, spectacular group Salsa to the beats of Christina Aguilera’s “Carwash”. Isidingo’s dainty and sultry Hlubi Mboya will hope that first impressions do indeed last, after immediately catching the judges’ eyes. So did 5FM’s voluptuous Anele Mdoda, who’s bootilicious curves, dressed in shocking pink, showed that she’s in this competition to win it. She got down and dirty and is definitely the early audience favourite. Judith Sephuma has her work cut out for her to get rid of the stiffness the judges found hard to swallow.

FIVE INDIVIDUAL DANCES

The judges’ scores following last night’s episode were as follows:

Rob van Vuuren & Mary Martin: 27
Garth Collins & Hayley Bennett: 24
Gugu Zulu & Sarah Cooper: 23
Adil More & Robynn Soules: 19
Lebo “Shugasmakx” Mothibe & Seipati Nthoesane: 17
 
Voting lines for viewers opened as the show concluded, but there will be no elimination until episode three. Judges will score the female celebrities in next week’s episode.
 
The first episode saw the male contestants perform the waltz. Next week the female contestants will perform individual Cha Cha Chas for judges’ scoring, and the men a group Mambo.
 
SHOW DETAILS

The 5th season of Strictly Come Dancing will air on SABC 2 every Thursday (from 2 October) at 19:30 until 20:30 with an hour long break in between and resumes at 21:30.  The first part (19:30-20:30) sees the contestants show off their various dancing talents to gain votes from public & judges and the results are revealed during the second part (21:30-22:00).