After 10 weeks of Dancing On Ice last night was the final. I have to say the show was outstanding, the only downfall really was that they dragged the show out to make it stretch the 2 hours worth of viewing, with two skatings by Christopher Dean & Jayne Torville, good as they were, the skaters that were previously knocked out through the show and just the hosts having a general chit chat. I just wanted to see the skaters do their stuff. When I did I wasn’t disappointed. There was some superb skating from the 3 remaining finalists, Suzanne, Chris and Zaraah.

Zaraah who respectfully came in 3rd, collected several sixes for her beautiful floaty flying performance as well as her favorite from the series, personally I thought both performances were better than Chris’s. His performance in the air was a bit awkward with his transitions being either out of sync or a tad clumsy,despite this he was able to have a stab at choreographing his own rendition of Christopher & Jane’s Bolero, which was good but didn’t win the crown, so he came in 2nd.

Rightfully deserving to be crowned champion though was Suzanne Shaw, her performance throughout the evening was just amazing, sweeping the scoreboard on both her flying performance, which was out of this world, and her chosen favorite. But It was her version of the Bolero that clinched it for her, doing some daring moves, a twisting head banging thing, which Robin Cousin’s said " I have only seen one other couple doing that move,and they have been skating together for ten years". All the judges at one point had tears in their eyes as well as Suzanne’s son who was watching her perform, in fact I may have had a little moistening of the tear ducts myself, only because the cameras panned to her son who was balling his eyes out …honest.

So there you have it some great performances from this years show, I hope next years will be just as interesting as this, I’ll be looking forward to it.

Congratulations Suzanne Shaw Dancing On Ice Champion 2008.

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