NOW THAT’S MAGIC!
Debbie’s standing splits is Strictly showstopper
AFTER decades in showbusiness Debbie McGee can stretch to most things... but this was above and beyond.
At 58, the Strictly contestant was star of the show on Saturday as she performed the standing splits as the night’s first act.
Her cha cha cha to The Shoop Shoop Song with dance partner Giovanni Pernice, 27, was a big hit with the audience.
Afterwards judge Bruno Tonioli could not contain his admiration declaring: ‘You’re very, very bendy, you go up and up and up and up, where does it end?’
However, the couple’s perform- ance did not win over all the judges and they received only 27 marks from a possible 40.
Miss McGee, who made her name performing with her husband magician Paul Daniels, must have wished she could make judge Craig Revel Horwood vanish. He said she looked like ‘a Barbie doll dancing, too stiff and straight-legged’.
Singer Alexandra Burke topped the leaderboard with 39 points and burst into tears afterwards saying she wished her late mother Melissa Bell had seen it. The former Soul II Soul singer died in August of kidney failure.
‘You’re very bendy’