How are you feeling? How do you think you will do on the night?

Shane: “Still a little hungry. I am actually really looking forward to the night of dancing. Leah and I finished the main part of our routine last week and now all we have to do is add the polish and the pizzazz!”

Leah: “I am feeling excited, the butterflies are starting to set in!! I am hoping for a win because let’s face it if you’re not a winner…you’re a loser!”

How is your partner getting on?

Shane: “Leah has been brilliant and has battled through a bad back to be a brilliant partner.  We’re gonna rock (like Tony)!”

Leah: “Shane is doing pretty well. I just wish he would stop stepping on my toes!”

What were your best moments? What is your best memory of this experience so far?

Shane: “I’ve really enjoyed learning the moves and putting them to music, which is basically everything – so, I’ve enjoyed everything!  My best souvenir is gaining a new friend in Leah and a new skill.”

Leah: “The best moment for me is yet to come! I think the performance will be the most memorable part however our rehearsal in the venue was great I enjoyed sizing up the competition”

Any tips for anybody thinking of doing this in the future?

Shane: “Do it!”

Leah: “Go for it! Just make sure you are committed to some hard work and lots of fun”

How are you feeling? How do you think you will do on the night?

“We are feeling content but a little bit nervous still. We hope to be able get threw the routine with out any obvious mistakes.”

How is your partner getting on?

“We are a very new partnership, but it is going really well despite having to do 8 weeks of training in only 10 days!”

What were your best moments? What is your best memory of this experience so far?

Jim: “My best moments were: -1 when I was chosen for this competition

-2 when June praised us for are progress this week. My best memory of this experience so far has been the fact that I am doing something which has given me an insight into a whole new world of dancing for such a wonderful cause.”

Any tips for anybody thinking of doing this in the future?

“ Our advice would be to be prepared to spend a lot of your personal time doing something else for the good of someone else and to have your dancing shoes polished up and finally be prepared for the roller coaster of your life.”

How are you feeling? How do you think you will do on the night?

“We’re feeling good, still a bit nervous but hopefully it will all come together on the night!”

How is your partner getting on?

Conor: “Great! I think ‘the fear’ may well and truly have kicked in last week but we’re working well together and I haven’t dropped Sally (yet!) which is always a plus.”

What were your best moments? What is your best memory of this experience so far?

Sally: “The first time we tried the under the up move, it ended in tears for Conor!!”

Any tips for anybody thinking of doing this in the future?

“Just get involved! It is great fun and something a little bit different”

How are you feeling? How do you think you will do on the night?

Dave: “Tired! We’ll get through it!”

Fiona: “Disorganised! I think we’ll be nervous but will have fun..”

How is your partner getting on?

Dave: “Great!”

Fiona: “He is doing brilliantly! He is much better at remembering the steps than I am!”

What were your best moments? What is your best memory of this experience so far?

Dave: “Finishing off the routine.”

Fiona: “The lifts! I love being lifted up!”

Any tips for anybody thinking of doing this in the future?

“ Practice, practice, practice!!”

How are you feeling? How do you think you will do on the night?

“We’re feeling nervous but excited. There are a bit of jumps in our dance so it will be touch and go. We seem to get it right 50 percent of the time!!”

What do you think of the other competitors?

“Everyone is really friendly and seems to be enjoying the rehearsals. All the dancers seem to be coming along nicely”

Who do you think you have to watch out for? Who do you think is the best dancer from your fellow contestants?

“Jim has got the ballroom moves but the chemistry between Sarah and Joe can’t be ignored!!”

If you could have one dance with anybody you liked in the whole wide world who would it be and what dance would you like to dance to?

Conor: “I think James Brown could definitely have given me a few tips for my dance on the 26^th”

Sally:” 50cent because I have always had a secret desire to appear in a rap video”

How are you feeling? How do you think you will do on the night?

“We are feeling good! Mixture of excitement and dread but we’ll survive the night…we hope!!”

What do you think of the other competitors?

“They are lovely people!”

Who do you think you have to watch out for? Who do you think is the best dancer from your fellow contestants?

“Fiona and Dave! They probably have been practicing for hours at home…! They are the dark horses of the competition!”

If you could have one dance with anybody you liked in the whole wide world who would it be and what dance would you like to dance to?

Ann: “Al Pacino, he knows how to tango!”

Gary: “Yeah I’d settle for Al Pacino too…might learn a step or two!”

How are you feeling? How do you think you will do on the night?

“We feel unprepared so far! Hope the nerves won’t get us on show night!”

What do you think of the other competitors?

“We can’t sat much, they’ll know we’ve been spying…but we can say, it’ll be close”

Who do you think you have to watch out for? Who do you think is the best dancer from your fellow contestants?

“Everybody’s looking good but we should say the other McCann FitzGerald couples…No pressures guys!!!”

If you could have one dance with anybody you liked in the whole wide world who would it be and what dance would you like to dance to?

“Sarah would like to duet with Fred Astaire, she is a ‘Rogers’!”

“Joe would like a dance with Shakira, because her hips don’t lie and neither does his!!”

How are you feeling? How do you think you will do on the night?

Dave: “Quietly confident we will win on the night”

Fiona:” Scared…!! I will probably be petrified on the night.”

What do you think of the other competitors?

Dave: “Not a lot- there’s been a lot of boosting, but we’ll see who gets the last laugh!”

Fiona: “Everyone is talented and lovely”

Who do you think you have to watch out for? Who do you think is the best dancer from your fellow contestants?

“Gary and Ann are definitely the pair to watch, with 15 years tap, jazz and contemporary experience between them they are pure grace and skill on the dance floor!”

If you could have one dance with anybody you liked in the whole wide world who would it be and what dance would you like to dance to?

“A peaceful waltz with Gandhi or Hammer time with MC Hammer!”