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Barnes will do well to dribble his way out of eviction

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Chicken Dinner provide some food for thought on who is most likely to get the boot on Saturday night's edition of "Strictly Come Dancing"

People have run into plate glass windows more elegantly than Kate Garraway - [3.1] on Betfair to be eliminated this week), and her toe-crushing paso doble this week will probably bring Bruno out in hives, but nothing she does seems to harm her progress. Her freakishly loyal voting bloc is probably still proportionally big enough to keep her in for another week. Neither does it hurt that her dance partner Anton is a huge favourite with the hardcore fans, and Garraway is a trooper - can anyone forget how she SMOKED with a baby inside her?

Which is bad news for Kenny Logan who is [4.0]. This week he's giving the cha cha cha a bash, the very same dance that Emma Bunton delivered with aplomb last year, and yet still found herself dancing for survival. His lumberjackish interpretation of something a little sexy should surely find him traipsing home with gigantic tears cascading down his enormous face. He is outdone for likeability by Barnes (4.8), and for charm and talent by Jones (30.0).

That said, while Gethin Jones climbs the ladder - his dances are improving and he is stealing sexy points away from Di Angelo who is [17.5] - time is catching up with John Barnes, who is [5] to get the boot. His kind and gentle nature has no place in the closing stages of a dancing competition. He is doing a tango - Schmeichel made a similar choice last year, and he was given the boot.

Matt Di Angelo final two'd it last week, and is rumoured to be boffing his buck-toothed dance-partner. Voting mums and nans don't like sexy talk, so his illicit love - real or not - will horrify huge portions of middle England. He will need to be on humility overdrive this Saturday, but instead the home-wrecker will be bounding around doing the quickstep. His popularity is dwindling, and Jones now looks like the top gent, although it would be a major shock if he went this week.

Also on the tightrope is Letitia Dean, trading at [5.8 to go on Betfair]. Like Barnes, she will soon be picked off for neither being good enough, nor charismatic enough. Just being on Eastenders has got her this far, and last week she needed to build on two good performances to continue climbing the ladder, but blew it. Her unconventional physique also puts her at an enormous disadvantage, and her time will soon be nigh.

Alesha Dixon who trades at [55.0] - performing the ever popular waltz - and Kelly Brook, who you can back at [21.0] need just turn up to get through, although Brook would be wise to inject a bit of fun into her performance, while resisting the temptation to make her jive too frantic.