Oti was ambitious she wanted to move on from Strictly she won the glitter Ball trophy 🏆 twice in 2019 2020 been runner up with Danny Mac she achieved what she wanted on strictly as a professional dancer.
Yep, I'm from Brazil and I can guarantee we don't listen to cuban Celia Cruz on a daily basis neither consider the rythm any type of samba-like. Still a great performance though.
Sometimes on Strictly, I get chills watching a dance, but it's usually some time after Blackpool and never in week 1. But this one really got me. Man, this guy has some moves! And it's especially impressive that he's so big and yet so graceful. And to think we almost didn't get to see him at all, had it not been for Jamie's injury.
She's actually a lot quieter in Strictly than she is in our Let's Dance (the German version of Strictly). Maybe she was pretty nervous (which is very unlike her).
The best Week 1 dance and male Samba I've ever seen on Strictly not to mention the last minute edition he was to the show!!!!! Oti is such a brilliant teacher and really brought out the extraordinary talent in Kelvin every single week 👏 🙌
Yay!! The Beeb are putting out full length clips of dances! So great to see audience reaction, judges' and presenters' too. Always disappointed not to see those for previous famous dances.
bettinelli What are you talking about? Of course it's a Samba. We're talking about the dance, not the music. The judges are professionals & THEY recognised this dance as a Samba. Hell, even I can see the Samba bounce & voltas in it.
@@poeticjustice1000 No, I'm Brazilian and I can assure you that this has absolutely nothing to do with Samba. It sounds more like Salsa and it's not a Brazilian rhythm. Sorry for letting you down... Come to Brazil and listen to our Samba, you'll find out I'm right.
bettinelli You're again talking about the SOUND. Maybe it's not authentic street Brazilian samba, but honestly that probably won't wash in professional ballroom competitions where they're looking for a more heightened representation. I'm afraid if you're wanting genuine "down & dirty" samba, you've come to the wrong place. LOL Check out Oti & Danny Mac's Samba & come back & tell me what you think of that.
This boy. Is some dancer. As someone else has said. Kelvin and Danny mack. Two of the best male. Celebrity dancer. Ever on strictly. What an absolute pleasure to watch have been watching over and over thank you boys
I would love to see oti win. She's amazing. It's great that she got a partner who can dance. All the time they pair her with someone who is not able to come through. She's an amazing dancer and i would love to see a black person win this time around.
She got paired with Danny Mac and they did that insane samba which I still watch to this day, it was utterly incredible. They really ought to have won, but clearly the menopausal mafia were out for him because he had "dance experience". Oh, and Ore Oduba won that year and he's black, so...
leopold Ore winning had nothing to do with him being Black. That’s not an excuse to give whenever someone Black achieves something over someone white. I too thought Danny should have won. He and Oti were s brilliant pairing that year. But, the people hate when someone has dance experience. My money is totally on Kelvin this year. Even if it’s because I’m salivating over his butt and chest 🤗😉
@@SussexSandra I never said it did, it was in response to the OPs desire to see a black person win, which I was pointing out has already happened. And if you read my comment, you'd see that my rationale for Danny not winning was because people were complaining about his alleged dance experience, nothing to do with skin colour.
Oti Mabuse you’ve only gone and done it AGAIN! I was initially thinking that it’s cruel to give a samba week one but if any pro could do a fabulous samba it’s Oti. Kelvin has serious rhythm and potential - Shirley, Motsi and Tess all getting hot flushes and being lost for words was honestly the funniest thing I’ve seen on strictly 😂 ( besides the inevitable of Bruno falling off his chair each series). I was cheering throughout the whole performance!
They were fabulous. Unbelievable for week 1 and such a carnival vibe too. Lovely to see his humble reaction. Still my favourite couple to date since this show started. Though Bill and Oti are a very close second!
Oti is now 2 for 2 for amazing sambas with a male celeb! This was so exciting to watch, you can tell they have that amazing dance chemistry together like she used to have with Danny Mac. Im already rooting for this lad and its only week 1
What a lovely lovely man, his family are very lucky. Besides that the whole thing is full of joy. He won it for me in week one. He really let go and didn't allow the judges praise to go to his head. You could see he was listening intently for constructive feedback but only Craig gave any. I never get tired of watching this . Wonder what he is doing now
I freaking loved this routine; their chemistry, their rhythm. EVERYTHING! But, what really killed me 🤣🤣🤣🤣 was the bug that attached Shirley at the end and Bruno squished with his paddle. I can't stop laughing...🤣🤣🤣
The first time I watched this I thought Oti was the contestant, because the camera focuses more on her. That's how good Kelvin is. Great performance for week 1. - from Philippines
This and Jay & alionas jive has to be the two best strictly dances ever! I mean there are others like Kara Tointon etc that are amazing but for the first few weeks thats amazing for this standard of dance that both kelvin and Jay gave
Boy, that man can dance. OTI, WOW .. perfecto performance as usual & As f that rhythm, well as GLORIA ESTEFAN, once said, IT'S DEFINITELY Gunna get u..
All respect to Oti, she brings out the very best in all her partners. Both Danny Mac and Kelvin Fletcher have been an absolute pleasure to watch.
And now Bill as well 🙌🙌🙌
All respect to Oti she brings out the very best in all her parents. Both Danny Mac and
Kevin Fletcher have been absolute pleasure to watch.
@@kimowens4405 You repeted Elwyn's comment word for word.
Anyway, Danny was mediocre at best.
@@CandleLight1974me when i lie
Always remember thrir 1st dance. He was deffo my fave. What a mover.🙌
The best week one dance of all time, and possibly the best dance ever performed on the show.
Watched this a hundred times, still brings a smile on my face. Love, love, love Kelvin & Oti!
Watched this a hundred times still brings a smile on my face love love Karen & Oti!
I’m loosing track of how many times I’ve watched this 🔥
Me too. Lol. I’ve watched this 20 times so far 😂😂😂
Yeah, they've got to do it again if they get to the final surely?
Me too ...they are my favs 😍
Me too. A close second to Danny Mac which in my opinion is the best ever Samba on Strictly. :)
25 and counting
I swear Oti’s a goddess 😍
Goddess Emporess Queen
She is a Queen.
She is absolutely gorgeous!!!😍
💯💯💯
She better win! I mean and Kelvin too! Lol
You know it's good when you can't tell which is the professional.
Open your eyes
Open your eyes oti is the professional dancer
dont worry Ellen i get you
Had no idea who the celebrity was until after. Bravo!,
Especially on week 1!
So sad not to see OTI this year, I think she’s one of the best there is 😊 👏 ❤
Oti was ambitious she wanted to move on from Strictly she won the glitter Ball trophy 🏆 twice in 2019 2020 been runner up with Danny Mac she achieved what she wanted on strictly as a professional dancer.
So glad they won. Great couple. This was my favourite dance of all. Came in as a replacement and produced this on his first dance. Brilliant!
I don’t know if I will ever get tired of watching this. So amazing
I am so glad that Kelvin got the gig, what a star. My moneys on you boy. 😉
💯💯💯😂😂😂
...and as Craig said, "God works in mysterious ways."
Kelvin won!
I swear I felt like I was in Brazil with a drink in my hand - while I was watching Kelvin in my living room in rainy London.....
Andy Yu
samba is different and is from Brazil but that dance and rhythm is salsa, the artist's Celia Cruz from Cuba
They confused it 😶
Salsa is not from Brazil. This is sang in Spanish and Celia Cruz is from Cuba.
Yep, I'm from Brazil and I can guarantee we don't listen to cuban Celia Cruz on a daily basis neither consider the rythm any type of samba-like. Still a great performance though.
The greatest debut ever on strictly and I’ve seen every series.
One of my favourite Strictly dances of all time. Sensual, sexy, fun and hard to imagine that this was only week one. OLÉ!!!
Now this was and still is the s**t! How can a guy that stacked, move like THAT?! So good, I smiled like I was high throughout the routine.
Oti Mabuse is amazing, she is the best dancer I have ever seen!
Sometimes on Strictly, I get chills watching a dance, but it's usually some time after Blackpool and never in week 1. But this one really got me. Man, this guy has some moves! And it's especially impressive that he's so big and yet so graceful. And to think we almost didn't get to see him at all, had it not been for Jamie's injury.
Thats how I felt after Joe and Dianne's jive in week one, they should have got more points.
@@vallee3140 Yeah, that was really good. No chills, but it was still a very good dance and set Joe up to be a real contender.
I'm astonished he was *that* good in week 1 after coming in as a last minute replacement. Just amazing.
Some things are just meant to be 😊
They had it won from the get go with this dance. Whatever about Kelvin's moves Oti is just incredible
Come back to this time and time again ... TV GOLD!!
OMG SHE'S FIRE WOW Best female professional dancer on strictly
Jazz Michael I agree!
I'm german and we love our Motsi here! You can lend her but you can't keep her ;)
She's actually a lot quieter in Strictly than she is in our Let's Dance (the German version of Strictly). Maybe she was pretty nervous (which is very unlike her).
*borrow :D
@@chocobaby3113 I expected her to be really loud. Nice to see that she showed a lot of warmth.
Thank you, I love her! A sassy lady. Im so glad she came! 😍
@@chocobaby3113 I'm sure it won't take her long to warm up into the role. I really like her.
Anyone else notice the bug on Shirley at 06:46 and then Bruno smacking it with his baton? 😂😂😂
I can watch Oti dance all day she is a beautiful dancer 😍😍
The best Week 1 dance and male Samba I've ever seen on Strictly not to mention the last minute edition he was to the show!!!!! Oti is such a brilliant teacher and really brought out the extraordinary talent in Kelvin every single week 👏 🙌
Oti is the samba queen!!!!! She gets the best out of her celebs, she is brilliant!!
I still come back to this dance every year.
Love that they've including the scoring!
I watched this a million times...always gives me a smile to my face....Kelvin deserves to win this year...
She is the best I’ve seen in ballroom dancing, period! She makes the man look so gooood!
Yay!! The Beeb are putting out full length clips of dances! So great to see audience reaction, judges' and presenters' too. Always disappointed not to see those for previous famous dances.
It would only be for the top performing dances of the night
I would love these for Danny Mac’s dances 😢
That is one hell of a Samba. The best ever Samba on Week 1. Damn, Oti, you are amazing. Kelvin, you are the man!, awesome!
This is not Samba. Have you ever really listened to Samba? I bet you haven't.
It's not samba it's Salsa🤦🏻♂️
bettinelli What are you talking about? Of course it's a Samba. We're talking about the dance, not the music. The judges are professionals & THEY recognised this dance as a Samba. Hell, even I can see the Samba bounce & voltas in it.
@@poeticjustice1000 No, I'm Brazilian and I can assure you that this has absolutely nothing to do with Samba. It sounds more like Salsa and it's not a Brazilian rhythm. Sorry for letting you down... Come to Brazil and listen to our Samba, you'll find out I'm right.
bettinelli You're again talking about the SOUND. Maybe it's not authentic street Brazilian samba, but honestly that probably won't wash in professional ballroom competitions where they're looking for a more heightened representation. I'm afraid if you're wanting genuine "down & dirty" samba, you've come to the wrong place. LOL
Check out Oti & Danny Mac's Samba & come back & tell me what you think of that.
Can we just also apreciate how beautiful the frock Oti's wearing is!
This boy. Is some dancer. As someone else has said. Kelvin and Danny mack. Two of the best male. Celebrity dancer. Ever on strictly. What an absolute pleasure to watch have been watching over and over thank you boys
I would love to see oti win. She's amazing. It's great that she got a partner who can dance. All the time they pair her with someone who is not able to come through. She's an amazing dancer and i would love to see a black person win this time around.
Oti and Danny Mac were robbed.
I loved her with Danny but then I loved Ore and Joanne that year too. One of my fave jives ever
She got paired with Danny Mac and they did that insane samba which I still watch to this day, it was utterly incredible. They really ought to have won, but clearly the menopausal mafia were out for him because he had "dance experience". Oh, and Ore Oduba won that year and he's black, so...
leopold Ore winning had nothing to do with him being Black. That’s not an excuse to give whenever someone Black achieves something over someone white. I too thought Danny should have won. He and Oti were s brilliant pairing that year. But, the people hate when someone has dance experience. My money is totally on Kelvin this year. Even if it’s because I’m salivating over his butt and chest 🤗😉
@@SussexSandra I never said it did, it was in response to the OPs desire to see a black person win, which I was pointing out has already happened. And if you read my comment, you'd see that my rationale for Danny not winning was because people were complaining about his alleged dance experience, nothing to do with skin colour.
This is the ONE dance that stands out in my mind out of ALL the Strictly dances EVER!!!
Best dance ever on Strictly - powerhouse combo ...
I could watch Oti all day long 😍 the woman is an absolute goddess!
Who else came back here after just watching them win?
Matthew Probert Me!
My favourite.
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I had several hot flashes throughout the routine...I honestly didn't know who was the professional until the end...that was EPIC!
Oti needs her own category. The queen of samba is just too good.
Oti Mabuse you’ve only gone and done it AGAIN! I was initially thinking that it’s cruel to give a samba week one but if any pro could do a fabulous samba it’s Oti. Kelvin has serious rhythm and potential - Shirley, Motsi and Tess all getting hot flushes and being lost for words was honestly the funniest thing I’ve seen on strictly 😂 ( besides the inevitable of Bruno falling off his chair each series). I was cheering throughout the whole performance!
And I'm still loving it 2 years later 🤣😍
They were fabulous. Unbelievable for week 1 and such a carnival vibe too. Lovely to see his humble reaction. Still my favourite couple to date since this show started. Though Bill and Oti are a very close second!
I literally held my breath watching that - I swear you couldn’t tell who was the professional!!
When strictly was about the dancing ability and not a personality contest. Love love love this ❤
Kelvin & Oti are in another league. Worthy Camps!! Omg 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
6:48 Shirley has a bug on her face and Bruno hits it with his paddle lol 😂
Billy Church this made me crease
Enit
Omfg that's a giant bug
What beads was Shirley talking about?
richard anayiotos Catholic rosary beads.
Let’s be honest the reason it didn’t get higher scores was because it’s week 1
Not Craig. Craig said in an interview that he gives what scores are fit regardless of week number.
At first, I couldn't stop watching. Now, months later, I can't stop dancing with them :D
I think Oti, Kevin and Katya are the best choreographers among the pros and I'm happy all three of them have had a win now. They deserve it!
This honestly makes me smile so much haha. That man knows how to move those muscles!!
Oti is now 2 for 2 for amazing sambas with a male celeb! This was so exciting to watch, you can tell they have that amazing dance chemistry together like she used to have with Danny Mac. Im already rooting for this lad and its only week 1
Oti is surely missed, bring her back please. Kelvin and Oti where amazing and her Danny also. Not the same without her for sure.
Honestly, one of those most memorable moments on strictly
The best dance in strictly ever ! I missed this two.
What a lovely lovely man, his family are very lucky. Besides that the whole thing is full of joy. He won it for me in week one. He really let go and didn't allow the judges praise to go to his head. You could see he was listening intently for constructive feedback but only Craig gave any. I never get tired of watching this . Wonder what he is doing now
I freaking loved this routine; their chemistry, their rhythm. EVERYTHING!
But, what really killed me 🤣🤣🤣🤣 was the bug that attached Shirley at the end and Bruno squished with his paddle.
I can't stop laughing...🤣🤣🤣
That lady has the finest legs ever! Gorgeous head to toes!
Tell me about it, she's a goddess!
And the finest ass
Beautiful girl.
She’s beautiful xx
Wow, they're both so drop dead gorgeous 😍
Oti is just gorgeous .
Oti is brilliant and wow... exciting to watch, the guy, wow, nailed it!
I'm so happy to see Oti so over the moon after the judges' comments
Kelvin for me is by far the best male strictly come dancing winner. Wooot woot.
Costume designer absolutely delivered!
Wow what a performance can't wait to see more from this guy and some more dancing as well!
Finest dance for a week 1 I think I ever saw. I keep rewatching and telling the missus it's so I. An watch oti 😂😂😂
This makes it into Strictly history surely?!?
No doubt they’d have secured higher judges scores if it hadn’t been Week 1!
Absolute 🔥
WOW what a first performance.....brill 😍😃👍
What the great dance💓. Greetings from Azerbaijan 🇦🇿
LOVED IT guy a natural & best routine by a mile for first time & a long way to go
The dance and the song is actually salsa. One of the greatest hits from the queen of salsa, Celia Cruz. I loveeee the performance though 😍
Who else is watching just after Oti and Bill have won?
Not just me then.
Me
didn't give a shit about strictly until bill
Yet again I'm watching this in awe at kelvin's hip action!! My god my partner is called Kelvin too!! I'm telling him that he's got to step up now!!
The first time I watched this I thought Oti was the contestant, because the camera focuses more on her. That's how good Kelvin is. Great performance for week 1. - from Philippines
Hot hot hot...nothing else to say! 🔥
EXACTLY!!!! It gave this old lady a hot flush..........
loved Motsi even more tonight she is so funny.
32? Is that the top score? Superb, going to watch that amazing dance couple again and again. Wow!
I’m with Motsi I’m glad he stepped in!
Yes!!!! Incredible! Total surprise. The guys got it xxx
He is amazing. A natural dancer
Kelvin samba in week 1 was brilliant for he first dance on Strictly Come Dancing .👏
First class ! 👏
So glad they show the comments now. Love the reactions!!
I can’t stop replaying this dance!! They were so good! Keep moving those hips boy 🔥🔥🔥
_same here_
This and Jay & alionas jive has to be the two best strictly dances ever! I mean there are others like Kara Tointon etc that are amazing but for the first few weeks thats amazing for this standard of dance that both kelvin and Jay gave
i would’ve given it a 9 or 10, i’ve watched this to many times
I remember watching this first time and it was kelvins first experience in the show and I was like O.M.G 😱
Epic never seen before Oti is such a great dancer
whoever dressed these 2 knew exactly what they were doing ;)
Boy, that man can dance.
OTI, WOW .. perfecto performance as usual & As f that rhythm, well as GLORIA ESTEFAN, once said, IT'S DEFINITELY Gunna get u..
Kelvin was the best celebrity dancer. He was sensational.
They deserved to win 🏆
This is the best performance ever!!
So hot that they put it on the BBC page as well as the strictly BBC page jheeeez 👏🏼🔥
One thing ive noticed from years of dancing Latin (Salsa, Bachata) etc. Is that if you vibe with a song it adds something you just cant train for
Those hips don't lie 😀 Wow what a start to the competition!
THAT WAS INCREDIBLE
Dark horse? No way, he should be stand-out favourite after this. Can't wait to see where he goes from here.
He's a natural! 😃
Kelvin reminds me of ben stiller in the film along came polly when he was dancing.
Bruno smashing the fly with the paddle at the end, lol!
Oh my lord he is the Beast of this season yaaaaaasssss 😘
Is no one going to dicuss how Bruno smashed that fly to death after he gave his score? 😂
Wow wow i watched this on tv as my partner recorded it like more than 20X ...amazing, excellent wow wow ...they both now my favourite to win...👏👏👏