This Morning published this video item, entitled “Alison & Dermot Learn How To Line Dance Ahead Of Country To Country Festival! | This Morning” – below is their description.
Yeee haaa! Europe’s biggest country music festival is back in Britain this weekend! Country To Country kicks off later today in London, Glasgow and Dublin, bringing a solid dose of Nashville to the UK. And to get us in the mood, we take a trip down memory lane to last year’s event at London’s O2, and look back at what happened when our West Country girl turned Wild West country girl, with the help of Britain’s biggest country stars, The Shires. Plus Dermot and Alison will be getting in the swing of it by trying their hand at line-dancing!
Broadcast on 10/03/23
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Shame on you for perpetrating all the usual lazy stereotypical cliches. I understand ELD were consulted and provided you with a competent alternative linedance instructor and dancers but you chose to go with that ridiculous troupe, apparently in fancy dress, who clearly hadn’t the first idea about linedance. (This was also true of the lady shown “teaching” with her thumbs in her belt, for heaven’s sake.) I have been an instructor for over 20 years and I cringed throughout the entire charade. Please listen next time your “researchers” ask for advice, and do the public the favour of showing them real linedancers, professional instructors and some actual linedance choreography to modern music. If your “researchers” had bothered to spend 5 minutes on YouTube they would have found more than enough examples to give them the faintest idea of what goes on in today’s linedancing community. As it is, you have done linedancing the greatest possible disservice and jeopardised the future of clubs and social venues across the country. Well done. An apology by way of putting the record straight on air is the very least you should do – I’m sure ELD would be happy to assist you, despite the fact that you have ridiculed their community’s livelihood and pastime in the most infantile way.