{"id":6430,"date":"2018-04-08T21:46:24","date_gmt":"2018-04-08T19:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/?p=6430"},"modified":"2018-04-08T21:46:24","modified_gmt":"2018-04-08T19:46:24","slug":"tv-star-frank-opperman-leaves-dancing-with-the-stars-sa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2018\/04\/08\/tv-star-frank-opperman-leaves-dancing-with-the-stars-sa\/","title":{"rendered":"TV Star Frank Opperman Leaves Dancing With The Stars SA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tear-stained farewell to \u201ccharming\u201d Frank Opperman on Dancing With The Stars SA!<\/strong><\/p>\n

After a stunning 10-week run, one of the audience\u2019s favourite celebrities – TV star Frank Opperman – and his dancing partner Jeann\u00e9 Swart bid Dancing With The Stars SA goodbye tonight as judges Jason Gilkison, Tebogo Kgobokoe, Debbie Turner, and Bryan Watson voted to keep the sparkling Zola Nombona in the competition for next week\u2019s semi-final.<\/p>\n

Week 10 was the quarter finals of M-Net\u2019s Dancing With The Stars SA Season 1, and the remaining five celebrity couples were given a double opportunity to prove their dancing ability, performing not one, but two dance styles for the judging panel.<\/p>\n

After Zola reprised her fiery Samba in tonight\u2019s Dance-Off and Frank repeated his theatrical Charleston routine, the judging panel voted unanimously to save television star Zola for another week. But \u201cat this stage of the competition there cannot be any losers, there are only two winners standing there,\u201d Bryan Watson noted. \u201cBoth couples have been absolutely inspiring and phenomenal \u2013 Frank, we love you,\u201d said an emotional Jason Gilkison.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat a relief! Now the real dancers can carry on,\u201d Frank said graciously as he bowed out. \u201cI\u2019ve had the greatest fun imaginable on this planet,\u201d he admitted, \u201cbut woah, the pressure was getting too much. I couldn\u2019t keep with them, so well done to everyone,\u201d he said. \u201cI love them all!\u201d<\/p>\n

Throughout this competition, Frank Opperman\u2019s performances improved week-on-week through a combination of hard work and sheer dogged determination, and time after time his irrepressible charm kept him in the competition. Jason Gilikson called Frank\u2019s Week 3 Waltz \u201chonest and endearing\u201d, and in Week 4 Debbie Watson described Frank\u2019s Jive as \u201cabsolutely delightful in its characterisation\u201d. By Week 5\u2019s Cha-Cha-Ch\u00e1, Frank could do no wrong in the judges\u2019 eyes, no matter how wrong his steps were! \u201cYou are our guilty pleasure every week!\u201d Bryan exclaimed.<\/p>\n

Frank\u2019s Paso Doble in Week 8 left all the professional judges aghast. Bryan said he\u2019d never seen as Paso Doble performed quite like that \u2013 \u201cit\u2019s the charm offensive against the technical offensive,\u201d he laughed. And by Week 9 the 57-year-old Frank had gained a whole new lease on life, performing energetic Foxtrot to the classic \u201cYou Make Me Feel So Young\u201d. \u201cO, fokstrot!\u201d he quipped during that week\u2019s rehearsals, but the judges were satisfied. \u201cFor once you weren\u2019t fooling around, I thought you were trying to really dance,\u201d the notoriously tough judge Tebogo Kgobokoe complimented him.<\/p>\n

The vote count and ranking of contestants is done according to the international format rules and was independently computed by Deloitte and Touche and confirmed against the vote results determined by M-Net.<\/p>\n

These are the 4 couples remaining in the competition who will each perform two numbers in the competition semi-final next week, 15 April:<\/p>\n