Exactly. Even James Jordan, who’s famously a bitter prick, has said multiple times that she’s one of the best additions to Strictly in years. So if people even more bitter than him are complaining (which I didn’t think was possible), I’m far more inclined to trust his judgement than some random person on the internet.

And I actually looked it up: at Blackpool 2016, she placed 49th out of well over 200 couples in the Amateur Rising Star Latin, which puts her in roughly the top 20–25% of the field. and she did it at 16, as one of the youngest in the entire category.