Feeble front brings showers
See the high there? He's just trying to jump into the picture and say, 'hold on, me first.'
The Spinoff
Further Dan-appreciation from The Spinoff's Alex Casey; Dancing With The Stars: Who Could Shimmy Their Way Onto Our TVs? - a contestant wishlist for what we in the UK know as Strictly Come Dancing.
Daniel Corbett
Love this guy. Love. This. Guy. He has proven every night during the weather that he has the moves to divide an entire nation, and even magically bring on both rain and shine. His dance partner? The North Island (the South Island would not have a bar of his nonsense). If TV1 have an issue letting him go, Hickey would step up to the plate in a flash.
Signature move: Spirit fingers, obviously. And a rain dance. And the moonwalk. Because of tides.
Wait... what's that link in the text there...? Something about Dan which has completely passed me by?!
Turns out it's a summary of the comments left on the slightly unkind piece she wrote about Dan back in January...
Blame it on the Weatherman: The People Have Spoken
Brace yourself for some Dan-bashing if you click on that link.
The pro-Corbett camp were warm and welcoming in their responses to our new spidery shaman, commending his shadow puppet hands and well-fitted suits: "He’s adorable, let’s keep him, with a nibble here, a nibble there." – Grizelda "He is a breath of fresh air. A true eccentric who isn’t doing a Jim Hickey impersonation. Rare." – yourcrazy "We thought it was just our family that sits down each night filled with anticipation of what the meteorolamagican is going to delight us with!" – Kate Alice Bruning "We never watched the weather before but now we all sit in front of the tele re-enacting his hand gestures. Like a tai chi class in the living room really!" – Em Through an in-depth series of tally charts, calculations and scribbling on blackboards, I boiled down what middle New Zealand thinks about their new rain man:So there we have it. Despite the cold front of haters moving in, Corbett has endured like a suit-wearing lizard in an endless blizzard.
Bit of a narrow margin of victory there, but that's the Marmite effect for you. I am ever-confident that Dan's presenting genius will win them over in the end.
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