These days I don’t say much about the regular Skating and Gymnastics Spectaculars.
I have no interest. But there seems to be a market. And I don’t begrudge any gymnast or ex-gymnast who wants to make a few bucks.
But in the last one, Nastia Liukin and friends, Spanny caught a deception:
… in real life, Hollie (Vise) fell on her front aerial. But we couldn’t have that on TV now could we? So Hollie had to reshoot at least that portion of the routine, I’m assuming after the audience left. Which is why she is shot from below, because you can’t see that there is no audience. Very very tricky. …
read more – Big Fake Smile – they look like deep fried deep poop.
You simply can’t believe what you see on a TV Craptacular.
Shocking and cruel? … YES.
There’s something … unnatural about combining gymnastics and ice skating.


