Neither Grey nor Swayze participated in the series, but we did have former Brookside actor Jennifer Ellison as a celebrity judge, which is absolutely the same.
Kelly Brook hosted, with 20 British dancers being flown to Virginia, where the original film was shot, to face off on a dancefloor. Made in conjunction with the film’s 20th anniversary, this UK reality show also pilfered themes from then-popular competition shows like So You Think You Can Dance. Let’s not speak of this again.ĭirty Dancing: The Time of Your Life (2007) It also has a bit of a dark cloud over it today – Romola Garai, this film’s Jennifer Grey, has spoken about being relentlessly urged to lose weight while shooting it, and in 2017 recalled feeling “violated” and “belittled” shortly before production began by Harvey Weinstein, whose studio Miramax backed it.
A Diet Coke of a movie, it emulates much of the first movie’s plot but lacks its charm. While this belated sequel-slash-reboot-slash-prequel, which even features a cameo from Swayze, has its fans, it’s also very much the Grease 2 of the Dirty Dancing franchise. Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights (also known as Dirty Dancing 2 or Dirty Dancing 2: Havana Nights) is a 2004 American dance musical romantic drama film directed by Guy Ferland and starring Diego Luna, Romola Garai, Sela Ward, John Slattery, Jonathan Jackson, January Jones, and Mika Boorem.
