This week on It Takes Two, we have learnt...

- Craig rehearsed his lines a lot for the baking-themed pro dance. All three of them.
- The Christmas cast is as follows: Sara Cox, Rochelle Humes, Elaine Paige, Rufus Hound, Ricky Norwood and Matt Goss.
- Abbey punched Aljaž hard in the face during rehearsals for the live show on Saturday.
- Susanna was very excited to be sat next to Mary Berry in make-up.
- The brown-haired floor manager is not as hot as the red-haired one.
- Ben always went by Kristina’s timing because he couldn’t hear the music properly.
- Ben is kind of relieved he never got to the stage where he had to learn two dances in one week. Kristina took the elimination slightly harder.
- Kristina’s favourite phrase is “…and again.”
- Kevin has no moves, flirting-wise.
- Susanna and Kevin want to be amazing and brilliant or a disaster, but not be somewhere mediocre in between.
- Zoe is more excited about Musicals Week than anyone.
- It looks like Anya’s foot stayed on the floor in the Viennese waltz after all. Craig has promised that if it turns out he really was wrong about that, he’ll make a national apology.
- Iveta only hears what she wants to hear when Craig is talking.
- Mark’s plan for the samba is to dress up in a head-to-toe tiger suit and replace himself with Pasha when nobody is watching. - The Viennese waltz was too fast for British people, so that’s why we adopted the normal waltz instead.
- Ola gets very excited when the voting lines open.
- Aljaž is happy if Abbey does her best and isn’t bothered about the score. That sound you just heard is Kristina choking on whatever she’s drinking right now.
- Abbey just can’t stop laughing. Although she’s probably due a bottom two appearance again soon, so that might cure her.
- Abbey’s nervous about this week because she’s so high. Er, in the air, that is.
- Robin is the pro who eats the most, while the two pros who are most addicted to their phones are Pasha (for the games) and Kristina (for communication).
- Karen Hauer’s favourite dance of the season so far is Patrick and Anya’s American smooth.
- Iveta’s dress for this week has a tail. Chances are Mark’s outfit will too.
- Natalie and Artem have amassed 300 hours of training so far.
- Natalie just can’t resist lip synching to ‘And I Am Telling You I’m Not Going’. She’s only human, to be fair.
- Deborah Meaden is the dancer that Darcey misses seeing the most.
- Sophie has seen some rumbas that have really freaked her out. Presumably this one is at the top of the list:



- The Viennese waltz was one of the dances that Patrick really wanted to do.
- Patrick started out doing am-dram musicals. He was Danny Zuko in Grease.
- Lucky the predictive pup tips Abbey and Aljaž will top the leaderboard this week. He obviously has more confidence in that training footage than we do.
- Aljaž looks like he should be presenting CBBC when he wears stripy jumpers.
- No one seems entirely sure of the lyrics to ‘You Should Be Dancing’ by the Bee Gees.
- Rufus Hound thinks Susanna will win, Victoria Silvstedt thinks Patrick, Aled Jones thinks Sophie and Brendan. I don’t really know what any of them said about anything else because this is the first time ever I’ve fast-forwarded through the Friday panel, since Rufus Hound was somehow worse than Biggins and Barrowman put together.