Friday 20 November 2015

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

- Next time Jeremy goes to a wedding he’s going to a waltz. And a tango. And ride a fibreglass horse.
- Jeremy might do the guitar dance for Children in Need 2016.  But probably won't.
- Karen deliberately ran past the judges to distract them during Jeremy’s tango.
- Karen is going to miss having coffee and chats with Jeremy, but doesn't mention missing the actual dancing.
- Jamelia isn’t entirely sure what you put in a cake.
- Janette thinks the last thing she says to Peter before they dance is 'Have fun'.  Peter thinks it's 'Don't mess it up.'
- A few people have told Janette to get married in her dress from Saturday.  It is unclarified whether or not Aljaž was one of them.
- Lots of people call Janette “little peanut”.
- Janette made their dance last week more like an American Smooth than a Viennese Waltz because of the music choice suiting the former better.  Le sigh.
- Janette’s brother Alejandro is also a salsa dancer.
-3800 people have done 'The Strictly'.  I judge each and every one of them.
- Georgia and Giovanni always watch their performance back as soon as it goes online to look for mistakes.
- The fact-checking on the show is still as slapdash as ever because they think Georgia and Giovanni’s scores have never gone down (they got 27 in week one and 25 in week two).
- Kevin was ill on Tuesday so Kellie had an actual day off. She took her son to nursery, went to get her highlights done and did the shopping.
- Kevin wanted his character last week to be called K-Dogg 'with two Gs.'
- Everyone on this show has seemingly now decided a Craig 9 is better than a 10 from anyone else.
- Kellie and Zoe are not averse to chest hair on a man.
- Karen Hardy’s favourite subject at school was maths.
- Karen Hardy thinks the choreography is entirely the reason for Katie’s Latin scores.
- Jamelia knew she would be in the dance-off last weekend, but wasn’t sure who she’d be up against. And she started saying goodbye to Tristan before they even danced.
- Tristan is thinking about giving up dancing in the main show and just going straight to the dance-off.
- Anita injured her thumb in training this week but thankfully it’s not broken.
- Despite getting advice from Anton last week, Gleb ultimately discarded his quickstep tips last week.
- Anita has been struggling a little bit with the caping in her paso doble.
- Apparently a onesie and a set of ears constitutes a donkey costume.
- Helen generally needs a pep talk before each dance.
- Every dance is apparently the best dance to do at BLACKPOOL.
- There are going to be a lot of prop dancers at BLACKPOOL.
- Aljaž can dance with a lot of Helens in 90 seconds.
- The stumble in Jay’s foxtrot was caused by him not doing enough pivots, and the rest of the dance after that was entirely improvised.
- Aliona thinks that Jay will smile during the dance when they do a charleston.
- Katie will be wearing a Ginger number for Blackpool. That’s Ginger Rogers, sadly, not Ginger Spice.
- Aliona and Karen have pretty much the same body shape.
- The Christmas special will feature Harry dancing with Joanne, Abbey dancing with Brendan, Alison and Robin, Cassidy (from The People’s Strictly) with Natalie, Lisa Snowdon and Pasha, and Tom and Oti.
- Someone thought that getting the celebrities voiced like the adults in the Haribo adverts was a good idea.  It wasn’t.
- Janette, like Tristan, used to work in a bank.
- Natalie was bullied as a child. :(
- Natalie flew in to the UK for just eight hours to audition for the show.
- Janette eats at least one banana a day. (Phrasing.)
- Natalie and Janette both love banoffee pie.
- Darcey has judged a lot of hip-hop and street dance. Shut up, she has.
- If Darcey had to pick one of her fellow judges as a dance partner, she’d probably go for Craig.
- Darcey’s favourite dance of the season so far is Jay’s jive, despite the ponytail.
- If Anton gets through BLACKPOOL week, he will do his first ever Argentine Tango.
- Katie and Janette are fighting over who gets Ian Waite in the donkey onesie to be stuck at the top of Blackpool tower with.

- Jamelia has gone drunk with dance-off power and wants to break the record again and again and again.
- Jamelia doesn’t eat breakfast.
- Katie’s husband John is the king of the green room party.

- Kellie’s been off EastEnders all week, so even though she missed a day because Kevin was ill, she’s still had more training time than most other weeks.
- There will be two car-crash group dances this weekend.
- Lindyhop is a ‘language’ these days.
- Mel Giedroyc is going to present the live tour and is wondering if she needs to get her teeth done.
- Louis Smith thinks Peter Andre’s jive looks ‘patty’ and ‘soft’.
- Anton grabbed Louise Redknapp in the shops once.  That can be her inevitable RINGER story when she does the show.
- Guest performer Anastasia was quite happy to mug for the ITT camera.  Fellow guest performers, tax-dodging funsponges Take That were not.
- Briyan McFadden tried to get Jay to come for a drink with him at 2am on Friday.
- Kevin would choose cod over haddock or scampi and is therefore DEAD TO GRIMSBY.  (The correct answer is haddock btw, and Gleb has never heard of any of them.)
- Jason Gilkison shouts a lot and has just got engaged.

- Robin Windsor is not good at sports.
- Mel Giedroyc is rubbish at Strictly trivia and Louis Smith is rubbish at hoopla – not as rubbish as Louise Redknapp though.
- All the pro dancers love BLACKPOOL and know it really well… except Gleb, who doesn’t understand why the sprung floor is as it is, and Giovanni who calls it ‘different’.
- Georgia and Giovanni went on The Big One in the high winds.
- Giovanni goes round singing Whitney.
- The Friday panel of Louise Redknapp, Louis Smith and Mel Giedroyc think Jamelia will be going home, but Louise thinks Katie will be in the bottom two and Louis Smith thinks Peter will be.  Mel wants Anita to win and doesn't care who else goes.
- Joanne is spreading the lie that Grimsby is a 'seaside' town.
- When the Cliftons used to travel from Grimsby to Blackpool as a family, the first person to spot the tower got 20p.

- Joanne had her first proper kiss at Blackpool in the aquarium. Anyone else looking at her Little Mermaid routine with Scott Mills last year rather differently now?
- Joanne and Kevin's parents wore a LOT of spandex and sequins in their day.
- There is a chip shop in BLACKPOOL called Yorkshire fisheries for some reason.

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