- Anton thinks the judges overlooked that one slow slep at the beginning of their foxtrot.
- Ruth loved the hats and canes in their routine. You could've fooled us.
- Ruth didn't expect to get further than week two or three.
- Eamonn and Jack are happy they'll get proper dinners again now. #everydaysexism
- Ruth thinks Debbie has a good chance of winning.
- Ruth will be continuing her experiments with wigs.
- Ore hasn't exactly got any less handsome since last year.
- Zoe has offered to make a puppet Joanne to keep Ore company. It might be a joke but... I kind of like the idea of puppets of the cast being a feature on this show. Maybe it's watching all that Drag Race.
- Ore doesn't think Joe is a dark horse because he's in the overall top three on the leaderboard. Man has a point.
- Even Ore feels sarcastic towards 'another high-scoring Charleston'.
- Ore thinks Davood has a magnificent 'wing-span'.
- Gemma has promised Jonnie a chippy tea and some rides at the pleasure beach in BLACKPOOL.
- Ruth didn't catch her hat in rehearsals.
- Seal requested Anton dance during his performance.
- They've started wheeling out Al the head floor manager (and Brian Conley's brother) because they think that Greg's getting too much attention.
- And they call Greg 'Frosty'.
- Ore is still haunted by his charleston.
- Ore is going to SING for Children in Need on Sunday.
- Susan is a very emotional person (to be fair, we were starting to twig this).
- Susan will be fulfilling her promise to get "I love Grimsby" tattooed on her foot now that she's made Blackpool, but not until the show is over because she doesn't want to dance with an open sore on her foot. Fair enough.
- Also where is the annual Grimsby VT, hmmm?
- Susan and Kevin will be recreating the paso from Strictly Ballroom this week. Not gonna lie, I was hoping it'd be something from Kevin's goth phase. Perhaps 'Temple of Love' which should definitely be a paso tune.
- After Jo, Erin's the second person to do Choreography Corner twice this series. They don't seem to trust many of the male ex-pros, do they?
- The best way for men to fix a popped-forward right shoulder is to lift their left shoulder properly into position. Thanks Erin!
- Aljaž thinks the phrase 'kiss me quick' is hilarious.
- Gemma thinks it's not so bad she lost her shoe as 'Cinderella lost a shoe and still went to the ball'. That's basically getting the story the wrong way round, hon.
- Gemma's Viennese waltz was originally meant to end with her walking back to the suitcases, but she couldn't walk straight after all those turns, so Aljaž changed it to a hug instead.
- The lift rehearsals for Gemma's American smooth are going brilliantly and her ribs don't hurt at all. (This is a lie.)
- Ruth and Anton are still appearing as options on the 'Tunes on Tuesday' screen.
- Erin gives Anton underwire but she never gives him bust. (It makes sense in context. Sort of.)
- In the latest instalment of Joe's terrible togs, he has a waistcoat made out of what appears to be office carpet.
- Joe has no goal or endpoint in mind.
- Katya does not know the lyrics to 'Ride On Time' but she thinks they might involve the word "chuff".
- Zoe was ill on Wednesday so Gethin covered for her. Get well soon, Zoe!
- Alexandra and Gorka were the first guests on Gethin's episode. We're not saying that's a coincidence but we're not saying it's not a coincidence either. #gorkin4ever
- Alexandra and Gorka did not get many opportunities to rehearse their stairography.
- Alexandra and Gorka appeared on this show in what looked like alternative Argentine tango outfits (red, black and smart (him), busty (her). Commitment to a theme, there.
- Alexandra is very excited about her quickstep choreography because it means she can smile the whole way through.
- Gorka makes Alexandra rehearse all the routines by herself so she can cope if either of them makes a mistake.
- 10 years ago, Ian was teaching Gethin to dance like a man.
- Ian calls Erin 'Air-in'.
- Debbie and Giovanni are having four prop dancers who appear to be representing the rest of the Spice Girls. But WHICH ONE WILL DEBBEH BE?
- Ian and Gethin doing a samba roll together is worth the licence fee all by itself.
- AJ seems to have been taking wardrobe tips from Joe because he has a baby blue shirt with Burberry check cuffs and it needs burning.
- Mollie and AJ thought they'd nailed their paso until the judges started talking.
- Mollie padded her bum with her jumper in training to stop it hurting when she went through AJ's legs.
- Mollie's nan is 93 and can't make the trip from Hull to Blackpool so they're going to take Strictly to her. Somehow.
- Gethin's Cockney accent needs a bit of work.
- Gethin thinks it's always better to have fewer words from Craig in any critique. What, even when it's 'dull, dull, dull' or 'complete dahnce disahster'?
- Davood is missing having lifts in his training this week because he's been using them as a gym substitute.
- At the end of the Charleston, Davood carried an upside-down Nadiya on his back over to the judges and she stuck her face in his bum. Well, rude not to once you're there, really...
- Zoe was still poorly on Thursday. Or they just pre-recorded that show on Wednesday, who knows?
- Gethin doesn't care about Ian's wand as much as Zoe does (fnar).
- The foxtrot was the first dance that both Jonnie and Oti enjoyed. Apparently.
- The last dance to get the verdict of "dull, dull, dull" from Craig was Natasha Kaplinsky's, in the very first episode.
- Jonnie thinks that a soft sprung floor like Blackpool's would actually make his blade less effective.
- Vicky Gill has to prepare around 140 looks for Blackpool.
- Debbie's salsa went wrong because she was having so much fun she forgot to concentrate <3.
- Debbie and Giovanni appear to be completely hysterical at this stage of the competition.
- This year's big Blackpool group number is a battle between ballroom and northern soul. Gemma will be bringing the northern, and Alexandra will be bringing the soul.
- Walford doesn't have a north.
- This week's Friday panel is Nikki Fox, Jason Manford, and Kelly Brook. Kelly has never been to Blackpool. Nikki went to Blackpool with her family and saw a Brian Conley show.
- Jason Manford is the latest to jump on the middle-aged-man-career-crisis-must-sing bandwagon (joining Anton, Nick Knowles and Ore - after Alexander Armstrong pioneered the movement I assume). Can someone stop them please?
- Blackpool is not like Margate.
- Nikki's ideal dance partner would be Kevin.
- Apparently (or according to Zoe), Joe and Katya's dance will have a 90s theme. To a song that's famously from the 80s.
- Nikki and her mum think Alexandra will get a 40 this weekend.
- Kelly got dragged around the floor a lot when she was on the show. This is truly a shocking revelation from someone who was partnered with Brendan, isn't it?
- Mollie is hoping the sprung floor at Blackpool might propel her right into the judges' laps.
- Zoe's favourite Blue Peter presenter is Mark Curry.
- Which means she was watching it when she was probably too old to as Mark Curry was from the era when your bloggers were kids and she has around a decade on us.
- But current presenter Radzi Chinyanganya was born when Mark was presenting so now we all feel old.
- Zoe has expert Chinyanganya pronunciation.
- Mark Curry dropped Amy during the training for the Children in Need special.
- Blue Peter is 60 this year.
- Diane-Louise Jordan cracked two ribs during training.
- Just one routine has sent Konnie Huq 'a bit mad' which bodes well for what might happen when she gets to do the show for real. Producers, are you listening?
- Anthea Turner is a 'jazz hands dancer' look surprised.
- Radzi could feel his feet when skydiving but not doing Strictly.
- When the judges are giving the comments, the special effects team are crawling on their hands and knees to clear the confetti away from the floor without being caught on camera.
- Brendan's favourite routine with Kelly Brook was their American Smooth. It was alright, but was no pink sparkly cape of yey.
- Brendan thinks series five is "the one that got away" from him. Yeah, how inconsiderate of Kelly's dad to die like that.
- Brendan says that when you're in the dance-off, you think "are people voting for me? Do people want to see me?" He thinks that Lisa Snowdon dealt with that really well, even though the answer was clearly "no".
- 'When you finish with your partner it can be a really tough thing' - heartbreak king Brendan Cole.
- Brendan's Strictly history segment skipped right over The Lulu Year. What a swizz!
- Kelly has a bit of trouble telling the difference between Joe and Davood.
- It was Janette's birthday this week as well as Gemma's, so it's been an expensive week for Aljaž.
- Gemma would like her outfit for this weekend to be trainers and trackies and a hoodie.
- Gemma and Davood found the springy floor at Blackpool messed with their posture. Getting those excuses in early, well done.
- The first ever Blackpool ballroom dance competition was staged in 1920.
- Debbie and Giovanni have found their samba training hilarious and she hopes everyone else will laugh at them. Debbie's ability to find everything side-splitting remains adorkable.
- The first thing Gorka and Alexandra did in Blackpool was go to the gym.
- Joe's biggest challenge on the show has been the nerves. All right there, Abbey Clancy.
- Gemma knows that Aljaž is proud of her when he tells her he's proud of her. Yes...that is generally how it works.
- Nikki thinks Mollie or Jonnie might go home this week, Jason thinks Jonnie, and Kelly thinks you just can't call it.
- Pasha was really hoping to make it to Blackpool with Chizzy.
- Karen is really not very good at
- Karen would pick Craig if she had to dance with a judge.
- If Janette had to pick a movie theme to dance to, she'd be Cyd Charisse in The Band Wagon.
- It is entirely possible that Pasha's answer to every question is "Chizzy", regardless of what the actual question is.
2 comments:
"middle-aged-man-career-crisis-must-sing"
You forgot Bradley Walsh
Jesus, him too? Did they all decide to do it as a bet?
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