- But even he can't make a PVC blazer work.
- Davood got very sweaty under his mask.
- Watching this with subtitles on leads to some classic lines such as Mollie's 'I always wanted to be regretted' and Kevin's 'I get to be the apple dodger'.
- Debbie is allergic to cats.
- 29 is Davood's new unlucky number because both times he's scored it he was in the dance-off.
- Matthew Bourne thinks Davood's Argentine Tango had the best choreography on the night. Maybe, maybe (probably) not, but it certainly wasn't the best execution.
- Davood never watched himself back.
- Pasha built his own computer once, and would've liked to be a scientist if he weren't a dancer.
- Putting your hands behind your back is a good way to practise a promenade run.
- Pasha has done more pro challenges than anyone else, and although he's finished second many times, he's never won.
- Pasha did 26 charleston swivels with 13 disqualifications, leaving him with 13 overall and joint sixth on the leaderboard.
- Natalie thinks Alexandra's charleston was one of the best she's ever seen, and that Joe's samba action was better than any male celebrity she's ever seen.
- Natalie would like Debbie's armwork to involve more emotion and extension.
- Natalie wants people to think about the 'ands' inbetween the beats in the rumba and get the figure-8s going.
- Brendan hates the pro challenge and thinks it's stupid.
- Katya apparently already thinks she's got it in the bag.
- Brendan did 21 charleston swivels, with 14 disqualified, leaving him with an overall total of seven and putting him in last place.
- Hahahahahahahahaha.
- Neil has always wanted to be in a video game.
- Motion capture video games do not use green screen any more GRANDDAD.
- Gorka can almost say 'supercalifragilisticexpialidocious' now.
- Gorka's friends really want to vote for Alexandra but they live in Spain.
- Watching Alexandra self-flagellating over being in the bottom two, despite getting 39, is kinda heartbreaking, tbh.
- Alexandra had a very painful hip injury during her charleston - both times.
- Gorka thinks Alexandra's swivel was better than Craig's. JUST SAYING.
- Ian wants Joe's arm to be 'at a bit of a right angle but not a proper right angle'.
- Ian thinks Mollie's waltz training footage looks rubbish but he's blaming the shoes.
- Neil was born in Germany and speaks fluent Dutch.
- Neil did 19 charleston swivels with eight disqualifications, leaving him with a final score of 11 - joint-ninth on the leaderboard with Chloe.
- The singers blame Dave Arch for all the non-traditional musical arrangements that people don't like.
- Hayley had a surprise wedding.
- The singers only have around four days to learn the songs, and often the backing vocals are harder than the main melody.
- New Boy Jamie gets drafted in for anything that's rocky, or high, or both.
- Hayley didn't know she was going to be directly involved in Ruth and Anton's paso until the day of the performance.
- It took AJ several days to de-quiff his hair after the Grease rumba.
- AJ thinks the illegal lift in the rumba was actually fine because he was just helping Mollie step down off a prop. Sure, hon.
- Mollie was really hoping to avoid the samba because she never thought she'd be in long enough to actually have to do it.
- Giovanni's cat costume was still being painted an hour before he was due on to perform.
- Wardrobe are in at 7 in the mornings.
- Karen Clifton always wears odd socks and has a cat called Samba.
- Karen has done more pro challenges than any other female pro (possibly because she's the longest-serving one?)
- Karen would like to do a pro challenge that tests how many chicken nuggets she can eat in 30 seconds because KAREN LIKE FOOD.
- Karen did 21 charleston swivels with zero disqualifications and is now top of the leaderboard.
- There's no ballroom or latin in this week's pro dance, which is definitely unprecedented. *looks to camera*
- Lindyhop plus break-dancing has never been done before. Possibly for good reason, but I guess we'll see.
- Katya thinks her greatest strength is her positivity and optimism.
- The finger-snap in Joe's samba was all his own work, madam.
- Joe is so method that he learnt German for his samba.
- The Strictly stats department still can't cope with things like "different series being different lengths".
- Tom Chaplin from Keane now looks like the love child of Kevin Simm and Rhydian Roberts.
- Debbie has watched her American Smooth back 3 times. (Giovanni: "Just 3?!")
- Giovanni doesn't know why Craig didn't give them a 10.
- Miranda Hart is a Debbie/Giovanni shipper. This is, in all honesty, not that much of a surprise.
- Debbie has been eating double what she normally eats all series, and this week she's been eating double that.
- This week's super-sexy Friday panel is Rick Edwards, Lisa Snowdon and Danny Mac.
- Rick has no rhythm so Zoe's decided Janette or Karen can be lumbered with him if he ever does the show because they're used to duffers. Either that, or she thinks they're really good at turning duffers into non-duffers, in which case she might want to refresh herself with both Janette's and Karen's track records.
- Lisa has misremembered how good Alexandra's first dance was.
- Gemma is Danny's mum's favourite.
- Danny remembers "losing it" when he did his samba. Which is odd, because we remember him losing it with his quickstep in the final.
- Gemma's Friday hair was almost as massive as her Saturday hair.
- Gemma gets up at 4.30am.
- Zoe nicknamed Gemma's Hello Dolly hair 'the onion'.
- Gemma can't believe people enjoy watching her dancing and Aljaz's choreography.
- Aljaž has put Gemma in higher shoes for her rumba.
- Megan in wardrobe calls all the movements 'wiggles'.
- 'Ash and his girls go on all night'. It's all happening in the wardrobe team.
- Joe's AT looks like the campest thing this side of... well, Joe's samba.
- The pro challenge ended with a triple whammy of Janette, Anton and Giovanni. And before the show started they told us one of them would win so that takes a lot of suspense out of proceedings, thanks guys.
- Anton's golf handicap is 5.
- Anton's swivel attempt looked TRAGIC - he basically didn't put one foot in front of the other at any point. It was more of a soft-shoe than a charleston.
- Anton doesn't care what Ian thinks because Ian's not even in the show any more.
- Janette was very sick the day they did the pro challenge, so you know, there's that.
- Anton completed 31 steps, but 19 were disqualified leaving him with 12, which was more than it looked like he was going to get based on that footage.
- With 22 steps, and 1 disqualification, Janette is joint second with Karen, and the winner is Giovanni, with 26 steps and 2 disqualifications for a total of 24 and a new world record. This makes the same top of the leaderboard as last year.
- 'Dancing Brasil' launched this year and they filmed the first two series back to back.
- Their host gets involved in all the group dances, whether they want her to or not, so she's basically their Bruce.
- Their dances include the bolero and the zouk.
- Their themes week include Circus, Country and the Oscars. They're another format that used a partner swap gimmick.
- Their rigathon just has two couples on the floor at once.
- Their elimination procedure is...not outlined coherently in this segment.
- Danny Mac found jive the hardest to do physically.
- Rick Edwards thinks Mollie will go home, as does Lisa. Danny both thinks she will and she won't.
- Joe doesn't feel any pressure about being the last man because
- Joe thinks Colin Firth is more common than Hugh Grant.
- Gethin thinks Mollie will get a 10 this week.
2 comments:
So now we know that the "pro challenge" is always won by the dancers who appear on the final show on the penultimate week of ITT. Otherwise Karen would have been there too, having been the leader prior to Friday. I've really been watching too much Strictly, haven't I? I need that nine-month break.
Ha! I get why, to make it climactic, but maybe they should bring back the highest scorer so far on the last show they do the challenge in so it can have more jeopardy - it's a bit annoying how they do it right now.
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