- Seann was pleased not to have to go to training this week.
- Seann's washing machine is broken.
- Pasha didn't really know what he was dressed as on Saturday.
- Doing the cha cha should be like a pestle and mortar.
- It is also more like sliding on ice than stomping through snow.
- Joanne thinks Joe is a finalist.
- Aljaž is doing his very first Argentine tango this year. Apparently he's just been waiting for the right partner.
- Kate and Aljaž may or may not be doing a Mr and Mrs Smith inspired Argentine Tango, but it will be full of sexiness, hooray.
- Charles did not enjoy the jive.
- A few viewers really loved his bald look, however.
- Charles and Karen are doing the 106th Viennese waltz on the show but no-one is quite sure if that's a lot or not.
- Friday's rehearsal went so badly that Oti went back to the hotel and cried.
- Graeme hated watching Sean in the dance-off. Because he was worried about going home and also because Seann is his friend, not because of the reasons everyone else hated it.
- Graeme joined the show to do the waltz (!) to Englebert Humperdink (!!).
- Joanne thinks Ashley's charleston deserved four 10s.
- The man's hold in ballroom is about 10/10 in terms of muscle stiffness, the woman's hold is 2/10.
- Joanne thinks Danny could be pushed more.
- There are three types of sway: traditional, broken and cosmetic.
- Apparently this week will be the first time Jay-Z has been used on the show.
- Anton's angling for a job hosting It'll Be All Right On The Night.
- Joe doesn't know how long the dances last. (It's 1'30")
- Stacey has been to hospital this week, but she's back in training now.
- Joe is struggling with the paso in training because he's got "the body and the strength of a six-year-old".
- Lauren is afraid of spiders.
- AJ was not a fan of his Halloween makeover.
- AJ was worried about hitting Nicole Scherzinger with his log.
- AJ hasn't had girlfriends.
- Mollie is coming to watch the show this weekend and may make a cameo in Lauren's jive.
- Luba and Johannes are still far too good not to have partners.
- Over 50 per cent of voters chose for Ian to have to dress as Cruella De Ville this year, but due to budget costs, they've ended up with what appears to be a pound shop 'Criella Du Vale' outfit that he can't demonstrate dance moves in.
- Ashley really liked bouncing off Pasha's belly cushion.
- Ashley's had her mind blown that Craig managed to get armography installed in the dictionary.
- Almost 10 per cent of the 10s awarded in the history of Strictly have gone to Pasha. With 67 tens, he's received more 10s than Craig has ever given, despite not even being in the show for the first few series.
- Halloween is over; Poppy season has officially begun.
- Many viewers thought that Ian's Cruella De Ville costume made him look like Bea Arthur.
- Ian is not a fan of Ashley's foxtrot footwork so far.
- Ian's dad married his dance teacher.
- Trent(!) was the puppeteer for Dr Ranj and Janette's jive.
- Ranj wants you to throw your love on him.
- Ranj really relates to the song 'Freedom 90' by George Michael.
- Dianne's paso dress is going to look like that safety pin dress Liz Hurley wore that time.
- Amy crashed into Gorka during the pro dance rehearsal last week - she sprained her ankle and he had a bruised foot.
- Danny refuses to tempt fate by thinking about the final.
- Zoe can't remember what a lock step is.
- Giovanni wasn't emotional when the scores for his and Faye's theatre/jazz routine, it was just the contact lens.
- Giovanni has been top of the leaderboard every Hallowe'en.
- Faye let the sunglasses fall because it was that or fuck up the rest of the dance, Craig.
- Saturday was Giovanni's first Fosse experience.
- Faye usually enjoys training on Mondays, but not in tango week.
- Faye and Giovanni have a big prop to step in and out of this week.
- Giovanni is one of only three pros to get 40 for the tango, along with Pasha and Kevin.
- This week's pro dance is an Aretha Franklin tribute, co-choreographed by Trent. It has five consecutive lifts in it.
- Katya has a Chupa Chups sweater that's gotten through compliance, #callofcom
- This week's Friday panel is Jack and Dani from Love Island, Frankie Bridge and (sigh) Rufus Hound.
- Zoe is a big Jack and Dani fan.
- Rufus is here by popular demand, because lots of people tweeted, apparently. Also he's doing a play and has to be on stage at 7:30 so it's quite the feat of timekeeping that he made it here at all.
- Pasha has a weird sweat spot in the middle of his chest and another on his back directly opposite.
- Frankie didn't like the jive, or the Viennese waltz.
- Viennese is another dance that is HARD FOR MEN, apparently.
- Rufus is not impressed with Kevin choosing 'Empire State of Mind' for a street commercial routine, nor the gimmicky theming.
- Jack is a fan of Ranj's teeth.
- Joe wore a suit to rehearsals this week for some reason.
- Craig still hasn't followed Joe on social media (or slid into his DMs).
- Aljaž regrets taking so long to get around to the Argentine tango.
- Craig wasn't anyone for Halloween and fell off his heels. Shirley was Catwoman. Or a woman dressed as a cat, anyway.
- Joe is Craig's official JOURNEY contestant. It's not clear if he calls him 'Suggs' because he's getting it wrong, or if it's a joke.
- Craig thinks the public are making 'informed and delicious choices' in who ends up in the dance-off.
- Craig thinks Faye should have whisked the shades off with attitude to get his 10. As if he'd give it up this early in the series.
- Not counting Christmas specials, Bruno has given 233 10s since the series started - Craig has given 57.
- Craig thinks Charles' only way forward is to canvas votes from the audience. Which wouldn't effect whether or not he gets 25.
- The viewers voted for Rachel's Argentine tango to be reshown over Ramps's, Harry's and Alexandra's.
- Stacey has torn her intercostal muscle. Stacey keeps calling it "intercontinental", I keep typing it as "incestostal".
- Stacey was glad of her wig last week because her roots were terrible.
- (Her new colour job is looking nice and autumnal though).
- Kevin is trying to get Nadiya Hussain to do Strictly.
- Kevin has choreographed Stacey's street/commercial routine as a tribute to Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse. Because he thinks he wants to move the genre on from the early 90s. (The 1890s?)
- The process of casting the series begins in January and possibly involves a little trip to a dance studio to get an idea of what it's like.
- Celeb/pro partnerships are planned primarily on height (tell that to Colin Salmon and Kristina Rihanoff) but personality plays a part as well.
- Rufus thinks 'young men' see Joe as a role model. Can't say I've heard any of my male students waxing lyrical about him.
- Oti's taken to wearing a woolly hat in training,
- Jack thinks Dr Ranj is going home, Dani agrees, Frankie can't think of a name, Rufus thinks Bruno hahahaha lol.
- Lauren and AJ are keen to break the 30 barrier.
- Lauren will be smiling in her dance this week.
- Clean Bandit won't be happy until they've sucked every modern female pop singer into their orbit.
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