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

Monday

• Rylan is now a robot (sort of).
• This year, Zoe is going to do Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays, and Rylan will be Thursdays and Fridays.
• Zoe has some natty new specs.
• Oti was not ready for what Bill brought on Saturday.
• Bill wants to do the show properly rather than just being a Komedy Kontestant.
• Bill has had a lot of comments about his golden trousers.
• Bill's arms have been so destroyed by training that he couldn't lift a cup of tea to his lips.
• This week Bill and Oti are dancing a quickstep with a Doctor Doolittle vibe to it.
• Bill thinks Craig is the prophet of dance, or "Nostradanceus".
• David Baddiel is team Bill.
• HRVY's mum has an eye for a natty jumper.
• HRVY had nightmares about falling over.
• HRVY threw up after the dress rehearsal.
• Janette is making sure HRVY gets his vitamins.
• HRVY is an Ariana Grande stan.
• Zoe would like everyone to remember she got 9s in week one.
• This week HRVY and Janette are doing a Viennese waltz.
• Clare Balding thinks this might have been the best first week ever.
• Katya's brain exploded when she realised she didn't have to stick to the normal rules this year.
• There's quite a lot of crossover between boxing footwork and quickstep footwork.
• Boxing has made Nicola's shoulders very tight and closed in.
• Katya was very chatty during the quickstep performance.
• Nicola and Katya are doing the first Couple's Choice of the series, and it's street dance.
• No singing is allowed in the studio for obvious reasons.

DRTY RNGH

 Week 1: 12 Couples Perform - 25 October 2020

Okay, here we go. We've got celebs, we've got professionals, we've got enhanced Covid security measures, now it's time to get down to business: it's the first live show of 2020! Also, this is going to be a fun recap to write because every so often one key on my laptop decides to become really sticky and unresponsive, and today it's the turn of the space bar! Because, y'know, I never need that one.

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Launch show: 17th October 2020

Welcome back! This year of all years it feels really nice to have Strictly. (And, to be honest, I'm not mad at the shorter run) [Me neither, if we're being honest! - Steve]. So tonight it's our launch show, the time to see how the new social distancing measures will work, discover who glowed up the best in lockdown, learn who’s paired with whom, find out at what point in proceedings someone will first CALL OFCOM and, most importantly of all, check if Tess is coping OK with the news she won't be able to claw at the contestants this year.

To the ballroom! (After sanitising, washing your hands for 20 seconds, wearing a mask and making sure to stand at least 2 metres away from anyone not in your social bubble)