Saturday 7 November 2020

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

 Monday

- Jacqui would have been doing a paso this week.
- Jonathan Reynolds, the Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, gave Jacqui a 10.
- Anton and Jacqui have a very similar sense of humour.
- Jacqui feels a bit unlucky because she got cast on a series of really good dancers.
- Jacqui and Maisie have been neighbours during the show.
- Shirley doesn't think we can write anyone off yet.
- Shirley is excited about her movie week dress.
- Shirley thinks you should hide your cellphone on a Monday and listen to your teacher. I think that was her advice for the celebrities learning to dance but to be honest it's good praxis generally.
- Shirley is looking forward to seeing routines from Caroline, Bill, HRVY and Janette and, er, Jacqui. Does someone want to tell her?
- JJ dropped his cape in rehearsals so he was quite worried that he'd do it again on the night but also hoped that lightning wouldn't strike twice.
- JJ's surgeon apparently watched his paso through his fingertips.
- One of JJ's former Sergeants emailed him to say his waiting for the results face is the same as his old kit inspection face. 
- Amy's favourite saying is "don't get bitter, just get better". Now that I think about it, has anyone seen Amy Dowden and Alyssa Edwards in the same room at the same time?
- JJ & Amy are doing a Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid-themed foxtrot on Saturday.
- JJ likes getting the judges' comments because it's like getting a debrief when out on missions.
- Caroline thought she gave her paso everything and couldn't have done more without wetting herself.
- When Johannes picked Caroline up after the paso, he told her he loved her and had a little cry.
- For Movie Week, Caroline and Johannes are doing a Gypsy-themed Couples' Choice.

Tuesday

- Neil enjoys hanging out with Nancy and they laugh all the time.
- Neil has watched Maisie's tango back and still can't see the balance issue Craig was talking about.
- Neil thinks JJ's breathing went nowhere.
- Jason is the nicest guy Neil's ever met.
- Neil has been to Cali in Colombia, the home of salsa.
- Neil thinks salsa is not about the hips, it's about the rhythm.
- Neil thinks Clara needs to learn where to direct her power.
- There are two schools of jive - one where it's danced down into the ground, and one where it's light and airy.
- Jamie did not feel that his American smooth was particularly better than his cha cha cha.
- Jamie thinks the judges talk gibberish.
- Dancing the American smooth made Jamie feel like a dancing hippo in a tutu.
- Judge Rinder is now claiming to be Jamie's dad.
- Jamie turned 32 this week.
- Jamie and Karen are dancing to 'From Zero to Hero' from Hercules this week.
- Karen burnt her hand on a candle this week.
- Neil thinks there were moments when Jamie almost looked like a pro. Almost.
- Neil thinks HRVY has a "latin head" - latin dancers move their heads around when they dance while ballroom dancers know to keep their head in a certain position.
- Ranvir has now learned which parts of her body she needs to push into Giovanni (fnar) for him to move her - it's just a question of remembering to do it.
- Ranvir tends to have a little cry around 3pm on a Wednesday, but by 4pm she's back in business.
- Ranvir's nickname is 'butterfly'.
- Ranvir and Giovanni will be doing a Dreamgirls-themed foxtrot.

Wednesday

- Katya has taken to reading the name captions too.
- Katya felt like she was going to burst from joy during their Couples' Choice.
- It took Nicola a few days to get the hang of waving the flags around.
- Nicola seems to never want to see those flags again. Us too.
- Olly from Years And Years was very happy with Nicola and Katya's performance.
- Zoe loves Olly's mum.
- Nicola and Katya are doing a jive to 'Greased Lightning' and Nicola will be coming down on a huge engine.
- Their training footage looks... not good.
- Zoe's dropping 'Everybody's Talking About Jamie' puns in now because, let's face it, he's not going to be here come Musicals week.
- HRVY is showing a slight turned-in foot in the rehearsal footage from his cha cha cha.
- Ian thinks Nicola's had a tough dance draw so far. Despite one of those dances being Couple's Choice.
- Zoe's Yoda impression is... not great.
- Max and Dianne are doing Street Commercial to... er... The Simpsons' theme tune. (Surely that's a Charleston choice?)
- Jason needs to work on stretching during his paso.
- Max bites his bottom lip when he's concentrating.
- HRVY is struggling keeping his legs straight in rehearsals.
- Zoe is here for a Maisie and HRVY showmance.
- HRVY has three nans.
- HRVY's brother fitted an alarm for Zoe.
- HRVY and Janette are dancing to 'Don't Go Breaking My Heart', which is famously from Gnomeo and Juliet. *Side-eye*.
- Ranvir and Clara both have fantastic frames, and not in a Spectacle Wearer Of The Year sense.
- Zoe looks better dragged up than Ian.
- Max and Dianne had to be last minute guests when Maisie's EastEnders schedule ran over.
- Zoe thinks the pub in EastEnders is called the Old Vic.
- Dianne screeched so loud when they finished the jive that her throat hurt the next day.
- Max will be wearing a fake belly this Saturday.
- Max has an adorable nephew.

Thursday

- Luba loved the pro dance on Saturday.
- Luba was pleased to get 6 6 6 on Hallowe'en.
- Jason's podcast friend Osi is coming for Craig.
- Jason becomes a child when you hand him a lightsaber. This doesn't seem like an enormous surprise.
- Maisie doesn't like that the American Smooth is 'glidey and pretty'.
- Giovanni is experimenting with a topknot.
- Ranvir will be wearing a blue dress this weekend.
- Vicky Gill isn't doing many fittings these days.
- Clara may be wearing red, or she may be wearing bright pink.
- Max and Dianne's training footage looks like they're very out of sync.
- Apparently HRVY told all the other celebs that he wasn't going to be very good.
- Maisie is mortified over her reaction to Shirley's 9.
- The Strictly singers will be tackling 'Into the Unknown' this weekend. Ulp.
- Jamie thinks the Charleston is like doing the heptathlon in one minute.
- Gorka would like to be Olaf this weekend so he won't have to wear many clothes.
- Rylan and Bill hadn't met before today.
- Apparently not everyone realised that the elephant in Bill & Oti's quickstep wasn't real.
- Oti is not here for Komedy routines.
- Oti genuinely believes that Bill can become an incredible dancer.
- Bill might get his guitar out this weekend.

Friday

- The show is having to buy double props this year so that the choreographers and couples don't share.
- The sets are also bigger to allow for social distancing.
- Gethin loves a bit of flying.
- This week's Friday panel is Karim Zeroual, Angela Scanlon and Jayde Adams.
- Jayde is still obsessed with Mark Ramprakash. after all these years.
- Jayde thinks having cha cha cha will be good for HRVY's journey story because everyone sucks at it.
- Jamie is wearing a skirt for his Charleston, yes to that gender bending.
- Angela thinks Jason using a light saber will be good to distract from the footwork. Oof.
- Apparently this year, Couple's Choice 'can be whatever you want it to be' thus rendering Showdance even more pointless.
- Rylan still has vivid memories of Karim being brought to tears by his Viennese waltz.
- Jason Gilkinson thinks the Bond franchise has only been going for 20-30 years. 
- The pro routine will see many of the male pros taking on different eras of Bond. Missed opportunity to cast one of the female pros and wind up the MEN MUST BE MEN snowflakes if you ask me.
- Rylan would like to point out that the Bond routine was recorded before the death of 'Sir Jim Connery'.
- Caroline hasn't seen her costume or wig yet.
- Vicky Gill is very sorry for what happened to Clara's skirt last weekend.
- The table was the culprit in destroying Clara's skirt. 
- There is a special dance to learn for Children In Need this year if you fancy it. Max didn't fancy it, by the looks of things.
- JJ is The One Show's insider who gives them all the goss - but it's mostly about himself.
- Angela is in love with Caroline's hamstring.
- Karim's still trying to spin the story that being a RINGAH is really hard.
- Jayde thinks Jason and Luba will be going home this week, Angela thinks Max and Dianne, and Karim thinks Caroline and Johannes.

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