Monday
- Jason was ready to be in the bottom two, and figured he'd get another chance to do a Star War so it was all good.
- Jason's daughter was telling him how proud she was when they were walking to school today. D'aww.
- The salsa was Luba's favourite of their dances.
- A lot of people have watched Max & Dianne's Simpsons dance. Presumably to check they weren't having some sort of fever dream when they saw it on Saturday night.
- Al Jean from The Simpsons retweeted it... but the show neglected to point out he was actually retweeting someone commenting on how disturbing it was.
- Max thought he got a lot of the routine wrong but Dianne assures him (and us) that he didn't.
- Zoe's son Woody has filmed himself doing the Children In Need dance.
- Ranvir would rather re-do the foxtrot than do the cha cha.
- Ranvir still feels like her whole Saturday night experience happened to someone else this weekend.
- Giovanni thinks Ranvir works better under pressure because she always seems to improve a lot faster as the weekend gets nearer.
- Zoe envisages P**** M***** on the show in pink lycra dancing with either Oti or Anton. Just in case you needed more disturbing mental imagery to accompany the Simpsons dance.
Tuesday
- Nadiya misses having a partner *sadface*.
- Nadiya won't look at the camera whilst pretending to like Simpsonsdance.
- Nadiya thinks Bill's performance is all in his eyes.
- Nadiya thinks there was a lot more content in HRVY's cha cha than the judges gave it credit for.
- She also thinks he deserves credit for not looking awkward while dressed as a gnome and we're inclined to agree.
- Nadiya thinks Katya has been "thinking out of her box" this series. We're too mature to make a joke about that.
- Nadiya calls Craig 'this Craig'.
- Nicola and Katya have started colour co-ordinating their outfits.
- Nicola found the jive tough on her legs.
- In rehearsals Nicola's prop engine needed a lot of adjustments to work.
- Nicola kept calling Katya 'Sandy' on Saturday.
- Zoe thinks Nicola is the perfect person to be in the dance-off (because she's a fighter, not (just) because Zoe's being shady)
- Nicola and Katya have an American Smooth to 'Stand By Me' this weekend.
- Katya is looking forward to having time to work on the lines and extensions after so many fast dances.
- Nadiya has been working on her footwork for 26 years and still thinks she needs improvement.
- It's important for women to use the heels in ballroom rather than the toe because they're usually going backwards.
- Caroline and Johannes and Jacqui and Anton are all quite bad at the Children in Need dance.
- Johannes has sequinned houndstooth trousers.
- Johannes told Caroline he loved her again on Saturday. The Strictly curse strikes again!
- Caroline thought she was bringing as much as she could on Saturday.
- Caroline's hoping she has secret stores of 'ta ta ba ba'.
- Jason Manford would 'pick' Johannes if he did Strictly (not sure that's how pairings work).
- Caroline saw Jason Manford in theatre before lockdown and thought he was great.
- They are dancing a waltz to 'With You I'm Born Again' this week.
Wednesday
- Clara is very grateful to Health & Safety for doing an excellent job on Saturday.
- Aljaž thinks 'Lady Marmalade' was made for tango. He may not be correct.
- Clara wants to be known as 'Lady Clarmalade' now.
- Clara thinks she really needs to work on her "waiting to hear if I'm safe" face.
- Clara had an Epsom salts bath last night.
- They are performing a Charleston to 'Baby Face' this week.
- Dianne is still wearing yellow to training, she's obviously developed a taste for it.
- JJ is still training in shorts! Does he know it's November?!
- HRVY has big feet and if he doesn't use them properly, they'll look bigger.
- Last week was one of Jamie's top 5 life experiences.
- Jamie wanted to go topless last week but no-one would let him.
- Jamie's heart rate went up to 196 in rehearsal.
- Jamie dropped Karen at the end of their dance because he was basking in the applause.
- Jamie thinks the samba steps are the volta, the mamacita and the pineapple.
- Jamie wants to look sexy in the samba, but Karen 'danced with Chucky Venn' Hauer is just rolling her eyes at that idea.
- Ian thinks Caroline and Johannes' height difference might make their waltz more challenging.
- Ian has no idea what Bill and Oti's Couple's Choice is meant to be.
- Ian thinks Clara is this week's most improved.
- Natalie met some of the Soldiers' Arts Academy and it looks like a great cause, and she was a real natural at interviewing and presenting (and she's just gone back to Australia to be with family - we will miss you Natalie!).
Thursday
- Katya has contracted Covid-19 and she and Nicola have had to withdraw. Rylan has also had to self-isolate as a contact of someone with the virus and will be off-duty for two weeks. Get well soon Katya!
- Gethin thinks Giovanni was the best Bond on Saturday.
- Maisie is having pizza every night at the moment.
- Gorka has a punk attitude, according to a badge/sticker he was wearing.
- Maisie is Gorka's most competitive partner so far.
- Maisie and Gorka are going to be Barbie and Ken this weekend and will be dancing to 'Girls Just Wanna Have Fun'.
- Gorka's daughter is dancing already.
- Maisie can hear Nicola and Katya from her dressing room. Well, she used to be able to, anyway.
- It only takes Pudsey Bear dancing to make Gethin lose his composure.
- Zoe and Gethin both claim they want to hug Pudsey but neither has gone to the trouble of forming a social bubble with him, poor Pudsey.
- Dianne will be in emerald green for her American smooth, and it will have an Art Deco feel to it.
- Karen will be in a suit for hers and Jamie's samba.
- HRVY's friends really enjoyed seeing him dressed as a gnome.
- People kept coming up to Janette on Saturday and telling her the gnome look really suited her.
- Janette is not afraid of bad comments because she's had plenty.
- HRVY reckons he's "kind of winging it".
- HRVY has 'only' been dancing three years.
- HRVY and Janette are dedicating their salsa to Nicola and Katya.
Friday
- Gethin's jive is a little rusty since series five.
- Anton will be standing in for Motsi for the next two weeks, Lord help us.
- Motsi is away because her dance studio in Germany got broken into and she had to fly back (and is now in quarantine) - sending her our best wishes.
- Anton thinks he will be an "enthusiastic" and "kind" judge, which is something he hasn't managed to do for any of his partners for about eight years now but we'll see.
- Anton was really excited to see what Nicola and Katya would produce "over the next few weeks". Guess he didn't think they were making the final then.
- Jacqui is pleased that at least she could free Anton up to be a judge by getting kicked out.
- Gethin's American accent needs some work.
- It meant a lot to JJ to get a standing ovation from Shirley, but it was Amy's reaction that meant the most to him.
- JJ 'didn't expect much' from this show, the shade of it.
- Monday was "dark" for JJ and Amy's jive, apparently.
- Amy is losing her voice.
- On Monday JJ thought that the toe-hell swivel was "impossible" but now he can do it. Hooray!
- JJ has added some marine steps into the jive this weekend.
- JJ's jive will be 1940s themed and Amy wanted him in a uniform (don't we all), but JJ didn't want to wear a uniform that he hadn't earned, so he's got special permission to wear a Marines uniform.
- Amy has gone full on Stacey from Gavin and Stacey ('I can't wait I can't').
- Gethin thought Bill's guitar solo on Saturday was fake - it wasn't.
- Bill and Oti work from 9am til 10pm.
- Seeing Bill grow as a dancer is the reward that Oti wants (although she'd probably like to win again).
- Oti cannot rap to 'Rapper's Delight' at all.
- Official confirmation: Bill and Oti's Couple's Choice is street/commercial.
- And it'll be a mashup of 'Rapper's Delight' and 'Good Times'.
- Although apparently this year they've lifted the need to specify a genre and allowed more of a fusion. REALLY, you don't say, I'd never have noticed.
- Bill keeps getting caught up in memories of dancing in a nightclub in the West Country when he was 17 and forgetting his footwork.
- Bill thinks their dance will be 'a pure dance joy of funkiliciousness'.
- This week's pro dance is a street/disco routine set in a funky supermarket where Nancy and Neil fall in love.
- This week's Friday panel is Dan Walker, AJ Odudu and Pudsey Bear.
- Dan got his sister-in-law to brief him before coming on the show.
- Dan thinks Craig is suffering from the "Craigovirus" and that's making him nicer than usual.
- Pudsey communicates via emojis on cue cards.
- AJ loves everyone.
- Dan thinks Maisie is one of the greatest contestants in Strictly history but she might be too good too early and have the same SHOCK! BOOT outcome as Aston.
- Dan doesn't think Clara and Aljaž will reach the final.
- Dan thinks HRVY doesn't know how good he is.
- Dan thinks JJ could make the final.
- Pudsey thinks JJ and Amy will get 30 this week.
- AJ and Dan have very different opinions on Jamie doing well this week. (AJ is for, Dan is against)
- Dan saw Ranvir dance at an awards do many years ago and knew she had the skills. SECRET RINGER! He also thinks she's guaranteed to be in the final.
- AJ thinks Max has a big mountain to climb this week and he needs to enjoy it more.
- Gethin thinks they should get rid of the bit where the Friday panel says who they think is going home.
- Dan thinks Jamie is going home, AJ thinks Max, and Pudsey thinks Craig.
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