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

 Monday

- Ranvir has cried a bit, mostly when people message her to tell her how inspirational she was.

- She also ate a family-size bag of Wotsits to crush her feelings.

- Giovanni thinks Ranvir has accomplished the most of any of his partners since he joined the show.

- Ranvir has a collection of pictures of Giovanni in the sailor outfit. And possibly out of it as well, who can say.

- The show has been a bit like therapy for Ranvir.

- Ian thinks he and Zoe looked like they should be getting married in their tango, and that if they had babies the babies would be like giraffes.

- Ian is still revelling in the fact he 'killed' Zoe in the tango.

- Ian once gave Girls Aloud some choreography for a tour and thought Kimberley was the best dancer even then.

- The Tango is now officially in the DIFFICULT FOR MEN pantheon.

- Bill would have been on board with being fired out of a cannon if they'd asked him to.

- Oti absolutely has the 'I want two wins in a row' glint in her eye.

- The judges' have picked Bill's quickstep to do again, and Bill and Oti have picked their Couple's Choice.

- Bill's showdance is to 'The Show Must Go On'.

Tuesday

- Pasha is still pretty.

- Zoe has missed the way Pasha says "technique".

- Pasha thinks Jamie's salsa was 'crispy'.

- Someone in the BBC archives still has the SMart theme music available for use.

- The show has some talented artists amongst its viewers.

- Viewers seem to most like creating art of Clara and Aljaz; Bill and Oti; HRVY and Janette; Caroline and Johannes; Max and Dianne; and Ranvir.

- It is Zoe's son Woody's birthday today, and it was Kirsten O'Brien's son Fox's birthday yesterday.

- Jamie thinks that the comparison of Karen's floorspin to his is like "Instagram" vs "reality".

- Jamie and Karen prepared for the dance-off by collapsing backstage (him) and eating sweets (her). (Is that our first official KAREN LOVE FOOD of the series?)

- Jamie and Karen's showdance will be to 'I'm Still Standing' (see what they did there?) - apparently the Taron Egerton playing Elton version, whatever the difference between that and the original is? 

- There better be a surprise AR Bruno cameo to recreate the video.

- Kelvin Fletcher's had a shave. It doesn't look so good.

- Zoe cried when she found out Janette was in her first final.

- Harry Judd wants to do Strictly again.

- In Stacey Dooley's mind, she looks like Aliona when she's dancing.

- Stacey and Kevin still watch the show together and Kevin has Lots Of Opinions.

- Kelvin Fletcher's abiding memory of last year's contest (apart from winning) is Will Bayley's contemporary routine.

- Stacey sounds the 't' in "rapport".

- Kelvin and Stacey both think there's nothing wrong with Maisie being confident, and Stacey thinks it's something that we unfairly weaponise against young women.

- All three of Harry, Kelvin and Stacey would like Bill to win, but Kelvin and Stacey also quite want Jamie to win.

Wednesday

- Ian's Komedy Kristmas outfit was an elf.

- Ian wants all the showdances to have a beginning, a middle and an end. He'll be lucky.

- Bill's showdance has lots of paso elements to it.

- Jamie's showdance has some hand jive and lindyhop in it.

- Zoe is a bit annoyed with the Call Ofcom brigade at this stage in proceedings.

- Tommy and Lizzy from So You Think You Can Dance are doing a lot of street choreography for this show. They also choreographed the first street routine on the show ever for Charles and Karen.

- The show originally reached out to Kate Prince, but she was too busy so she suggested them. (Also judging by the Kate Prince choreography that we saw on SYTYCD, this was no great loss.)

- They have choreographed something for Christmas which includes an Anton solo.

- They have choreographed all of Jamie's dances in the final. All of them. Sweet gig for Karen.

- Tommy and Lizzy also choreographed the supermarket pro dance, so we can only assume that they ship Johannes/Gorka as well.

- Maisie is worried about reprising her samba because it was so long ago.

- Maisie and Gorka are being the token Christmas couple this year for their showdance.

- Gorka would love to do their Couple's Choice again in the final but they're not allowed. (Thank God).

- Maisie had so much adrenaline coursing through her from the Couple's Choice routine that she found it hard to calm down in time for her Viennese waltz.

- Maisie's granddad spent the day watching all of her Strictly videos on YouTube earlier this week.

Thursday

- This week we have a Thursday panel because of it being the final week, and it consists of Luke Kempner, Joanna Page and Saffron Barker.

- Rylan calls Vicky Gill 'a lady in the street and a freak with the pleats'.

- Vicky Gill's sketches were "a bit quick" this week.

- Karen loves a corset.

- Maisie's showdance is more traditional than Vicky Gill expected it to be.

- Janette's showdance outfit has to be carefully designed so as not to cut HRVY.

- HRVY wanted to be in pale blue for the final.

- Nadiya and Graziano have been finding out how to do the Jarabe Tapatío, a Mexican courtship dance.

- It involves a lot of tap-like movements that Graziano found quite challenging.

- Janette has a touch of PTSD from her various "almost-but-not-quite" experiences with ringers in the past.

- Janette got more 10s with HRVY than she got with all her other partners combined.

- Janette bought HRVY a shirt.

- Janette and HRVY are reprising their American Smooth to make sure the sequin budget for those outfits is justified.

- Janette has been preparing her showdance for eight years.

- Joanna is very sad that she will not get to see Giovanni's chest any more. (She also pronounces it "Joe Varney".)

- Saffron isn't too upset that she didn't get to the final, as she didn't fancy doing three dances.

- Luke is a Bill fan and went to some of his stand-up shows.

- HRVY has some unfortunate training pants with a big circle around his crotch.

- Rylan thinks it's rare that someone gets to the final without hitting a dance-off. Rylan has only been on this show two years and you can tell.

- Luke knew Jamie would be less good than everyone else but would work hard.

- Saffron thinks HRVY will win, Joanna thinks HRVY will win, and Luke thinks Jamie will win.

Friday

- Karen is very tired.

- Jamie's showdance involves a roly-poly. He hasn't done one since childhood and it was harder than he remembered.

- Jamie's parents say he was a nightmare as a child.

- Jamie's dad calls him 'boysy'.

- Clara's mum is missing the show more than Clara, because it gave her kudos in her Whatsapp groups. 

- Gorka views Maisie as the little sister he never had.

- Maisie has learned that you mustn't ever be too confident. Which is unfortunate.

- Gorka is hoping for a happy ending in the final. 

- Maisie put her heart and soul into her samba the first time she did it and she's not sure she has any more to give.

- Gorka loves dancing on the bench, but as Rylan points out, he's not the one negotiating slats in heels.

- The key word for Maisie and Gorka's showdance is 'Hollywood'. It will involve a big Christmas tree and some presents.

- Jacqui will have some fans in the final group dance. (Crueler people than us might say 'first time for everything'.)

- Bill evangelises about the quickstep to everyone he meets.

- Oti lets the celeb choose their favourite dance to reprise in the final.

- Bill's wife is a fan of enormous hair bows.

- Gethin is never going to forget SIMPSONDANCE and neither is Max. And neither are we, though perhaps for different reasons.

- Katya is throwing everything into hers and Nicola's final dance. Just for a change.

- Ranvir likes a massive Ugg boot.

- Ranvir has had a lovely week with her son and remembering that the world exists outside of Strictly.

- HRVY's first thought on meeting Janette was relief that she is small.

- HRVY and Janette's showdance is choreographed by Lukas McFarlane.

- HRVY's best friend is called HRRY. Sorry, Harry.

- Rick Astley has a Christmas single. How nice for him.