Saturday 8 November 2014

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

- People were quite complimentary of Scott’s bald cap, so he’s now less worried about getting old.
- Alison can't pronounce Ola, which is what you get from listening to Tess too much.
- Sunetra thinks Zoes are her good luck charm.  They certainly seem better than mums as an omen.
- Steve and Ola’s costumes got tangled together in their dress rehearsal and they had to stop. And yet somehow that’s still a better outcome than what happened on the night.
- Craig learnt a lot about bones when he had his hip replaced.
- Simon has started having dreams about Strictly.
- Kristina was embarrassed about having a strong reaction to being safe. Oh, Kristina, as if we haven't seen full-on 'I NEED THE GLITTERBALL' madness from you for the last several series.
- Simon being stuck in his dance was partly because he didn't want to break character.
- You can over-rehearse.  Maybe that's where Scott went wrong.  (Maybe not)
- When Craig’s 10 paddle comes out, it will be worth it. We’ll see about that.
- Anton thinks Scott has a 'well-shaped head for bald'.
- Scott’s mates really enjoyed his foxtrot. Well, at least someone did.
- Scott doesn’t make new friends very often.
- Scott wants Frankie and Kevin to win.
- Zoe thinks Alison has “the most distinctive laugh in Strictly history”. WHAT ABOUT ALESHA.
- It only takes Aliona five minutes in the shower to get her make-up off.
- Tristan believes you can do pivots in any dance, but Aliona has never seem them in a cha cha cha.
- What you didn’t see in Sunday’s results show: after Alison’s arm-hanky covered Aljaz’s face, she kept it professional and finished the dance…at which point she burst out laughing, and didn’t stop for about half an hour.
- Aljaz thinks him always being bottom two at Halloween is some sort of karmic revenge for him hating dressing up.
- Natalie can do a bendier back bend than Iveta.
- Iveta calls Steve “Steven” and Judy “Judith”. So why didn’t she call Thom “Thomas”?
- This show is still trying to make Mark's 'story' a thing.
- Iveta thinks halfway through the show is the time to start giving out 10s.
- Natalie loves all the ballroom dances and has no favourites. Iveta's favourite style is hip-hop, which is odd because that's what she got cut for on So You Think You Can Dance every year until they finally gave in and put her through to the live shows.
- Darcey is Zoe’s favourite female judge. #shade
- Ian thinks Sunetra and Brendan will top the leaderboard this weekend.
- Pasha really liked his samba wig.
- The female pros are all very helpful and give Caroline lots of advice.
- Pasha’s favourite dance of Caroline’s was the rumba. So was ours, mostly for Pasha as a semi-shirtless spaceman.
- Caroline wants to waltz everywhere she goes.
- This year’s pro challenge is to break the record for the most New Yorker steps performed in 30 seconds, and the TWIST is that the contestants will be competing in pairs. (To even out the numbers, Ola is not participating.)
- Natalie and Pasha competed first and managed 51, but 13 were disqualified, leaving them with a total of 38.
- Despite all the random pair-swapping in the pro dances, Natalie and Pasha never normally get paired up.
- Darcey thinks that any dance is achievable for a beginner. Quite how this ties in to ALL DANCES BEING HARD FOR MEN remains unclear.
- Whoever sorted out the video clips for Wednesday’s episode couldn’t tell the difference between Frankie’s tango and her paso.
- Darcey gets a lot of people coming up to her in the street going “WHY? WHY?” Ostensibly about Thom’s elimination, but let’s face it, they could be angry about any number of things.
- Dancing begins from the feet up.
- All of Judy's dances look the same to Ian. #danceracist
- Judy thinks she might be good at the paso doble because it involves looking angry and stamping your feet, and she can do that.
- If you've got a cape and a cape in a paso, you're Johnny two-capes.  And you wonder why Anton didn't replace Bruce?  (No, nobody is wondering that)
- Vicky Gill is already working on BLACKPOOL costumes.  Let's hope there's no shock boot this weekend then.
- Green is the new black. Or possibly navy is. Take that, Netflix!
- The theme of Jake and Janette’s rumba is “after dinner”. Let’s hope nobody belches.
- Steve had a Hallowe’en party after the show last week, but there wasn’t any gossip.
- Mark’s aggressive humility is so egregious at this stage that Thursday’s episode was the closest we’ve come in years to switching off ITT before the show was actually over. SHUT UP, MARK.
- Judy hides her mum’s shortbread in her dressing room, if any of you are planning to break in and steal it. Not that we endorse that sort of thing, obviously.
- The second to Frankie’s tango was all in her green make-up, apparently.
- It was “quite a challenge” to choreograph a tango to ‘Defying Gravity’, but that’s the sort of risk that Kevin likes to take.
- Pixie is easily distracted in rehearsals.
- Eamonn Holmes sometimes looks bored, but he’s actually just concentrating.
- Jake has a vest with “DANCE JAKEY DANCE” printed on it.
- Eamonn Holmes thinks Judy is in danger, Ruth Langsford thinks maybe Simon, and Julien MacDonald didn’t want to say. Boo.

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