Friday 1 December 2017

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

- Susan is very excited to be doing the tour.
- Kevin doesn't know the name of the lifts they had in their American Smooth.
- The kiss in Susan's American smooth was Kevin's idea, but it was meant to be a kiss on the hand at the start and then it...escalated.
- Susan's highlights were being Wonder Woman and doing the quickstep.
- Susan did Kevin's washing.
- Susan's best friend in the competition was Mollie. SITCOM NOW PLEASE.
- Anton is nicking Hot Greg's lines now, the attention whore.  (At least he's not doing Bruno's... etc etc)
- Debbie thinks she kicked Giovanni during the Argentine tango rehearsals more than he kicked her.
- Gorka likes to do press-ups backstage if he's going to be shirtless on camera.
- Katya made Aljaž and Janette matching denim jackets as a wedding gift.
- Katya learned at school that the faster you move your arms, the faster your legs go.
- Katya did 19 charleston swivels with no steps disqualified.
- Nadiya felt it was "time" for Davood to do a straightforward routine this weekend. Week bloody ten, I should think so.
- Davood is the only celebrity not to have scored below 35 in the last four weeks. That's artificial score inflation for you.
- Erin thinks Debbie has the best legs in the business.
- Erin preferred AJ's quickstep choreography to Katya's. Erin is quite right in her opinion.
- Erin thinks Davood gives limp pivots.
- The key to pivots is locking your right thighs together.
- This show thinks the best way to demonstrate the suitability of 'Phantom of the Opera' for an Argentine Tango is to get Gorka caping all over the song.
- Hello, Dolly! was originally called A Damn Exasperating Woman.
- Carol Channing did over 5000 performances in it.
- Dame Judi Dench narrowly escaped being in the original cast of Cats.
- Kevin is really into WWE and has a Darth Vader backpack.
- Kevin did 28 charleston swivels with 12 disqualified, leaving him with a total of 16.
- Gorka told Alexandra to keep her elbows up in the pasothon to stop the other couples getting in their space.
- Perhaps unsurprisingly, Gorka can't say 'supercalifragilisticexpialidocious'.
- Gorka's Cockney accent is...all right, actually?
- Vincent has never been to the naughty areas of Argentina.
- The Argentine Tango leg move where the woman rubs her leg up the man's was to see how much money he had in his pockets.  (Or to clean her shoes).
- The key to ochos is to keep the feet brushing against each other.
- Ian Waite loves a bit of Barbra Streisand.
- Mollie still needs to ooze her hips.
- The key to a good charleston is matching hands and feet, according to Ian.  I thought it was all gurn and swivel.
- Davood is doing a ronde in his AT.
- Amy is scared of all animals except for goldfish and spiders.
- Oti laughed when Amy showed her her practise swivels for the pro challenge.
- As did Neil.
- Amy did 16 swivels with 3 disqualified putting her joint bottom of the leaderboard, but her technique was excellent so at least she can claim a moral victory over Kevin and Katya.
- Giovanni pronounces Pamela as Pam-Ella.
- Giovanni thought their Argentine tango would be better than Vincent's practices with Debbie as Giovanni's the best Italian and Vincent only the second best.
- Dame Joan Collins was a big fan of Debbie and Giovanni's Argentine tango.
- Babs McGee is so shy that if she sees two people kissing on TV she has to go and make a cup of tea.
- Babs McGee goes to her own dance classes on Saturday nights, so she can't always make it to Strictly.
- Debbie won't be wearing a cat suit on Saturday.
- Gemma's dress for the weekend apparently has a sequinned ribcage on the back.
- Debbie's American smooth has left her feeling more nauseous than she has ever felt in her life. And she got "n'awwww"ed at by Tess two weeks ago.
- Chloe enjoys decaf soya cappuccinos.
- It burns your calves and shins to do a lot of swivels.
- Chloe did 20 charleston swivels with nine disqualifications leaving her with a total of 11, putting her bottom of the leaderboard.
- Head of make-up Lisa Armstrong thinks there's nothing worse than seeing someone with a big line drawn down their cheek, so I'm guessing she's not a Trixie Mattel fan.
- Apparently the best way to demo contouring is to have the camera on the opposite side of the face to the actual demo-ing.  Something to do with light and shade, I guess?
- Aljaž thinks maybe you had to be Slovenian to truly appreciate the genius of his samba choreography.
- Gemma nearly tripped several people during the pasodoblathon.
- This show has completely forgotten about that week when the scores were out of 30.
- Gemma has just about mastered saying "hello, my name is Gemma" in Slovenian.
- Katya thought “stupendous” might mean the same as “stupid” when Craig said it, so she went very quiet.

- Joe would really like to be in Cabaret.
- Joe has done “little bits of musical theatre” in the past. (Joe was the lead in Rent when it was in the West End.)
- The pro dance this week will be from Dreamgirls
- This week’s Friday panel was Mel Giedroyc, Dick & Dom, and Pixie Lott. Surely we’re not that far away from Mel doing Strictly?
- Dick and Dom were asked to do series one but thought it would never catch on so they turned it down.
- Dick is ageing into a BBC golf presenter.  Dom is ageing slightly better. 
- Dick thinks Gemma is going to win because she gets better every week. Did he see that samba?
- The celebrities call this week 'week 11' rather than 'quarter-final'.
- Dianne did 21 charleston swivels in the pro challenge but had three disqualified leaving her with a total score of 18 and second on the leaderboard.
- Karen was devastated when she got a 2 from Craig for Nicky Byrne’s waltz.
- Her quickstep with Nicky was the dance that helped her feel more at home on the show.
- Karen's favourite dance with Hairy Dave was the salsa.
- Her way of referring to her time with Will is 'sometimes things don't work out how you'd want them to'.
- AJ artificially slowed their quickstep music down in rehearsals and gradually increased the tempo as they went along.
- Mollie loves the judges, they’re her heroes.
- Mollie is trying to teach AJ to sing. With…mixed results.
- There are 160 mics in the studio on Saturdays.
- Sound supervisor Tony Revell just won a lifetime achievement award from the RTS.
- If Darcey was to dance with any of the current pros, she would choose Aljaž and do some lovely ballroom.
- Darcey tries to look at Craig’s score paddle before he holds it up, but rarely actually gets to see it.
- If Darcey were to add a genre to the show, she'd add lindy hop to give the women a break from heels. 
- Mel hopes that Davood’s Argentine tango will have FLAMES. FLAMES ON THE SIDE OF HIS FACE.
- Mel thinks it's going to be a "shocker" this weekend in terms of the elimination.
- Pixie is rooting for Mollie and Debbie.
- Alexandra is very excited about her Mary Poppins hat.
- Gorka has been asking Davood for Cockney accent lessons.

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