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Post by Matt on Oct 11, 2022 13:58:45 GMT
I haven't seen It Takes Two yet, but I know Gio wasn't interested from the first minute I saw him in week 1. The problem may have been Richie himself, or it could just be that Gio didn't want a male partner. not in a homophobic way, but maybe he's more comfortable in routines with a female partner.
I saw on Helens Wiki that she won a dance competition years ago, it was a competition paired with people in wheelchairs, but even so they've kept that quiet.
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Post by oxfordsimon on Oct 11, 2022 15:38:21 GMT
Helen is a trained tap dance teacher
And yes, I know that isn't Latin or Ballroom. But it is still a very high level of dance experience
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Post by FairyGodmother on Oct 12, 2022 14:33:32 GMT
I remember that, it was when she was on Blue Peter.
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Oct 12, 2022 15:18:05 GMT
Good that, well in Helen
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Post by Matt on Oct 12, 2022 20:01:47 GMT
Matt is SO much more relaxed and normal on It Takes Two. I hope this personality comes across on the live show this weekend.
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Post by alece10 on Oct 15, 2022 18:13:48 GMT
Maybe I'm being harsh but back stories aka sob stories do the opposite to me than their intention but I'm sure she will get plenty of sympathy votes.
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Post by oxfordsimon on Oct 15, 2022 18:24:00 GMT
Last week it was body positivity. This week it was losing a sibling.
Time to ditch the VTs and just focus on the dance.
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Post by FairyGodmother on Oct 15, 2022 19:01:31 GMT
A few have done really well this week.
And the dresses are mostly quite nice!
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Post by oxfordsimon on Oct 15, 2022 19:12:12 GMT
Other than Ellie T and her milkmaid frock. That is hideous
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Post by oxfordsimon on Oct 15, 2022 19:25:03 GMT
Ludicrous overmarking again tonight
I gave my 3 votes to Will as he really doesn't deserve to go yet.
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Post by alece10 on Oct 15, 2022 19:38:11 GMT
I did exactly the same.
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Post by karloscar on Oct 15, 2022 19:47:32 GMT
Johannes on the farm was like Alexis Carrington Colby guest starring on Emmerdale! Fabulous.
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Post by anthony40 on Oct 15, 2022 20:14:00 GMT
Did anyone else think that Jayde Adams looked like Elsa from Frozen?
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Post by Matt on Oct 15, 2022 20:52:57 GMT
Hamza was incredible, he probably deserved the 40 but we all know that Craig holds it back.
Tony was really good! A massive improvement. They need to ditch the comedy and actually work on technique now and he could surprise a lot of people.
Fleur and the Argentine Tango was amazing, I thought that would get 40.
All Helen needed was intensity and she would have got 36, surely Gorka would have drummed that into her? Also, Gorka didn’t look happy at all and I thought it was cos Helen didn’t put everything into it, then my fiancée told me about her ex cheating and having a baby.
Tyler is such an amazing solo dancer, he’s my favourite at the moment.
I thought James did very very well too!
Molly was SO good that I wasn’t even watching it like she was a celeb, faultless!
I do feel sorry for Matt. He comes across so much more comfortable on It Takes Two, plus I watched that Netflix doc this week and it made me like him more. He just needs to sort out his posture and keep his head straight.
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Post by theatreian on Oct 15, 2022 21:36:05 GMT
At least Will didn't make too much of the fact that he's been really ill all week. Hope he manages to avoid the dance off as he did look awful and i noted that he disappeared for the rest of the show and only reappeared at the end.
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Post by TallPaul on Oct 16, 2022 7:47:49 GMT
What a night! My train back from Leeds was late, obvs, so I seem to have missed all the weaker couples. I wondered where Will was. Have you bought those potted plants, BurlyBeaR, or are they on hire? The gold boots didn't do anything for Claud.
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Post by theatreian on Oct 16, 2022 12:06:16 GMT
Johannes on the farm was like Alexis Carrington Colby guest starring on Emmerdale! Fabulous. That line has made my day!
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Post by anthony40 on Oct 16, 2022 19:00:26 GMT
Did anyone else notice that Johannes looked more feminine that Ellie when there were on that farm?
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Post by robertb213 on Oct 16, 2022 19:08:29 GMT
Neither Craig nor Motsi gave reasons for their decisions, apparently that rule is optional now!
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Post by danb on Oct 16, 2022 19:20:19 GMT
I do think it was more like putting him out of his misery than voting him off. His top half was crazy whilst his legs were thoroughly pigeon toed & ill disciplined. His whole insincere wounded puppy nonsense was really starting to grate.
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Post by karloscar on Oct 16, 2022 21:37:21 GMT
Great suggestion on the Guardian's Strictly blog: instead of musicals week this year we have Lansbury week. Dances from The Harvey Girls, Anyone Can Whistle, Mame, Dear World, Prettybelle, Sweeney Todd, The King and I, Beauty and the Beast, Bednobs, Night Music etc "Winner gets to recite Angelas' terrifying speech from The Manchurian Candidate to Tess and activate her Assassin sleeper-agent programming."
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Post by theatreian on Oct 17, 2022 7:39:30 GMT
Matt did have a physical problem which may have impacted on his movement. He has Poland Syndrome , which affects the body's musculature.
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Post by anthony40 on Oct 17, 2022 8:45:27 GMT
Matt did get quite surprisingly emotional, I thought
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Post by lynette on Oct 17, 2022 10:50:12 GMT
Matt did have a physical problem which may have impacted on his movement. He has Poland Syndrome , which affects the body's musculature. Why wasn’t this mentioned? Everyone else mentions their problems and rightly so, highlights stuff for other people etc.
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Post by oxfordsimon on Oct 17, 2022 11:15:34 GMT
Not everyone wants to trot out their personal challenges in order to garner sympathy and votes.
All credit to him for keeping things private.
Much prefer that to the sob stories
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Post by margoc on Oct 18, 2022 1:21:46 GMT
I do wish they'd get better singers!
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Post by Matt on Oct 22, 2022 20:35:04 GMT
What an awful bunch of songs to dance to this week. Theme tunes are generally 20 seconds long, so dancing for 2 mins or however long it is means that you get the same 16 bars repeated. Molly wasn’t great but that was down to the Grange Hill theme, it’s not punchy at all. I don’t know whose choice it was but I’d be fuming at whoever it was down to. Hamza was the best for me, and I think Ellie T did enough to save herself this week. Everything I felt about every dance was backed up by the judges, which means my dance knowledge is improving 😅 but also I think they got 90% of their comments spot on tonight, I think some scores were wrong though. Waterloo and Ballroom Blitz, I think it was unfair that these songs were allowed, they don’t represent the BBC at all. I think Jayde could be in trouble this week.
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Post by oxfordsimon on Oct 22, 2022 20:37:05 GMT
Some very unusual choices tonight.
Trying to Charleston to a hornpipe was too much of a clash for me.
Also if you are celebrating Come Dancing, choose music that evoked the original not that track.
The voting was all over the place again. So inconsistent.
Impossible to guess how it will all play out with that number of tied scores.
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Post by alece10 on Oct 22, 2022 20:55:11 GMT
Over scoring again especially by Motsi. Craig is the only one who gives accurate scores.
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Post by robertb213 on Oct 22, 2022 20:56:51 GMT
That was the worst theme week in living memory. Whoever thought dancing to instrumental TV theme tunes would be good idea needs sacking. I know it was to celebrate the BBC but the whole thing felt cheap and lazy.
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