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It’s been a rough year but Strictly still managed to find a way to shine and provide us with a glinting sequin of joy in a year that lost its sparkle within a matter of months. And what better way to honour the success they managed to make of it than a little retrospective, by which I mean a series of lists including Best Dances, Favourite Contestants and of course Best and Worst Outfits.
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I see someone’s still after a seat at the judging table.
The finale is here! Any one of Maisie “The Ringah” Smith, SR HRVY, THE VWLLSS or Bill “The Magician” Bailey could win! Jamie “Biscuit Bones” Laing is playing purely for a nice box of chocolates at the end.
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This is my favourite Heironamous Bosche painting.
It’s a shenanigans filled semi-final results show and an inevitable night of doom for a fan favourite – but don’t worry there’s another whacky-schmacky high concept pro dance to look forward to!
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The new Specsavers advert is a bit weird.
It’s our semi-final and everyone is at the limits of their sanity because they’ve had to practice 2 dances and deal with the BBC trying to film a multitude of VTs with them. But whose Strictly finale dream is about to be cut short?
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In many ways I prefer Napkin-Phantom to Facepaint-Phantom.
As the curtains fall on our Musicals Week Quarterfinal a new Bottom Two Destroyer emerges like a particularly chaotic phoenix out of the ashes of a broken Strictly dream.
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I will pay a double license fee if I get content like this more often.
We’ve done it. We’ve reached Musicals Week – Caroline Quentin is at home seething that she didn’t get to do a routine to Last Midnight from Into The Woods but the show must go on! And after years of begging, pleading and writing many threatening letters we FINALLY get our Waitress routine!
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Happy 10th birthday to Bruno Tonioli! They grow up so fast.
With another bungled up three way tie and a fan favourites languishing at the bottom of the leaderboard this was always going to be a bit of a ride of a Results Show but don’t worry we’ve got 2 special guests! (Or do worry, I don’t know how you feel about Gary Barlow and dancers from that show I kept forgetting to watch).
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This remake of Aladdin is a little racially insensitive.
This week we return to our regularly scheduled nonsense with The Triumphant Return of Miss Motsi Mabuse, no more pretending we aren’t in London and the Jive being the scourge of the ballroom.
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It’s her last patented Leg Lift of the series and she sure made it count.
With a topsy turvy leaderboard and particularly unpredictable audience reactions this was always going to be an unusual results show.
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The next series of The Masked Singer UK had its budget slashed quite considerably.
It’s Faux Blackpool Week and everyone is trying their absolute best to seem as chipper and enthusiastic as possible except we’ve reached the mid-point of the competition and the burnout is really setting in.
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