The Keep Dancing Podcast

It’s a bad week for the Bottom Two Goddesses, and Motsi knew what was UP. Ellie is joined by AJ, Asha and Jo to read the injury notes, despair of the safeguarding and celebrate anyone who is willing to step up for the trans community. Content warning: FOG

Also discussed:

- Johannex? Jolarium? Jalcony?

- Altrincham fades to grey https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cqev3rdvyvm1o

- How do you credit an arranger on TV?

- Joel Dommett wholesome running content https://www.instagram.com/reel/Db6Vc6pO0qB/

- You Suffer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Z1IGjr2cT0

- Vorderumba https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5iE7bqZU1k

- Bethany on Gaydio https://www.gaydio.co.uk/whats-new/news/gaydio-news/exclusive-bethany-antonia-says-she-felt-devastated-after-bbc-censored-her-protect-the-dolls-t-shirt/

- Someone leak the official video podcast stats to us

- How racism actually affects the vote

- Visit Dundee

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Don’t forget the Strictly tea towel shop is moving to https://ko-fi.com/A0Y229QX05

Our favourite charity is NOT A PHASE, stick them a fiver if you like what you hear. https://notaphase.org/

Halloween is as good a time as any for a disappointing threeway, I guess. Ellie is joined by Asha and Elliott to give this silly old show another going over.

Also discussed:

- Shirley Ballas’s unconscious bias training

- Highlighter placement

- Take your Vitamin D, Scotland and Ireland

- Fully Booked https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fully_Booked

- Part 500 of the Jives In Trainers Rant

- Ghostwatch, the originators of Pipes https://www.flickeringmyth.com/ghostwatch-pipeswatch-30-years-of-spotting-raymond-tunstall/

- Jaime Winstone is 41

- Look, if you don’t know the Richard Herring/Stewart Lee puppet story I don’t know what to tell you

- A lengthy digression about Making Your Mind Up 2007

If you’d like to get in touch, email us at [email protected] or follow us on Instagram at @keepdancingpod and Bluesky at @keepdancingpodcast.bsky.social.

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Don’t forget the Strictly tea towel shop is moving to https://ko-fi.com/A0Y229QX05

Our favourite charity is NOT A PHASE, stick them a fiver if you like what you hear. https://notaphase.org/

It’s never too early for a ten for plot reasons! Ellie is joined by AJ, Elliot and Asha to just about podcast about it all.

Topics discussed:

- Black in the Ballroom https://blackintheballroom.com/about-us/

- Ellie’s Rapid Onset Midlife Crisis

- Pregnant then Screwed https://pregnantthenscrewed.com/

- Lesbians invade the BBC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEBDNmPm1Yk

- Supermarket Sweep https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FESeyvQHjTQ

- Fred Richard’s floor routine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fy5o5k3CK0s

- The Doomsday Clock https://thebulletin.org/doomsday-clock/

- A documentary about As If https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S95rFujCNI

- Rod Stewart drawing balls https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xPDBA2mSHI

If you’d like to get in touch, email us at [email protected] or follow us on Instagram at @keepdancingpod and Bluesky at @keepdancingpodcast.bsky.social.

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Don’t forget the shop at https://totallyflagulous.etsy.com where there’s Strictly and Snooker and Football and Taskmaster and Christmas number one stuff!

Our favourite charity is NOT A PHASE, stick them a fiver if you like what you hear. https://notaphase.org/

https://notaphase.org/

No theme, no slogans, no logos, but plenty of hot takes. AJ sits in as host and is joined by Ewan, Elliot, Asha and Jo to take it apart.

Also discussed:

- Shout out to Gnomeo & Juliet

- Shout out to the Costco massive

- https://www.who.int/campaigns/world-mental-health-day

- The Laughing Gnome https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SQdBxVjZx4

- Bob the Builder covered Mambo Number 5.

- The last time the UK and Denmark went to war https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Copenhagen_(1807)

- Reduce Reuse DSI-Cycle

- Millennial Icons Only

- The Bon Jovi Extended Universe

- Tabby we are looking extremely respectfully

If you’d like to get in touch, email us at [email protected] or follow us on Instagram at @keepdancingpod and Bluesky at @keepdancingpodcast.bsky.social.

You’d better be reading Ariadne’s blog https://ariadnereviews.com/

Don’t forget the shop at https://totallyflagulous.etsy.com where there’s Strictly and Snooker and Football and Taskmaster and Christmas number one stuff!

Our favourite charity is NOT A PHASE, stick them a fiver if you like what you hear.

Movies Week is upon us far sooner than anyone could have hoped. Ellie is joined by AJ and Asha to try and make some sort of sense of it all. This one goes out to all the Furries <3

Also discussed:

- Global warming

- Some nice rendering from 1991 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iQBC2EMPao

- Fifteens https://traybakesandmore.com/fifteens/

- Solid Gold Patter from Oti & Marius https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWTv3a1z3kY

- Noot noot mfers

- A request for a specific diagram

- A specific issue with the new ITT format

- The trousers https://www.vogue.co.uk/fashion/article/sandy-grease-style

- Talking about the 30 seconds of aerial for more than 30 seconds

If you’d like to get in touch, email us at [email protected] or follow us on Instagram at @keepdancingpod and Bluesky at @keepdancingpodcast.bsky.social.

You’d better be reading Ariadne’s blog https://ariadnereviews.com/

Don’t forget the shop at https://totallyflagulous.etsy.com where there’s Strictly and Snooker and Football and Taskmaster and Christmas number one stuff!

Our favourite charity is NOT A PHASE, stick them a fiver if you like what you hear.

They’re dancing! They’ve got to keep dancing! Ellie is joined by Ewan and Elliott to rapidly recount all 15 first dances from the 2026 series. Insert apparently compulsory Gavin & Stacey reference!?

Also discussed:

- Strictly needs a third space?

- Are you doing a cha cha or are you getting a cha cha out of the way?

- Sorry, actually Shaun’s second spell at City was under the current management

- A couple of piquant additions to the Forbidden Strictly list

- Ringers are good, actually

- Bananaman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nz8XTi4nc5Y

If you’d like to get in touch, email us at [email protected] or follow us on Instagram at @keepdancingpod and Bluesky at @keepdancingpodcast.bsky.social.

You’d better be reading Ariadne’s blog https://ariadnereviews.com/

Don’t forget the shop at https://totallyflagulous.etsy.com where there’s Strictly and Snooker and Football and Taskmaster and Christmas number one stuff!

Our favourite charity is NOT A PHASE, stick them a fiver if you like what you hear.

Keep Dancing Podcast S11 E0: How Soft Is Your Reboot?

As the real world crashes apocalypsewards, we deserve a little strictly, as a treat. Ellie is joined by AJ, Asha, Elliott and Ewan to jump to conclusions and extrapolate from zero data points about our upcoming dance themed themed dance Q4 festival of fun.

Topics:

- Farewell to our departing legends

- New dancers and A CANADIAN?

- A parasocial gossip fantasy

- Some modest proposals

- Year of the Dads

- “Dogs/Ringer”

- Who have we cursed by making them our early fave?

If you’d like to get in touch, email us at [email protected] or follow us on Instagram at @keepdancingpod and Bluesky at @keepdancingpodcast.bsky.social.

You’d better be reading Ariadne’s blog https://ariadnereviews.com/

Don’t forget the shop at https://totallyflagulous.etsy.com where there’s Strictly and Snooker and Football and Taskmaster and Christmas number one stuff!

Our favourite charity is NOT A PHASE, stick them a fiver if you like what you hear.

Keep Dancing Podcast S11 E0: How Soft Is Your Reboot?

As the real world crashes apocalypsewards, we deserve a little strictly, as a treat. Ellie is joined by AJ, Asha, Elliott and Ewan to jump to conclusions and extrapolate from zero data points about our upcoming dance themed themed dance Q4 festival of fun.

Topics:

- Farewell to our departing legends

- New dancers and A CANADIAN?

- A parasocial gossip fantasy

- Some modest proposals

- Year of the Dads

- “Dogs/Ringer”

- Who have we cursed by making them our early fave?

If you’d like to get in touch, email us at [email protected] or follow us on Instagram at @keepdancingpod and Bluesky at @keepdancingpodcast.bsky.social.

You’d better be reading Ariadne’s blog https://ariadnereviews.com/

Don’t forget the shop at https://totallyflagulous.etsy.com where there’s Strictly and Snooker and Football and Taskmaster and Christmas number one stuff!

Our favourite charity is NOT A PHASE, stick them a fiver if you like what you hear.

Who’s in Marlon Brando’s Vegan Biker Gang? Ellie and Asha are here for leather, hem and LBD discourse.

Also discussed:

- Good leather

- Plant leather https://alternativeleathers.com/products/desserto-cactus-leather?variant=41589542027404

- Dear god please do something else with the transformation challenge

- Not wearing white before or after Labor Day

- The All Saints Parachute dress https://www.allsaints.com/features/parachute-dress.html

- REFLECTIVE fabrics!! https://www.helloreflectives.com/

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If you’d like to get in touch, email us at [email protected] or follow us on Instagram at @keepdancingpod and Bluesky at @keepdancingpodcast.bsky.social.

You’d better be reading Ariadne’s blog https://ariadnereviews.com/

Don’t forget the shop at https://totallyflagulous.etsy.com where there’s Strictly and Snooker and Football and Taskmaster and Christmas number one stuff!

Our favourite charity is NOT A PHASE, stick them a fiver if you like what you hear.

Huge cheers to Rebecca for having one of the most effective Sewing Bee stints in history. A super new wardrobe! Awesome friends! Accommodations! Worker’s rights! Ellie is joined by AJ & Asha to pretend to know what constitutes a gap and pretend not to know about Roald Dahl’s views about women. Slubs!

Also discussed:

- We did miss a week, sorry

- Who would have worn which deerstalker?

- Alternative literary transformation challenges

- More alternative literary transformation challenges

- Solving for Bridgerton

- In Bed With The Right on Jane Eyre https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-151-jane-eyre/id1696774612?i=1000787545439

- Please no more hem discourse

- Some vague guesses about historical hair

- Historical costume YouTube is cool https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jzr7m-OCFas

If you’d like to get in touch, email us at [email protected] or follow us on Instagram at @keepdancingpod and Bluesky at @keepdancingpodcast.bsky.social.

You’d better be reading Ariadne’s blog https://ariadnereviews.com/

Don’t forget the shop at https://totallyflagulous.etsy.com where there’s Strictly and Snooker and Football and Taskmaster and Christmas number one stuff!

Our favourite charity is NOT A PHASE, stick them a fiver if you like what you hear.