Ellie, Asha and AJ get together to enjoy some festive specials of Strictly and Sewing Bee. None of it matters and there’s an extended trifle metaphor for you to enjoy.

Also discussed:

- A Paul Chuckle update

- All the news that’s fit to repeat

- Sewing Bee is Strictly adjacent and we love it

- There’s so much podcast overlap this Christmas

- Cheese

- Make things!

- The Lemmy version of Run Run Rudolph https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxl3Jx6Zn9c

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It’s the Grand Finale, time to review the winners and the people who won without winning. Ellie is joined by a bumper crop of pod friends - AJ, Asha, Ewan, Elliot, Jo and Mark. Do *you* remember Icons Week?

Also discussed:

- Amber’s LinkedIn profile

- A totally out of context DWTS Italy update

- We bloody love Alexis and her core muscles

- Masculinities in Strictly

- Femininities in Strictly

- Release the numbers, cowards

- Change is coming but it’s ok

Tour & other recommendations:

- Go to the Strictly tour for all this year’s faves and Layton too!

- Amber is going to be Elle Woods in Legally Blonde

- La Voix is going to be Miss Hannigan in Annie

- Vito is teaching around the country!

- Lewis and Katya are teaching in Hartlepool?

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It's semi-final week, and it's time for our celebrities to bring two dances to the dancefloor to gather enough points to get to next week's grand final. AJ has baton to conduct Asha, Elliot and Ewan as the music plays and a ticket to the show dance is within reach.

Also discussed

- Sexy toilet lady covers.

- Double bubble Bublé trouble.

- Theatre person or TV person.

- One for Carlos, one for me.

- George discovers his greatest enemy yet... a table.

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The first real crying pod of the series as we lose the last of our ‘nailed on finalists’ (we were wrong, we’re always wrong) and we’re not ok. But can we make sense of why it all went down like that? Ellie is joined by Asha, Vikki, Ewan and Jo to find out.

Also discussed:

- We’re stanning Alexis the Fantom?

- A toddler playing snooker

- Voter katamari calculations

- Televote suppression tactic checklist

- Star showcase vs ensemble chaos

- A lift we didn’t care for

- Stop censoring the ladies doing murders

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The instant dance crashes through the podcast and takes out a definitely not injured (right?) fave. Ellie is joined by Milly, Elliot, Mark and a special guest mini-lecture on variety from Ewan. Elliot’s audio is better than last time he was on, but please forgive the odd bit of hiss.

Also discussed:

- That time when JoJo saved a cat

- George’s YouTube views

- <3 Katya <3

- Dave Arch did what to Gaga

- Gilkison’s week off

- <3 Karen <3

- Dubious iconicity status of Proud Mary?

- Who’s going to win? (Spoilers: we don’t know)

- Instant dance conspiracy theories

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Keep Dancing Podcast S10 E10: Paul Chuckle Up Front

We bid farewell to game-changing avatar of light entertainment, La Voix. Ellie is joined by Asha, AJ, and Ewan to comment on the Blackpool rock of it all.

Also discussed:

- Our hand in production

- What is there even to say about a really good dance?

- Who can’t drive a Lexus?

- A modest proposal re: Strictly 2026

- Another count of the total people who enjoyed Crime Traveller

- A great week for the wlw

- Big soppy au revoir for La Voix

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Keep Dancing Podcast S10 E9: Deep In The Spreadsheets

Blackpool Qualification week was lovely, but it’s been rapidly overtaken by events. DIVA DOWN! PRAYER CIRCLE ROUND LA VOIX! Ellie is joined by a super size panel of AJ, Milly, Asha, Mark, Vikki and Jo to cast the runes.

- Crowning the bottom two diva of all divas

- Graph chat

- An allegation about axe murderers in the Home Counties

- Jay & Danny Mac reminiscences

- Taking Alexis to British tat shops: a dream

- DWTS discourse

- Another stunning moment of redaction

- A George Formby impression

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KDP S10 E8: Not One Of The Big Weeks by The Keep Dancing Podcast

Ellie has gone missing! Elliot hosts the annual scream into the void about the nature of Strictly Halloween, with Asha, Milly and Ewan for moral support.

Also discussed:

- The lighting (cursed)

- Some of the arrangements (cursed)

- La Voix wrestling control of the narrative

- La Voix wrestling control of the whole show tbh

- Kaz Carney being very gender in a flat cap

- What the future could have looked like

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Keep Dancing Podcast S10 E6: If Dolly Can Do It

Icons Week continues to make us go HMM. Ellie is joined by Elliot, AJ, Ewan and Asha to react to the news that Tessbot is going to version 2.0 at the end of the series and Claud is going to be spending more time in fingerless gloves.

Also discussed:

- Johnny Cash in thigh high leather boots

- Mind-blowing Bob Mackie fact source https://www.patreon.com/posts/marilyns-dress-125555021

- The tie-break rules and their origin story

- Rufus Hound, a reminder https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvodRB4cLsc&list=RDWvodRB4cLsc&start_radio=1

- A modest proposal about Blackpool

- Who has yet to cha cha?

- Yeah just give it La Voix, why not

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