Strictly Come Dancing - It Takes Two: Jive by Jive

Shock all around as Zojam hit the sofa, Zoe (almost out of Lucker) and James (Must be due a trim) figured they were safe for the first time, up there in 3rd place. He thought as I did - they surely wouldn't leave them till the end again - unless they were in the dance off! A Friend in Me plays as we have a little montage showing them all pally; fingers crossed for a crowd pleasing American Smooth this week.

It's Choreography Corner with Karen (Dance Scientist) she confirms Claudia's suggestion of similarities between jive and VW - they're both rotational! VW easier because of limited steps, but then the judges will expect technique; jive can get carried away with WOW factors, Alian, for example, overchoreographed, going for the wow as opposed to Zojam, a swing jive, focused around the hips. Generally agreed that Laila's was the best outfit, ever! Lainton's a kick jive, feet off the floor throughout. A car wash, Karen called it (meant car crash, bless her - she gets very excited in the corner). Best to begin with a rock step, then progress to step-ball-change, what Rickin did a lot of; The ballroom stole the show, especially Ricalie in and out of the fleckerl; Jodan praised for putting in the fleckerl too, Brendan played to Jo's strengths in approaching it differently.

Cravia on the sofa, Craig (Has fire in his belly) a fellow northerner for Zoe (probably where a lot of her vote went) and Flavia (Cacace-ing a bus) give us the Story of the Dance: Waiting for a bus, or several, to go to a carnival for a hot dog in another dimension, returning home by plane. Samba this week is tough. And hard. And he's wearing a handyman's belt to help his abs!

Lainton also in tonight, Laila (Had fringe benefits) and Anton (Not a Latin Lover) were chatting all the way through the jive in a kind of "What's next?" kind of way. Claudia says: "It's not like you were telling us all week the jive was Your Dance!" Speed is a problem as Laila has only one -Slow! But she's taken on board Len's advice and is going to give the samba her all this week!

Animal imagery - Is Craig as mad as a box of frogs? Seemingly not, judging by the end credits!