Strictly Take Two

The lovely Camilla, reigning champion, drew the two groups for the first two weekends of the show (you can see her in action on the BBC website) here they are - with the adoptive names I've given them for ease of running commentaryanism:

Friday/Saturday 18th/19th September:

Chris and Ola - Chrola, no, not the colouring people ...
Ali and Brian - Alian
Ricky and Erin - I though Ecky, but kept thinking about black pudding, so they'll be Rickin.
Lynda and Darren - Darrynda
Jade and Ian - Ianade - a new isotonic sports drink ...
Joe and Kristina - Jostina
Rav and Aliona - Ravona, as in "My Ravona" ...
Martina and Matthew - Mattina

Friday 25th/Saturday 26th:

Zoe and James - Zojam, a more exotic strain of toejam.
Natalie and Vincent - Vinalie
Richard and Lilia - Liliard
Craig and Flavia - Cravia
Laila and Anton - Laiton, as in laiton anxiety about Anton getting a decent run ...
Phil and Katya - Phitya.
Ricky and Natalie - Ricalie
Jo and Brendan - Jodan, thank God there's no 'r' in Jo.

I'm dead chuffed about this change - I've always maintained the contestants should be given the chance to do both ballroom and latin before we decide, looks like someone listened!

Other dance news suggest that a newly trimmed Hannah Waterman will be taking part in the next series of Dancing on Ice - a 100% record in reality shows, I think - she won Just the Two of Us with Marti Pellow. She's married to Ricky Groves, don'tchaknow - so likely we'll be seeing her in the SCD audience or on the It Takes Two sofa at some point!

A former contestant in So You Think You Can Dance, Will Wingfield, has joined the cast of In The Heights, which looks fab, although the video on the link isn't playing properly for me - never fear, they have a youtube channel - I shall see what I can find for a Showtime moment! No, couldn't embed one so check out the link instead!

The Canadian SYTYCD is going to have all their Top 20 perform a tribute dance to Michael Jackson - I'l hope to grab that for a Showtime moment too - can't imagine it'll be anything less than awesome!