Ready for your sofa to get a bum-shaped imprint? Positioned all food and drink within arms reach? Excellent.
It’s the week before the celebs head off to dance in Blackpool, which means everyone’s saying ‘we’re praying that we make it to Blackpool’ like it’s a sun-drenched resort where champers pours out of the taps.
We’ve cosied up on the sofa with TOWIE’s Frankie Essex to give us her verdict on tonight’s show. So these are the bits that had us all screaming, LOLing and just generally kissing our TV screen…
1. Bruno’s “love face”
When tomboy Caroline Flack took to the dancefloor to do the Waltz, she impressed the judges with her beautiful Princess moves with Bruno even saying it “put him in the mood for love”. And then pulled THIS face.
Our eagle eyes picked up on her little stumble at the end. Cazza was dancing to Lionel Ritchie and said that she was once an extra in a Lionel video. Feast on that, fact fans.
2. Oi oi captain!
Who ordered the Sexy Sailor stripper? Jake Wood looked like a totally hot (temperature, as well as sexiness) dial-a-stripper from a high-class Hen Do. Or as Zoe Ball called him to his face, a ‘hashtag Mum crush’. Then there was the bombshell form the judges that he had Spatula hands.
3. Andy Murray dancing...
...and looking deeply embarrassed about it. It’s one thing having your Mum rock up on your tennis court to show off some of her dance moves, but even worse when she ropes you into a Pasodoble. Special big ups to Judy this evening for getting dangerously close to flashing her pants, looking foxy in her red frock, and grinning whilst she was told; “If stiffness was a crime, you’d get life.”
IMPORTANT INFORMATION OF THE EVENING: Judy’s Mum Shirley bakes shortbread every week to take to the studio.
4. Alison Hammond manhandling Aljaz’s glitterball
Not only did she manage to choreograph a kiss into the routine, Alison also got to grapple around hunky Aljaz’s groin region when he flipped around in a cartwheel. No wonder she is the happiest human on TV.
5. Mark Wright’s got his wedding dance sorted
If you’ve never dreamt about being held in the arms of Mark Wright and waltzed around the dancefloor, YOU WILL NOW. Lucky Michelle. He looked like a total babe, with Bruno saying; “You’ve got your wedding dance sorted now. It was tender, loving and involving. You’re a keeper.” As an added bonus, his trousers that gave him a bit of an Olly Murs downstairs.
6. Kevin-from-Grimsby has a Saturdays p-a-r-t-y
All of Kevin from Grimsby’s dreams come true when he gets woken up from a nap in Spain by all five of The Saturdays.
7. Steve and Ola’s totally-not-awkward face
You might have heard about Steve Backshall apparently lodging a complaint that Ola’s a big bully and is working him too hard. He grinned a lot and got his HUGE pecs out a lot to distract us. It worked.
