The Keep Dancing Podcast

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 keepdancingpodcast@gmail.com 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 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 keepdancingpodcast@gmail.com 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. 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 keepdancingpodcast@gmail.com 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 keepdancingpodcast@gmail.com 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 keepdancingpodcast@gmail.com 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 keepdancingpodcast@gmail.com 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 keepdancingpodcast@gmail.com 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/ - If you’d like to get in touch, email us at keepdancingpodcast@gmail.com 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 keepdancingpodcast@gmail.com 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 Sewing Podcast S4 E6 - Pants Trauma It turns out that children are people! Ellie, AJ and Asha investigate clothes, but smaller. It all ends in discourse, naturally. Diversions include: - Supermarket kids clothes genders - The Magic of Dance with Margot Fonteyn https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0gwdrjj/the-magic-of-dance-series-1-4-the-romantic-ballet - Cat Ouija https://www.petsathome.com/product/pets-at-home-halloween-ouija-board-cat-toy/7154694P?productId=7154694&size=oneSize - Orville & Cuddles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0V5xiMK8_4 - Dinosaur Beef https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/679-the-bone-wars/ - Conical hat issues If you’d like to get in touch, email us at keepdancingpodcast@gmail.com 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.

Sports week! What *do* men like? Surprising numbers of mentions of The Stranglers, maybe? Ellie is joined by AJ and Asha to talk about sewing stuff for jigging about in. We wish we were at the Jamboree. - Modern Pentathlon obstacle course I AM NOT MESSING WITH YOU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeIV9mu1mmI - Aesthetics of kitesurfers vs windsurfers - An idea for a ‘hairdressing’ reality show - SANDCASTLE BAKE OFF https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m002zkr2/race-against-the-tide - The Cheetah Citation https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/cheetah-dog-furry-friendship - High end Methodist banner game - Ewan’s Fringe podcast https://thepodcastcorner.com/show/edinburghfringe/ If you’d like to get in touch, email us at keepdancingpodcast@gmail.com 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.

We’re off to Mexico and we might never shut up about it! Ellie is joined by AJ and Asha to talk trim, fann(y)ing about and ribbons. It’s a bit of a rapid run through but we bid farewell to a real one. - Prepare for your in-depth lecture on Mexican weaving https://statemuseum.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/Wrapped%20in%20Color%20Exhibit%20Booklet%202.pdf - The endangered crafts list https://heritagecrafts.org.uk/skills/redlist/ - World of Wearable art https://www.worldofwearableart.com/ - What is pigeon milk? https://www.distractify.com/p/what-is-pigeon-milk-animal-crossing - We’re not doing the Met Gala any more If you’d like to get in touch, email us at keepdancingpodcast@gmail.com 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.

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Returns! Let’s upcycle our way out of this modern hell! This episode starts out with Ellie, Asha and Elliott talking about our favourite ecohabits then we actually get to talking about the Sewing Bee. Sorry for being depressing, but it makes you think dunnit. - Miniml cleaning gloops https://minimlrefills.co.uk/ - Locavore, you might have something like this near you https://www.locavore.scot/ - The Energy Dashboard! https://www.energydashboard.co.uk/live - How an Overlocker works https://weallsew.com/overlocker-for-beginners-an-introduction-to-sergers/ - The knickers https://communityclothing.co.uk/collections/womens-underwear/products/womens-high-rise-brief-2-pack-black - Bow discourse - Barbie Exhibition https://www.glasgowlife.org.uk/museums/venues/kelvingrove-art-gallery-and-museum/barbie-the-exhibition - Hemgate as a failure of The Edit - Ikea dress https://shunvogue.com/article/how-to-make-a-dress-out-of-an-ikea-bag If you’d like to get in touch, email us at keepdancingpodcast@gmail.com 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.

AJ sits in and is joined by Ariadne and Elliot in an industrial complex on the M60 to pick apart the latest episode of the UK’s favourite fabric-based light entertainment show! Featuring: - Summer matcha shaming - The mortifying ordeal of Lewis being perceived - Sam’s Mrs Overall tribute - The inherent eroticism of water - Our designated fave cishet man for the series - The Crisp Sideboard Show links: Mrs Overall https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00f4fl1 That J-Lo Versace dress https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Versace_dress_of_Jennifer_Lopez Walkers spring onion crisps https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/whats-on/food-drink-news/walkers-crisps-discontinued-flavours-uk-27863449 Dan’s engagement https://www.instagram.com/p/Da-45EojZlC/?img_index=1 Johnny Vegas Jacamo ad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdOI9CE8sEo Buy Ellie’s Strictly/Eurovision things! https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/totallyflagulous Support AJ’s GoFundMe! https://gofund.me/48297356 If you’d like to get in touch with us, email us at keepdancingpodcast@gmail.com or follow us on Instagram at @keepdancingpod and Bluesky at @keepdancingpodcast.bsky.social. Keep Watching Pod supports the work of Not A Phase and you can too. https://notaphase.org/

The Haberdashery has been restocked! Ellie is joined by AJ, Asha and Elliott to chat topstitching, aprons and our ideal summer days. Also discussed: - The Year of the Soft Reboot! - In defence of the ergonomic apple picking bag, sorta - Freehand embroidery explained (not well) - Light menswear conspiracy theorising - Poo bag or poo bag bag? - Sewing meme to fast fashion pipeline - Chaos Suzy forever If you’d like to get in touch, email us at keepdancingpodcast@gmail.com or follow us on Instagram at @keepdancingpod and Bluesky at @keepdancingpodcast.bsky.social. 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.

There’s been a lot of Events in the Strictly Universe and I guess we ought to podcast about it? It’s the second year of our Casting Predictions game, which we tried to get in before it was rendered entirely moot. Topics include: - Expressive noises - The Eastender is selected - Heads & Tails https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRY4otrYCJI - Are Icedancers Ringers? - Hot Mic Risk Factors - Naming Areas If you’d like to get in touch, email us at keepdancingpodcast@gmail.com or follow us on Instagram at @keepdancingpod and Bluesky at @keepdancingpodcast.bsky.social. 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! Support AJ’s GoFundMe, it’s not too late! https://gofund.me/48297356 Keep Dancing Pod supports the work of Gendered Intelligence and you can too. https:/genderedintelligence.co.uk/

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 f you’d like to get in touch, email us at keepdancingpodcast@gmail.com or follow us on Instagram at @keepdancingpod and Bluesky at @keepdancingpodcast.bsky.social. Don’t forget the shop at https://totallyflagulous.etsy.com where there’s Strictly and Taskmaster and Christmas number one stuff! Support AJ’s GoFundMe, it’s not too late! https://gofund.me/48297356 Keep Dancing Pod supports the work of Gendered Intelligence and you can too. https:/genderedintelligence.co.uk/

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? If you’d like to get in touch, email us at keepdancingpodcast@gmail.com or follow us on Instagram at @keepdancingpod and Bluesky at @keepdancingpodcast.bsky.social. Don’t forget the shop at https://totallyflagulous.etsy.com where there’s Strictly and Taskmaster and Christmas number one stuff! Support AJ’s GoFundMe, it’s not too late! https://gofund.me/48297356 Keep Dancing Pod supports the work of Gendered Intelligence and you can too. https:/genderedintelligence.co.uk/

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. If you’d like to get in touch, email us at keepdancingpodcast@gmail.com or follow us on Instagram at @keepdancingpod and Bluesky at @keepdancingpodcast.bsky.social. Don’t forget the shop at totallyflagulous.etsy.com where there’s Strictly and Eurovision and Taskmaster stuff! Support AJ’s GoFundMe, it’s not too late! gofund.me/48297356 Keep Dancing Pod supports the work of Gendered Intelligence and you can too. https:/genderedintelligence.co.uk/

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 If you’d like to get in touch, email us at keepdancingpodcast@gmail.com or follow us on Instagram at @keepdancingpod and Bluesky at @keepdancingpodcast.bsky.social. Don’t forget the shop at https://totallyflagulous.etsy.com where there’s Strictly and Eurovision and Taskmaster stuff! Support AJ’s GoFundMe, it’s not too late! https://gofund.me/48297356 Keep Dancing Pod supports the work of Gendered Intelligence and you can too. https:/genderedintelligence.co.uk/