It’s Icons Week! Get ready to enjoy spectacular choreography paying homage to Aretha, Adele, Abba, Bowie, Elton… and Shania Twain
Tick them off as you spot them on-screen! Take a drink for each! Make a number of online purchases you won’t remember until the parcels arrive! Here’s your 10-point spotter’s checklist for Icons Week:
Craig tells Sarah Storey “That don’t impress me much, darling” after her Shania Twain tango
You find your eyebrow raising at descriptions of Shania/Bon Jovi/Ricky Martin as “icons”
Anton describes Cach’s New York foxtrot as “a bit of me” or “the sort of number I’d have loved to do”
Mention of Shirley’s tiny shoes of doom but no sighting of the cursed items
Judges are introduced as “four icons of dance”
Motsi tells a celebrity not to be afraid of the music/getting close to their pro partner
Slightly stilted skit between Josh Widdicombe and Dave Arch/Neil Jones/a judge
Shirley takes time out from critiquing the celeb to congratulate their pro partner on the choreography
“Icon” overtakes “Blackpool” to become the most overused word in Strictly history
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