The Final Countdown!
Strictly Come Dancing: The Official Podcast
BBC
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
2018 Strictly finalist Joe Sugg teams up with producer Kim Winston to bring the fans an Access All Areas backstage pass to the show.
Kim has an encyclopaedic knowledge of Strictly, having worked on the show since 2009, and Joe knows first-hand what all the couples are going through, making them the perfect duo to give the listeners an exclusive insight of what really goes on backstage.
It’s the semi-final in the ballroom and the couples last chance to give it their all to make it to next week's final! And Anton reveals all the secrets about his fellow judges!
The Strictly Come Dancing Official Podcast is made by BBC Studios, produced by Kim Winston and edited by Jonathan O’Sullivan.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:05.6 | Welcome to the Strictly Undancing Podcast with your hosts, Joe Sugg and Kim Winston. |
| 0:12.1 | Kim, we have our finalists. |
| 0:15.0 | We've got Ellie and Vito, Leighton and Nikita and Bobby and Diane. |
| 0:21.0 | Can you believe we're saying that? We are saying that we now know who our finalists are for 20-23 Joe. |
| 0:27.6 | I feel like now will be a good time to reveal who we had in our final list. |
| 0:31.8 | Next week we've got to tease them. |
| 0:33.6 | I feel like one of us has got a giant smile on their face. |
| 0:37.4 | We will reveal that next week. |
| 0:40.6 | This is when it's good to be podcast |
| 0:42.0 | because they can't see who pretty much got it bang on. |
| 0:45.0 | So what me and you do is every year at the very start, literally at the Lons show, we like have a little |
| 0:50.1 | look at them, we look at that opening group dance and then we both write down |
| 0:54.7 | who we think our finalists are plus this year you were kind you gave us a backup |
| 0:59.1 | person as well yeah a wild card so we had our four because we thought there was going to be four in the vinyl, four and a wild card. So yeah, |
| 1:06.3 | tune in next week if you want to hear who got it right. Look, I am so so thrilled for our three finalists by I am equally gutted for |
| 1:16.2 | Annabelle and Johannes. What an unbelievable journey they had. You actually caught |
| 1:21.6 | with them we'll hear from them later in the |
| 1:22.8 | podcast but here they are chatting today. |
| 1:25.2 | Honestly it's been the most life-changing most extraordinary experience of my life. |
| 1:30.3 | Were they inadequate to describe what you've given me over the last few months, Johannes, |
| 1:36.2 | you have been absolutely extraordinary, you've given me a reason to get out of bed and |
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