Nina Wadia Puns

The weeks and occupations of the people are added because I originally shared this with some people who don't like Strictly as much as I do, leaving them in because I'm lazy

These are just my opinions, the best dance is the one I liked the most, not what the judges liked most, same applies to worst dance. Best/worst outfit only refers to the celebrity, not their partner.

Week 2: Nina Wadia (Actress) and Neil Jones
Best Dance: Samba (Week 1)
Worst Dance: Tango (Week 2)
Best Outfit: Tango
Worst Outfit: Samba

Week 3 (Movie Week): Katie McGlynn (Actress) and Gorka Marquez
Best Dance: American Smooth (Week 3)
Worst Dance: Jive (Week 2)
Best Outfit: Tango (Week 1)
Worst Outfit: Jive

Withdrew between Week 3 and Week 4: Robert Webb (Comedian) and Dianne Buswell
Best Dance: Tango (Week 2)
Worst Dance: Cha Cha (Week 1) (but very entertaining to watch and I was tempted to put it as best)
Best Outfit: Tango (maybe i have a tango outfit bias)
Worst Outfit: Cha Cha (Week 1) and American Smooth (Week 3) (i couldn't pick which was worse and i love them both)
Week 4: Greg Wise (Actor) and Karen Hauer
Best Dance: Paso Doble (Week 3)
Worst Dance: Samba (Week 4)
Best Outfit: Couple’s Choice (Week 2)
Worst Outfit: Samba

Week 5: Ugo Monye (Rugby Player) and Oti Mabuse (Absent week 4 due to injury)
Best Dance: Couple’s Choice (Week 3)
Worst Dance: Rumba (Week 5) (though i always find the rumba kind of boring)
Best Outfit: Quickstep (Week 2)
Worst Outfit: Rumba

Week 6 (Halloween Week): Judi Love (Comedian/Loose Women Panelist) and Graziano Di Prima (Absent week 5 due to testing positive for covid)
Best Dance: Samba (Week 2) (it was fun what can i say)
Worst Dance: Cha Cha Cha (Week 6) (she was still recovering she looked so tired i respect her for not dropping out altogether)
Best Outfit: Waltz (Week 4)
Worst Outfit: Cha Cha Cha

Week 7: Adam Peaty (Olympic Swimmer) and Katya Jones
Best Dance: Argentine Tango (Week 4)
Worst Dance: Rumba (Week 3) (i can never tell if a rumba is good or not)
Best Outfit: Viennese Waltz (Week 6)
Worst Outfit: Samba (Week 5) (it was just a t-shirt and jeans?)

Week 8: Sara Davies (Entrepreneur, Dragon’s Den judge) and Aljaž Škorjanec
Best Dance: Tango (Week 4)
Worst Dance: Cha Cha Cha (Week 1)
Best Outfit: Argentine Tango (Week 8) (i think this one may be an unpopular opinion)
Worst Outfit: Quickstep (Week 7)

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There have been a few “unofficial” cast announcements recently so I thought I would make a list of everyone who has been revealed so far to help anyone who may have missed something! If I have accidentally left a cast member out please add them below in the comments.

Tom Sturridge - Dream (Morpheus)

Gwendoline Christie - Lucifer

Vivienne Acheampong - Lucienne

Boyd Holbrook - The Corinthian

Charles Dance - Roderick Burgess

Asim Chaudhry - Abel

Sanjeev Bhaskar - Cain

Kirby Howell-Baptiste - Death

Mason Alexander Park - Desire

Donna Preston - Despair

Razane Jammal - Lyta Hall

Joely Richardson - Ethel Cripps

Niamh Walsh - Young Ethel Cripps

David Thewlis - John Dee

Kyo Ra - Rose Walker

Patton Oswalt - Matthew (final voice)

Dave Fulton - Matthew (voice on set)

Stephen Fry - Gilbert

Jenna Coleman - Johanna Constantine

Sandra James Young - Unity Kincaid

Lloyd Everitt - Hector Hall

Dinita Gohil - The Maiden (The Kindly Ones)

Nina Wadia - The Mother (The Kindly Ones)

Isla Gie - Child Zelda

Steven Brand - Marsh Janowski

Eleanor Fanyinka - Rachel

Stacy Abalogun - Nurse Edmunds

Benjamin Evan Ainsworth - Child Alex Burgess

Emma Duncan - Bette Munroe

Melissanthi Mahut - Calliope

Ferdinand Kingsley - Hob Gadling (hinted by Neil)

John Cameron Mitchell - Unknown role

Jill Winternitz - Unknown role

Lourdes Faberes - Unknown role

Roger Allam - Unknown role

Arthur Darvill - Unknown role

Corey Mylchreest - Unknown role

Rebecca Night - Unknown role

Unknown actor(s) - Mervyn “Merv” Pumpkinhead (hinted by Neil)

Unknown actor - Ruthven Sykes (seen in the teaser trailer)

Elgin James has led a more eventful life than most TV writers. He grew up on a farm in rural New England, mixed-race himself, in an adoptive family and with an abusive father. He was arrested for the first time at the age of 12. He went on to found the Boston punk gang FSU in the late 1980s; their name originally stood for F--- Shit Up, and they stood – and often fought – against drug-dealers and white supremacists.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/0/drug-gangs-skinheads-stephen-merchant-wild-life-outlaws-co-creator/(Paywall to read on site)

In 2005, James, then 37, was involved in the attack on and extortion of a man linked to white-power politics. In July 2009, though he had left the FSU, that extortion caught up with him. James was arrested, and two years later, was staring down the barrel of a one-year prison sentence.

And yet, what makes James’s story all the more remarkable is how his burgeoning screenwriting career is wrapped like ivy around it. When he was arrested, he had only just learned that his directorial debut, Little Birds (2011), had secured the funding it needed. The film was the product of the Sundance Screenwriters labs, which had transformed his life, helping him understand how to express himself through writing rather than violence.

James tells me that he was leaving his house to walk his dogs when the FBI emerged with their guns drawn. “I was just like – ‘Oh. There it goes. It’s all done. I was so close.’” But the help he received from industry friends such as Robert Redford and Ed Harris, and Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke, helped him scrabble to finish the film before he served his sentence. Little Birds was released shortly before he was imprisoned. As he puts it now: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”

Over a decade later, James’s knowledge of gangs is invaluable for his work as showrunner of the TV crime drama Mayans MC, a spin-off of Sons of Anarchy. But it also comes in handy for the project he is discussing with me: The Outlaws, the Bristolian community service comedy-drama that James and Stephen Merchant – however unlikely that might sound – created together.

It began, James seems to remember, when his agent mentioned that Merchant wanted to meet him. Encounters like this in Hollywood don’t always go well, James says, because “Hollywood is the worst place on Earth and full of the worst people

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

Do your worst!

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

They’re on standbi

Buenosdillas

Pilot on me!!

Nothing, he was gladiator.

Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.

This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.

If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.

Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.

When I got home, they were still there.

What did 0 say to 8 ?

" Nice Belt "

So What did 3 say to 8 ?

" Hey, you two stop making out "

I won't be doing that today!

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You take away their little brooms

This morning, my 4 year old daughter.

Daughter: I'm hungry

Me: nerves building, smile widening

Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.

She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.

Thank you all for listening.

There hasn't been a post all year!

https://www.strictlyspoiler.com/2021/09/12/strictly-come-dancing-2021-launch-show-spoilers/

Adam Peaty and Katya Jones

AJ Odudu and Kai Widdrington

Dan Walker and Nadiya Bychkova

Greg Wise and Karen Hauer

John Whaite and Johannes Radebe

Judi Love and Graziano Di Prima

Katie McGlynn and Gorka Márquez

Nina Wadia and Neil Jones

Rhys Stephenson and Nancy Xu

Robert Webb and Dianne Buswell

Rose Ayling-Ellis and Giovanni Pernice

Sara Davies and Aljaž Škorjanec

Tilly Ramsay and Nikita Kuzmin

Tom Fletcher and Amy Dowden

Ugo Monye and Oti Mabuse