Nobody Panic - How to Dance with Jayde Adams (Live at Soho Theatre)

Episode Date: December 13, 2022

Strictly’s Jayde Adams joins Stevie and Tessa live at the Soho to help them (and you) find the confidence to dance. Podcasting is not a visual medium but you can hear Jayde lead the audience in a co...llective Candy/Electric Slide dance so very much worth a listen!Find Jade on Twitter: @jaydeadams and Instagram: @msjaydeadamsBuy tickets for Jayde's tour show Men: I Can Save You here.Subscribe to the Nobody Panic Patreon at patreon.com/nobodypanicWant to support Nobody Panic? You can make a one-off donation at https://supporter.acast.com/nobodypanicRecorded live at Soho Theatre and edited by Naomi Parnell for Plosive.Photos by Marco Vittur, jingle by David Dobson.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/nobodypanic. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Hello, I'm Carriad. I'm Sarah. And we are the Weirdo's Book Club podcast. We are doing a very special live show as part of the London Podcast Festival. The date is Thursday, 11th of September. The date is 7pm and our special guest is the brilliant Alan Davies. Tickets from kingsplace. It's coming to London. True on Saturday the 13th of September. At the London Podcast Festival. The rumours are true. Saturday the 13th of September at King's Place. Oh, that sounds like a date to me, Harriet. Soho. We'll keep going. Thank you so much for being here. Tessa, how you doing? I'm feeling electric. I've had two disaronos and Coke, and I feel wild. But of course, we're not alone today. We are joined by
Starting point is 00:01:08 our incredibly special guest. We're incredibly excited. Friend of a podcast. And then, friend of the world. The nation's darling, but we want everyone to know that she was our darling before she became your darling. What a reveal. Yeah, are you ready to introduce our guest?
Starting point is 00:01:26 Oh my God, I'm doing it. Okay, so. A comedian, actor, singer. Singer. Singer. Dancer. Personality. You may have seen her on Strictly come dancing.
Starting point is 00:01:36 You may. You did and you must. Please, everybody, please give a massive warm, strictly come dancing. Welcome to Jade Adams. You look electric. Oh, thanks, babe. Did you get the part? Well, well, no.
Starting point is 00:01:59 Oh. Did you tell them what I was doing? No, I didn't know. Oh. So I was in, I sent them a text saying, I'm sorry, I'm late because I was meant to be here 45 minutes ago. And I sent them a text saying I was casting, but I wasn't the one. The power. No wonder you look like this.
Starting point is 00:02:15 You're the casting couch. I was holding the auditions. For your new series. For my new series, yes. Excellent. We were here, well, we? We weren't in the room for that. I see.
Starting point is 00:02:26 That's fine. What a way to find out. I haven't got it. Gosh. But so obviously... Okay, well, thanks for coming everyone. Yeah, and that's the end of that. No, obviously, the episode we're going to be doing
Starting point is 00:02:38 for everybody knows what it is already, because it's got to be, is how to dance. It's going to be very difficult because we're both obviously professional dances. Absolutely can't cross a stage. So there may be some visual element. I might want you to dip me at some point. You don't have to do so.
Starting point is 00:02:54 I can do that. Thanks. I was sort of, you know, just off the job of my head. But before we do that, we have this. thing which we do at the start of every episode, which is the most adult grown-up thing we've done this week. And we're not going to do one. We've asked the audience to put them in pint glasses, and then we get to decide the most
Starting point is 00:03:12 fun one, and the most fun one gets this very small cushion that we stole from the podcast awards. Did you win? No. That's a lovely little pillow. It's good in it. Yeah. Okay, so took a risk in order tequila and apple juice, capital, rather than my boring, usual,
Starting point is 00:03:29 smiley face. quite good. Oh. I went for a two-course meal on my own. It's confident. That's what that is. I couldn't do that. I'd go one course and I'd freak out.
Starting point is 00:03:38 I do seven-course tasting menus by myself. That's really good. She's doing well. She's thriving. She's thriving. Roasted a chicken ready for the week as Sunday. Chicken soup and Sarni's yum yum. Oh, on, sorry.
Starting point is 00:03:55 Roasted a chicken, ready for the week. You've written on as and as, because you can't, basically you've got a lovely handwriting whoever this is. It's cursive, so, oh yeah, she knows what the word cursive means. Roasted a chicken, ready for the week on Sunday. Chicken soup and sarnoise, yum, yum, and then a smiley face, where the eyes are too close together and they look like nostrils. It's important to really critique the work.
Starting point is 00:04:21 Oh, and then she's crumpled it and that's just gone. Oh, planned and attended a 33rd birthday party. That's fun. Oh, that's very kind of you all. Holy shit. Explained Sunday noise laws to my scaffolder. An actual adult in the room. It's getting...
Starting point is 00:04:46 Oh, it's exciting for you. And had to be... And had to be a bit passive-aggressive. That was apparent. Cooked a Christmas dinner practice run. Holy. Wow. That is grown up.
Starting point is 00:05:06 A practice run for Christmas. dinner. Wow. The disdain. I don't want to brag, but I was making roast dinners by the age of 12, so I don't need a practice. Really? Look. Look. Just, I didn't have any mates when I was younger. So my
Starting point is 00:05:23 mum used to let me stand next to her and watch her cook. So it meant I could cook at a young age. There is a sad element to that brag. Go on. What's your next one? Explain to airport security person what my vaginal moisturiser was for menopausal women That is really grown up, literally.
Starting point is 00:05:41 That is grown up. I cooked and ate vegetables. Come on. Right. Somebody in here has booked a scaffolder. May I say that the energy of these adult things are quite negative and we need to be much more supportive. Tessa.
Starting point is 00:05:56 Told my boss, I didn't understand the task when she asked instead of panicking and just saying, yes, no worries. Yeah, that's good, that's good. That's a good word. That's a nice one. But I made them do that. So is that for the pillow?
Starting point is 00:06:10 We don't know. Yeah, nice. Okay, how are we going to decide who wins? I got one. Okay, yeah. Try to end an affair. Where are you? Oopsie Daisy.
Starting point is 00:06:25 Obviously that's won, but I don't think they'll want to put their hand up to get the pillow. That's my issue. This one just says, I won the biggest construction challenge competition. That's quite good. It's such a good one. Oh, increase my pension.
Starting point is 00:06:39 contributions to 10%. You can't end on that though, can you? It's like a good one. It's good. It's really good. And I've done it recently. But like, is that, is that a big, is that a closer? I think we had to have ended on a fair and just thrown the pillow out. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Told my recent ex of 10 years to get a fucking grip and stop crying. Mamma mia, you are such a spicy group tonight. I know. But also all of you deserve the pillow. And in a way, in a way, if you're disappointed, did you really want a pillow? So like it's fine.
Starting point is 00:07:17 Okay, right. We're going to do how to dance. Let's start with all our various dancing journeys. I can't move at all, at all. I can attest to that. We used to be in a sketch group together, and we did a number of dances because, of course, we have a number of unresolved dreams.
Starting point is 00:07:35 Musical bit. And I couldn't hear the rhythm. And Stevie used to just have to tap me to say one. and when I was supposed to move and without fail I went the wrong way every time. But beaming, very happy.
Starting point is 00:07:52 Oh, so thrilled to be here. I have also danced in the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games. When if people, I tell people, I tell people I was in a piece called Evolution to Life, which was 12 people doing a very powerful contemporary dance. I was in fact,
Starting point is 00:08:09 one of 107 David Bowies in the piece that was Like music through the ages. I remember this bit. Yeah. I wanted to be... You were directed by Danny Boyle for that. By Danny Boyle.
Starting point is 00:08:21 Yeah. Did you meet him? Yes, yes. Oh, cool. We rehearsed for nine months. I... On the night. That seems excessive.
Starting point is 00:08:28 Yeah. I went the wrong way. It was overworked. That happens. Too much. Tip for you all. If you're making summer, don't do too much before and, you know?
Starting point is 00:08:39 Swing it. Too much. Stevie, your dance experience? I mean, I should have gone first because mine's just like... No, it's never. Yeah, I'll have a dance. I've not been a David Bowie.
Starting point is 00:08:49 Dance school, dance classes at school? I love that. After school. After school dance club? No, no. I grew up in poverty. I did I have after school? Was there dancing at your school?
Starting point is 00:09:02 No, there was one dance group. Miss McKay led it. In my head, she was like 21 or something. And she was really cool and she was quite fit. and also fit. And we did a big dance to Enrique and Glazeus is Balamos. Anyone, is he in Ricky in?
Starting point is 00:09:22 Balamos. Make a rhythm, beat, and mumbo, balamos. Yeah, titoero, batseio. He's on there. He's in the room twice. So, and there's a lot of, like, sexy dancing. And I think Ms. McKay was getting a lot of hurt. She was actually going through a divorce at the time.
Starting point is 00:09:38 I think she'd get a lot out on sort of like 11-year-olds, like feeling themselves. So I went to two, and I couldn't, really keeping the feeling time. So I'd feel myself at the wrong point. And now we bring you to Jade. What's your dancing journey, Jade? The dancing journey.
Starting point is 00:09:51 From the beginning. Yeah, we'll take the beginning. Born in 19... So in 1984... No, in 1983, a woman, a travelling woman knocked on the door of one woman called Gayle Adams and told her that she was going to have a blonde child and everyone was going to know her name.
Starting point is 00:10:09 Wow. True story. Is it? That's wild. And then you came out dancing. I came out holding. her coil. Mum's always said that that's what happened, but
Starting point is 00:10:20 you know, I love a good story. Where do I get it from? Do you remember the first time you ever danced? Yeah, so I was five or six years old. My auntie Julie, a dad's sister, he's one of six. And his sister ran a freestyle disco dancing school, which is the most culturally breathed form of dance known to man. But a bit of fun though, isn't it? A bit of fun. And all of the
Starting point is 00:10:42 girls in the family, bar one, all the granddaughters, we all did freestyle disco dancing and I did it for 13 years and they're sorry what's fri so like what I just did then no no so basically it is it's like so it's like it's like sports and athletics and dance in one mash and you basically have to be really fast really flexible and you dance to techno music for about 90 seconds just like high in terms the interval training but on the floor you wear a lot of lycra a lot of diamonds I also in high intensity disco dancing. Do you do disco Latin?
Starting point is 00:11:19 Did you? I went to... You didn't mention that in your history of dance. No, I actually forgot because I was incredibly bad. But I went to like, you had to get like bronze award. You went to like do a thing
Starting point is 00:11:28 and do a little thing and get a little medal. You see, uh, DDFA. Yeah. Yeah. I, um... Can someone just show? Can you, what moves are we talking? There's so much kicking.
Starting point is 00:11:38 Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. There's so much kicking. Okay, okay, okay, okay. Okay, I'm gonna audio describe the audio listeners. J's got up. She's removed her sweater. She's kicked the chair.
Starting point is 00:11:48 She's moved the chair. She's now taking the mic. My DMs are open. Is it a describeable? Okay, so yeah, I see you. I've got a way to describe it for the people at home. You know, in the Olympics, at the gymnastics, you know when they don't make it quite into the corner,
Starting point is 00:12:10 and then they have to do a little dance before their next impressive flip. Yes. That. That, that. But just, but it's so much that. Lots of kicks. Lots of bits.
Starting point is 00:12:19 So basically, the beginner start as intermediate and champs are the four levels in each age category. I did it for 13 years. So when you're in beginners you can't wear sparkles. When you get to start starters you can wear sparkles.
Starting point is 00:12:36 Okay, wow. I remember that. Yeah. I my sister and various several members of the school managed to get to champs. I stayed in starters for 13 years. Could you were like sparkly? Sparkly sparkly like pants underneath so you felt like you were part of the sparkles. But I did get to
Starting point is 00:12:53 sparkles because you get to wear them in starters. So my mum made our costumes. Okay. Oh, lovely. She made our costumes. I like lots of, I'm sure your parents read to you as kids, but my mum gave herself carpal tunnel syndrome from putting Tarrosky crystals in their thousands. It used to be sequins with beads. That was nuts because it was like that. Sorosky crystals happened. And then for the purposes of the listeners, I just did an impression of what it's like to glue Sorosky crystals onto a costume. But you put them in your mouth.
Starting point is 00:13:23 She's licking her finger. Oh, lick them up, get the glue. There is. Sorry, everyone. Sorry. So we did that for 13 years. My sister and I danced together. I sort of held her back a bit.
Starting point is 00:13:36 And then, I then, I then sort of, I was, you know, like, I liked getting, I like the costumes. And so I was doing, like, drag at the age of eight. I was, like, wearing fake tan, false eyelashes. Picking her eyes and in drag. So, you know, the costume, you know, taste from Fruples,
Starting point is 00:13:53 Race UK, you know the costumes that Taste wears that are always quite high cut. They're made by someone called Derek Anthony Purcell and he runs a company called Bang London and those costumes are freestyle disco dancing costumes because Derek Anthony Purcell used to do freestyle disco dancing and I know I can spot
Starting point is 00:14:11 on my mile off so I can always like I can Is anyone wearing one in here? I'd be able to know if you did freestyle disco dance and we all know each other. It's a very small set The Tesla wasn't involved in clearly Did you compete? No, Christ and I was hopeless. It was just happening in the village hall on a Wednesday afternoon.
Starting point is 00:14:31 And you had to do a lot of stag leaps and stuff. Yeah, yeah, that's it. Yeah, that's it. Yeah, I'm not. And then, but we never made it to Sparkles. I remember going to the, not the competition. The leisure centre. To be judged by like seven women. Yovil?
Starting point is 00:14:45 Who? Yovil? A place called Yov. I thought you meant one of the judges. And I was like, I don't remember the judge's name. Sandra Yon. over. Yeah, that was it. Yeah, oh, we went all over the country
Starting point is 00:14:57 to do our little, like, to get our little bronze medal. And I just remember my dad having to, like, drive us there. And then I just remember looking across at him once, he went, oh, God. Like, he just was like, what, she's hopeless? Like, what is she doing, you know? This is a good way to just bring out to sort of advice. Yeah. Which is that, like, because one of the questions I was going to ask you, Jada,
Starting point is 00:15:16 is say if you are hopeless, and your dad just goes, does go, oh. Like, what can you, how do you emotionally get your, You were there starters, 13 years. That may have been an obstacle for some people, you know, to not have, like, you know, won the Oscars of Dance after 13 years. But you did, and you progressed. Well, what, I didn't ever progress. In your heart, in your soul, you progressed.
Starting point is 00:15:40 I won one medal in 13 years. That's really good. One. I won fourth place with my sister. And I remember the wall of compliments that when we came off stage, we walked through this wall of compliments where people were, like, really surprised I'd done well. And I remember thinking, I like that.
Starting point is 00:15:56 I remember thinking I like the compliments. But the thing is what it gave me, and I think this has been quite startling for some people in stand-up comedy when they've met me, as I have this incredible sense of confidence because I don't fear failing, because there is no art without failure, but I learnt that from failing at this free-tile discredit dancing
Starting point is 00:16:12 for 13 years. So basically, the advice is, if you've got kids and you're, like, worried about them succeeding, don't let your kids peak at school, let them be fucking shit and if your kid is good looking and there's nothing wrong with it
Starting point is 00:16:28 like just give it a shoe that makes them walk with a limp or something because if you've got popular kids your kid's going to be a dick when it's older and it's going to be useless it's going to be so useless it's not going to know how to get through stuff it's not going to be able to like
Starting point is 00:16:46 be I mean you understand yeah you've been there But I, like, it meant in comedy, for example, I turned up and actually being shit at comedy wasn't a problem because I, and I knew that I had to beat shit in order to get good at it eventually. And it's given me this real hardiness
Starting point is 00:17:06 to be able to handle dying on stage, which a lot, you know, you're still brave for doing stand-up. It ain't that brave. You get used to, like, failing. And then you get better at not failing because the failing actually teaches you how to get out of the failures if you get me. So it's basically do it. So like, if you're thinking, like, I want to dance, but I'm bad,
Starting point is 00:17:21 go to the class, go to the thing, don't let that stop you because it will teach you how to fail. And that was the best way of learning. Yeah, exactly. And everyone was shit at the start. My dance partner in Strictly often renowned as being one of the best dancers on Strictly come dancing. She's been in it for 11 years.
Starting point is 00:17:38 But she used to be shit at it when she first started. She wasn't amazing at it. And I think sometimes you see the product of a lot of hard work and think I want to be like that. And that's too big a goal. Start small and then just like, oh, I'll do a bit of this. and then I fuck that up, I'm going to not fuck that up again. But I think that's why I think it was natural for me to come into stand that comedy.
Starting point is 00:17:58 It also was because I hated dancing so much. And so I just, but I loved making people laugh. That was something I've always done. So like from, I used to be really disruptive in freestyle disco dancing. So we used to do it in the village hall as well. Parque Florin, add loads of splinters. Yeah, your foot was riddled with blood. I don't need to wear shoes.
Starting point is 00:18:19 My feet are strong enough to handle. They're not shoes. I can... On your feet. Just bare foot. I've got feet of a beast. I can scale a building quite often. My toenails grow real quick.
Starting point is 00:18:31 I don't know if that's a symptom of free-side-old-old-old-old. You've mentioned Karen, like when you were doing strictly, were there things? Because what I'm interested in, as somebody that can only do the sort of like basic club moves, it's mainly just me throwing wine everywhere and screaming the lyrics. The ways that I can, like, for example, just like little tips and tricks that you learn
Starting point is 00:18:52 to kind of pull a move together. Anything that you've learned in your entire dance journey, they will help me in the club. It's all about confidence, really. God. It's just... I know. It's really hard.
Starting point is 00:19:03 Confidence is such a personal journey and you'll go through it in your life, but I'm telling you the key to anything. I'll tell you a story. I once got a phone call, and someone was phoning up, and they were like, Jay, do you know any palm readers? And I said, oh, what's it for?
Starting point is 00:19:17 And they said, I've got this gig up in Leeds. We need a palm reader for it. Do you know any? And I said, how much is it? and they say it's 250 quid and I went, I'm a palm reader. I think you and Tessa are very similar. It's from the disco, years of disco dancing.
Starting point is 00:19:33 I've just been like, it's all those stag leaps were like, yeah, I'll fucking give that a go. Yeah, why not? Just do it. Just do it. So I went up there and I did the job as a palm reader. I started getting really accurate. A woman came in, and at the end of the day,
Starting point is 00:19:48 I just got, I don't know what, I got a tune. My fucking Jost sticks were really making me feel. Sound like a palm reader. No, I really, my jaw sticks. Like, I'm in, like, the 80s. I'm really convincing. But I, like, you know, I've been doing it all day, and I got kind of tired. I think that's when the cosmos just, like, started really connecting with me.
Starting point is 00:20:07 Because this girl comes in and she gives me her hands. And I've done, like, a little bit. Basically, how I learned to do it was on YouTube. I just went on YouTube. I looked at it every day. What is palm? So I read this woman's palm and I just went, oh, you work with kids. And she went, wow.
Starting point is 00:20:22 How did you know? and I was like, just, mm. And I was surprised. I was like, oh, I'm getting really good at this. And then I said, you work with kids. I noticed she had calluses on her hand as well. So they were quite rough.
Starting point is 00:20:35 And I went, you do gardening. And she was like, oh, my God, what? And I was like, you teach children through gardening, don't you? And basically what she does is teach children who have learning difficulties, maths through gardening. Wow. Wow. nuts.
Starting point is 00:20:56 Now, what I'll say to you is you can't do this with like brain surgery. Okay, you can't. Or driving. Or anything like that requires you being in charge of other people's lives. But if it's just your life, just make it up. And that's how you become a palm reader.
Starting point is 00:21:13 But it's a confidence thing. Is our take home from that story the manner in which you just said things to this woman? Yeah. Yeah. But it's just like, you know, just say it.
Starting point is 00:21:22 What I'm saying, is I look like I'm a better dancer than I actually am. And when I stand next to a champion ballroom dancer, it does show up a bit, which is what the nation told me. It used to be a thousand people in a leisure centre that told me. And I was like, you know what? I'm an adult now and I've learned the ways of confidence. I'm going to just like throw myself into ballroom dancing
Starting point is 00:21:47 and turns out nine million people on a Saturday also think I can't dance either. But what was interesting was the reason I did, so I looked at stats, right? And the reason I did really well on the weeks I did well on is because I like, it was connected to a story. So like my flash dance week was all like body positive. Thanks babe. I smashed it. It was my body positive week.
Starting point is 00:22:09 And I had the week where I was talking about my sister and stuff and there was all that connection. But the week, the week with Victoria Wood is fucking Karen knows fuck all about Victoria Wood. There was no connection to it. And basically I was just like throwing her around, which apparently. is less impressive when I do it, but when Hamza does it, everyone goes fucking nuts. This is good stuff. It's not how to dance, it's just let's go.
Starting point is 00:22:34 Do you know how hard it is to fucking lift a woman 100 times in a week? It's hard, all right? I can carry a fridge by myself. I did it once, up some steps, but doing it 100 times in days, I work. What I'm getting to is the reason people liked it so much because I was incredibly confident
Starting point is 00:22:53 and incredibly happy whilst I did it. And that just sells anything to anyone. When you look nervous with anything, then people don't really enjoy it. It's the art of stand-up, you know. It's the art of fucking being on stage and doing live performance. When you walk onto that
Starting point is 00:23:10 dance floor, Stevie, and there's people stood around and everyone's dancing on that dance floor. I mean, I'll tell you, Sama, I have cleared many a dance floor. And you just walk into the middle of it. Don't be dancing on the sides.
Starting point is 00:23:25 What the fuck are you doing over there? Sorry. You hear a song, it gets you going. I'll tell you what a good floor filler is. George Michael outside. Could you give us a bit for people like me who don't know any songs? I think I'm done with the sofa.
Starting point is 00:23:41 I think I'm done with the hall. I think I'm done with the kitchen table, baby. Give me a beat. Let's go out. Don't make me do the beat. In the sunshine. I know you want to, but you can say. Stevie got up.
Starting point is 00:24:00 Inside. Let's go outside. Believe. Believe. Believe. Take me to the places that I love. Yes. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:24:08 I've been bad. That's too liberating. I was going to go too far then. It says no filming in photography and I regret that. That was so powerful. That was really good. I think when you, when you, like just when you, when you got up earlier to show, how are you feeling?
Starting point is 00:24:26 It's because the moment before she went, get up to do you, I was like, I should get up. And that's a real lesson in just get up. Just get up. That wouldn't have been better if I'd just been like, yeah! Both of you have shown us moves this evening. And like when you got up earlier,
Starting point is 00:24:41 the jacket came off. We were all ready, we're beside ourselves, you know? Like, it's just this like, and now the show. You know, like it just, as long as you just believe and you step forward with confidence, what you actually do is sort of irrelevant. Unless you being like judged specifically, I suppose, like in the club it's irrelevant.
Starting point is 00:24:59 But even like what Jade saying about like, you know, like she was so like into the song, sorry, into the dance and she knew it and she had a story and she was in. Yeah, absolutely. As opposed to the time when that connection maybe wasn't there, but when she's like, I believe and I'm totally invested. Were you as confident with the Victoria Wood dance,
Starting point is 00:25:17 which is what I'm calling it, as the others? Or did you feel differently about that dance? I did feel differently. It was a weird fucking week actually. That's interesting. So then that logic, then that holds true. If you're going in not as sure of something, then that, you know, you can't, you know. It was too simple a dance, I thought.
Starting point is 00:25:34 The choreographers are wicked, so they bring in extra people to come in and choreograph some of the dances. Because, like, you know, Charleston isn't actually, the Charleston isn't done in ballroom competitions. They've just got it in there for Strictly. But it is like a whole thing. They do, like, Lindy Hop and Charleston. They bring in experts. But I personally felt like the, the, you know, the, you know, the dance was a little bit too simple, but also, I will say, like, I, I got no fucking praise,
Starting point is 00:25:58 not once from anyone about the lifts. Like, if I was a bloke lifting someone, they all, like, all the blokes, as soon as they lift someone, they get, like, loads of, like, they get loads of praise for it. And I didn't get fucking one bit of praise for the lifts that was doing. Did you see the one on the grief week where I fucking hooked an arm in and I held her up off the floor with just my elbow? Not one person. It's not on.
Starting point is 00:26:25 They were unbelievable. But they looked, and maybe it's because they looked so exquisite when you did it that they, but it just had this like, well, that's a professional, effortless. Yeah, she often just hooks people with her elbow. They were unbelievable. They were unbelievable. Thanks very much.
Starting point is 00:26:38 But it was an incredible experience. And what it did to me was I think there was part of me in my life that believed that everyone was incorrect when I was at freestyle disco dancing. And what has actually been really humbling for me. is actually figuring out that even though I have been wambling on
Starting point is 00:26:58 for the last 11 years that I'm an octuple threat, I am actually a septuple threat. And I'm okay about that. That's swell. But I am fucking strong. But you are a good dancer. You're holding yourself to a standard that is like a standard that, you know, for me, for example, I would go, yeah, I'm a fun dancer.
Starting point is 00:27:18 If I wasn't strictly, I couldn't, I would not be on strictly because I couldn't even pass the first test because I'm sure a first test that you have to do like there's some of the hunger games or something but you can if in a room in the club we're going club level you can dance confidence A B any more things that you picked up
Starting point is 00:27:35 on strictly that you feel like you could give to the general public who hate you they love you I'm joking there are some that do no they love you no it's true I I clap the back of the wall you're in the club
Starting point is 00:27:48 I'm in the club a circle has formed God forbid already the assholes of the room have tightened. Yeah. Because everyone's like, okay, someone's in, Jeremy's in, he seems to be doing well. But in a moment someone's going to push me in to the circle and I'm going to have to be in the middle of the circle and I've got 30 seconds in here, what am I going to do?
Starting point is 00:28:07 What do you do? I can't take him for today. Because everyone will hold my arms and throw me in. I'm going in with confidence like Jade says, but when I get in there, 30 seconds, what am I doing? You've done the arms. If I may, I haven't progressed from this moment since 2004, Christina regular errors drop, split the legs and back up.
Starting point is 00:28:25 That's very good. That you drop, and knees apart and then roll. I really think one of the best things you could do in that situation is pause and just look at everyone for a moment. So bold. And wait, and wait for the music to drop. I think that's the perfect time. Interesting. So you're going to get into the music at a random bit in the track,
Starting point is 00:28:44 so you can't really guess that. So I'd basically go in and wait for the next... So you know, normally it's with basic pop music, it's four counts. Tessus, I'm going to fall off her chair. Three, three, four. My nose is bleeding. Oh, do you remember? Okay, this is quite a niche reference.
Starting point is 00:29:02 Cheryl Cole, just after she'd been cheated on by Ashley. And she is in white and she basically comes on and she does a fight for this love. Yeah. And but she does a whole. Yeah. You remember, you know what she's doing? Yeah, she's looking around. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:29:16 So she basically just puts, she jumps up. and then she waits and then she like just turns and then waits for the count of the music and then goes I reckon a ball's the go what's the go? Oh you want the beginning of the next count of four no what's that? What's the show?
Starting point is 00:29:34 Okay so can show us do this and then just do that again? And you're just looking and then you just leave the circle. I mean okay the first this is all built where are we going? Yeah I like you know tension release where's the release well I'd say a spin is always the first Powerful. Okay, okay, okay.
Starting point is 00:29:50 I can spin, so like maybe a leg over like that. A leg over. Let yourself spin around. For everyone at home, it's cross. Keep that weight on the leg that's crossed. And then we're round. And then push yourself around. Then you're staring dead into his eyes.
Starting point is 00:30:05 I'd say, then I'd go into a pleia. What the fuck is that? Okay, you get your crotch out. I think that's dead strong. Yeah, your crutch out. You're sort of doing a double lunge both ways. Yeah, that's what we're saying. So that is.
Starting point is 00:30:19 Do you know what a really good dance move is? Yeah. It's the candy dance. It's the electric slide. It's the best dance move. So basically, who in here has done the, who knows the electric slide? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:30:32 Yeah, there's someone in here. Do you know it well enough to come up? And nobody panicked first. You're on the... Jane's going to you. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. So then you're among friends.
Starting point is 00:30:45 And then, yeah, this is actually confidence in action, right? Can we get candy? up at the back, but in a second when we feel ready to have... And if not, that's fine. If not, that's fine. If not, that's fine. The jackets are all... Oh, I do know it.
Starting point is 00:31:01 We all know it. Okay, okay. Any dance with Jade! Intelligentible episode, if anyone listening. That was an episode we were expecting, but it was the episode we needed. Jade, thank you so much.

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