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Mr Mountbatten-Windsor. Phil the Dill chucked a tanty back in the day about having to give up his surname if he married Liz, and she hyphenated rather than hurt his feefees.

As the The Salt Path incident shows, not every memoir gets legalled to within an inch of its life the way a journalistic article would. Anything that involves specific allegations of criminal or unethical activity should, of course, even in a memoir. But also: it's a bit unfair to Gabi to assume...

A thing it's worth remembering about this competition is that after their Worlds mishap, R/A very smartly decided not to leave either regaining their standing or qualifying for Beijing remotely to chance and have come out of the gate very trained and super polished - and they didn't let things...

It really is. As skaters they utterly lack both irony and camp, but straightforward romanticism suits them well and they sold it gorgeously.

For me the main problems with G/F's RD are 1) lack of competitive experience at this point, which is fixable and 2) they're actually trying to do the 90s, which is... Look, the teams that have done best with the theme so far are the ones that have gone: okay, take 1-3 iconic/cheesy 90s hits...

They look kind of like a spiffed-up take on US high school cheerleaders from a 1990s teen movie - played, they were in most of said movies, by 30-year-olds. Appropriate enough, I guess!

Hard to see how Zoot Suit Riot or In the Afterlife could be considered 'not upbeat enough'...but anything's possible for those who are determined to try I suppose!

She's really developed as a skater over the past year and is becoming very nice to watch. Congrats to her!

Depends if it meets the 120bpm minimum tempo requirement.

I just caught up with it and while I know MR the musical well enough to pretty much get what they're trying to do...yeah, it's really not working. They need either a rethink/music retool or a completely new FD. And definitely rework the choreo step sequence. If you're going to can-can, then do...

The Vincent program was lightning in a bottle, and they spent a couple of years afterwards trying and signally failing to recapture its magic. I'm not sure whether going back to it - reimagined or otherwise - speaks of a desire to revisit something important to them as a way of signing off, or...

Ideally perhaps, but being realistic, all the champions at any given competition actually have to have is a better performance than the other people in that competition on that day. And between their spectacular elements, their choreography and their music choices, F/G are clearly aiming to be...

I just saw Fear/Gibson's FD from Bolero Cup and wow, what a fabulously joyous program! For sure it needs a bit more polishing and practice, but it'll get that. It very much reminds me of the program that earned them the Disco Brits nickname, and would even if they hadn't brought back the iconic...

Project and institution, and you're right, a research project like this should have human research ethics clearance and a project number from the university's HRE Committee which can be checked for validit, and protocols to follow.

So happy to hear that Laurine has completed her studies and has a business plan ready to go! Wishing her and Bourzat all the best for their bub-to-be.