Episode 13 Strictly - It Takes Two

Hello and welcome to Wednesday's It Takes Two. I have three fine

couples. They have their chins up and they got happy at the weekend,

Kimberley and Pasha are here. I will be doing a bit of jive with my

next couple, Lisa and Robin. They are not in Kansas, no, they

are in Shepherd's Bush. Vincent and Dani are here. As the winter nights

get darker and draw closer, what do we need more than a man to warm us

up, he is here, it is Ian Waite. This is It Takes Two. Please

welcome Zoe Ball. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

That's it. Is that that it? It is really bad. Hello and welcome to It

Takes Two. It is Hallowe'en week and we get a look at what ghoulish

surprises we can expect from our couples. Hoping their performances

are a killer. Here is a recap of Beauty, glamour, light, lovely, you

really captured the spirit of the song. Wonderful.

Kimberley, great attack. Beautiful light steps always such a pleasure

to watch. I liked it a lot. It is such an

improvement. Well done. Seven.

Seven. Eight. Yes! Good news.

I have got further to go, but we have improved. On wards and upwards.

Please welcome Kimberley and Pasha. APPLAUSE

Congratulations on 29 on Saturday. Top score. You must have been

chuffed to bits? Yes, we were really happy that we got our

highest score. Highest score yet? Yes. Right up to

40. What a difference a week makes because last week, a nightmare for

you, not even that bad as far as we were concerned, but this week it

was so much better. What changed in a week? I think I really wanted to

go out there and enjoy it on Saturday night. That was the main

aim in my head and I think I did that. There is still things that we

can work on, but we had fun, didn't we? The secret is to make her smile.

Make her smile a lot. As long as you smile, it is fine.

That dance and the music, it lent itself to that. When you are doing

something serious and you have got to be aggressive and Mr Len

Goodman's comments firm, but fair. How important was it to really

impress him this weekend? It was important to me that I could

obviously prove that I tried and that we had, you know, we improved

and he said that we had so that is good.

How pleased with Kimberley? She was amazing. It is the beginning of the

journey. Could you say beginning again.

Beginning of the journey. Bruno gave you an eight, he said,

bruty, glamour and light. Did you do celebratory star jumps? That was

our first eight. We were excited. Last week, you were busy with your

day job. How is juggling Girls Aye Aloud and Strictly going? Both

things are fun and I'm getting on with it and hoping for the best.

I am hoping you will get confused and Pasha will appear instead of

Nicola. Have you thought any of the girls

the moves? Cheryl used to help me because she used to do ballroom as

a child. She says, "This one has to be like this and that one has to be

like that.". We don't doubt your singing. We know you are very good,

but you are a human beat box. Look Aye.

Zzzzz. Dumb. Ay-yo-yo. It is so good.

It was great. LAUGHTER

This week, Hallowe'en. You have got a bit of a theme. We do, yeah.

We have got a bit of character acting going on this week.

Who will you be? I will be Little Red Riding Hood. Who is he?

Grandma? I think we are going to go with something wolfish.

Is he scary as a wolf? LAUGHTER

OK, you may need to work on that a bit? He is not really scary.

It is the paso doble. How are you finding that? Well, when we are not

laughing, it is coming along well. It is all about character.

As soon as he starts trying to be the scary wolf, I start laughing.

LAUGHTER Are you going to have big teeth?

Are they going to give you fury ear as soon as. We are We are working

on it, but I started growing hair here. They said in a full moon or

hair. Hairy knuckles as well. It will be great. Give it up for

Kimberley and Pasha. APPLAUSE

It is time now to fin out how our seb our celebrities are are coping

with the demands of Hallowe'en week. One man can tell us, yes, it is Ian

Waite time! Please welcome the handsome Ian Ian

Waite. Look at you in your fancy white

shoes. I was going to wear black. First, Hollywood week and now

Hallowe'en week, we are being spoilt? It is one of my favourite

weeks. And the dressing up. Yes.

We are going to look at the girls this week. Coming from her lovely

Mary Poppins performance, American smooth. Is this going to be

romantic? It is a short clip and all we see is some pivots. I am

going to use my graphics, my wonderful graphics. One, two, three,

four. Four points. Four points. First of all, point

one, lovely hands. She is finishing off her hands. Good point. Number

two, she has a lovely poise lifting up her chin and nose in the air.

Good centre. She has a a strong core and point four, she is

pointing her foot. It is all good for Fern.

In a standing position anyway. Denise and James are doing the cha-

cha-cha. Another Latin, I imagine she will be great? James has given

her difficult choreography. Very fast footwork. I have stopped it

here to show you, this is difficult to show, but during that dance, she

is not straightening her legs all the time. I would like to see her

get her heels down on to the floor which will help her snap her legs

which will help her snap her legs back. She needs to straighten her

knees. Can you just do that again. Look at

that, ladies and gentlemen. That is dance brilliance. Robin is looking

unimpressed. It is going to be difficult.

Victoria and Brendan are doing the tango. Is Victoria take to go it --

taking to it like a duck to water? There is difficult choreography.

The professionals are stepping it up this week. What I wanted to

point out was this section here, look at that. Look at that space

between them. The only problem with giving more difficult choreography

to the celeb celebrities is that you you start, problems start to

occur like gapping. I am going to put that here. You are getting

carried away. We need a few less of those, thank you very much.

They can work on that. Let's move on to Kimberley and Pasha. What are

the points in a paso doble? A lot of shaping. There is this bull

fight story that has to go on and there is a lot of flamenco. I have

slowed this down because they have fantastic transitions because Pasha

is clever with the use of arms. She turns away and look at the attitude

and he looks frightened. I don't know what that is. I have no idea

what that is. Look at you. It looks like it could be a good

dance for Kimberley. Lisa and Robin are are doing the

Charleston. Are we liking this, Ian? I am liking this dance. They

have got typical, humorous Charleston steps which are great.

This is going to be a splen dus, slapstick, show dance, all the Ss!

Dani and Vincent are doing the cha- cha-cha as well. How is this

looking? Again, it is quite fast this dance. A lot of content in

there. But what I wanted to point out was her lovely close. In places

it is neat and tidy. She just needs to be faster on the foot.

It is looking good. We will discuss the boys later on. Him and his big

white shoes, it is Ian Waite. APPLAUSE

A good night on Saturday night for all three of our guests with all

coming joint third in the leaderboard. Here is a reminder of

Dani and Vincent's foxtrot. You did it so beautifully.

Flawlessly moving. Sweet, I really, really loved it.

I loved the routine. I thought you did a wonderful job, vintant Corry

-- -- Vincent choreographing that. There was control in your gliding,

it was smooth. Take those red shoes and walk down

that Yellow Brick Road straight into next week because that was

great. Seven. Six.

Eight. Eight. I am over the rainbow!

magic slippers worked. They did work!

They did work! Please welcome Dani and Vincent.

APPLAUSE Congratulations on another super,

smashing, great performance on Saturday. It was so romantic.

Everybody loved it. Did you love it? I loved it. The Wizard of Oz is

my favourite film. I loved playing Dorothy and the little dog, Betty.

Are there teeth marks in your arm, Vincent? He looked like me a little

bit. A little brother from a different mother!

Vincent third on the leaderboard for the third week running. Are you

pleased? Two little sausages moving around the floor. We did so well

and she made me so proud. It was a complicated routine, but it was so

effortless and and beautiful. Beautiful.

And also a rare thing for a professional to get singled out by

the judges. Craig usedted word word "brilliant." Have you gone home and

rewound that and rewound it? I have. To get a reward from one of the

judges, especially from him, it is good.

Online, a lot of people were disappointed that Darcey only gave

you a six. One viewer said, "Six seems low. I would have said seven.

." Does that make you miffed? not really. Her comments are really,

really good and six is a good mark for the third week, isn't it? We

don't mind. Maybe next week, she will give us a seven and that would

be great. Noted. How much Did the magic ruby

slippers, his gift, help you? other shoes were killing my feet.

They really were slippers. Vincent was struggling with them a

bit last week. My little Dorothy, I have got

some... What have you got? Magic ruby shoes.

My little Dorothy, I have got some magic...

I think this magic ruby slippers. I bought her some magic ruby...

These magic ruby slippers. These magic ruby slippers. Why can't I

say? Some magic ruby... LAUGHTER

Magic ruby shoes are going to help your dancing, yes.

Slippers. Some magic ruby slippers. LAUGHTER

I think this magic ruby... I think, you know, you know what I

think... I think these magic ruby slippers are going to help my

dancing. Can you use that? APPLAUSE

Can you say it now? No, magic ruby slippers.

You did it! In your face.

There is a lot of fascination with your tattoos, Dani. Can you stand

up and show us. Can you talk us through it? Leg up, lovely.

This Is a fairy. Can we see it? How old were you when you got that?

was 18. Is there a legal age for tattoos? The other one is like a

bow. Have you got any Vincent?, I have

got one made in Italy in my mind, but I will have to do it on my

little body. This week, OK, Holly, it is a

Hallowe'en theme and you have got a theme. What are you going to be

doing? We are dance to go Scooby- Doo.

Oh wow. Who are you going to be playing? Well, we're still thinking

about it, but I think I might be Thelma.

Not Not Elma. Are you going to be Shaggy? I might

It is the cha-cha-cha. How are you finding it? Hopefully by Saturday

it will work nicely. It is speedy? It is really, really

fast. Good luck. Dani and Vincent.

APPLAUSE Time now to check out the boys. It

is the second dose of Waite's It is non-stop, Ian is back. Thank

goodness. We are going to start off with Sid tonne because sadly Ola's

mum has taken ill and we send lots of love to Ola. We have not much

footage of Sid training. We will talk to him tomorrow about his cha-

cha-cha. Michael and Natalie did the cha-cha-cha on Saturday, did

you enjoy it? It was better than the jive. He He loves his ballroom,

Vaughany. A massive improve: They have done the most hours. His hold

is really good in most places. The only thing I wanted to point out

was he does lift his shoulder as you can see and he needs to keep it

flat and he also needs to keep it back. Can you demonstrate for us?

Don't bring it forward like that. Cool. It is a common fault in most

beginner dancers, but it is a difficult thing to do.

Colin and Kristina. They are doing the salsa. I imagine this might be

scorchio. I wanted to point out, I am loving the fact, he is using his

his hips really well. I wanted to point out his facial expressions.

Look at that face. Come on Col! Is this a good thing? Or will it be

something Craig will pick up on? prefer a sexy, smouldering look

rather than a wincing look. would we rather see Colin's face?

Maybe a mixture of the two. Thanks very much!

Did you like the salsa? He has more to show. He needs to bring out the

personality more. I am liking the tango. He has strong arms. He is a

gymnast. I would like to see him a bit more compact. Remember our

tango? How could I forget. More compact and keep it contained.

OK. I have missed you. Do it again. Knees are down. Thank

you very much. Can I just stay there? That was good.

Nicky and Karen will also tango. is looking better. I am pleased

with the beginning of this. But it is basic, but he looks good. The

problem with Nicky, as soon as he starts rotating, he is turning his

head iwards. Where should his head be? Straight

most of the time unless he is in promenade position. He needs to

lower in the knees and he needs to... Last week, he was lower in

the knees and that could be good here. Also, the top, if I can draw

it, he needs it maintain the shape all the way through and we will

give them these. Ah, that's beautiful. Hopefully we

will create a a spell to make Nicky dance much better.

Richard and Erin will paso doble. At times good and at times

mechanical. I would like to see him be more consistent and more shaping

here. I would like to see him creating shaping. Create the

shaping all the time. Always this big circular shape in paso doble.

Oh, look at that. A bit of flamenco.

Could you give them some flamenco lessons? Three three years I have

done flamenco. It is like this. It is a bit like ballet, but a lot of

curved arms and clicking cas tonne castonets.

It is a treat to see you. Give it up for Ian Waite.

APPLAUSE I don't care what the others say, I

like your shoes! Saturday saw hanky-panky on the dance floor as

Lisa and Robin treated us to a good jive. Here is a reminder of what

jive. Here is a reminder of what happened.

I I get very excited watching you darling. I can't tell you, you

really sell a number. Brilliant. Vibrancy, vitality, light on your

feet. You give a good time no matter what!

There were plenty of hanky-panky going on, but I have got to say,

you are a goer! It was missing the spring and the

bounce in that jive, but still I really loved that performance.

Six. Seven.

Eight. Craig

Craig has

Craig has been

Craig has been so

Craig has been so kind to us. not not being kind, he is just

saying what he sees. Please welcome, the artists - Lisa

Please welcome, the artists - Lisa and Robin.

Is this the new little look you have got going on here? I am a geek.

The hole week I am not to take these off.

They are meant to be no glass in there, Robin? I am not allowed to

take them off all week. I don't understand why, but I'm going with

Good work, team. We just see your reactions when you were coming out

of the studio there. Did you love it, Lisa? I really, really did and

the whole Hollywood thing being an actor, it was like let's go to

Hollywood. I really enjoyed the routine. It was fun and fast. Yeah,

I got a lovely hair style. Two and a quarter hours to create that

little monster! What did you do during that time?

Talked a lot. Bruno said it had vibrancy and vitality. Craig said

brilliant. Does it surprise you when the judges come up with such

compliments? Craig has blown me away. I want to take him to the pub

and say thank you. He would be well up for that? He is really kind.

That's really good because that makes you drive on and you want to

do well and Bruno is just gorgeous, isn't he? What about the other two?

LAUGHTER Len is correct. He keeps, you know,

he has a technique and he took that on board and I want to get the

footwork right. I am not here for a laugh, I want to nail the steps as

well. Darcey gave you a six for a second

week and said it lacked spring and bounce. Did you think that was a

fair comment, Robin? Watching it back, there was, there there could

have been more bounce action within the jive. I was more proud of that

Lisa sold it 150% and that was more important on that night and week by

week, the technique will get better, but it won't happen overnight.

They are growing on me, the glasses actually. I almost forgot who you

were for a minute. In the dress rehearsal, you had a woopsy moment?

Yeah. Thank goodness it didn't happen on the night. The leap frog

frog where Robin Robin goes over my head, I forgot to bow my head.

Nasty? Yes. I was in a lot of pain. The crown

jewels weren't feeling too good for a while.

You should wear a box to protect you. It might not be great for

Lisa's head. Last week, you were saying it would be difficult to top

the choreography of your cha-cha- cha. Did you manage it? Were you

happy? It went down well. It was come complicated than the cha-cha.

This week, however, we have gone one step further.

You have gone one step further. First of all, you like Dani, Lisa

have been saying your shoes have been hurting you a little bit?

Robin had no sympathy? No sympathy. It has changed.

Meet her in the middle. Look at this little VT.

Right, if I could could trade my feet with you for like 30 minutes,

you might have more sympathy. I can do it with heels on.

Fine, I will show you how to do it in heels.

One, two, three, four, five, six, One, two, three, four, five, six,

seven, eight. One, two, three, four, five, six...

I am very impressed, I must say. Point proved.

APPLAUSE You may have worn ladies shoes

before, Robin.. Do tell. Do tell. I am giving Kristina a run for her

money. Has it made you think twice about

complaining?. It falls on deaf ears every time I complain. I have got

flatter shoes. It hasn't gone unnoticed that you

might have a crush on Robin? What? Never.

He is quite cute. Hello. He is amazing. We have got a little gift

for you. We have had this made up. This has taken a lot of labour. It

is your very own Robin Windsor calendar. It is pretty special.

Some of the pages are a little sticky. August, that's when your

birthday is, isn't it? Yes. That's your birthday shot. I love T

thank you. What's your next dance. You are

doing the Charleston this week? You love it? When I got offered

Strictly, I said, "I just want to get to Charleston week." It is

loads of fun. That's what we like doing and it is another quick one

again. They are getting quicker and

quicker, Robin. It seems to fall like that and

there was nothing quicker than this, whatever happens, if we go another

week, it will be slower. There is nowhere else to go.

There is There is no petrol left. Good luck this weekend!

That's it for today. Thank you to all my guests. Tomorrow Nicky and