Episode 22 Strictly - It Takes Two

Hello. Welcome to Tuesday's two two. Tonight's show very much a tale of

two foxtrots. They survived dancing disaster to bounce back. Richard

and Erin are here. APPLAUSE

And on Saturday night they gave us the sweetest feeling, Michael and

Natalie are here. APPLAUSE

And to describe the difference between forgotten foot work and

fleckerls, Karen Hardy is here. Three words come to mind when I see

this man, godet, godet, godet, Julien MacDonald. What a line up.

This is Strictly It Takes Two. Please welcome your host, Johnny

Ball. Zrb Zoe Ball.

Hello. Welcome to It Takes Two. Saturday saw Richard face every

celebrity's worst fear as he forgot his foxtrot. Here's a reminder of

what happened. A complete dance disaster. That was just a shame,

because you just lost your focus. It was a tad ploddy. I'm going to

call you the plod father. You've got a face on you like a frozen

haddock. It all went terribly wrong. It was a dance disaster. Yeah, for

once Craig hit it spot on. Maybe we'll get a chance to do it again.

I think we might. I still love you. I love you too. Judges it's time

toe decide. Richard and Erin. Richard and Erin? Richard and Erin.

Please welcome Richard and Erin. APPLAUSE

Thank you guys. Oh, my goodness me. Bless you forgetting your steps is

the stuff that Strictly nightmares are made of. Did you ever think it

could happen to you? There was a moment where I looked down and I

thought, "Shave your legs, it's Saturday night." Then I just lost

focus completely. It's all about myself, not you dear. It was one of

those moments and my palms have gone clammy thinking about it. I've

had my fair share of live television. But it was out of body.

That was thought about anything else. I was thinking Mary Berry's

Victoria sponge, and I must get the flour in. At what point did it slip

away? I have no idea. Oh, I do. I remember well. As the pro, do you

suddenly, did you see it in his eyes? I heard it. Because he

actually turned to me, I felt it first, then I could feel that he

was going off in another direction. I thought, I have to take him this

way. He looked at me and went "I just can't remember". We have your

Micks. Let's relive it again. Go on. Oh, no. Go right. Pifots.

Pifots. -- pivots. When she said pivot, I

thought, oh, I know that one. Let's have a go at that one. You can help.

It does happen. It shows it was live TV. We just had to then go up

and face those judges after that. The thing is that then you came

back in the dance-off and you had a second chance to do it right.

Cracker. You did it brilliantly. That was the thing that was most

important to me redeeming ourselves in front of everybody. Because we

had put the hours in. We trained, we worked, we had the number.

was there. It was somewhere. I had to dig deep for it. We were

prepared for the dance-off. I'm glad we got to do it. It shows that

Richard is improving, he can do it. He went out there and got all his

steps right and we were fortunate enough to stay. Not the best

weekend but things improved on Monday, did they? On a Monday

you're overwhelmed when you start a routine. You get through the

weekend and you're giddy and you come in and you're like... Ah.

Argh! Well done. It's Monday morning. Tell me why I

don't like Mondays. Oh, God. Come on it's a Monday. This is like

learning to walk again. I can't get this bit at all. It's like starting

from the very beginning. Point your leg out. I can't do that. Ye you

can. Tell me when you've finished. That's beautiful. I just threw up

in my own mouth. He's a classy sort. We're nothing

if not human. Mondays are difficult for everybody because it's a

mountain to climb. Every Monday is a joy to be back, there she goes,

welcome to week four, welcome to week five. This week, welcome to

week six. Really? Welcome to the charleston. Jazz hands. How is it

so far? We're loving it. Love it. It's like a keystone cop. It's very

Richard. He's bubbly and fun, that's what it's all about, a story,

we're telling a story and having fun. You can just let yourself go a

bit this week. We're allowed to tell you a bit about the story.

Come on. I'm her hairdresser. Do you think I'm being shoe horned

into a cliche on this show. What are they trying to do. You would

tell me wouldn't you? I'd always be honest with you. I think it will be

a good week for you. I have julienne running up the most

amazing frock, I have no idea what you're wearing. Richard and Erin!

Thank you. With no themes, it was back to

basics this weekend..celebrities rise to the challenge. Here to

offer her expert opinion is Karen Welcome Karin!

APPLAUSE A lady who throws down shapes and

explains it to us. Really mixing it up this year, eight different

styles on dance on Saturday, much to cover. First of all, Dani and

Vincent and the jive. The highest scoring jive of the series. What

made it so good? We've got to look straight at the choreography, of

course, what was great about this, I've seen so much of the side by

side kicks and flicks. But the true essence of a great jive is what we

have here it circumstance laits. She's going under the arm and

turning and the routine is turning and back again. The greatest jives

in the world are all about turning. She did it so well. Nicki and Karin

and the rumba. Craig said it was just a series of presentations,

what due think? I quite like today. I'm going against the grain here. I

thought it was brilliant. It was the perfect balance and why? Let's

look straight away here. We've got look straight away here. We've got

an open hip twist. He's dancing. He's using his hips, sending her

into fan position. He's doing his back base ibgdz, forward checks.

You don't need any more than that. Even at a high top level in the

professional field it takes a world champion to come out and only do

basics. You want the passion. The most thing about a woman, you've

got to present her. It's not all about being the proud peacock in

this dance. It's all about your woman and he did it brilliantly.

Well done. Denise and James an the Vienneseualities. Huge 35 for this

on Saturday. -- Viennese waltz. attention to detail is here. Look

at the spin there where her arms are around her waist, then they're

over her shoulders. These are the hardest spins to do. Any time the

arms elevate, it makes the spins much more difficult. She could have

arrived there, bumped, fallen over, missed the connection. She didn't.

It was effortless. It's the attention to detail that make it's

look so seamless and beautiful. Well done. Victoria and Brendan and

the samba. Bruno very critical saying that at week five, her

rhythm should be better. What do you think? I want to ask you, what

does rhythm mean? I'm not sure and I can't spell it. A regular

occurrence of accented beats. Now everyone says rhythm, do we know

what it means? We take a metronome. It can never speed up and in

Victoria's case it can never slow down. Once we set that. Am I

sending you to sleep. What we have here, as she finishes the dance,

the band keeps playing at this speed but she decides I'm going to

slow down. That's what Bruno is talking about. The rhythm goes.

Once the dance starts, you have to keep the beat going. Have you to

keep the speed going. It doesn't mean keep the body moving, it means

keep the regular beat ticking along. You can't slow down and have a cup

of tea before the music is finished. Michael and Natalie and his foxtrot.

Praise all round from the judges. Darcey was going on about his stiff

neck. I could argue it needed to be more active. But definitely not

stiff. Simply because the complex choreography he was doing, if you

look here, we go into a beautiful action of a double fall away, which

I love, not just one, there's one and here comes the second one, into

the oversway. If we freeze it there, you can argue he needed to slightly

give it a little bit of dance, a bit of a breathe. But definitely

not stiff for me. I thought it was an incredible routine. I just think

he looks suave and sophisticated out there. First class. Lisa and

Robin and the tango. The judges almost came to blows over this. Was

there too much up and downiness? Our knees should be really

compressed in this dance. Because the knees are low, it means that

we're meant to peel the feet, pick them up off the floor and put them

down again. Now, it's very difficult because the knees are so

bent, as you pick up, everything comes up with it. We tend to get

this bouncing action. What you've got to do is stalk across the floor.

You pick the knees up like that. If we look at this, you see this

bouncing as she closes her feet, bounce, bounce. You need to keep

that all on one level. In the moment, Craig used the wrong word

"guide" and everybody attacked them. We pick up the feet in tango but

the level of the head must remain the same. That creates the stacatto

action. Kimberly and Pasha, the highest score so far. Len spotted

an incident with the arms. Due spot it? It was very slight. Look at the

commitment she gave to it. Not only does she have fantastic routine of

use of the arms, twist, turn and hey flick the head at the same time

as I use my arm. Here is the mistake, there you go, he grabs,

but what a team. They recover. That's what it's all about. When

you have done a complex action like that, it, you can lose why you are.

She was brilliant because we were seeing all this armology, people

didn't see how great her technique was as well. In this for a long

time. Fern and Artem and the paso doble. Some criticism again for

Fern for not delivering the performance. Where is she going

wrong? I say it to all my students, thinking and doing are two

different things. If I shook your hand naturally in the street we'd

do that. If you shake hands on TV you have to make it clear. She's

thinking she's doing it right, but it's not coming through. I believe

that it's the expectation. Everybody loves Fern. We're wanting

her to look like a world champion. We love her but she's just not

delivering that expectation for everyone. Give her a chance. She's

growing. Louis and Flavia and the samba. Len praised the content. But

Bruno said it strayed into salsa? Nowhere near a salsa. So far from

it. This dance was incredible. I need to explain a few things. We've

talked about rhythm today. In the samba, we have 11 different rhythms.

Some of these steps of these rhythms have to be danced flat,

some bounce and some curve. I'm going to show you how brilliant

this dance was. Look here as we go into these steps. This step, his

head stays flat throughout the dance. Natural turn, it's all

stayed flat. He's not bouncing up and down. Now, he starts to bounce.

Perfect. We had a combination of rhythms, some of them flat, some of

them bounce. Don't be misunderstood that this dance should dance

throughout. It should be a combination and he did it perfectly.

Well done Louis. Richard and Erin and the foxtrot. We know now it all

went wrong on the night. How hard is it for a celebrity to get back

into the dance once you've forgotten where are you? There's

something I always say to people, the answer's are -- the answers are

in the music. What happened here was a meltdown on TV. He thought

our lovely Erin twinkle toes were going to put him into steps. If I

look at Erin's feet, then maybe they will help me. If he'd have

just listened to the music, the beats were there, which we talked

about tonight, and also, there's those big strong actions. He would

have rehearsed it time and time again that would have said, I've

done that all wrong, but this is my pivot. What he didn't do, he looked

down at the feet. He was saved. Let's leave with that The Hardest

Partism that you just taught us -- Hardyism - that you just taught us.

The answers are always in the music. The answers are always in the music.

Karen Hardy, thank you so much. Don't forget, you can catch Karen

Hardy on the red button on Saturday. Who do you have with you? John

Culshaw. You'll have everybody. For a second week in a row Michael and

Natalie blew us away and their foxtrot landed them a whopping 31

points. Here's a reminder of what happened.

What a good job. I hope this dream will continue for you. You just

need to add three things - style, you need to add swing and you need

to add sway. You shine in ballroom. You're elegant, graceful and you

glide. Wear tails every week, please. Best foxtrot of the night

As soon as I get on the dance floor in the lives, I just kind of like

it. I think you've got style. You had a little bit of swing, a little

bit of sway. But not enough. Please welcome Michael and Natalie!

APPLAUSE You start welling up watching these

stories. They're like love stories. Len said best foxtrot of the night.

How was it for you? I was nervous on Saturday night, more than last

week. I kind of just got on the dance floor and relaxed about

halfway through. The second half was better than the first half. The

first few steps my legs were wobbling with nerves. How do you

calm him before you go on? I done real -- I don't really. She has a

little look. It's the look of fear. Please don't forget your steps or

stay calm, keep cool, carry on. gives me a few last minute tips.

You're about to go on. She says get your legs into the dance floor and

you'll be OK. I know he's fine. It's just that initial, getting off

on the right foot, starting on the right timing and then we're fine.

The great thing is you matched your brilliant score for the quickstep

the week br. You must be thrilled. Lots of praise from the judges.

Annie from Pembrokeshire says "Well done Natalie, you've made a real

dancer out of Michael." Is that good to have hard work recognised?

I try to give her as much credit. I call her Harry Potter. She's like

the Wizard of Oz. She's amazing. Only a few weeks ago I couldn't

really move around the dance floor. To get 31 and 31 on consecutive

weeks. She's doing something right. You're delivering. It's not just

about me. You want to do the work. You deserve it. Clue in the title,

It Takes Two. Very good. So Darcey said elegant and graceful, but

quite how you achieve that when we've watched your training back is

APPLAUSE They love it. It's funny seing that.

We have a lot of fun. You work with sportsmen all the time. They must

be notorious for playing tricks. You met your match. I got mine back.

So salsa. We go from ballroom to salsa for you this week. You've

struggled a bit with the Latin. Do you think this new-found confidence

is going to carry through to this weekend? I really think it's a

great opportunity because two weeks of ballroom has gone well. The two

weekends previously with the Latin wasn't as good. I don't think

anyone's going to expect anything. That is a point. That's my attitude

for the week. Train as hard as for the ballroom and hopefully surprise

a few. If there's no huge expectation, they're all like oh,

here he comes, you can go that-da. Here we are, salsa king, look out.

Could you say that with a bit more conviction next time. I'm hoping

any way. The thing is, sheer hard work does translate onto the dance

floor. You have been putting the hours in. You're right up there on

the training hours, the most that you've done. Is that how you were

with cricket. Is that a sportsman thing? If you spoke to my cricket

coaches they wish I had tried a bit harder, as I do with the dance.

It's the only way to get better, by putting the hours in. To catch up

with the likes of Denise and Louis and Kimberly, I've had to put more

time in. It's the only way I feel I can get the routines in my head and

then somehow deliver a decent performance on a Saturday night.

You have worked miracles before with Michael. Can you do it this

week with the salsa? We're going to do what we do, try as hard as we

try in every other dance. It's a great song. Tlgz a great feeling.

Sprinkle your dust again. Bring some magic. We will do everything

we can, have fun with it. I love dancing with you. I think he's

amazing. Good luck with your salsa. I think it's going to be great.

I believe. It gives you a warm feeling. A

beautiful array of dresses on the dance floor this weekend. Who

better to talk us through them than It Takes Two's very own style guru

Mr Julien MacDonald. Please welcome Lord glamb mbas --

glambasador. Was it good to see traditional outfits? I absolutely

loved lamb week's show. It was sparkling, colourful and truly

Strictly. Julienne's here. You could get excited about a pin I

think. You've picked your favourite three outfits, as always. We're

going in reverse order. Who's is number three? Victoria. Come on

lady. This dress looks quite simple, but I'm told it's actually very

complicated in design. It's a very complicated structure. There's a

bod is. There's a cup. It's made from microfibre, very technical

fabric, a beast to sew. But it looks amazing on her. It looks

glorious. Tell me about the ruched Basque. That's what it says here.

Thafrpblgts is a gathered cup to give her a bit of a lift and more

of a fuller bust shape. So a like a show girl stylee. I need a ruched

Basque. This is short at the front and long at the back. This is on

trend. A lot of designers are experimenting with short and long

hem. This is a special hem. I have been waiting week after week for a

Strictly ruffle. You wanted a ruffle, you've got one. This is

Strictly ruffles. It's not just one ruffle, it's a multitude of ruffles.

Why I love ruffles so much, stop laughing, I'm being serious, they

are the biggest fashion trend for next summer. If you have any

ruffles in your wardrobe, ruffle them up and keep them for the

summer. Can we all carry on a ruffle, honestly? It can be ageing.

But as fashion will tick Tate, next summer you're going to see a lot of

big, small, ruffles. We heard it from you first. Number two, who's

is that? My number two of the week has to be Dani. She looked

absolutely gorgeous in this outfit. Apparently leopard print on trend.

It's always in fashion. Every description of an animal print is

always in fashion. But it's great to see it Strictlyified. Does a

skirt this length flatter a person of this stature? It's great if

you're short. But if you're tall this kind of skirt can make you

look like a giraffe. This is a special skirt. It's very special

because this black border which is a bias border, sewn onto the skirt

to open the skirt up and give it lots of volume. So when she's doing

the spins it twirlz out and you can see the unitard underneath. It was

pink! I've been paying attention. Do I get extra marks? And who is

the top spot for you this week? Well, it has to be, this is the

first on the fashion spot, Denise Van Outen. I'm so glad you said

that. She looked gorgeous on Saturday night. Why does she

deserve the top spot? She looks spepbsive and chic and it's what we

want to see on Strictly, this kind of gorgeous dress. Apparently no

godets this week. What is that then? I've told you before. Sorry,

pay attention. A godet is a triangular piece of fabric inserted

into a skirt to create volume. This is a big piece of fabric which

falls flat onto a crinoline base. It's a crinoline base with lots of

fabric all gathered to make the soft, floating Kandy Floss hem.

I understand! Lovely embellishment on the bust area. The top half of

the dress is incredible. This is a bugle bead. Bugle bead! I've never

heard that before. It sounds special. It's a bugle bead which is

a cylinder of glass and it's laminated with metallic inside. The

metallic and fringing makes it very modern. We have a tale of two

cities, a dress soft and romantic and very hard and graphic and very

feminine on the top. I love it when you talk like. That Now not only

Denise and Dani and Victor ya, you did have another favourite from --

Victoria, you had another favourite. My guilty pleasure has to be Louis.

Come on! This is a skin-tight top with an animal print on the top of

a swirl. This is a zip top. Apparently he chose to stop the zip

just there. Teasing. Classy boy. It will get lower as the weeks go on,

I think. Apparently, look at him working it. Come on Louis. Get out

of guns. He doesn't think the camera's running. Apparently he's

just won Ultimate Hottie of the Year at the cosmopolitan awards.

Deservedly. So He look s just like Po peye. Look, the reverse! Let's

hear it for Louis. He worked it. Last week, with a help from Amy the

zookeeper, you demonstrated how the Strictly outfits can cross over

into the work place. You've been at it again. I've been very naughty. I

have given Bev the plumber Lisa's hanky panky outfit to wear to work

plumbing. I love it. Plumbing, surely not. Take a look.

My name's Bev and I'm a plumber. This is my normal work outfit. But

today, I've been sent a frock from Strictly and so I'm going to change

from this to this. Wow! That's better. Time to go to

Hi I've come to do your sink. look fantastic. Thank you. It felt

amazing. Lots of stretch in it, which is good for reaching into all

the hard to get to places, but the length of it not great for plumbing.

How does it feel in a glamorous dress? Good, but it's a bit on the

How are you doing with the high heels? I love them, but I don't

think health and safety will be too impressed. I felt amazingly

glamorous and it was good to feel that glamorous whilst working. I

think my colleagues would love it. They'll be madly jealous. The best

looking plumber I've ever had. been fantastic being made up for

the day and wearing the dress. Unfortunately I've had to give it

back now and go back to my old work clothes. But it doesn't mean I

can't Accessorize. Let's hear it for Bev! She looked

gorgeous. Thank you very much to Ann and Charles, Ann beautiful as

well. Bev can fix my pipes any week in that dress. Thank you to Julien

MacDonald. See you next week. Thank you to all my guests tonight.

Tomorrow I'm talking to Denise and James, Louis and Flavia and