Episode 27 Strictly - It Takes Two

Hello and welcome to Tuesday's show. On tonight's programme: They are

still here, Kimberley and Pasha. APPLAUSE They got top scores this

weekend, top scores of the series so far, Denise and James are here.

APPLAUSE She's a hardy woman to please. She has such high

expectations. Karen Hardy is here with Choreography Corner. APPLAUSE

Julien Macdonald is here tonight. APPLAUSE It will be a marvellous

This is Strictly: It Takes Two. Please welcome your host, Zoe Ball!

APPLAUSE Hello. Welcome to Tuesday's It Takes Two. In a moment,

I will be chatting to Kimberley and Pasha. Here is a reminder of their

romantic Viennese waltz from the weekend.

That was such an emotive performance. You really moved me.

It was gentle, I really enjoyed it. Well done. Oh, really achingly

romantic. I love the sense of are we going to end up together? Or are

we going to be separated at the end? That was a delicious Viennese.

I loved it. Yes! We got a nine from Len. And Bruno. And Bruno.

enjoyed it. People enjoyed it. That was great reaction. Amazing. Which

of you will be back to dance again next week? Judges? Kimberley and

Pasha. Kimberley and Pasha. Kimberley and Pasha. Please welcome

Kimberley and Pasha. APPLAUSE Oh, goodness me. What an emotional

weekend you had. Such a beautiful Viennese waltz. Then, second on the

leaderboard. To be in the bottom two, you must have been devastated?

I was gutted to be in the bottom two. We had really enjoyed our

dance on Saturday. Obviously, we got our highest scores so far. We

were really happy and, yeah... was worried about you, during the

results you were going pale rerks. She is going to fall down! -- paler.

She is going to fall down? She was holding on to me. Pasha, how did

you feel? This is the first time you have been in the bottom two is

this Yes. LAUGHTER Oh no, don't... How did it feel for you? It was

fine. I was really concerned about Kimberley. I could feel the energy

change around her and she was like holding on. I was, are you OK? Are

you going to fall now? He was so good. He stayed so calm which

helped me to gather myself together. I had a little moment where I

thought oh God, I don't know if I can do this. He gave me the, yes,

you can. He is so good. He is. are a lucky girl. So many messages

of support for you online. Loads of messages coming in. People are

shocked to see you in the bottom two. "How was Kimberley in the

bottom two? Her dance was beautiful." It is a warning to

everyone. They need to vote for you? Yeah. You should take heart

because Tom Chambers was in the bottom two and he went on to win.

See! It can happen. Also, your mate, Cheryl Cole was in the bottom two

on Pop stars The Riels and look at her now! -- The Rivals and look at

her now. Fact! Did that make you more nervous dancing in front of

her? No. I was quite calm. It was nice having her there. Between you

and me, who else did she like in the show? She loved Denise. I'm not

just saying that because she is here! She loved Denise' dance.

week, you got the Samba. Yes. Wembley. How have you found it so

far? Only a bit of practice so far? So far, so good. I'm enjoying it.

It is really fun. She likes to shake it more than... We have seen

you... Shaky, shaky, shaking. quite an intricate dance, all the

different rhythms. How difficult will it be for Kimberley to pick it

up? She is doing really well. She likes to shake it! LAUGHTER

Kimberley Walsh, she likes to shake it! OK.S also, you have Children In

Need. You are performing on Children In Need -- OK. Also, you

have Children In Need. You have performing on Children In Need. How

will that affect your training? will be a hard week. We will still

be working really hard. We need to put as many hours as possible in.

Wembley! It is Wembley. You have played to massive crowds in Girls

Aloud. How daunting is Wembley to dance out there? You know, it is

really daunting to think about... Don't think about it! OK. LAUGHTER

Imagine you are in your nan's sitting room and it will all be

fine. You have been consistent with your scores for three weeks. How

are you going to wow them at Wembley? Like I said, she likes to

shake it! LAUGHTER I'm getting quite excited. Good luck at Wembley.

Thank you. Enjoy Children In Need on Friday. Good luck to you both.

Thank you. Thank you. APPLAUSE This weekend, we saw a fab paso doble

from Denise and James. We witnessed Richard playing the bongos on

Erin's bum and Michael and Natalie gave us a pants performance - a

flash! Here to tell us more is Please welcome Karen Hardy!

APPLAUSE Hello. I get excited when you come here. This weekend, the

judges gave out 11 nines. That is an awful lot of nines at this point.

Is the standard of dance the best we have seen? It is. It is coming

together now. Back in the early weeks, all the seeds were planted

to learn the technique, the footwork, body, frame, all of those

things. Those people that have grasped it now, it is all beginning

to flower and look beautiful. love you bringing farming into

dancing(!) LAUGHTER Let's talk about the weekend. Kimberley and

Pasha. What a shocker they were in the bottom two. It was very, very

interesting. What I liked here was how quick Len's eye was. Look at

the beautiful steps here. We are doing reverse turns which means

that Kimberley's meant to be crossing her feet and closing. She

did the wrong footwork. But Len picked up on it. He doesn't miss a

trick. What I think, it could have been what led up to the foot fault

here and the imbalance. It was still so beautiful and so elegant.

Not worthy of the bottom two. is still here, so that is great.

Yes. Michael and Natalie did the salsa. He got a lot of praise for

his lifts. Why were they so impressive? I think what I really

loved about these two, it was that salsa meltdown. We can see it going

wrong, sadly again. What I love, the chemistry between these two,

they have got to deliver the lifts. Lifts give you good points. Get it

back together, let's make this work. They got the chemistry. That could

have been a mouse lifting an elephant! It turned out beautiful.

They work together. Denise and James and the paso doble. Highest

score of the series so far. What did their paso doble have that so

many others haven't? The missing ingredient was the competitive edge.

We have always said how great her technique is, the frame, all these

things. I have never seen in her eyes as much as we have seen in

this number, the, "I'm in this competition!" The paso doble

encourages you to do that. She has to keep that sparkle in her eye,

not to be afraid to be the front- runner, to show them that she can

win this. She's got to keep going every week and keep that sparkle.

You are here to win! Richard and Erin and their Charleston. It is

all about character. It is all about performance. He really pulled

this off well at the weekend. How technically good was he? How clever

is this little munchkin?! He's got the personality. He's got

everything going on. We have the faces, but then every week when I

look at his technique, it is terrible. Look what he does. Bring

out the smiles! Bring out the cheeks! Bring out the jazz hands!

And that's what he's been very clever with. He brings us the

entertainment factor every week. The judges will now really start

looking downstairs a lot more. He's got to improve. Dani and Vincent

and their tango. Craig said fantastic dancer. How can she

improve and get to nines and tens? There isn't much more that she's

got to do. She has to keep going along with what she is doing. She

delivers great choreography. She gets the timing right. She does

good technique. I'm loving the slows and the quicks. It is all

bringing layering to the performance. We are waiting for

that moment when it all comes together, the right song, the right

dance and up will go those tens. Good. Let's hope that happens at

Wembley. Louis and Flavia and the waltz. Craig gave them a six. What

did you make of that? Nowhere near a six. It was beautiful. But what

amazed me was the uproar between the judges. And things didn't make

sense to me. What he does was so beautiful. Firstly, the most

important thing in the waltz is that we do accent a beat. We accent

the one, two, three, one, two, three. There was a discussion as

well about his head position. His choreography is really interesting.

Rotating all the time. It asked the head to go from its basic position

into promenade position, it has to come back again, it has to change.

So it should have that natural movement of the head. The one thing

that was overlooked. He was too fast for the music! Ah. In general,

with what the judges were talking about, I was getting frustrated. It

was worthy of something much higher than a six. Beautiful frame, great

top line. Beautiful development across the floor. A couple of

timing errors. Thank you. Victoria and Brendan and the quickstep. So

the junls think she is mastering the footwork -- judges think she is

mastering the footwork, but needs work on her frame and shoulders?

Let's have a look at it. Can you see how the shoulders are right up

there by the ears. If we don't have a good frame, we can't see the

great performance that is going on inside. She's dancing so incredibly

well. And what happens is as we lead into the dancing now, she is

able, she recovers it and it breaks again. She recovers it. That has to

be Brendan pulling her back into place all the time. That doesn't

want to happen. Every great lady should be able to hold her own

position and her own frame. Each person in the partnership has their

own frame and that is what comes together, two people moving around

the dancefloor as one. Lisa and Robin and the foxtrot. They focused

on the footwork all week. How good was her footwork? The speed, when

the song came on, whoosh! They were flying. What I loved was the

attention to the footwork. Why is that important? Now, we are going

to see - there's the heel turn. Now, it wasn't her best. I don't want

her to get upset about that. What is great, remember we have said the

more she's working on that footwork, it will build on her performances.

Maybe she didn't get them together, but she had a go at it. It is the

mechanical strength that will help her. Nicky and Karen, I love the

whole performance. The judges saying he needs to move more?

opening was fantastic. It is a foxtrot. As he takes up here and he

starts to dance, I didn't see him starting to drive. It is OK. In

week six, he should be really getting those legs driving across

the floor now. I'm building up to think I will probably have to

demonstrate. Please. APPLAUSE We love it. OK. We have our standing

leg and our free leg. It doesn't matter which one you are working on.

You have one that wants to do the work automatically. There's one

that must be doing the work for you. The one that doesn't have the

weight... I'm following you. Keeps wanting to do the work. This is the

leg, the standing leg. You have to create the work out of the standing

leg and that is where you start to drive. Oh! Come on! APPLAUSE Give

us more! I'm going to sit down. Don't! Stop it! It is the... She's

still got it! Get out of here! Wembley next weekend. What do our

contestants need to do to perform? It is huge. The one thing I say

every time - be careful about going out to the audience. You always

bring the audience into your performance. They come to you. They

are paying to see you. All that money is going to Children In Need.

You must not go out to them. That is where very important. Bring the

audience in to you. I adore you. Thank you. APPLAUSE On Saturday,

they charged their way to the top of the leaderboard, receiving a

full house of nines. In case you missed it, here is a reminder of

how Denise and James got the judges in a spin. You captured the

character with the dance. You moved well. I thought it was terrific.

Denise, the red menace, with a conquering power of a firestorm!

The turns are amazing. They are out of this world. It is the most

exciting role I have seen you dance and perform. A great paso doble.

Fabulous. Yes! So happy. So proud of you. Thank you. I really enjoyed

it. You were performing that. The first week I have felt from

beginning to the end, you were in it! I loved it. Please welcome

Denise and James. APPLAUSE You were awesome on Saturday night. Thank

you. Not you! Oh. Did you love it out there? I loved it. It was one

of my favourite dances. I could be aggressive. We like that. Also,

there was the whole drama of whether James was going to be able

to dance. When did they make the decision? I always wanted to dance

with Denise, but I was given the go-ahead on Saturday. Up until that

point, you didn't know who you were going to be dancing with. Not a

ScoobyDoo! He is well-jel! I think Craig should concentrate on

commenting on the celebrities and not worry about the professional

dancers. He's not qualified to judge us. Oh. Glad you got that off

your chest! I have been in love with Ian Waite since 2005. Are you

well-jel? I can't bear watching you two together! I'm like that!

LAUGHTER I'm back with James now. Can I have him back now? Yeah.

you got to dance the paso with him and you did fall in love with him.

Have a look at this. I thought myself and Denise had something

special. I'm noticing that there's something brewing between Ian and

Denise now. # Love lift us up... #

I thought you are like the other half of me. He is taller than James.

Which I like. He is really good fun. Which I like. He is a really good

teacher. Which I like. Did you change it to make it better? I

really like Ian! I want to get close to you, Ian! I know, darling.

He has nice, long arms, lovely long legs. So nice to dance with. I feel

like a gooseberry! Oh, it's so much fun winding up James! It is really

funny(!) He gave me such a hard time so it is nice to get my own

back. We have you something very special. Not another one. I have a

collection. You have only got to get a few more and you will have

the full set! You can be my little poof! LAUGHTER This week, the

Charleston. I'm imagining this dance will suit you. How is the

training so far? Well, it's been good so far. It is quite an

energetic dance, which I am looking forward to. I don't know at the

moment. There is a lot of character and lifts? Yes. James looks

concerned? I am. Why? For the professional dancers, this is

something out of our comfort zone. I am trying to push the boundaries.

All the professionals have choreographers come in for the

Charleston. You do Latin and ballroom. Charleston... Charleston

and salsa we get help - and Argentine tango. So today, you were

laughing in the studio. We are dancing to Walk Like An Egyptian...

He looks like a pigeon. LAUGHTER I have never been able to do that

stuff either. I can't do that. make it look so easy. Do it.

can't. Do it. Do it again. LAUGHTER I can do that. But I can't...

Hopefully, you will get to see this at Wembley. It's gone! I'm not

doing it. You are dancing at Wembley this week in front of 6,000

people. So a big floor. Does that fill you with nerves or excitement?

I will be nervous on the day. I am so excited. We all wanted to get to

Wembley. Never ever played to a crowd that big, so - you have! How

many times have you told me? Loads! Good luck at Wembley this week.

Good luck with the head moves. your pigeon! LAUGHTER Give it up

for Denise and James. Thank you. APPLAUSE Get off! On Saturday night,

the dancefloor was full of godets, ruffles and sequins. Here to tell

us who wore them best is Julien Welcome the right honourable Julien

Macdonald! APPLAUSE Hello. Welcome back. Welcome back. The weekend, it

was all about the girls. They took the top spots, but I want to know

who was top in the frocks spots? Who is your number three? My number

three this week is the gorgeous Kimberley! Ah. Gorgeous in this

dress. She was quite a - the frock was stunning. It was almost a tale

of two dresses, two cities. Gorgeous colours, super-complicated.

She waltzed it all away. When you say "super-complicated" - give me

some facts? Well, there was over 4,000 mixed crystals, all hand-sewn

on. Stretched georgette. Laced. Not any old lace. It was like a dark-

grey lace, covered in sequins and a lot of ruffles. We know from last

week that you love your ruffles. Where are the ruffles? The ruffles

are on the skirt. There's over 26 metres of tulle, all gathered and

all ruffled up! LAUGHTER I do love that! What is georgette? Georgette

is a very silk-based fabric, which we use a lot to create light,

floaty fabrics and skirts. Lovely. Is that georgette, her wings?

wings are georgette. This is not just any old georgette, this is

STRETCHED georgette! Who is your number two this week? My number two

this week blew me away, Denise Van Outen. Look at her moves. What can

you tell me about this incredible red dress? She reminded me of

Sharon Stone. What I loved about her, I loved everything about her.

Not just the dress, the hair, the make-up. It was totally modern. And

I loved it. What can you tell me - is that the Sharon Stone bit?

LAUGHTER What can you tell me about the detailing? It was a very

complicated dress as well. The thing is, it was a combination of

two very different fabrics. A stretched mesh bodice mixed with a

satin and a crepe skirt. You have a light and stretchy fabric. This

added to the drama of the dress. You make anything sound saucy! This

was the most covered-up that Denise has ever been. What do you think of

the design? Could she have shown more flesh? It is very sporty, it

is very graphic, modern, lots of slashing all around the top part.

Over 4,500 mixed crystals. Siam, shades of red and a dangerous

Bordeaux crystal dazzling on the top of the dress and with a heavy

skirt and this split, if that split got any higher it would be reaching

the sky! APPLAUSE I'm going to give you a round of applause for that.

That wasn't your top spot. Who is your numb bier one? My number one -

- number one? My number one has to be the lady in pink! We are sad to

see her go. It is great to see a woman having fun. What a

transformation of a woman. She looks incredible. I watched the

live show. When she came out, she was just there, yang, fresh,

beautiful. Wow! She's lost so much weight. What can you tell me about

the detailing? This is incredible. It has over 12 metres of fringe.

The fringe is sewn together ten centimetres away from each other.

So the fringe is light and not heavy. Does somebody have to sew

each one? It is on a band. It is sewn on with the hands of angels!

LAUGHTER The thing, is fringe adds movement, it is a 19 20s thing. For

a woman of this age to wear a tiny pink dress, full of fringe, she

just makes it work. Do not try it at home. You could look like mutton

dressed as lamb. This is... Are you looking at me?! No, not at all. We

are in Strictly World! Tell me about the mesh as well. This is

clever. There aren't sleeves, but there are sleeves? It is based on a

tulle illusion. I am not lying. It is an invisible tulle which holds

the dress together. That is what helps the dress from falling apart.

If the dress - the dress is moulded on to her body. This deep low V-

neckline makes this part of her body longer, thinner and more

gorgeous! So many clever tricks. How gorgeous! Last week, Bev, the

plumber, showed us how you could make the messy job of unblocking U-

bends that bit more glamorous. Whose dream have you granted this

week? I have sent Roger, a fish porter, Richard's paso outfit,

which is skin-tight, colourful, what else do you want?! Hi, my name

is Roger. I'm a fish porter at Billingsgate Fish Market. This

morning, I was sent an outfit which belongs to Richard. So now it is

time for me to transform from this to this! WHISTLES New firm's outfit.

The old paso doble! Very good. have been Strictlified. My work

colleagues are jealous of me today! What do you think? LAUGHTER

Gorgeous! Brighten up the market! Yes! Glamour? In Billingsgate? Who

would ever think of it? Wouldn't you want to just take that home and

put a pair of legs on it? That will be the best dance partner in the

market. The only thing is, this Yes! I have enjoyed being

Strictlified, but I don't think it will catch on! Whiting, �2.20 a

kilo! Roger! APPLAUSE He's got the moves. Hi to all the lads at

Billingsgate. Thank you so much. Will you come back next week?