Episode 42 Strictly - It Takes Two

Welcome to Tuesday's It Takes Two. The judges saved them rightfully so

at the weekend, Nicky and Karen are here! APPLAUSE AND CHEERING They

are still hopping with excitement after their brilliant jive,

Kimberley and Pasha are here! APPLAUSE AND CHEERING And she knows

a thing or two about choreography, she's also exquisite, Karen Hardy

is here. And he is covered in 40,000 crystals, and red velvet, my,

my! It's not actually velvet, but it is Julian McDonald.

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

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING Hello and welcome to It Takes Two,

this weekend Nicky and Karen were a little shaken but not stirred when

they found themselves in the dance- off again. Here's a reminder of why

the judges thought they deserved to dance another day.

The intensity was perfect. All the way through that's what you need in

an Argentina tango. It needed more fluid movement but I loved all the

lifts and that crisp. It was too aggressive and stompy, like a

little boy not getting his way and throwing a tantrum. I am happy, you

know, it's a difficult dance to do, it really is. Look, you wear your

heart on your sleeve out there. The relief of getting around the dance

floor is immense. We are troopers. That's what we are going to keep

doing, trooping our way through hopefully to the final. We will

fine out which of you will be back to dance again next week. Nicky and

Karen. Nicky and Karen. Nicky and Karen. Please welcome Nicky and

Karen! APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

Hello! Hello you two. Can I just say that you were awesomeness ten-

field on Saturday. We thought you were brilliant in our house. Rewell

did -- we really did. Was it thrilling out there on the floor?

It really was. We worked so hard all week. The choreography was

brilliant. You are playing James Bond, what guy doesn't want that?

Felt a million dollars and went for it. You always feel at the end of a

dance a good instinct and I thought, yes, we have nailed that. Went up

to the judges, and we didn't! you did with the audience, that's

the thing. Sometimes you think what were the judges seeing? It's so

confusing. Was it brilliant for you out there, Karen. It was fantastic.

Seriously, I thought I was dancing with my my professional dancer.

Yeah, right! The way he was leading. She's building you back up. The way

he was leading me was unbelievable. I let him take over and amazing. I

am so proud of you. Bottom two and you have to go up against your best

mate on the show. How was that? doesn't get any worse really. I

think it's so tight now that if you are in the bottom two you are at

risk. I knew that as soon as I saw the scores from everybody else.

Then you are up against Vaughan and it was his shirt that put him in

the bottom two, as well! It was horrible, but what can do you?

That's the nature of the show. We still -- he is still talking to me

and I have bragging rights. Do you think that he was undermarked?

Just putting it out there. I do, definitely. I respect the judges

100%. But definitely undermarked. You are not alone. We have had so

many messages in. Jonathan says, so undermarked, it's a travesty!

Judges have lost the plot! That's another one. We loved you

being bond. Interested to know which Bond you were being, were you

Daniel Craig? A Connery or Dalton? I always liked him. I was a bit of

them all. Where was the Roger Moore. James Blond! It was good. Brilliant.

On Saturday, we saw how proud Karen was. She got emotional. How does

that make you feel? Yeah, I only saw that just before we danced. It

was like, oh, wow, I must be doing something right. You are. Nobody

wants to let their pro partners down. We are nine, ten weeks in,

working seven days a week to get it right and it was to have - wobbled

a few times with the judges so we tried our best, working harder and

harder and we really felt Saturday was great and it wasn't. It was! It

was! We are not going to give up, that's the thing. Don't give

newspaper the words of Kate Bush. We saw how proud you were of him on

Saturday. We saw how emotional you got. We reckon perhaps your first

passion will always be your first love. Play the ball. I can kick

some good balls. You used to play football? Uh-uh. Brilliant! Call me

Maradona. Roy Keane, nice to meet you. I have

never heard of Roy Keane. Is it King? Ref, come on!

Roy Keane equalises. Get in! Come on Ireland. I don't even know

Westlife, how am I going to know a footballer? Keano! He was always

one of my heros. Have you met him? I have met him, he is a great guy

and my dog is called Keano, after Roy. New challenge this week,

dance-fusion. Which two styles have to you bring together? We mixed up,

originally we mixed up four styles. We are back to two. Which are they?

American smooth and samba. Samba. With your American smooth what will

be the basis because it can be quick-step, foxtrot. Foxtrot. It

will have elements of foxtrot. is it going? Terrible! Our eyes are

fusing because my eyes are crossing. Which are you going to start with?

Samba because samba traditionally for a guy, celeb guy, is horrible.

Not great. It's not and you just have to work hard and do your best.

But it's horrible. How worried are you after last week to go in and do

something like the samba? I don't know if I am worried any more. I

don't know anything any more, when I think it's brilliant, it's

terrible. So maybe if it's terrible it will be brilliant. Exactly. What

you think is terrible, is in fact, brilliant. You think you can bounce

back this week? Look, we have to. We have to. You got to go for it.

The positive thing is that the semifinal is one step away and the

final is one step after that. So you can't lie down now. Last week

is gone. Let's keep fighting. We want it badly, come on F we want to

stay in the competition we need people to vote and help us and the

judges, as well. That's fighting talk, make t-shirts and goen to a

rally! -- go on a rally! Good luck. APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

Thank you. Saturday night Louis and Flavia reminded the judges they are

contenders in this competition. Time to find out which couples got

Please welcome our very own choreography goddess, Karen Hardy!

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING They love you tonight. I am liking

that. Three weeks to the final, Karen, can you believe it? I have

to get a proper job and everything. Let's start off with our saved

couple, Nicky and Karen. Did they deserve to be in the bottom two?

Len Len was talking it was too much ballroom, not enough Argentine,

tango? Do you agree? What was important with me in this dance, I

was disturbed and I did fall slightly against Len for once,

because I have chosen the bit here where it looks tangoy and the

assertiveness in the upper body, but what wasn't picked up on, - you

see how well he has picked up. Look at the beautiful footwork. Sharp

and strong. This dance is all about what's going on downstairs and it

was overtalked about upstairs. I would have liked them to have

praised him and yes, undermarked. It was very good what was going on

downstairs. Incredible number. really feel you needed to get that

off your chest. Lisa and Robin. Did this routine bring you sunshine?

Lots of talk again about Lisa's personality. What about the

dancing? Yes, and that's the key word, if I analyse it and we are

going to look here at the piece that I have chosen. One of the key

things about ballroom is gapping. It's gapping all the way through

this. You know, being in the top six now that shouldn't be there.

The shoulders are all lifting up all the time. It looks confusion of

what the steps are and looked hassled. These looked as though

they're going to go wrong and she starts jumping on-the-spot. If I

looked at the quality of the dancing on this it didn't appeal to

me. Lisa's inspiration and personality and we say in the

history books, a champion will always shine and show themselves.

But it can't be through razzmatazz, it's got to be through quality of

dance. I love that. We say in the history books! Brilliant. Denise

and James and the salsa. A moment for everybody, James blanked. That

never happens. Did you think Denise managed to style it out

brilliantly? She coped brilliantly. You can see where it all goes wrong.

I have chosen the place here. They're doing the salsa. Basic

steps and it just shows that, oh, my God, I am going to make this

work. The recovery is brilliant T proved the amount of hours they're

training. It's clearly coming through. You can have a lot of

people that talk the talk, but it's on occasions like this where it

proves whether they're actually doing the homework. That just

showed to me her confidence, and her ability to carry on. That could

have been meltdown TV and they worked together as a strong team.

Fantastic. Louis and Flavia. Len said it had both quantity of steps

and quality of movement. He got his first two 10s. Len picked up on the

movement. The tricks for him, you know, - but look at the amount of

power. The ability to move. That said, I am a little bit in Craig's

corner on this. There was something missing. I feel with a Charleston

it shouldn't be moving that much. Now that we can't fault. Brilliant.

Future gymnast. We know he is going to do that. I was looking for a

tighter, more compact performance. However, he brought his mojo back

and got the enthusiasm and he might have that bite in the teeth to stay

in. Come on, Louis. Dani and Vincent and the Viennese waltz. A

little bit of Audrey Hepburn. very interesting this. I loved the

introduction of this chory. He brought in steps -- choreography.

He brought in steps from a quick- step. Heel turns he brought in.

saw her do two. Even I noticed that. And that little step there, very

quick. What I loved about it is he used the music to bring in that

sort of choreography. However, however, you know, it's a strong

competition, the Viennese waltz should power around the dance floor.

It's one of our power dances. It lost a lot of enthusiasm and

delivery for me. Kimberley and Pasha and their jive. Hrodz of

praise for her -- loads of praise for her. How difficult is that for

celebrities to master? That shows overall the weeks how they really

getting in tune with each other. Sin cross isity comes down to

musicality. They're on the right beat together, which is brilliant.

The piece I have chosen here is not necessarily the side by side, but

if you look here, can you see how in tune they are with each other?

Backing each other. That's how in tune they are which is brilliant.

This is the difficult step I love, because it's not only the twisting

of the legs that's in tune, but it's also the twisting of the body.

I will, as I did last year, I demoed this last year, I am a year

older. I will get my walking stick out. This is a great step. The

first thing that's happening with You are pulling the knee up at the

same time. Kimberley and Pasha have to make sure the kicking is the

same and make sure that the lifting of the knee is at the same height,

Pasha will have more energy and he will lift higher, but at the same

time they have to be twisting the Don't ask me to do it next year.

will be trying that later on. You are, as always, a goddess. Karen

Hardy! APPLAUSE AND CHEERING On Saturday night Kimberley and

Pasha got the party started with a jive as we were talking about. They

bounced around the floor with perfect synchronicity. Here is how

well they did. I thought you did a great job because the jive isn't

easy. But overall, well done. Nice job. Great energy. Great timing.

Side to side kicks and flicks were excellent. Kimberley, you certainly

matched Pasha's energy level. You looked like a professional. Keeping

up with him is hard. Side by side it was excellent. You did a

We got to the end of the jive! We got the party started, I think.

sure. You want to do another jive next week? No! Please welcome

Kimberley and Pasha! APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

You were smashing on Saturday night. You really were. Did you love it

out there? We did actually. We had a really good time. I was really

nervous but we managed to get the energy out in the kicks and flicks,

which was good. We were kicking a lot. A lot of kicking and the

judges did point out brilliant side by side. We did work on that a lot.

Joint second. 34. Do you feel like you are in Groundhog Day? 34 is an

amazing score and there are different dances every week so

actually we feel like we are doing well to stay the same level. People

go up and down. Bye! We are exactly the same every dance! We will try

to take it to the next level. work so hard every week and this is

going to be no different. We are going to go for it and just see if

we can just pip up a little bit. The good thing is Craig is very

pernickety and he gave you a nine. Our first nine from Craig. I was

surprised. The judges did argue that the travel through the legs

bit could have been slicker. Was that a trick that was tricky in

training? It's a hard trick to do, isn't it? It is a hard trick to do.

It works, sometimes it doesn't. training it always actually worked.

That part of the trick always worked. Later we had problems. But

the first one one nerve went wrong. Because it's a live show and

anything can happen, and unfortunately,... It was me. I am

sorry. You did great. It's OK. Bigger things happened. James

Jordan went wrong! That's what everyone will remember. Sorry,

James. He is going to get me. Joint on the leader board with Dani and

Vincent. Is it healthy rivalry going on between the two teams

there? It is actually. With me and Dani we are always joking because

we have been the same so many weeks and she left for a little while and

then she was, we're back! always wanted to jive. Did it it

live up to expectations? It did, I loved the jive but it was so hard

work. I don't think I realised how much energy you need for the jive,

especially jiving with this guy. used that t-shirt every day.

paid off. Goodness me. Pasha, when did you meet Jive Bunny, by the

way? He is from Rotherham. It was a long story, I was touring in the UK

and in this bar he was there. We start arguing about jive and almost

fought and we end up to be best of friends. I love Jive Bunny. I love

him, it's official. Three weeks until Christmas. If you are

centringling -- struggling with your list for Father Christmas,

You have even started talking Yorkshire? Speak better now. I

APPLAUSE Such a good sport. We do work as

well into looks like we just mess around. I love it. You are going

crackers. This week it's fusion. Yes! Confusion for many. You are

doing a tango and cha-cha-cha. came up with a new dance style.

dance on the street, it's chango. This week anyway. How is this

fusion thing? How beautifully do they knit together? It depends on

the song and in this song they leave together quite nicely. The

only problem is tango is dramatic and cha-cha is happy. What do you

do? Like a face that works for both. Angry but with a slight... One One

raised eyebrow. You recently tangoed and you were brilliant.

did love it so I am excited to do it again. Any tricks this week? Are

you going to do cartwheels? trick. Each dance or just in the

whole dance? The whole dance. you practised anything? We tried

something did. Does it involve a crash mat? I hope it doesn't need a

crash mat. I am hoping I will be able to master this one. It starts

in the beginning of the song and she gets down towards the end.

down as in dances gets down? From the lift. OK, yeah. Quite a long

lift. I am not quite sure how I am going to manoeuvre yet. It sounds

brilliant. OK so we only have a couple of weeks to the final.

There's been blood and sweat and tears on the dance floor. No murder

yet, but I wouldn't put it past some of the pros! There has been

blood, sweat and tears at some point on this journey. We would

absolutely love to get into the semifinal. But everybody's amazing.

We are going to have to go out there and Saturday and do our best.

Give it up for Kimberley and Pasha! APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

On the dance floor this weekend saw a Strictly kaleidoscope of colours

and a man casting his beady eye over the outfits was Julian

McDonald. # Can I dress you up in my love

# All over, all over. # Please welcome Julian McDonald.

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING All for you, darling. What did you think of the

frocks this weekend? They blew me away. There was fringes, ruffles,

over 20,000 cryst alals -- crystals, I loved it! Who is in the number

three spot this week? The gorgeous, amazing Lisa. Tell us about the

skirt. It's actually a vertical panel with a flair at the bottom.

These panels are very long but they help Lisa to look even taller and

even more gorgeous than what she actually is. It's cut in a very

special way. This is an empire line which is a cut here underneath the

bust which drops to the floor. If you are a slightly larger lady,

these cover a multitude of sins. love that. Tell us about the

detailing of the top half of the dress. The top part of Lisa's dress

is another great shape, especially if you have a big bust. The thing

is this cross your heart bust just holds you up in the right places,

obviously with Lisa's dress this is another amazing concoction of lace.

It's covered in multifaceted crystals. Over 3,000 crystals.

Counted them as they were put on by hand! She looked awesome. Who is

number two this weekend? My number two of this week, one of my

favourites, Natalie. I might have known you would have chosen this.

She was doing the samba. What stood out for you in this outfit? There's

actually half a dress. She lost half the dress on the way to the

floor! Where is the dress? I like the sheer fun of it. It's Strictly,

it's fun, it's camp, it's fringes, it's crystals, it's everything that

we love! Well done, Julian. Here we have - you have a fringe, who would

thought that would work? I didn't known know it existed. They've cut

the fringe on the bias, going down one side which makes the fringes

fall in a different direction. It actually disects the body. It's

totally unwearable and fun! Who is the top spot this week? The top

spot is the lady in red, Flavia. am happy about that. She always

looks gorgeous. We love Flavia. Why particularly this frock?

reminded me of one of my famous favourite Hollywood icons, Liza

Minnelli in Cab receipt. Cabaret. Have you met her? She's

brilliant. This dress is hot to trot, obviously. I am wearing the

colour of the season, red. Christmas is coming up. Red is a

perfect Christmas colour. Obviously, on Flavia we see the red in maximum

potential. It's absolutely covered in over 6,5 -- 6,500 cryst als.

It's -- crystals. Over four metres of fringe. Not normal fringe, this

was teamed with a weight to the fringe. We have crystal, fringe, we

have Flavia! Why shouldn't it be the top this week? Thank you very

much indeed. My goodness. Weighted fringe. I have learned a term there.

Brilliant. Now you have not only been looking at our professionals

and our celebrities dancing, you have also made someone's dreams

come true this week, Julian. Tell me more. We have a very, very

special firefighter. Her name is Sam. She is wearing one of my

favourite outfits from this season. I loved this outfit so much. It's

her paso doble outfit. Take it away, Sam.

I am Samantha and I am a female firefighter. Good afternoon.

I wear this on a day-to-day basis, but I like to add more glamour to

my day. Wow!

That's glamorous. Let's see if this dress fits the job. It's stretchy

enough to move around, a nice slit in the front. The leggings are

really nice. Hello! Oh, my God! You look superb. You are fit for

purpose for the job now. Honestly, you look fabulous. Really nice.

Thank you. Every start of shift it's important we check all the

equipments and the appliance. Let's see if this dress makes it more

sparkly and fun. Daily routine, we make sure all the equipment is

there and everything is working. They don't quite go, do they? We go

out training, which would create pretend scenarios of incident and

deal with them how we would. My colleagues rarely see me dressed

up. I bet it was a shock for them. So, guys, what do you think?

Although I love Victoria Pendleton's dress, I don't quite

think it's fire retardant. Now it's the end of the shift and although I

have not been able to keep Victoria's dress, I still managed

to keep a little bit of sparkle. APPLAUSE AND CHEERING Sam, and we

would like to thank Sam's bosses for giving her a project day which

meant she wasn't on duty when we filmed this. She looked gorgeous.

Thank you so much Julian. See you next week. Oh, look! It's Flavia's

hat! Bless you, you look like an extra from Miss Marple. I love it.

Thank you to all my guests tonight. Tomorrow I will be talking to our