Episode 6 Strictly - It Takes Two

What a weekend it was and on the show we have the first couple to be

eliminated from the series and sadly it's my dad and Iveta. Also,

we have the twinkley-eyed Mr Nicky Byrne and Miss Carr Rennes Hauer

and gracing us with his presence it's the king of the put-down Mr

Craig RH. Are you in a good mood, darling? Yes, darling. It's Monday

and it's Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two. Live from Television

Centre, this is Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two. Please

welcome your host, Zoe Ball. APPLAUSE

Hello and welcome, with the return of the dreaded dance-off. You could

have cut the tension with a sequin- handled knife had you been so

inclined. In case you missed any of the action, here are all the

Strictly headlines. Good evening. Here is the news. It was kisses not

kicks for Craig this weekend as he awarded his first fab-u-lous of the

series to Denise and James. Fab-u- lous! No tongues, Bruce! We were

only two shows in, but already Sir Brucie has chosen his favourite

couple. I'm sure it had nothing to do with the fact they were

wheeleding an axe. -- whieling an axe. You're going to be my

favourites. APPLAUSE

You were lovely. Go on, off you go. Sorry. That's it, get him. Possibly

the most unconvincing axe I've ever seen. Despite borrowing Mary

Berry's blouse from The Great British Bake Off, Richard Arnold

failed to impress and was nearly sent home. This is not the Richard

I want to see. You're a better dancer an just camping it all up.

What you didn't see on Saturday night was James jarred on

challenging Nicky Byrne to a battle of the pecs! We're on. Turn around.

You're like a little boy. Weighing in at - what weight am I? 11 stone

two. What are you? I say, that's where the Strictly headlines come

in. Thank you. If that wasn't enough then take a look at our

exclusive behind-the-scenes footage from this weekend. Sorry, dad.

morning. First day of the real competition. Here we go. Big, big

day. I'm so excited. I get to do the salsa and the hump. I'm ready,

I think! Slightly nervous. It's like arriving for a match. Last

week it was like an April tieser. Now the Dane-off. Shut up. This is

the weekend to remember. I don't know if I should watch everyone

because I get really nervous. trying to be positive. The routine

will come to my brain. Are you trying to steal my partner? Bring

it on, darling. Do you want to take it outside?. Yes, let's. I thought

you'd never ask. I love it when they fight over me. The only thing

that's missing is a lift. Was that a waltz? It's a foxtrot. I'm doing

the waltz, so it's nice to look at the competition and they are

blooming good. I've been watching Sid's salsa. Very sexy. Let's hope

he can do that on the live show. have ten minutes to show time, team.

Tonight, the nerves are miles worse. I don't know why. My stomach is

like a washing machine. I need to nail it to get myself up the

leaderboard, because at the moment I'm at the bottom, baby. Please let

me get through. It's far more tense this week. I'm so nervous.

Everybody knows that tomorrow night someone is going home. Fingers

crossed it's not us. It will get worse week after week. You see your

mates going home and you don't get to see them again, so it's sad

really, but it's down to the public now and the judges, so it's out of

our hands. We are live in five. It's going to be a great show

tonight. Thank you very much. Straight to the studio, guys, thank

We have to choose out of what happens on that night, that's why

poor Jonny had to go. It's sad, because he did a really great dance

and when it came to the dance-off it wasn't so good. That's one of

the most difficult things I've had to do in my life and then when

you're through the sense of relief because you are seeing someone you

care about go. That's showbiz. Goodness, gracious me. That's the

way Strictly Come Dancing is. Get used to it. Oh, the brutal truth.

He may be the first celebrity to leave the competition, but he's

definitely a winner in my eyes. Please welcome my dad, Jonny, and

his partner Iveta. APPLAUSE

Daddy, we do have the tissues should they be needed. It's always

horrible to be the first couple to leave the competition. How

disappointed were you? The cards didn't seem to fall right from the

three weeks right through. All kinds of things went wrong. We

didn't have a lot of time and the second week was lovely. Fourth from

the bottom seemed to be safe and suddenly I'm in the dance-off and

still I thought I could have run that. That run was the worst I ever

did it. I don't think I ever did it in practice. When we did the

foxtrot and the Fred astair kick and I turned it on and I looked to

wink at Darcy and I saw Craig and I winked at him. I think it made me

laugh. Did it throw you? Yeah. And the dance, we suddenly realised our

top half wasn't bad, but something different was happening down there

and the judges see that and they had no alternative from then on and

I turned to DI, mum in the audience and she looked and I knew at that

moment. How did the dance go on the night. Lots of people were texting

and tweeting saying your performance made them dewy-eyed.

Were you happy? Jonny did a really good job. You look so handsome dad.

He was and smiling. I have got through the series without a sequin.

Is that a report? This is the first time I've had an open-necked shirt

in the whole series. What has been going on. We can sort it out. You

got fives from all the judges. come you get five from Craig and

the others don't, as they do with all the rest, go up? How did that

happen? How did you feel going into the dance-off? You are up against

Richard who I know you're fond of? Absolutely. Of all of us we are the

two gagsters back stage, him more than me, but he's lovely and I said

of all the people I don't want to go it's him really. That's why I

ducked and dived to give him a dance. What a gentleman he is! I

tell you what, we've had so many lovely messages. Gina said, "If I

can move like that at Jonny's age I will be happy." And Jenny said, "He

brought sophistication to Strictly." There you go. See. Lots

of people loving your relationship. Are you going to miss Iveta?

Terribly. I really am. She is so - you know, for somebody to be so

charming and warm and supportive and then turn the screw when it's

needed she is just a master, so had we gone on a bit further I know I

would have improved. Do you think? Yes. We had a really cool idea for

next week. Ball family Christmas, that's coming out. Well done, dad.

Here are your best bits. Your Strictly partner is Aliona. I have

a soft spot because she's a great teacher. Dancing comes naturally to

him. I think I'm doing very well for my age. OK, hold on. I can't

possibly perform on the first show. Hello. My name is Iveta and I will

be filling in until Aliona gets better. He will show all the young

guys what he can do. Great energy. There's a lot of people of a

similar age to you who would like to be able to get out and move like

that. Well done. I sleep like this, standing up in the wardrobe. I have

a feeling you're going to look really good this Saturday. You got

all the moves. Believe in your yourself. Really, really decent

effort. It's decision time. The couple with the most votes from the

judges will stay in the competition. Richard and Erin. Richard and Erin.

Richard and Erin. He's such a lovely man. It's so sad. What hey

has done is amazing and he should be so proud. I'm really proud of

you. You did an amazing job. I believe I have found a friend for

life and this is not a goo buy and I love you. You've been so

wonderful to him. I hope we'll see you on Strictly again. One point on

age. Louis and Danny when they are three times as old they will be

five years younger than I am. Always with the maths. You said you

are gutted because we won't get to see your six-pack but we have

managed to get a photograph of it. Here my dad's six-pack. Look at

this. It's incredible. Thank you to Gavin Henson. Sid might sue me for

that. Dad, it's been an absolute pleasure. We are gutted that you're

leaving. Your kids and grand kids are very proud of you. My dad,

Johnny Ball and his dance partner, Iveta.

APPLAUSE Do you consider yourself an oracle

of all things Strictly? If you did, we thought we could put you to the

test in our quiz, strictly true or Strictly baloney. Hello you experts.

I'm here to test your Strictly knowledge. In series five John

Barnes performed the first-ever Strictly one-armed lift. Is this

true or baloney? I won't do an accent. We'll show you later the

answer. At the weekend we learnt that Mr Craig receive elhor wood is

a keen gardener, so -- receive receive receive is a keen -- we

learnt that Craig is a keen gardener so let's give him a bunch

of flowers. You look dishy tonight. Well, thank you very much. I've had

too many Cheries. It's always hard to see people leave the competition,

isn't it? Careful how you answer, but did the public make the right

decision? I think so and it goes down to popularity, I suppose for

people at home and who they want to see go through the competition.

Then of course it's on the dance for us. We have just got to be

honest and poor daddy didn't do well, darling, did he? No, I think

he did very well in the competition. I think he did. I gave him a five.

From you, that's good. He was great and fantastic, but in the dance-off

he made too many errors. We'll talk about Richard and Erin. Why was he

safe? What was good? Well, he kept time. He didn't go as wrong. He

went wrong at the end, but he had a lot more high content and there

were a lot more steps that he had to achieve and I thought in the end

he deserved it. Fantastic. Can you see - how will he stay out of the

bottom two next week? He'll have to bribe people, I suppose! This early

in the competition. Thousands of people who might be watching this

show can phone in and hopefully save him. I don't like his chances.

Once you've seen the people in the bottom you realise they all need

support so it may change. Lewis and Flavia and their Viennese waltz.

You didn't get to speak. I really liked it. Seven is quite a high

score. The reason why it wasn't worth an eight is because he was a

little bit skipy and he goes up and down. Too much rise and fall. You

have to remain - you can't go up and down, but remain smooth. Your

knees go up and down, but your head doesn't? There is a slight rise and

fall. Picky, but this is how we get perfection. Denise and James and

their jive. She was incredible. was fantastic. Her timing was

exceptional. She was just brilliant to watch. I absolutely loved it and

I think because this dance is a little quirky and she has that

quirkiness to her, just naturally, so all that stuff, all the jive and

swing dance, I thought was just brilliant. It suited her

personality and suited her body. It was good. Perfect. I think you need

some words for this. Shabizi, you can have that. Work on it. Michael

and Natalie, from one extreme to the other. You said it was the

oddest jive you've ever seen in ten series? It is. It's frantic,

darling. What is wrong? He has the energy? What is missing is it's too

all over the shop and stompy and the timing he was out of time. It

was off time. It just looked like a really sort of dad dance. He is a

dad. When they're drunk and they get up and they think their

fabulous. Can he turn it around next week? I hope so. We have seen

some good dancing from him. This particular dance was difficult and

didn't suit him. Move on. I think it's the lowest score in jive ever.

Oh, dear. Victoria and Brendan and their foxtrot. I think the whole

nation was holding their breath when VP went on to the floor,

because we didn't want her to mess up again. I know. I was delighted

he remembered it, which was great and actually she had a bit of grace

and some style. She cannot turn, however. This is one of her biggest

problems and also getting back into hold, she is not releasing her arm

fast enough. Therefore, she is catching it inside the frame and

it's awkward. The first thing she has to do is learn to turn.

Photothere to VP in her homework. Kimberley and Pasha's foxtrot. I

thought it was absolutely gorgeous. I'm a bit of a fan of Pasha, but I

can't stop watching Kimberley. are beautiful to watch together.

Absolutely the music choice was good. She looks magnificent. I

don't know why Len is going on a Kimberley rage. It's very odd. I'm

finding that particular side of Len this series and particularly with

Kimberley, because she is great. You did mention the chin. She was

doing a bit of a Keira Knightley, darling. Very strong jaw line. She

is is overworking it. She was desperate to get to the left.

so difficult. You put your chin out more, but beautiful. Other than

that, I loved it. Colin and Kristina. What were you liking

about this and not? I was liking that he was working to the flick of

the rest, that double hideous flick that really was most annoying. He

was dancing to his height. That was the great thing. When you say that,

what do you mean? If you are tall and you are dancing with someone

short, you - the boy still needs to dance to his night, you don't stoop

over or bending your knees more. It's difficult, because there's a

big difference. That shouldn't make a difference at all. He's doing

well. And you used the word vexation, which I had to look up,

but I loved it. You are worrying about she is leading him. It looks

like she is grabbing and pushing him into the hold. Really, it

should be a little gentler than that. That's the only thing. She is

great. She is absolutely great. And what a nice surprise. They are one

of those partnerships that may be one of the favourites. Jerry and

Anton. You did say he was like Mr Byrnes from the Simpsons. I was

trying to think of the hunch-over gaupg scenario. You can't say a

woman looks like a preying mantis. Then open the frame and do I -- a

little more work on it. Isn't that difficult because she is so tall?

No length of bone, darling. I love it when that term comes out every

year. Dani and Vincent and their salsa. What did you think? That

just looks awful. Let's face it, it's not a pretty lift anyway. I

hate that dismount actually. This is just a personal choice, but as a

judge I think I'm allowed to have at least some personal choices in

the choreography and stuff like that. I like it or I don't. I

didn't. He could have done some wonderful lifts. Why put that in?

Awful. The rest of it. But apart from that, I think he loved it.

Nicky and Karen. She has been getting -- he has been getting a

hard time. What was missing for you? Why didn't you like it? Flat-

footed, number one. There was more, as they say, boy bandish-type

dancing in it. Know - Does it not lend itself to that? It does, but

there wasn't enough content in it. That's basically what everyone was

complaining about. I like him. All those lovely Westlife fans, I do

like them and I think he's gorgeous, but he's not much cop as a dancer

just yet. He's still in the competition. He has time to improve.

Slowlyy slowlyy, catchy monkey. Thank you darling, you are glorious.

APPLAUSE Check the shoes. Shoe check. At the

weekend Nicky's dancing was compared to a Take That video in

1995, so that's not the greatest day for him, but I said to Nicky,

babe, never forget, have a little patience, it will be your time to

shine, go with me on this. Whatever you do, you will eventually relight

the judges' fire. I could have sung it. Maybe I should. If you missed

it all the the weekend take a look at this. There was confidence.

There was attitude, which was great. But sadly for me l wasn't enough

cha-cha. You --, there wasn't enough cha-cha. You were going for

it. There was a twinkle in your eyes. For me it was like a zum ba

exercise class. -- zumba exercise clar. There was very little to rave

about there. This week we were hoping to really come back with

thunder and we didn't really pull it off. It's an absolute disaster

to be honest. Don't lose faith. Please welcome Nicky and Karen.

APPLAUSE It's so tough. You build yourself

up and you have a week like that. You did tweet after the show on

Saturday that you'd had a problem hearing the clicks at the top of

the song, so your timing was all off. Tell me what happened?

Basically, what I meant by a disaster, we had the routine down

so well and we worked so hard and it was great and there was a lot of

content in there, but you can see me pause there. The song was queued

and those eight clicks at the start for me, but there was choreography

and I had a spin and a bit of a Jackson move, so because I couldn't

hear the clicks or the applause I was catching my tail. I was making

it up as I was going along. When we got to the judges, they can see -

on television it didn't look too bad, but the judges are seeing it

all and I knew the marks were going to be very low and when I say a

disaster, it was more why couldn't I? If I had just waited a few

seconds to hear the clicks, but it's too technical and move on.

Next week. It's so last week. How was your confidence before? He was

feeling great. We had rehearsals going well and the dress run was

fantastic and everything was going great and then that happened. Then

it was like no! He was thinking about it the whole time and there

was a point I had to hold on to his face and say, "Look at me." Just

breathe. I've been there. I know how you feel. Last week it was the

illegal lift and this week not enough cha-cha-cha. Did you agree?

I thought there was plenty of cha- cha. I mean, I just - I missed it

at the start because of what happened. The steps were for me to

turn and do a move and jump and then there was quite a bit of cha-

cha before Karen joined me, but because I had lost the counts and I

was trying to catch my tail that cha-cha went out the window. That

was the bit where the judges would are seen cha-cha from the off and

it didn't happen. In the routine there was lots, but what they saw

on the night there wasn't, because of what happened. Don't lose heart,

because you have had lots of messages. Steph says, "What's more

challenging for you, performing in concert, saving goals or resisting

the urge to thump Craig in the face?" Being on Strictly is amazing.

But it's tough and I'm petrified. I can't describe it to you. This week

my confidence is lifted and I was so confident and then as soon as

they mentioned my name and I missed the clicks and I thought, oh no.

The judges marked us correctly it week because of everything that

happened, but I'm not going to moan. I need to take them out for dinner.

Charm them. Do the judges' comments help you or confuse you? Is it

constructive or how do you find it? Did you even hear? Last week I knew

I was going to be sacked. Week one I thought the waltz was quite OK.

We did do an illegal lift and we were criticised so we took that

away and going into the cha-cha we had it down. We had it so down. I

can show you the rehearsals on my phone. It was a disaster and as

Craig said I feel like what Craig has said, like people haven't seen

me dance, so I could go out of this competition. I need to get it right.

You do put in the hours. You have been working very hard, but we

notice that you like to take a break. Look at this. It's got to be

lunchtime. Let's take a five-minute break. I'm not taking no five-

minute break. Come on. No sitting down. I wanted a break. It's nearly

lunch? OK, remember we are talking about yesterday. No, come on.

us five minutes. I'm wrecked. A bite of an apple. Is that what you

call a break? I need a break. was a breather. Come on. When you

need lunch - Well, you ain't going to get none. Help!! Take a break.

don't want to take a break. It's working. It's working with you.

This week, Hollywood, quickstep. You liking it? Loving it. Who

doesn't love Hollywood? It's time to get our actors' hats on. Good

luck with it. Keep the faith, though, because I think you'll be

brilliant. Nicky and Karen. Earlier on we tested you on your knowledge.

Want to see how you did. Here's the answer. I've asked you in series

five John Barnes performed the first-ever Strictly one-armed lift.

I bet that got you thinking. It's Strictly baloney. It was Kenny

Logan who lifted his partner Ola with one arm doing their American

Smooth. Join me next time for another Strictly True or Strictly

Baloney, with me the one and only, Bruno Tonioli. Just for you. I love

him. Did you get it right? Did you know who it was. You can try that

move, though. I think he's the strongest man I've ever seen. I've

played football with him. Good luck. We'll have more throughout the