Episode 16 Strictly - It Takes Two

Hello and welcome to It Takes Two. It's Monday! Another great weekend

of dance to discuss. Tissues at the ready, everybody. Time for them to

go. Julian and Janette are here to say their goodbyes.

They waltzed their way to the highest score yet, it's Dave and

Karen. And Saturday's even niece waltz proved to be an angel delight

for Ashley and Ola. Her here! This is strictly It Takes Two, let's have

fun! -- they are here!

Live from London, this is strictly It Takes Two. Please welcome your

host, Zoe Ball. Hello and welcome to It Takes Two.

Nice weekend? ! Buzzy show with three couples opt sofa. No Craig,

bless him, of course! He's taking time off for his hip operation. You

could pretend you care! Get well soon, Craig, see you back here next

week. Another action-packed weekend full of waltzing, wafting and wigs.

In case you missed any of it, here are the Strictly headlines:

Good evening. Thank you! Here is the news. After a

difficult week, disrupted by injury, Natalie bounced back with a

performance that saw her quickstep to joint first in the leaderboard.

Flash! Can't believe you delivered a dance of this standard in such a

short time. I loved the fusion of quickstep and

jazz. I thought that was done immaculately well. There is no

stopping you darling. Stunning. Thank you.

Another standing ovation for Mark and Iveta bringing a bit of street

dance to Strictly. I can't believe the audience, I have

to say. I mean, it was all very flat-footed and stompy.

The cha-cha-cha that you actually did was danced, I'm afraid, very

badly. Boo hiss. From hip-hop to hip-on,

Rachel's dig came out about his hip-op, much to Bruno's delight.

Won't Y jigging tomorrow when they take your hip off!

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE Tonioli, we love ya. It seems Artem

did catch Kevin's impression of him on last week's It Takes Two and he's

not very happy. Artem, leave him, it was a joke. It

was just a joke. I'm sorry. Look, say you're sorry. Don't smile now

the camera's on, you were aggressive a second ago. . Leave him alone,

he's smaller than you. Are you OK, Kevin? I'll be OK. I'm just a little

bit... No, no, leave him. See, look, the camera comes on, he's all nice

again. Really in real life, he's the

boss... Are you all right? See you in a bit. Come this way. Stay away

from him. Those were the Strictly headlines: I

thank you. More gossip from the weekend and all

the action from behind-the-scenes just for you.

Good morning. Thrilled to be here after a crazy

week and nothing's going to stop me tonight. James, are you excited? Oh,

really excited... He's out. Looking for a job! Ready for a bit of Bucks

Fizz? Yeah. Here we go. There is a buzz when the live music

goes, it's show time and this is the one chance. I think everybody's in

for a nice treat from Dave today. He's taking me out on a date,

shhh... I like a bit of hip-hop so it will be nice to have a ball. Here

she is. Isn't he brilliant? He's the best. I rip off my pants, Deborah's

skirt, good job it's only a minute and a half otherwise we wouldn't

have any clothes left. I sometimes wonder why I'm here. Because you are

fabulous and the shows loves you. I mean the nerves and everything. I

think, I want to go home. Susannah is a hot mom. I just wanna be hot

like her. I wanna be a mom too, but. Hot. She's a hot mom. Sounds great.

We've got nothing to do. I think James is enjoying his new job. Got

to give him something to do while he's not doing anything in show

days. The I like it. Suits him. I love getting pampered, hair and

make-up. It's great. Isn't Jamie a genius. That's luke megahair!

-- like megahair. I'm a cute bank robber!

I went to Miami in two hours. I'm actually quite nervous and I know

that I'm the first person dancing tonight. I'm quite scared about

that. I don't want to be I just wish I wasn't wearing my own

clothes. I wish they'd supply me with a costume. I love the dress

Tess. I love your dress more. Sorry, that's my happy face. Before

I get on, I'll be absolutely petrified, so I need all the support

of everybody. Week four! Now it's time we got some

decent dancing coming out here! Argh... Should be out of their

shells now they should be used to thes dance floor, no worries, the

nerves shouldn't be there. The nerves, nah, they don't get any

easier, in fact it gets worse. Mwah... Good luck, everyone. Good

luck. Good luck... Faye minutes to live, guys, five

minutes to live. Here we go. Higham here, I'm here.

-- I'm here. Show time. Exciting. Live from the Strictly ballroom,

this is Strictly Come Dancing. Absolutely loving little James.

We'll always find you a job, darling. Third time unlucky as the

dance-off finally got the better of team sparkle, welcome Julian and

Janette. You were a lovely the two. Drat and

commiserations on your exit last night. How are you feeling about it

all today? Devastated. I've been crying night and day. My Mondays

have never been the same. What did you do today? I didn't wake up until

2 o'clock. No sore feet. Did you miss Janette this afternoon? I did

miss Janette. I've got a big poster of her above my bed and on my fridge

door. There's pictures of Janette everywhere, smile and energy in the

house. You will never stop doing that. You have drilled it into him.

There is a lot of people watching who're very upset that you have gone

out, including Julie from Bristol who's having to console her

seven-year-old son who's very sad because Julian reminds him of her

old hamster because Julian was always so happy and so was Pickles.

Have you ever been come pureed to a hamster before, or is this a first?

That's an exclusive. Being compared to a lot of things, I have been, but

not a hamster. He's going to miss you. It was your highest score of

the competition so far, a great 23, which was brilliant for you guys.

Dartscy said your best performance. Having been in the bolt develop

previously, were you expecting that again or were you hoping this time

it could be different -- having been in the bottom two previously. We

just laughed, if you watch it back, we are going, OK, here we go again.

Like what can we do at that point. Yes. The judges saved you a couple

of weeks before, so was there a part of you that thought, we could still

do this in the dance-off? It was weird because last week I found it

incredibly difficult. It really gets to you being in the dance-off. It's

disheartening, so you want to put everything in and I did and I

thought, look, forget about last week, get on with it. I practiced so

much. He did. He did. Were you pleased with his progress? Very

pleased. He rehearsed more than any other celebrity really. Only second

to Natalie and Artem? Yes. Let's enjoy your Strictly story.

Julian, the professional of who is your perfect fit is Janette. Janette

threw me all the way into the dance and I loved that. I have a big, big

task and you will be great. I'm the worst dancer in the world. No you

are not. I can't dance. . It was more like Woman's Weekly. I love the

joy on your face. Woo... Tango is macho. It's kind of everything...

That I'm not. That you are not. I look like My Little Pony. This is

scary. Jay I just hope that they say

something nice about his actual dancing. The posture I'm afraid is

ghastly. Didn't quite work out the way it should have. Came out with

conviction. You have improved. Thank you.

You went out there and you were strong and involved and that's what

I want. Yeah! I would like to say that Julian I

want to save you. Julian. I think the jive suits

Julian because it's a fun, happy dance and Julian is all those

things. It's fast, full of energy and you've got to smile and be

happy, so I love it! I just want to show everybody, I can jive!

Certainly brought the energy and love-in to your Juve. That's your

best dance to date. Thank you, Len!

Woo! Yeah! The best week yet. Yes. Judges, who are you going to save?

Julian and Janette. Julian and Janette. Julian and Janette.

I'm going to teach Julian how to properly shimmy. Shake it to the

right. This is a dance with lots of timing. Things which look easy and

never are. You think he's going to do really

well in the salsa because he's got a nice natural little funny groove

going on. Don't laugh. I'm laughing because it's good!

It was a little bit wild and whacky. Needed a bit more control. You threw

yourself into it. You always do everything you can. I love it. I

just find it so difficult. Reach Elle and Pasha and Julian and

Janette. This is it. Judges, who would you like to save? Rachel and

Pasha. Rachel and Pasha. Rachel and Pasha, I have to say.

Julian, I couldn't be prouder of you, you went Reich this and like

this and like this and like this and that's all that I could expect from

anyone, so love you! Thank you so much for dealing with this small

bundle of fun and I love you and friends for ever!

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE Friends for life. Iveta ease very

words. Are you going to keep up the dancing? Are you gutted you didn't

get to do the American smooth and be Fred Astaire? I did think that could

have been my best! Are you going to be incorporating any Strictly into

your next collection? There might be a lot of ruffles, French, crystals,

you name it. Who would you like to see go on and win this competition

of all the friends you have made? I've always thought it's a battle of

the girls, the girl power, you know. They are good. The Girls are

definitely the strongest in the competition, but in striingtly you

never know, sometimes the best dancers don't necessarily always win

-- Strictly. It's who the public like, so the characters. You are not

giving me an answer. Who do you want to win? I'm going for abbey.

That thank you so much for coming to see us, Julian and Janette. So on

Saturday night, Dave titivated himself up a treat and delivered his

best performance yet. I'll be chatting to him and his partner

Karen in a bit. First, a reminder of their waltz.

You do swrub up very well, almost unrecognisable. There is a ray of

hope on the horizon. What I love about you, you try your

hardest every time. It's nice to see the serious Dave. I

really enjoyed that. I would say that was your personal best.

Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yes! I'm not the greatest dancer, but Karen brings

out the best in me, plus we have a blooming good time, don't we? Yeah.

You get lots of hugs today. Please give it up for Dave and

Karen. I think we loved your dance, we

loved your look, but especially we loved the way the two of you leaped

for joy when you got 23, it was so exciting, Dave. How much did it mean

to you? A lot really because, you know, at times when a lot of

enthusiasm has been in me, I've been maybe lacking in accuracy, but I've

always tried to dance seriously and this time it felt it went all right.

The first thing when we stop I do is say "was that all right? " It did

feel all right and it's nice to have that ratified by the judges. We set

ourselves a target, if we'd have got 20, we'd have been happy. 23, whack

of the net -- back of the net. Everybody at home loves Dave. Andy

at Clacton said, fez being there for entertainment, keep at it, Dave, you

could win this. Could do you have go on to one this?

Yes, we can. Did it feel particularly good for you out there,

Karen? It was fantastic. We had a lovely stair and actually, when he

came in knocking, I felt I was going out on a date and when he stood

there with the flowers, I took the flowers and I smelt them and I saw

his little face looking at me, it really just melting my heart and I

had a fantastic date, thank you so much.

You see! Has she called you back yet? No, she hasn't phoned, rang,

texted. Leave it until Wednesday then text

her Bam! You were talking about the fact that

there's always been a comedy element, slightly. Not intentional,

no. The doble was meant to be serious and I'm trying to slay a

bull. Was it nice to play it straight? It was lovely. With that

look, I felt I was Stephen Seagal with the hair and everything. I was

the man. I had more make-up on than Quentin Crisp and I felt great!

Karen, Darcey said maybe a ballet class would help with Dave's

posture. Is that something that we are going to make happen this week?

We are going to try to stretch him out like a turkey, so I'm going to

get the wings fully expanded and I'm going to get you flying, baby. Karen

has a plan. It's not ballet but it's something that's maybe a bit New

York and a bit neaveau for me. We are all taking guesses now!

Darcey was a huge fan of the make-over. Also this week you have

got to do salsa, so we are thinking salsa man and we are wondering if

you might need some new looks to try out this weekend for salsa man. This

is obviously new hair for you, Dave. You can try it.

What do we reckon? Salsa? Uno, dos, tres...

You can try that one, maybe. Also, Karen, we don't want to leave you

out, so we have you a Hairy Biker beard. Are you talking to me. It's

more taxi driver than salsa. It is. Look at that! How is the salsa

going, by the way? Let us see the hips. So it's da-da-da-da... And

it's like that, you see. The rotation.

Getting the rotation and movement going on there. I'm going to be like

a chilli on a grizzle. -- griddle. You have got to go in there on

Mondays and start all over again. Is it confusing? No, I love it. Karen

puts in such a lot of work on a Sunday, a lot of it hoping that we

are going to have a Monday and I come into a plan and I can tell from

the look in her eye whether she's happy or not or excited. This week,

her eyes were wide, the teeth were flashing and salsa, it's Latin,

isn't it! She's going to love it. We look forward to seeing you on New

York whatever it is that you get up to and good luck with those hips,

that was a nice bit of movement there. Thank you very much, Dave and

Karen. You got a proper "whoop"! It's not

all dancing for Dave here, last week, Karen let him have an hour off

to have a rest. It was a bit mean for us to drop round for a snoop.

I'm sorry,-day, no rest for the wicked.

Hello. Nice of you to pop by. Anyway, come aboard.

Well, welcome to my home and when I'm doing Strictly. It was built in

2008 and it's moored on the Thames. This is the Whole House. She's a

fully functioning little ship really.

This is my wife's hat. Unfortunately, she can't be with us

today, she's the Captain of the ship and she's the only one that can park

it! My binoculars, washing line. My man over board line. Responsible

skipper. This is the master cabin.

Come in. And this is me after the end of a

hard day's dancing. I just lie here and think of dancing, cog cooing

choreography and dancing. I love having my satellite system. I can

receive up to 15 different shopping channels and it's great because they

deliver to the river bank. Our last port of call is the engine

room. I've got a bit of a guilty secret.

That's my shrine to Craig. Write come to pray -- where I come

to pray for better scores. Craig we love you, Craig we love you, we want

a ten, we want a ten, well a six would do. Look, no point in having a

boat if you can't go out on a jolly. These are my mates, James and Dave.

So, shall we, boys? All right-day. They won't turn off.

My windscreen wiper's stuck on. Never mind.

Is It's been lovely having you round. But you know, enough's

enough, clear off. Let's hear it for Da and his very

nice boat! APPLAUSE

Len felt Ashley and Ola's performance had romance and

elegance. Ashley's beautiful extended lines were praised. Brucie

didn't like the shirt. Here is a reminder of their Viennese waltz.

It had romance, elegance and there was a style to it.

Just needed a bit more gusto to it. A bit more.

A bit more oomph. Just push yourself a bit hard, drive

through. Go for it. If I get another chance, I'll nail it, I promise.

Please welcome Ashley and Ola. You two look gorgeous tonight.

Matching outfits and everything. Loved the whirly waltz on Saturday,

it was amazing. How was it for you out on the floor Ashley? I really

enjoyed it. It's a slower dance so the training is a bit easier, but I

don't know, it was a strange one because I felt like I got everything

right, I sort of agreed with the comments that I was a bit stiff. The

posture was lovely. The footwork was lovely.

What are you talking about, look at that? ! I know. You wowed the judges

week on week. On Saturday, you seemed to come in for a bit of

critique, were you prepared for that, or was ate shocker? I don't

know because I don't know where I my head was at. I got stiff. I got a

compliment, then it was taken away. Did you agree with what the judges

said? Jay we do work on the arms. Ashley's not the most natural dancer

and we do work on the arms all the time, don't we? We do, don't we ask?

! Don't we! It's not there quite, but I was happy with the whole

performance. His footwork was lovely, the Foreign Secretary Earl

was lovely. The posture was lovely. Then you got a battering, then you

go up and they give you 31, the same score as your samba gosh gosh --

fleckerl. We can take the negative comments and work on them for next

time. Slightly surprising to have that and get the nice score. He's

been keeping something from you, Ola. We thought we might show you a

little something special. Love this. While we are waiting for Ola to come

back, this is my alarm clock, the only thing that gets me out of bed

in the morning. It's so beautiful. Really beautiful.

# Somewhere beyond the sea # Somewhere waiting for me #

What are you doing? Just practising the new dance, the new song, it's

all good. Right, let's do it again then. Yes, Miss!

Oh, Ola Jordan. I'm so embarrassed. It calms me down. Before we go in, I

say, sing to me. Do, I do, but I'm so bad. I can see why James Jordan

has fell so deeply in love with you. This week it's the jive, the judges

want more oomph. The jive is perfect to give it some welly? We are going

to go for it. The rue tenant is full on, the song is full on, we are

going to work hard, yeah! Come on, Ashley, yes. Argh... How are your

flicks and kicks? It's full on and I'm like a stick unsect/daddy long

legs when I dance anyway so it's going to be fun. It's going to be

brilliant. Patrick and Ben are getting good scores as well. Is

there a nice bit of healthy competition between the boys perhaps

now? I'm not just saying it, but I don't see any competition with

anybody, you are in competition with yourself because you can only do as

well as you can and it's not like I say, you have done well, I'm going

to do better, and each week you start again and it doesn't get

easier. It's nice on the leaderboard but to me it means absolutely

nothing. You support each other, I like that. Brucie was going on about

your vest. We were all a bit confused. He kept on picking my

shirt going "your vest" and I felt like saying, Sir Bruce, it's a

shirt. Don't argue with Bruce, he's a Sir!

Will we like your outfit for the jive, have you seen it yet? There is

no sure, the chest is out, you know, we need to stay in this competition

-- there is no shirt. I love the fact you know nothing

about this! She knows. What? ! Good luck this weekend, I'm sure it will

be brilliant. Ashley and Ola. That is it for today. Thanks to all

my guests. I'm back tomorrow at 6 opinions 30 with Rachel and Pasha

and Ben and Kristina, plus the welcome return of some old friends

and Vincent and Flavia and has Lee Lowe join me. Bye!