Episode 19 Strictly - It Takes Two

Hello and welcome to It Takes Two. Tonight we've got all the training

updates for you. And they survived their samba jungle adventure,

Susanna and Kevin are here! CHEERING Saturday's quickstep saw

them top of the leaderboard, Natalie and Artem are in. Their tango was

full of snap, crackle and pop, on mat piia fans. And Vicki is here

with an exclusive look at the costumes we can expect this weekend.

She's gorgeous. This is Strictly It Takes Two.

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

host, Zoe Ball! CHEERING

Hello. Welcome to It Takes Two. It's time to get giddy as we edge ever

closer to another weekend of dancefloor magic. Our celebrities

have been training very hard all week - they are so good. I'm to see

how they've all been getting on. We are dancing the Viennese waltz. I

think I'm going to like the waltz. It is quite an unusual

interpretation of the dance, because often people think of it as romantic

but this is a powerful dance. The whole purpose of this number is who

can be in charge. The hardest thing is rotation. The Viennese round goes

round and round and round. When it comes to stop, Deborah's a little

bit wobbly. She loves music, she loves concept. She loves everything

about this. I have a feeling that on Saturday night this could be her

best dance yet. Good, that's perfect. This week we're back to

ballroom. We have the quickstep. I think quickstep is more difficult

than any dance before. Don't hang your arms. The hardst part of this

routine is frame. Your elbows are hanging like a broken wing. Followed

by timing. One, two, three, four, five, change on five. Which is

pretty much everything. Try to control your beautiful big body. So

you stop on seven and eight. Once he gets going to the tempo of the song

it is really hard for him to stop. It is like a train, once you stop

running I can't stop you. I hope I can do well this week and do myself

and Kristina justice. We are dancing the American smooth, so I have got

to clean up my muddiness and smooth out my rough bits. I want to be...

Ginger Rogers. Exactly. That's not what Ginger would have done. The

American smooth takes a lot of control to slow everything down down

and make it look calm and easy at the same time. You don't have to do

this - grab! Kevin is quite ambitious with his lifts. I can't do

it. You've got to. If we don't do lifts they'll say, well, you didn't

take any chances. There is always the jeopardy of am I going make it?

I hope it is going to come good on the night but it is always a panic

at this point. We'll have more news from the training room throughout

the show. Before that, please welcome Susanna and Kevin!

CHEERING Are you laughing at the lft? It doesn't look like I'm being

lifted but that I'm climbing on to Kevin. Have you got me? Not quite.

Let's talk about the weekend. Superb samba sweethearts. The audience

loved it and Len said he loved the bounce, the bum and the bongos. The

three Bs. How were they for you, Susanna? I loved doing the samba.

There was so much energy in it. We had a lot of fun doing it. It was

ridiculous fun. I was a bit worried when Len said, you should be ashamed

of yourself. I was thinking, oh, my goodness, and when he said the three

Bs, I knew we were OK. The judges loved the energy but did agree you

perhaps could have had better delivery. Was it a challenge, the

samba? Everyone says it is a tricky dance to master, even the pros. Do

you feel there was a lot to deliver this week? There she goes! I might

be shaking but Kevin is giving it a bit more. I said to Susanna, the

samba is notoriously difficult. People try and shy away from the

samba a bit, because there's so many technical things you can get wrong.

I said there is no way we can get everything right technically

together, so we can either play it safe and be boring and try to get it

right or have a blast and throw everything into it. It might be

messy, or muddy as they called it, but at least we'll have fun and not

regret everything, so that's what we went for. And it was such a huge

production. We loved the Indiana jeans caper. When you've got that

much production, the lights, and the acting, you've got to give it your

all haven't you? I loved the opening bit where Kevin came across the

crumbling rocks to save me. It is a heroine, hero fantasy. I've been

saved by the hero. I was trying for the hero and in my head it was like,

I'll save you. I watched it back and it was like, "Well I'll save you."

Here comes little Kevin the schoolboy. Bless you. 29 a brilliant

score. Teacher, are you pleased with your student? I know we always come

on each week and have a good laugh, and I don't often say it. Suss

sunshine, I've never known anyone work so hard. I'm so proud of you,

because she puts everything in. It doesn't come naturally. The first

few days, honestly, are a mess, usually. He gives with one hand and

takes away with the other; smrks She works so hard to get it right. It

will be difficult for you to get a word in edgeways, because she is

always trying to get to know her new chum a little better.

So, Kevin, come and have a seat. Who else do you teach? Who've you

taught? What were you doing at 4. 4.30am? How long does it take you to

pick up the choreography? Whatter you doing at 6? How are you going to

carry on until 3? How tall are you? What would be your opening question

to David Cameron? How are you finding it so far? What were you

doing at 9. 15 this morning? Where have we got to and where are we

going? All the way to the final. CHEERING Don't laugh, you never

know, he might be right. This week you have got the American smooth,

you are dancing to Tony Bennett. What more could you wish for? You've

got snazzy lifts, as in head roll. Are you loving it? Absolutely. Kevin

says very honestly, and it is true, it is always a mess at the beginning

of the week. But we went in today and it felt really lovely. Beautiful

music, a wonderful dancer to dance with, and fantastic moves that

you've choreographed. It feels great. Whether it feels great on

Saturday night... Good luck with that lift where you get his leg

around his neck. It will be beautiful. Give it up for Susanna

and Kevin! APPLAUSE Awesome. Back to the

training room. Time to turn our attention to the first of this

week's Latin dances. This week we are doing a salsa. The

salsa is very difficult. There's a lot of turns. Foot-work, a lot of

hip action. One, two, three... I've got my hips moving but my shoulders

are a mystery. They can't do it. Oh, kind of. Shimmying? Dave is mostly

struggling with remembering what's coming next. Sorry. Don't tell me.

Don't tell me. One, two... OK, tell me. If I can get through this

without putting a foot wrong, we'll have got away with something decent.

Yes! Boom! This week I've dancing with jive. It is like you're

skipping for four hours of training every night. On your toes on your

toes. No, not that one. The challenge of the dance would be

pretty much everything. Like a monkey. You should be good. Your

arms are so long. Footwork, you can't be flat-footed. Your steps are

wrong. I think it is because of all these big moves and I have big legs,

so I find it hard to make everything I do look sharp and precise. It is

quite a full-on routine. I do feel prepared for Saturday? No, not even

a lit bit. No. We are dancing the samba. That kind

of party Carnival, let go of inhinises, complete self expression.

It is very technical. Hard to make it look good. Sorry, I've forgotten

step. Queued is where my head is at, you count in 8s and then 6s and back

to 8s. I'm not yet picking up exactly where I should be in the

dance. It is challenging to do counts and dance at the same time.

It is going to be tough but we are going to do our best. And six and

seven and eight. It is going to be tough. Please

welcome Natalie and Artem! CHEERING I love watching you all

watch your training and getting slightly anxious. Well done fancy

pants, amazing dance on Saturday night. Another brilliant one for

you. And all on medication. Do you remember any of it? Not a lot. It

was glorious. How comp us meant is were you before you went out there?

It it was a tricky week. I think throughout the day was difficult. I

was quite decades. When you get on that dancefloor it is just magic.

Every time. No matter what happens. No, I don't remember an awful lot

but I remember it feeling nice. How proud were you of Natalie, that she

got through that tricky week and got through the pain and gave such a

performance? I was pretty scared. Were you? I was, yes. Oh, no. At the

beginning of the routine we had canes and they didn't work on the

dress run. You dropped yours too, by the way. He was worried about his

own dropping of the cane. There was lots of droppage. Was there never a

point where you thought, let's drop the canes? I did think for a second,

shall we do without the canes? No, let's leave them in, let's not

change anything. We had worked so much with them by that point, it was

all or nothing. It could have gone either way but it would have been

dreadful if I dropped it. Len did say, he would have liked a bit more

hold in the quickstep. Are there rules, stipulations that you have to

be in quickstep for a certain amount of hold? I'm sure there is. But you

ain't read the book? No. He's read it, torn it up and thrown it out.

When wherever you listen to the music, it is kind of like you see

the choreography in your own eyes. Sometimes I wonder, hey, am I going

for the routine that's more entertaining or the rule of the

books and make it exactly what it needs to be? It is a struggle. Which

one are you going to go for? Sometimes you take chance and it

works and other times it doesn't work. I think you took a chance and

it did work. Three nines incredible. We reckon we might have picked up a

little reason why you don't want to be in hold with Natalie all of the

time. Hair. Hair. Did I mention that hair is everywhere?

I do feel bad that I'm subsequentlies Artem to hair abuse.

-- that I'm subjecting Artem to hair abuse. Every time, it becomes a bit

of an issue right now, because there's lots of it. And it is

hitting me in the face frequently. ? It is like a karate move. I feel

like bring scissors and cutting it off. This friendship would be over,

let me tell you. APPLAUSE Somebody please give me

scissors. Tie it into a nice pineapple. Samba next. You've got

the samba next. We have a Strictly fact for you. This man here, Artem,

something has fawn off Artem, has never done samba before. Oh, no.

Does this make you slightly worried, Natalie? Say yes. I think in good

hands. I'm worried for myself rather than him. How is your sexy senorita?

Probably far north of Spain, probably in Lancashire. I'm not sure

it is senorita buts something. You've got Gypsy Kings. Go on Artem.

I've been listening to this for a week. You've got to Latin and

ballroom. Have you got a preference yet for either? Is there one you

prefer the style of? Each week is my favourite dance so far. Every time

we've come to a new one, I was glad to leave the rumba behind, I must

admit. But quickstep I loved. Samba I'm loving this week as well. I'm

not there yet. I'm kind of enjoying each one as it comes. I'm loving his

facial expressions. He is happy with everything you say I think. Good

luck with it on Saturday. Natalie and Artem!

CHEERING Thank you. Back to the training

room. Time to turn our attention to the rest of the weekend's Latin

numbers. This week I am dancing with cha-cha.

-- dancing the cha-cha. It is flirt oughtous and fun and -- flirtatious

and tidy footwork. It is led by the hips. You have got to liberate your

bottom half. It takes the different mind-set this one. You've got to be

extrovert and Sophie isn't an extrovert. I used to look assured

and confident, and I'm doing a cha-cha! I keep doing a really

tentative, nervous, frightened little cha-cha, because I don't know

what I'm up to just yet. We are dancing the salsa. I'm excited. It

is a very quick, energetic and outgoing dance. There'll be lots of

turns and swings and quite tricky on the physical side. Yeah, I feel it

is going to take its toll on the old body. What Patrick is going to find

difficult in salsa I think is to be able to find a fine line between his

inner groove as well as control of the stem cells. -- control of the

steps. It is all about the rhythm between two people. To get through

the whole dance without making a mistake will still be the key for

me. This week we are doing the paso doeb late. It is powerful, it is

strong. I'm trying to remember the steps and my top line is going and

the character and the core are going. Nice. Now without a smile.

Pasha has to remind me sometimes to stop smiling and get back into

character. Especially if I forget the steps, the character goes. One,

two, three - that's better. We need to show we have chemistry together.

Rachel struggles most with engaging her core and bringing her character

into the dance. This is something which is very important and we had

better pull it off on the night. My next guest may no longer have to

apply 20,000 crystals by hand to Julien's outfit each week, but she

is still the busiest woman on Strictly each week. Vicki is here!

Ashley's shirt on Saturday. Brucie wasn't a fan of the shirt, but can

you tell us, why are the promise and the dancer loving this kind of

shirt. Exhibit A, if we bring in Jonathan our model. He's been

wearing that all day, ladies and gentlemen. What is it that the boys

love about these shirts? They are slim fitting the, a leotard. They

like that. It give, it is nice and tight and won't have any shoulder

lines rising. And they get a smooth top line. And they are stretchy. You

have enjoyed wearing that today Jonathan? Thank you very much.

APPLAUSE He hasn't taken it off all day.

Let's talk about Abbey's beautiful foxtrot dress. This is stunning.

That's beautiful. But unusual colours for a foxtrot. Abbey loves

black. A bit of a compromise this week. To keep it nice and light

we've given it a nude base. She gets her wish. She's been a good girl, so

she deserves it. It is quite a delicate dress, simple in design.

And a lot of gaudes. There is a half one in there. The half circle. Lots

of those around the hem to give it lots of volume. All of the linings

are lined with cream to make the hem stand out. I caught her admiring it

earlier and I was trying to try it on. This is Iveta's waltz dress. It

is unusual for us because we cut a 16-panel pattern for this dress. The

machinists probably don't like it, because it is usually eight. More

work for them. Hopefully we'll get an hourglass shape and Iveta will

like it. And the feathers. I love the fact that you are breaking down

the barriers of fashion. What am I talking about? Let's go to the

ironing board. Let's talk about Rachel's paso doble outfit. All the

Spanish themes and so you've got the Spanish colours here. The

traditional colours are black and red. The actual dress will look

quite contemporary on Saturday, because it has strong lines. The

front is pro dominantly black and the back is red, so we'll get lots

of contrast and movement through the skirt. Her legs are coming through

all the nice Spanish lines, which I can't do. She's got a bit of

fringing at the front as well. Ribbons, also of them, with cystals

running through. And it has a purple lining, so a flash of purple as we

go. Kristina is doing a quickstep. What's the thinking behind this one?

It was mainly Kristina asked if she could have a pink dress for this

number. Oh, princess. She loves corset feel and this dress ticked

the box for Kristina. Sketch doesn't do it justice. On Saturday night you

will see the detail through the bodice. She always looks stunning.

Ate-panel, single layer. Nice and light. Last week Natalie core

culottes for her quickstep. There's seven metres at the bottom of a

skirt. When you are doing a dance like that, it is a lot of dress. By

using the cool ots you would break the weight. Four metres instead of

eight. An amazing job. Give it up for Vicki. Hey, Hallowe'en next

week. That will be fun. Time to turn our attention to the last of the

ballroom dances. This week we are dancing the

quickstep. Don't run. It's fast, but I like that. There is no room for

mistakes, though. Don't do extras. There is no space for extras. I

really want to conquer any kind of self doubt. Good. It is difficult,

because just when you conquer one mountain, the rumba, you are having

to conquer another mountain. I am panicking. I'm trying so hard. I

have to nail this. Keep going. Keep going. I just really want to go out

there and dance my socks offer show them that I can do it.

This week we are dancing the waltz. It is a very elegant, grateful

dance, so I'm going to have to work on my footwork, travelling and maybe

not being flat-footed. No, always times go from the heel. My ability

is to show his ability to dance, not act, because we know he can do that.

Iveta has put a lot of steps in there. I want the judges to see what

he is capable of. I think what surprise me about the waltz is how

fast it is. Your body's going one way and your feet the other, so it

is hard to get your balance right. I've been stumbling over a few

times, but I'll get there. This week I'm dancing the foxtrot.

It looks so easy but it's not. It is a notoriously difficult dance for

celebrities. The push through. I mimic everything Aljaz says, but I

say it and don't do it with my feet. Abbey is a perfectionist, so every

step I teach her, she make sure she gets it right. Some of the moves in

this dance I've done previously, like the fallaway and the lungs,

it's so - lung es, it's so nice to have an idea what you're doing.

That's incredible. They are hoping that they'll be hot to foxtrot on

Saturday. Abbey and Aljaz are here. Hello you two. Can I say, tango on

Saturday, it was stunning. And your highest score to date, deservedly,

so because it was so brilliant. Did it feel like your best dance when

you are out there on the floor? I think so. When you have a great song

and you are dancing a dance you enjoy, everything falls into place,

don't you think? Definitely. I loved it. All the judges were unanimous in

their love for it. Bruno particularly was loving your snappy

staccato. He said he almost got whiplash watching you. How much but

have to work noon with Abbey? We did put a lot of hours in, plus we did

an assault course. I know, Private Benjamin. You were amazing. She

really got right in the mud. I trieded to push him in a few times

and he was like, over, no -- like oh, no. Aljaz is a girl! I did hear

that you were so nervous that you were worried that you wouldn't be

able to do it? I couldn't. If you look back I didn't do the step

right. I was supposed to keep my leg out and my (Inaudible) I couldn't do

it. But never mind. Another week we can do that one. From the jive,

you've got a 28, you are back up there in the 30s. Did you feel you

had a bit of something to prove to come back from the jive, not that

was bad or anything. It was still amazing. She did a great job in jive

but we knew there was going to be a ballroom, so we put a lot of effort

into the tango and wanted to make it better and better aingd we

succeeded. You've been dancing for seven weeks now. I can't believe

that. Are you surprised that how quickly you are pick up the steps

now? No! It is a different dance each week, so it is starting from

scratch. There is a few steps that you recognise and the hold in the

ballroom is similar. Definitely. That, in that sense it is easier but

new dances, my leggings are bent from the first two days from tango.

Straighten your legs. Darcey praised you for all your Shane, saying how

good it is. Has the modelling come in handy? No, not at all. It is

Aljaz. He is an amazing teacher and he pushes me into position. And he

looks at you with those eyes and you go, I will do anything you say, Sir.

You have an eye for fashion but you need to have a word with your

partner about what he is wearing in the training room. You need to put

tight leggings on so I can see your legs. It is not fair, because I

can't see if you are bent or you're straight. I think you need to wear

tight pants so I can see your legs. They still don't sell super-slim man

pants. It looks horrible. Why would I wear that? I should wear legging

yes, tomorrow, I promise. I've got a spare pair. It's OK. I don't believe

they will fit me. APPLAUSE You should wear leggings

Aljaz. We've got you a little paper. We thought they would go - try and

wear those for us this week. The foxtrot for you this weekend. Aljaz

this is one of your favourite dance it's. What is it you love so much

about it and is Abbey going to be good at this one? She's going the be

great -- she's going to be great. It is such a fluid davents it is

similar foxtrot, but I love foxtrot and I'm really looking forward to

it. You are a formidable couple. Abby, your job is to make sure that

man wears those trousers. Good luck this weekend. You are so gorgeous. I

can't even look at you you are so handsome, it is ridiculous. Abbey

and Aljaz! That is it for today. Tomorrow at 6. 30 I will be joined

by Fiona and Anton and Anya. Anneka Rice will also be here. Goodnight.