Episode 7 Strictly - It Takes Two

. Welcome to Tuesday's It Takes Two. What a line-up tonight. It was

almost time for him to go, go, go. Julienne is here with his partner

Janette. We love Rachel and Pasha.

They are here too. They got a standing ovation with their dance,

it's Mark. And the rises and falls will be

talked about with Karen Hardy. From London, this is strictly: It

Takes Two. Please welcome your host, Zoe Ball.

Hello, welcome to It Takes Two. With the weekend over, the celebrities

are already back training hard. For one couple, there are signs of

relief after the events of Sunday night. Julienne and Janette survived

the dreaded dance-off with their tango. Here is a reminder of what

happened. The feet were the wrong place at the

wrong time. I didn't know if I was watching a tango or a paso. The

posture, I'm afraid, is ghastly. Not your best, darling. Better than

last week? No. We did, we did it!

I'm very proud and more than anything, you went out there and you

were strong and involved and that's what I wanted.

Yeah... You will find out which of you will be back to dance again next

week. I would like to see julienne and

Janette. Julienne and Janette Julienne and Janette.

So Sunday saw them almost tango but they live to dance another day,

julienne and Janette are here! Tremendous tango efforts on Saturday

night and your jutt fits were outstanding. Awesome. Were you a bit

gutted to be in the last two -- outfits

Nothing can Brett pair you for being in the bottom two. I was shocked, I

was like, oh, all of a sudden this is the reality of the show --

nothing can prepare you for being in the bottom two. You have to pull

yourself over and do it again. How did you think he did? I was um

pressed. He went out and danced again and he said, whatever happens

happens, I enjoyed myself and it was fun. Must feel good though when all

the judges say that they would have saved you. That must give you

encouragement? That is great. At the end of the day, I'm learning how to

dance, I'm not the best and every week I want to get better and to

prove to people and the judges that week I want to get better and to

I'm learning and getting better with the dance.

We should talk about the fact that last week you put in the same amount

of hours, you were top of the hours of training, you and Natalie put in

what, I think 33.5 hours, that's a lot of hours. You have another job

to do as well. Do you think it paid off? No!

Considering the hours we danced, I should be top of the leaderboard,

I'm almost at the bottom. It's so slow, it takes me so long to learn

the moves, it's like trying to get my brain and head jinxed together.

Janette watches for hours going, move your foot! Some people are

naturally much better dancers immediately, aren't they.

He has time figuring out his left from right, shoulders from elbow.

He's like, it was not that finger, but the other one.

Also quite a dramatic weekend for you, Janette.

Artem whacked you in the nose. My lovely professional partner. That

must have really hurt? It did. If you freeze it, you can see the blood

on Artem's chest and on the floor. Fans of the show will be checking

that out now. Julienne, you are used to being in the public eye, but not

performing. Are you shocked at how tough the whole thing is? I find it

really difficult. When you're there, on the set,

hundreds of thousands of people are there watching, you come in as this

character, the scary and daunting and it's something totally new to

me. There's that thing that you have to

act butch, be strong with tango and I'm like, it's not me at all but

I'll try. You are doing a lot of steps in there and the steps were

really, really good. How is this his concentration and

focus? Much bet they are week, I have to admit. I was impressed. He

picked up the steps better. The first week was done so he was like,

right. I definitely saw massive improvement

in everywhere, his dancing and ability to pick things up. It was

much better. Just listen to Janette. This week, t

love week. You were doing a romantic dance of the jive. So romantic. We

have made you something very special dance of the jive. So romantic. We

when you get sweaty with the jive. It's your very own sweatband. 25,000

crystals on that! You see, you jive-tastic julienne, you. Julienne

and Janette, everybody! APPLAUSE

15 couples danced on Saturday. There's plenty ofder youing radio

fill to talk about and we have Karen Hardy with us -- plenty of

choreography. Welcome, Karen!

APPLAUSE You look gorgeous, as always. Dance

marathon session on Saturday, great show, let's start with Vanessa and

James and their waltz. Incredibly emotional that moved the judges.

Seems mean to pick on the finer details. Why didn't she get higher

points? We have got to pick on the finer details to help her because if

we take this section I've got here, it's the beginning of the dance and

we can see the emotion. She's been told to control herself and I love

that. But if she's not learning the discipline, the basics, we need the

swing, we need movement in this dance. Even though she's doing the

basics here which were lovely, they weren't strong, they are not going

basics here which were lovely, they to help her in the long run. We want

her to stay in the show. So I need her to get driving to the basics,

don't worry about the emotion, she will get that. That's easy. She's

got to learn to dance. Susannah and Kevin, they got lots of

plenty nice comments. But comments about Susannah's frame? That frame

comes in early, so think like a picture frame, four corners, we need

two Elle lows and two knees, that's the formation and the foundation of

the frame, then you just think about moving your centre. Don't think

about moving the top. If we have a look what Susanna Reid was doing

here, it begins, even on the twisting actions, the arm also get

carried away. It's really flood and moving. Each kick, the frame is

moving that. Should be locked in and should only be the legs moving.

From the legs and not up here. Should. Disturbing the frame at all.

OK. Sophie and Brendan.

This lady is the Queen of cool. Unruffled in any way. Look at her.

But she delivers the most impeccable timings. She's keeping up with

Brendan and together they are the most incredible team. This is my

favourite part, the knees, the feet flicking, everything aculate timing.

First class. Brendan's incredible choreography, he said he didn't want

a typical charleston. What did he do that was different? A lot of the

lift work. There is the flipping backwards and forwards, but do you

know what, I think it's our first professional going for a double

crown. How exciting.

The judges enjoyed Deborah's performance, but Craig thought her

New Yorkers were a bit different. They were a bit stompy. It's a step

that we've got to nail. The feet are facing the wrong way.

I'll do a demonstration. It needs facing the wrong way.

change direction. Stops where we are going and moves us back again.

Simple, step in, turn the foot out, lock the knee in and it releases us.

We don't want to see a bent knee or a turned in knee. There we go.

Simple as that! Simple. Before feck. Fiona and Anton in the

cha-cha-cha -- perfect. Darcey loved the triple into the flank. Explain

what that means? -- Plank. We'll get straight into it with the

demonstration. She's doing a lot of work. There's twists, changes. He's

putting the arms in, getting the emotion and the drop. We are going

to get a turn, another drop and into the plank. That takes a lot of work.

Normally, we'd see the professionals picking up and Anton made it look

like she was a feather, so that shows me again, seeked week running,

she's doing a lot of work herself. I'm secretly impressed. Don't tell

anyone! Natalie in her waltz. Craig admired

her head rolls. Were you impressed? Absolutely. Lock the frame in, work

from your centre. The head, they say, is the third of our body

weight. You get the head positioning wrong and everything will fall after

it. This gorgeous young lady, as we are going to see, she doesn't just

gently turn the head, she throws it into double action. There is the

gentle movement and here it comes, whoosh, and it speeds up. She could

have fallen away from Artem, she could have pulled him over, made him

run the steps wrong. Flawless. Week two!

I know. Seriously impressive. The cha-cha-cha, again praises for

these two. Brendan said she threw her free hand away? We still have a

frame. One thing I teach my students is, if in does, stick 'em out. Stick

the arms out. In ballroom, we can easily see the frame in. Latin, we

need to see it as well. If the elbows are moving, it disrupts the

picture, so quite simply, if in doubt, stick those arms right out.

OK, if in doubt. So if I keep doing that, you will know that I'm... At

the moment, she doesn't want them floppy and flimsy. Rachel and Pasha

and the salsa. Darcey said she thought it was wishy-washy? It needs

sex appeal. She's gone into the step where Pasha's going to grab her by

the arm, whoosh, we are in a nightclub in Cuba and then, she

comes up all gooey eye and completely lost. She needs sex

appeal, angle and the womanly instinct. I've talked about this and

will talk about it again in the future, bang the angles in, a few

elbows and attitude and she'll look amazing. Believe in herself a bit?

Yes. Must be hard to concentrate when you dance with Pasha.

Talk about the boys later on. After a strong start with last

week's waltz, it was a case of lots of sugar but not enough spice, as

Rachel and Pasha tackled the salsa. Here is what happened. You have to

come out and wow us a bit more. There is lot of sugar but not a lot

of spice. Worst thing is your balance. You look like you are going

to drop on the floor every five seconds. It gives me a hard attack.

I thought the lift was messy. It was at times very, very awkward. I had

fun! Good girl! Lots of sugar and not enough spice.

Some people don't like spice. I loved it, it was completely fun.

Give it up for Rachel and Pasha. How was it for you, salsa lady on

Saturday night? Have you watched it back? What did you think? Well, I

did struggle with the salsa, I'm not going to lie, but I had fun, I did

enjoy it. That's what we set out to do and that's what I did. You could

tell you were enjoying it out there, 27 week one and then down to 20. Is

that didisappointing or are you going to worry about it? We had

longer for the first one. I wanted to do the waltz. I really enjoyed

the ballroom and Latin doesn't come to do the waltz. I really enjoyed

naturally, it's not in my body yet. Need a few more weeks.

Pash, sometimes Rachel can be quick to dismiss herself, but how

difficult was it for you to coax the sexy girl out of her? It was

definitely a process. She feels more comfortable with walls and it's nice

and smooth and in salsa suddenly she has to confront me and I want her

toe do that and get out of that shell and be wild in a way.

Be poptively wanton really isn't it? That's a way of putting it! Fur not

naturally like that, the hard -- positively wanton.

Craig made comments about the slug, the insult. Very mean. Stuart

watching said news for Craig: Sorted a few slugs in my time and they

never looked as good as Rachel, take that! Any consolation? Brilliant,

yes. Didn't take it literally, but that's

good to know. Pasha would not give up on trying to

coax the sexy woman out of you. He gave you a shimmy master class even.

Lovely! Bring your shoulders up to your ears

and push them back and down. Forward and up to your ears, back and down.

The goal is to go as high as you can with your shoulder towards your ear.

One, two, higher, come on. Now you are going to push one of the

shoulders forward towards the mirror, keep your arms out of it.

Weapon I say forward, it means one shoulder goes forward, the other, in

order to show the difference, needs to go back, because otherwise you

won't see the difference. Less arms.

Surely that's sexy salsa. Yeah. OK. LAUGHTER

He's shaking his head. It just ended up, shimmy, shimmy,

shimmy. All of that and like that. Out of the frying pan, into the

fire, possibly. Because you've got double Latin. Yes. They've given you

what this week? Cha-cha-cha. How is it going so far? Going very well

actually. Rachel came prepared. She got some chocolate, dark chocolate

with some chilli peppers the bring some spice into the system. So we

are working on it. I like it.

Len wants more wow, more welly and now he wants more wow again. What

are you going to do to give him some wow this week? You are going to give

him wow? Yes. I'm just going to listen to this one. What are we

going to do? ! Straight legs. He doesn't seem to know. You are busy

with training. You have the Gadget Show and Countdown. How is it

squeezing into your day? I'm busy at the moment, no such thing as days

off, shame sleep is getting in the way of training. She would train all

day long. Sometimes I'm there in body but not spirit so I have 7. 30

call times in work up at Birmingham, then finish at 7, straight to

training. Keep going no, it's paying off. Good luck with the cha-cha-cha

and the wowing of Len. Thank you. Spectacular! Rachel and Pasha.

APPLAUSE Oh, Karen's gone over the girls,

time to break down the boys, with round two of Choreography Corner.

Karen's back. Let's get straight down to it. Dave

and car none their American smooth. Judges appreciate the fun factor.

You can't not love him when he's on the dance floor, Dave. But they

weren't impressed. What do you think? This man's got to become the

master of movement. We got a beautiful shadow position where he

should be driving across the dance beautiful shadow position where he

floor and he's hardly moving at all. I love the comedy, but we've got to

get him dancing in these early weeks.

Darcey wasn't keen on the lift off the chair? Yes, if you look, the

lift was OK, it wasn't too bad. But it's now, he's like carrying a sack

of spuds, he's not even dancing. If you've got Grace Kelly up there, you

should be waltzing across the dance floor showing her off. He's got to

should be waltzing across the dance master how to move. We know he's got

showmanship. OK. Patrick and Anya and their

tango. The judges liked it but Len said could have been a bit more

compact? Yes, a couple of things. I was confused because I think his

frame is lovely and compact, as we can see here. I think his head was

flicking really quite strong. What I picked up on, a little technique

there, there, again he's not mastering the technical steps, a

chassay. They are in so many dances. Three steps, one, two, three, one,

two, three, that's it. He'll do one and then a little mess, then the

timing's are gone. I disagreed with the judges there,

great top line, going wrong downstairs. Ben back to the - again

back to the basics. Ashley and Ola with their smooth, were you

impressed? Blown away. This gentleman last week

I thought was stiff and I was very uncomfortable. Then we see this.

Now, I'm sorry to pick this out because there are a few little

mistakes, but I looked straight over it because of his elegance and

drive. The best thing of all, talked about the frame with the girls, he's

going from frame into open. Back into frame. Back into open. And he

nailed it. Slightly news to adjust his head position, he's crowning a

bit, but absolutely loved thatlet dance. Well done Ashley. Ben and

Kristina. Craig commented that his rugby bottom was protruding, was

that a problem? Did you note theys? He's getting the fundamentals in.

He's got a lovely top line, setting the frame in, we can work on the

movement a bit more: . What he's got to do is drive his dancing straight

the way through and not be afraid, as though he's going into a rack,

you know, full guns. Confidence, I guess, that will build? Absolutely.

Leave us with an ISM for this week? If in doubt, stick 'em out. Don't be

so cheeky. Until next week, Karen Hardy!

I'll be chatting to Mark and Iveta about their dance in a moment.

Heavily endo you knowsed with character.

It didn't resemble a salsa but we take charge and it's a fab

performance. Through the darkest clouds, a ray of

sunshine appears. You are a joy to watch. Loved it.

I thought we were dog salsa, little steps. I thought so too. Dance is an

expression of music through your body, so we did express it the way

we felt it. You tell 'em Iveta, yes. Mark and Iveta are here!

I have to say, you were a triumph, Mark and Iveta are here!

the two of you, on Saturday. The audience went crazy, as they did

across the nation. Len and Bruno danced. Were you having as much full

as it looked like you were having -- fun? Yes, it was brilliant. It's one

of those things, we got the Austin Powers mixed with salsa thing. We

had a ball, didn't we? You looked like you were. Through all the

craziness, your face all the way through was like, I'm taking it

craziness, your face all the way seriously,s brilliant. You got a

standing ovation, then you got a lower mark than last week. Were you

might haved by that, was it frustrating? I'll ignore that and

listen to the comments, the comments are great, then scores sometimes

don't tally, but that's the programme, isn't it? Yes. Listen to

the good remarks and move on? Absolutely. Iveta, Darcey and Bruno

wanted more salsa. What do you say Absolutely. Iveta, Darcey and Bruno

to that? Was there enough in there? The song is a bit more upbeat. It's

pretty fast so it was difficult to add more hip actions and get down,

so... It was fast all right. It was really fast. I did hear that in

rehearsals last week you were having trouble getting to the end of it

because it was so tough? Yes, I don't know if it was suitable for

salsa, was it. Slightly spicier. We did use the

figures from salsa. We added some other things to have more fun.

That's why they were standing on their feet. They adored it.

Story-telling is becoming a bit of a signature with Mark's dancing. You

want to prove he can do the dance as well because you are technically

very good. Do you think there is a concern the performance might take

over and the judges might not see the technical side too. Is that the

danger? It's good Mark has something special about him and he should use

it because that's his strength but I'm focussing more on dancing and I

it because that's his strength but do want to show how good he is as a

dancer. So dancing is a priority. Iveta said first off, let's have

some fun, tell a story but make sure the steps you do are good steps. You

always have been concerned about making sure that we dance properly.

And you are. Thank you. Keep it up. We like it. Speaking of Iveta, we

And you are. Thank you. Keep it up. haven't been able to help but notice

in the training footage that it seems your own performance might be

slightly distracting. Look at this! Introducing Iveta's new album,

featuring songs such as... # I'm so excited

# Good, so bad, I got you # Since you took your love away

# When I was young # I never needed anyone

#... # Remastered for your listening

pleasure. It's worked, I'm ready. The album does not exist and is not

available to buy anywhere ever fact! We want more of that!

This week let's talk about romance. It's the week of love and you guys

have a great dance. He's gone!

LAUGHTER We may need backup. You have

American smooth which is a joy. How is it going? Pull yourselves

together! Yes, it's completely different to

salsa, it's back into hold and control and much slower, so it has

different problems but we are going to go for it, aren't we? She can't

actually speak. Can we have a song, please?

You have given Mark some tricky choreography and he's carried it off

brilliantly. I'm sure you are not going to let up on him? Yes, every

Monday I hear the same thing, this is so much harder than the dance

before. But he does that every single Monday, so we think, that's

fine then, tomorrow will be OK. He's like an emthat cup in dancing and I

keep pouring and it goes into his body on Tuesday.

It will do by Saturday. You are a wonder together. Brilliant. Can't

wait to see your American smooth on Saturday. That is it for today. Big

thank you to all my guests. Tomorrow, Sophie and Brendan,

Vanessa and James and car enand Dave will be here.

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