Episode 3 Strictly - It Takes Two

On It Takes Two tonight, there's me, Caroline, with

There's also me, Mark, and my amazing partner, Karen.

Let's not forget me, Scott, with my lovely partner, Joanne from Grimsby.

And finally there's me, The talented and dashing Ian Waite,

Oh, are we on? Right, it's time for It Takes Two.

Hello and welcome live to It Takes Two.

Here are our Class of 2014, and our board has obviously been inspiring.

Susan Drew and Jo from Truro College - hats off to you - look at this!

Well, we've got another show full of Strictly exclusives to fulfill

Kicking us off, they had the daunting task of opening Friday's

It's TV presenter Caroline Flack and her partner, Pasha.

CHEERING Come on! An entrance to Shaggy. Good

to see you. Hi Caroline. Oh my Lord, you were so amazing on Saturday

night, I spat my teeth through my teeth. Welcome to It Takes Two.

After your dance the other night, Len said, always good to start a

show with a bit of champagne. The one thing we do here on It Takes Two

is listen to uncle Len. Can we have a round of applause for this. His

own shorts! Let's sit back and enjoy your performance again. So good.

Love you Weedo. A great debut. Your arms are so expressive. You can

reach and pull and spin and you can drop. My kind of girl. You

definitely are one natural performer and one natural dancer. I've got to

be honest, some of your lines need finishing properly, but I thought

you did a fantastic job. Sparkly, fizzy, sweet Caroline. That was

terrific. 6, 7, 7, 7. And it's over! CHEERING

A minor emergency. This isn't really champagne, it is apple juice and

Caroline is allergic to apple juice. How petrified were you on Friday

night? Just before the music started, the title music, we were

standing behind the stage and everybody was queuing on the stairs,

I couldn't get my words out. Pasha started doing the shimmy, so I

started shimmying. It was quite nice. You were amazing on the floor.

Being a presenter you are probably used to being in control, so was it

strange to go out there and have to let go of all of that and just

dance? Yes, usually my job is to get the best of somebody else and it is

about the other person and suddenly... It was my job. To get

the best out of me. But you did so brilliantly. The judges were talking

about a lack of happen action. On the comments on Twitter people said,

rubbish, you had amazing hip action. Pasha, can you demonstrate what the

hip action is like in a cha-cha? Usually it is quite strong. You go

from side to side. That's nice. They were looking for something like

that, maybe something like that. That will do! Pasha, very good. Are

you alright ladies? Were you at all worried that Caroline would be so

nervous, she had a serious face and she needed a cheeky face for

cha-cha. In rehearsals you can be perfect and you come out there... I

think you managed it quite well. The audience made me smile. As soon as I

got on the floor, weirdly I looked in one place and it was my twin

sister. She sat there and looked at me and smiled and from that moment,

I thought it was brilliant. That's a twin thing. Can't you contact each

other for different counties and stuff like that. You need that every

week. Bruno and Craig said they wanted more hip action, but the

fringe on that dress was incredible. Were you really pleased with her

performance? I was over the Moon with the performance. Like I said,

you never know what's going to happen - it's live. She had never

danced before in front of millions of people, so my biggest fear was,

what if she freezes up and stay there is and does nothing? Nothing?

Your girl didn't let you down. I loved a tweet from you, which I

can't read out on television. Talking about your worries and

concerns with the tango Oh yes. How is it going? It is so hard. I

thought the cha-cha was hard but this makes the cha-cha feels like

the Macarena. I'm quite bouncy in general as a person, always bouncing

up and down, but the tango is like bang, bang, the whole time. I wish I

could count how many times you said that... Good luck this weekend.

Pasha and Caroline! It's time now to take

a weekly sneaky peaky inside the rehearsal rooms of our Strictly

stars as we welcome back Ian Waite CHEERING AND APPLAUSE Chee Yes, it's

the most hotly anticipated return since Cats. Ian Waite is here! Hello

baby. I've got a bit of a sweat on. Look, we've got new tricks. You look

like Johnny from Dirty Dancing. I like that. Let's start with Frankie

and Kevin. A winning waltz from them last week. This week they've got a

Charleston. How is it looking? It looks really good. Last week was

superb. We've got lots of typical Charleston steps, the crossover.

There's lots of acting going on. I wanted to point out the feet and

ankles. You know I like the girls to wear their shoes. It is my pet hate,

if they don't wear their shoes, they can't get used to it. Frankie

sometimes is weak in the ankles. She has to work on those. With the

crossovers, she needs to swivel them and make them stronger. She's a

brilliant dancer. Steve was commanding in his tango last week.

Are we going to see his cheeky side in his cha-cha? I loved him last

week. The cha-cha-cha is light and cheeky. He's a bit ploddy at the

moment. I would like him to straighten his knees so he gets

straight legs and stretches his arms out a bit more. Darcey mentioned

that he sometimes looks like his arms are bent all the time. His guns

are so huge. They are so big. A lot of love for our next couple, Scott

and Joe an. -- Joanne. They are doing the tango this week. What I

love about Scott is he gives it 100%. You could see that last week.

Week. I do like his pout there. Check that face out. He's not

letting it go. He is like Nemo or something. What I want to emphasise

here, I want to go in with the legs. What he needs to do is get down in

the knees, so that in tango you are always low. Sometimes he goes up a

little bit and s get down in the knees, so that in tango you are

always low. Sometimes he goes up a little bit and his legends are true

-- his legs are too straight and he looks widen. He's here, you can tell

him in person. I will. Trent Trent, some people reckon is your little

brother. He looks like me. Maybe he is my long lost son. I'm old enough.

They are doing the waltz. How are they looking? You can see Trent

smiling his head off. He looks like the cat that's got the cream. She is

fantastic. She's got great arms. She's going to be really good. What

I do want her to do is I would like her to create a little bit... Hold

on a second. The wand is back! I want her to create that vas section

shape, and her head is going to ack! I want her to create that vas

section shape, and her head is going to be the flower -- create that vase

shape. From me it's an 8. Gregg and Aliona. He had a sticky start but

this week he's doing a Charleston and he's very good at it, I hear.

I'm pleasantly surprised. He is nowhere near as bad as we thought he

would be. He's up on the balls of his feet, swivelling his feet,

pointing his toes. And he's in time. I think he's doing a really good job

here. It could be a shock to a lot of people. Sunetra and Brendan had

ballroom last week. This week she is doing Latin. Is she a natural? Not

yet. To be fair, this is their first day's training. She's got to start

straightening those legs. We'll stop it here and I will highlight it.

This area here, she's got turned-in feet. If you are stepping across

into a checking action, turn your foot out. First day, so she is

mapping it throug Caroline and Pasha, her tango there. She was

flawless last week. How good is this tango? I nicknamed her Caroli Thwack

because she was whacking that cha-cha-cha out. The tango is great

for her. The only thing I would say is posture. She's in the wrong place

there. If I can demonstrate with you. Feel free. I want her to point

that foot, keep your knees bent and lift that hip up. That gets the girl

over to that side, so I have a clear way. You can see over my shoulder. I

see what you mean. So she isn't straight in front of him. Can I turn

around again? Thanks Ian. You'll be back a little

later on. Next up,

the judges unanimously agreed his performance was "entertaining" on

Friday - which is the main thing. It's our resident DJ, the brilliant

Scott Mills and his partner, Joanne. Hiya. Welcome. How are you Clifton?

I'm excited to see you here. I saw you here once when you were six and

you came to visit Kevin and now you are all grown up. Let's remind

ourselves of your cha-cha. It's the sort of dance that would be better

on the radio I think. Your footwork was poor. Not a lot of hip action. A

Zimmer frame, darling, has more movement than I saw there. The vibe

was there. The robotic, the newer ot, I the euphoric... What I was

really impressed with was you attacked it and you came out and

sold it. 2, 4, 5, 5. I thought you were brilliant. I'm so pleased.

CHEERING How relieved were you that it was

done that first one? I know how nervous you were? Obviously the

second show was on Saturday and I saw people like Mark going through

it and I was like, I know exactly how you feel. On Saturday all I had

to do was walk down some steps and laugh. It felt like I was on

holiday. At least I got it over with on Friday. This Saturday you have to

wait for 15 couples. Craig said, naughty Craig, a Zimmer frame had

more movement. When you have worked really hard, does it hurt when you

hear that? I was a bit upset but you can't let that affect you. Now the

process is really rapid and you've got four days to learn something

new. We've attacked it. New week, new dance. Hello Joanne from.

Grimsby's other finest export. I'm so excited about you being on the

show. You two really wanted to partner up didn't you? We really.

Let 's get to know you a little bit better, Joanne. My name is Joanne

Clifton and I'm the current world ballroom show dance shun and I'm

Kevin's list sister. Dancing runs through my family. I've taught loads

of beginners before and I always get the best out of them. A new

professional won last year, so there's no reason why I can't do the

same this year. She is like a proper champ. How has your experience been

so far and how is your big Brother treating you? I've been loving it. I

said to my mum being on Strictly with my family Kevin and Karen, I'm

having the best time. And you have a new adopted brother. Yes, a Big

Brother. What did you think of Scott's performance? That was the

best he has done the cha-cha, he was either doing the steps right or with

a face like that or doing it like that but doing the steps all wrong

but he got it all right. Good for the first time. Not bad first time

out. It's all about the journey. You will get better. You have a message

from Robbie Williams. Has he seen the dance and giving you a critique?

He's on tour in Australia which is why in the VT he did there is lots

of shoes and clothes behind him because he's doing his swing tour in

Perth. I know he would have seen this. Hi, Robbie, if you are

watching. I know you have lots of fun in the training room because our

spies have been watching you will stop in fact, so much fun it's

ridiculous. LAUGHTER

I'm having a lot of fun and Joanne is brilliant because we laugh all

the time and we get on really well. LAUGHTER

I'm finding it quite hard so sometimes the latter kind of breaks

up the panic that I'm feeling. LAUGHTER

U2 are so cute together. We have seen a little bit of your tango

practice. You were saying keep down on your knees. That's a really good

tip because the last thing Joe said to me was after practising today and

now we need to do it lower. We are doing that all day tomorrow. Good

luck tomorrow. Good luck this weekend. Scott and Joanne!

APPLAUSE Now, over here, because it's time to

get my wand out, I get a wand out, we don't call it a wand, we call it

a giant crayon. Let's have a look at the next bunch and what they are

doing this week. I loved Judy's waltz and I think she loved it more

than anyone else. How is she taking to the cha-cha-cha? Like a duck to

water? I wouldn't say like a duck to water, it's a challenge to her but

Anton has been clever with the usage of props. She has a lovely towel

that she will use as a prop. Are we using a towel on the show? Last week

when watching the show my note about Judy was hands, hands, Hants. For

me, look at her hand there, it looks like she's going to play tennis with

it. -- hands. It looks like she was going to hit eight tennis ball with

her arms splayed. You have to keep your palms down to the floor and

back from down and that finger down like this. Nice hands. That's what

you want. Onto our power couple, Simon and Kristina. They are doing a

tango this week and I think it will be good. Stonking jive last week. I

love that word. He's doing absolutely brilliantly and he's

doing some lovely heel leads will stop the only thing I'd say about

Simon, as he closes, did you see that? He went up, he stays down and

then as he closes he goes up, bobbing up, so he wants to go slow,

quick, stay, down. Have you got that, Scott? Stay down, Scott, at

all times. Mark and Karen are doing and American smooth. Everybody loves

the smooth dance and Mark is a bit of an Essex smoothie. He reminds me

of Nick Berry, that little twinkle in his eyes. He's embraced this

ballroom which is nice to see. I thought he was under marked last

week, he was much better than the judges gave him. What I love about

Mark is this face he has, he had the best face last week, the best

smiles. Out of all of the boys he was smiling the most all the way

through. He looked like he enjoyed it all the way through. Let's give

him one of those. Alison and Ali Ash are doing a foxtrot. This hold

looked promising. She is lovely, releasing her toes, she has

obviously been working on her head because you can see she has her chin

up in the air and shaping lovely. What I see here is as you can see

there is lots of gaps going on. You could get a double-decker bus

through there. Not good? She looks like she is in a different county to

him. This is early days. It is early days and obviously she will work on

that and once she has the steps. It is difficult to say. How did you not

get that close to -- could you not get that close to Aljaz? What is he

wearing here? It looks like he's about to swim the channel covered in

goose fat. I really enjoyed his dance last week. There is loads of

content in this. Obviously Natalie has been giving him lots of content.

She could have easily not done that but she has done that, so good on

her. What I'd like to do is highlight this. Look at you with

your new tools. In the top half he is tending to hunch so he needs to

get his shoulders back, open the chest and chin up. And then he will

be all right. Then he will be a bargain. I don't know why! Look at

you and your Flash tools. I hope he's wearing the gangster green

beanie. Jennifer and Tristan are doing the waltz. How is Jennifer

doing? On the first watch through I thought they were dancing the paso

doble because it looks like they are doing the walks of a paso doble, but

apparently it is a waltzed. So I don't know. This is their first

stage. They are just walking through it. I would like to see lovely

closes of the waltz, the characteristics of it so I'd love to

see that. Thom and a better, lucky, always classy, she's incredible. All

I can say is hot, hot, hot, awesome. He's already looking very

loose and he's got the right character for it. But did you see

that, he just missed it but he changes on the spins, he changes his

hands which is difficult to do at this stage at this level. He starts

with his right and then onto his left and then onto his right again

which quite amazing. From the, I think this couple will get eight

from Ian Waite. Jake and Jeanette, his tango was magnificent, his salsa

is looking equally good. They are looking fantastic. There is lots of

sharp, slick salsa moves. What I'd like them to do is have a little bit

more rhythm in the body. Do you want to demonstrate that? I'm not sure if

I can but what am I doing? to demonstrate that? I'm not sure if

and back, one, two, three, one, two, three but I want your

and back, one, two, three, one, two, smooth, smooth in the body. That's

too sharp. You carry on behind me. Isn't he good. Ian Waite, I love

that man. We all have to disagree -

it looked all Wright to me. It's Essex boy Mark Wright

and his partner Karen! I say! What an entrance! I like

that. How are you doing? I'm doing all right and all the better for

seeing the two of you. Lovely to see you hot lips. Shall we remind

ourselves of your performance. I like what you've got. You have huts

bar. I didn't think you were such a confident performer. It was stilted,

your hands were flat. You have to calm down, keep on time and take out

the Free Willy. You definitely have a future in this competition and

will go far. Five. Seven. Six. Not bad. But it was tough. It is so

tough. I really felt for you. Can I say we have taken a poll on the

streets of London and everybody loved your Free Willy. It was

amazing. We are hoping you perhaps have more tricks up your sleeve,

Mark. I'm not a great dancer in the club, I'm quite shy, have been one

step, to step and the Free Willy. I will go for something subtle. I know

that you think he can do this and he can do that, but you were emotional

after going up to talk to Claude after all of that waiting and you

looked like you might have a little cry and probably needed a cuddle. Do

you wear your heart on your sleeve? I do wear my heart on my sleeve

because I found it tough. Like everyone else it's been a big

challenge for me and before the nerves were so intense and I thought

I wasn't going to get through it and as soon as I got through it they

showed a little shot on the screen and I was like I did it and she was

nervous for me as well and the so thing -- the whole thing was so

intense but I didn't cry. You can cry on television as a man, people

will love you more for it. The judges thought towards the end Mark

got overexcited. How was it for you? He was freaked out before we walked

out, which calmed me down but when I saw his face light up and he was

just smiling and get going it got me going, and I thought I don't care if

your timing is off I don't care! His little smile was making me blush and

I loved it. I thought he did fantastic and I'm proud of him

because this toy is working so hard. I'm really proud of that

performance. I'm getting emotional now and it's only Wednesday. What

did nanny Pat think? Did she make you a celebratory present? They are

pinching themselves and I'm pinching myself, as long as I stay in the

competition they are happy. What did your friends from Essex think about

you dancing on the television in a vest? What you can imagine. They

ripped me a little bit. Maybe more glitter on it and sequins. That's

what happens and steadily and steadily you will be completely

blinged. Do you think yourself as quite laid-back? I suppose so but

when I come to this kind of dancing stuff and hear the music in front of

an audience I got myself so excited. At first I thought I didn't want to

do this but as soon as I heard the first clap I was like, yeah, you

want some. We saw you getting frustrated in the training room. He

gets cranky and start shouting and stomping around. There is so much to

think about and my bum cheeks are so sore. I want to say it's really fun

but at the moment it's not really fun. And I'm hurting everywhere

already. Shut up! Nice and easy. It's not nice and easy! This is

hard. I want to go home... APPLAUSE

Amazing. I'm such a whinger. You are not a whinger at all. Tel is one

thing about your American smooth. I have to relax and it has to be

romantic and beautiful. Heal, toe, toe. I think you will stay in the

competition a long time. Tomorrow we will have Gregg Wallace,

muscle-bound wild man Steve Backshall,

Mrs Brown's Boys's Jennifer Gibney and all

MUSIC: One by Johnny Cash