Episode 22 Strictly - It Takes Two

Tonight I'm joined by Jamelia and Tristan.

Plus, right here, right now, we're going to answer

What on Earth was in that top secret briefcase?

Are you sure you really want to know?

A banana. A state to cover a couple of notes and a spot the pen.

What else did you think was in there?

From London, this is Strictly - It Takes Two, this is your host, Zoe

Ball! We've got another surprise expert

in Choreography Corner. And we've got these three answering

your no-holds-barred questions. But, before that,

let's meet our first couple. They've done the double and

survived the dance-off yet again. Hello, and welcome,

Jamelia and Tristan! Feel the love in the room for you

tonight. You've survived the dance-off

for the second time. Have you recovered

from all the drama? Do you know what? For maybe half an

hour after being in the dance off, you are a bubble of devastation.

Then you get over it, especially when you get through. You pick

yourself up, stop moping, I will win again and dance and other week.

Ainslie said it was like being on a fairground, on a roller-coaster.

Last week, your best score, second joint leader, this week, you had a

hard time. Is that hard? Every week is a

different dance and you have to accept that.

I could be great at the charleston but I am doing the foxtrot which is

completely different, the technique, everything about it.

You get marked on your dance as it is. I have seen it happen to others.

Your foxtrot wasn't dreadful at all, a really beautiful foxtrot. Just

those little bits. That's just from me!

You go up against Ainslie in the dance-off, your mate. Did you do it

any differently the second time around?

I absolutely love Ainslie. It was horrible to go up against him, or

anyone. The second time around, you have to

understand, I have the world's best cheerleader beside me at all times.

Man leader! Tristan is literally, I felt like a

doughnut, I am in the dance-off, but Tristan said, you will be fine.

You guys can't hear him that I can. I took on board what the judges were

saying, be positive, a positive mental attitude. Tristan is

brilliant at bringing that out. Tristan can use it with me on a

Monday morning? And say, brilliant if you can do this. How do you keep

this positive attitude? Being a competitor and darts, I

guess you get used to not winning, not that you didn't ever not when!

Thank you! Is it something you have to deal

with as a dancer? Yes, you have to deal with that with

everything. Only one person can win something.

It is unfortunate when you do something you like and it is

dictated by whether you win or lose. You have to be happy with

improvement. You can only affect whether you are

better or worse than the last time. That is how you have to approach

every week and keep a smile on your face. If it doesn't work out as a

dancer for you, you should be a life coach!

Let us talk about the illegal list, breaking the law! What are you like!

Let us have a look. This apparently is an illegal list, here we go.

Feet off the floor. Just to rub it in! In slow motion. And the foot is

on the floor. Was that supposed to happen?

Yes. Can I say something. The first time we did an illegal list was when

Craig mentioned it, that is the first I knew.

Do you know what? That was not a left. A list is something you can't

do on your own. That was not persisted.

What that was, she jumped a little bit, that is grand.

It is one of those songs, a very slow song, I wasn't the biggest fan

of it. I needed something to happen in the middle of it. Step, step, got

carried away. It is only a left... What do you mean? Only a lift if you

can't do it on your own. We understand...

I will put in a list this week and show you the difference.

There were lots of people on social media who loved your performance.

are improving and your positivity and beaming smile makes me smile.

We were all crying with Jamelia here. Thought she did really well!

She is our Irish interest, now Daniel is gone.

but graceful. Repeat after me, Jamelia, you can do it!

This week, what are you doing for Halloween? A jive. What can you tell

me about it? It is going well.

It is fast, very fast. She hasn't cried yet. Halloween is

always a great week, a little bit of dressing up and fun.

A fun jive, looking forward to it. As Bob said, you can do it. Jimmy

Leah and Tristan! Now, we've had some pretty special

group dances on Strictly But, this week,

it promises to be a spooktacular Get it Halloween and that means one

thing, trick or treat. -- it is Halloween.

In this group number, I am playing a very ugly groom. It is a nightmare.

A lot of spooky creeping in this routine.

Then it is amazing, I keep watching the probate, and then we come on. We

are having fun. It is good, nice thoughts are with everybody

altogether. Got to go. Let me tell you, I thought we were

going to have a slow waltz around. They have put on the fastest music I

have ever heard in my life. The others are great.

I don't even know what day it is at the moment.

I am really hoping this dance is a treat.

30 people out there, moving together.

If it is not a cheat, it could be a check, you know what happens then.

This is celebrities and pro dancers all attempting to do choreography

together. At the moment, I would say it is a complete disaster!

Hopefully on the night it will come together. But, who knows? It is

Halloween, anything can happen! It looks utterly brilliant.

I spy with my little eye a flashing jukebox that only plays

short exclusive bursts of music that our couples will be

It must be time for Tunes On Tuesday!

This weekend on Strictly, it's Halloween, so,

what songs will be scaring the heebie-jeebies out of us?

MUSIC: Thriller.

According to the Guinness Book Of World Records, the largest number of

people to ever dance the Thriller routine at the same time is 13,597.

So, which one of our couples will be hoping to

CREW: Ooh!

Yes, it's Jeremy and Karen who will be salsa-ing to that.

This is The Phantom Of The Opera, of course.

This calls for a mysteriously masked man.

Stat fans, did you know that each West End performance of

The Phantom uses 230 costumes, 281 candles and 250kg of dry ice?

But who will be dancing to it on Saturday.

Let's move on to our last song, and this one is

It's I Think I Love You, by The Partridge Family.

Fans of '70s American, music-based TV sitcoms will know

that The Partridge Family was a series starring Shirley Jones

It was about five siblings who embarked on a musical career

together, and they only went on to sell over 25 million records.

So, which one of our lovely couples is dancing to this?

CREW: Ooh!

If you want to find out what music the rest of our couples are dancing

It's all OK now, rest on my shoulder.

Now, Karen Hardy isn't with us this week.

I've heard she's on some ex-Strictly champions retreat.

But, fear not, because we've got a familiar face

She's been part of the Strictly family for the past eight years,

Fine, I'll put you out of your misery.

Yes, making the hot seat even hotter today is pro-dancer,

Firstly, how has your week been since we lost you

It was so sad, he called me on Saturday and said he

Starting salsa,. with Georgia and Giovanni.

They got 31 points, the same as last week.

Craig said her preparation into lifts is poor,

Look at head dancing, straight into the lift, feet are tight and neat.

Not wobbling or anything. I completely disagree with Craig, I

don't know what he was talking about. This to me as an amateur she

did a fantastic job with very difficult lifts. There were go, well

done Georgia. We have to remember they are amateurs. Just learning.

29 points, their second lowest of the series.

Bruno said Peter tends to be clipped, and the rumba has to have

You can shed light on all of that for us. What he meant is that the

hips have to go nonstop from side to side. He is doing the coca Radz here

and he does a bit of hip action but he has to stop. There has to be

continuation from steps to step. The Rumba is a notoriously difficult

dance for mail celebrities. They feel exposed and uncomfortable. It

is only week five, he is trying, down the line I am sure he will be a

lot better. I would like to do a little demonstration. Kristina,

please do! It has to go from side to side. Even if we close off we keep

going, with our hips. That is what Bruno meant. Never stop that. Never

a stillness, always a motion. Keep that going all the time. John the

cameraman is doing it constantly. Keep going.

Their paso scored 33 points, Darcey said Jay had the best arms

I kind of agree with both of them. Look at this position, drops his

arms. Back to a hold. I think it is glass half full, half empty. Len saw

him drop arms. So there is a transition from one to another and

it has to be fought over at all times. Arms should never be dropped.

We expect a lot from Jay. We are a bit harsh. We want perfection from

him, which will come, I'm sure. They dropped 12 points

from last week, getting 21. Darcey said it was messy in places,

and the timing wasn't great. They had an unfortunate couple of

incidents, what did you make of it? I saw the dance in the dress run and

I thought it was fantastic. She forgot to spin into her first left,

made a mistake, and from that point I think she never really recovered.

Because once you do a mistake in the live show, you start doubting

everything, being unsure of everything. That has messed them up,

because the beginning of the dance was really good. She kept her basic

very tight and clean. But like I said once you make a mistake it is

really hard to recover for amateurs. They don't really know how to get

back into the rhythm of the dance. It is really sad. I do think she

feels more comfortable in ballroom dance. This is an unfortunate thing,

she needs to believe in herself and let herself go a little bit more.

And don't give herself such a hard time because it was still a great

dance. And finally,

Kellie and Kevin's jive. It was at a later on this. We are

about to speak to them, 35 points, joint highest of the week that Helen

and Ali Ash will stop Craig said it could have done with a bit more

traction in the leg. What does that mean? I have chosen this bit because

they are so much in sync. It is very hard. But the that clear positions.

I think what he meant was in jazz and Sambu, our body weight slightly

more forward on the balls of the feet. We are slightly lower in the

centre, because the music is very fast. We have to keep our legs

underneath the body. Another demonstration! APPLAUSE

In Rumba and chat chat we stay upright and in Sambu and jive, we

moved to the ball of the feet, so our diaphragm is a bit forward as

well. When we do the kicks, the links go back and kind of retractor

like a yo-yo. So that is what we do, that is what he meant, have to go

back a little bit higher. That was probably missing towards the end of

the dance. Again, such an energetic dance and they did fantastically. To

me, a very good performance and I love the look. I was so jealous of

that hat on Kellie! Will you come back and do more for us, Christina?

Are someone should say that dancing on

telly is not a best way to keep a low profile. It is Kellie and Kevin.

Hello, and welcome, Kellie and Kevin!

Well done, super, smashing a great, that jive was. How tough was it to

learn that and be so brilliant, Kellie? I still have no voice from

Saturday night because of screaming so much! It was a really hard week,

our hardest week, without a doubt. It was just a relentless routine. I

loved it, I really loved it, but it is one of those routines that

because it was so quick, many run-throughs, especially on a

Friday, I didn't do it right once. It is that moment before you go

live, and you think please, please let this one go right, please,

please. So it is just at the end when you see me screaming like a

lunatic, it is because I am so relieved that it is done and I

didn't mess it up! That is the other thing people don't appreciate, the

speed of that, to rehearse that again and again takes it out of you.

The stamina you need. And we are doing all of our rehearsals in the

evening because I am working all day at the moment, so we were rehearsing

from 7pm to about half past ten at night. Doing that at ten o'clock at

night, it is hard, isn't it? I was exhausted as well! Kevin at what

point last week did you think Hang on, she has got it? Did you ever

tell her brilliant or just keep hanging? I do know if there was that

point for most of the week! No, it was a struggle of a week. Maybe

Thursday night? Kellie got this look in her eye on Thursday night and I

can tell when she is really on form, because when we start to practice

she has this look in her eye where she goes like that. I think she is

going to do it. And it went a bit wrong when we practice it on Friday,

then she had that look again on Saturday, and I thought it could go

well today. She smashed it. Shall we take a minute to celebrate finally,

top of the leaderboard! CHEERING Lieu macro who knew?

When you are up, care of, icons, is dancing. You are sharing that with

your lovely friend, Helen out of the top. Did your heart burst with

pride, Len said rewind, you wanted to see it again, Darcey said

extraordinary. They were all lovely, when Len said I would love to see

that again, I thought oh no you wouldn't, I can't do it again! It is

amazing to be joint top of the leaderboard. We never expected that.

I have said it before but I don't feel like I am part of a

competition, just part of a dancing show. So the whole scoring,

leaderboard thing sort of feels like, I don't know, it feels

slightly outside of what we are doing. I am just there to learn this

routine, do to the best we can and whatever happens kind of happens. It

is lovely. Those comments were amazing and overwhelming, but next

week it is a whole new week. That is the great thing in a way, that we

just all start again and we are all on the same... It is exciting. OK,

paso doble, for Halloween, we know that you are the paso doble King,

effectively. I thought he was the jive King! That was until J

McGuinness piped up! Yes, Kevin who? Don't feel the pressure, he does

quite well in this dance. It could be brilliant. I have my toughest

week yet. We have no time this week, like none. Do you want me to go and

fill in in Eastenders. Would you? That would be great. Danny Dyer

would love it. Any costumes, any hints? Two words. Harry Potter!

APPLAUSE We thought you spend a lot of time,

you do get much time to learn your lines stop Kent has been Danny Dyer

in rehearsals. We thought we would love to see a bit of Kevin De Bruyne

Eastenders. And this is a genuine EastEnders

scene just after the Carters first And that leaves me with Shirley who,

at the time, everyone thought was Mick's sister

when in fact she was his mother! You have got the first line. If

anyone says Noel Edmonds, they get a slap. The bar was empty, all of

them, how money people drinking here yesterday, a million? The Moons had

a deal on it, a drink a pound. Now she tells us, weren't you one of

those people? Tina was here and all. What we do now? I will be keen as

well. We are almost out of spirits, comeback with some snacks! You work

in a! Worked! We need it on thick, you can do that for us, right?

LAUGHTER I think that was brilliant! APPLAUSE

We will do that every week. We will leave you to do the East End as from

now on. Good luck with your paso doble. You always brilliant. Good

luck, Kellie and Kevin! I apologise, I'm so sorry. At the weekend, social

media was going into meltdown. So many questions, let's be quick.

Molly wants to know how do you achieve the perfect ballroom hold?

If my hand was a claw I would go like that in his belly to strengthen

his back. Here's over shoulders over hips over the middle of the foot.

Then lift the arms up. And this is what is most important. They have

got to be really strong! Impressive! Look at that! Sometimes you have to

be strong! Beautiful, well demonstrated, I like that! APPLAUSE

Denise asked if you were not pro dancers, what would your job they?

Kevin? Professional rest. I would be Glenda in. Tristan? Fire man. Stop

it! Gail wants to know,

what is the most difficult thing to To teach Kellie, just to walk. Every

time I say just war, four walks she goes yes, like this. Tristan? I

don't really know, it depends on the dance I suppose. Confidence. And Jo,

Lizzie wants to know who inspired you to be a dancer? That would be my

big brother, Kevin. Who inspired you, Kevin? Tristan. Tristan? I am

going to say no one. But this is the truth, I do love Kevin's dancing, I

have always said he is my favourite dancer, and I better say Anton,

because he loses his mind when I don't say him! Kevin Anderson. And

Joanne, my famous -- favourite female dancer.

Let's hear it for Jo, Kevin and Tristan.

A big thank you to all of our guests.

Tune in tomorrow when I'll be joined by Peter

Plus, Ian Waite will be here for his mid-week warm-up.

Coming up next on BBC Two is former Strictly

favourite, Matt Baker, who hosts the World Gymnastics Championships,

where former champion Louis Smith will be competing later this week.