Episode 27 Strictly - It Takes Two

Tonight, I'll reveal some of the tunes our couples will be dancing to

this weekend. Let's make sure the Duke box is working. Peter Andre's

Mysterious Girl. I don't remember that being on the list. Let me try

again. One sec. Insane ya by Peter Andre. Don't remember that being

mentioned. They must have made some last minute replacements. How odd!

From London, this is Strictly It Takes Two. Please welcome your host,

Zoe Ball. CHEERING AND

APPLAUSE Hello. Welcome to It Takes Two two. Tunes on Tuesday, ask the

pros and our couples coming your way. We have a packed show tonight.

They escaped elimination by knocking the glitterball out of the park

during their dance-off. It's Jamelia and Tristan.

CHEERING. Welcome Jamelia and Tristan. Pretty

in ping. You poor darlings, you're true survivors. Third time in the

dance-off. First, your jive was superenergetic. Great fun. You

looked so brilliant. Loved your trousers, Tristan. How much fun did

you have performing this cheeky number? I really enjoyed it. Things

felt very different this week. It just felt about enjoyment and

enjoying the moment. Why are you looking at me like that? I was

looking at the screen. Tristan, how hard was it to choreograph a routine

to a song that has a dance attached to if it? I was very aware it was

one done on the show before as well. I tried to make it as different as

possible to the film. But then to the one Brendan and Michelle done

before as well. It was quite difficult. But you have to take

yourself out of that and just put a dance together for us. You fight

your own fight, as they say. Yes, I like that. I'll remember that.

Bottom two three times. Are you laughing about it? Devastated? We're

the best at being the worst! Do you want that on a medal. Yes,

officially the best at being the worst. It's becoming funny now. The

two of us, when the light went red, the two of us burst out laughing.

Again! Not in a bad way, though. We have to prepare ourselves for it.

It's funny to us. Not funny that we don't think we should be there. It

is like, here we go again. Let's do another one. It's because everyone

loves seeing your dancing so many times. You Are Not Alone... Stop! If

we look back through the Strictly history books you will see this has

happened to people before. Lisa Snowdon and Brendan Cole, in series

six, three times they were in the bottom two. Dance-off. What happened

to them? They got to the final. Did they? Yes. Mark and Iveta... What

that her name? They were in series 11. They got to week 10, bottom

three. Dance-off three times. Simon Webbe and Christina Rihanoff, bottom

three in the dance-off. Three times. Got to the final. Just remember

that. Come on week eight! Yeah, come on. How do you prepare when you have

to do the dance-off again? Can you make minor adjustments or go out and

give it some welly? I think it is a great opportunity to take on board

the comments that the judges have made immediately. I heard what you

said and I'll do it. A point they were Mensing my feet and my kicks. I

looked straight at them, I'm doing the kicks! Len Goodman, look what

I'm doing. They talked about sickle foot. They've talked about dancers

whose feet go in a little bit. Is there anything you can do? Chop 'em

off! That seems harsh! Sickle feet. It does happen to a lot of people.

Sick of the foot, that's what it is. It is French. Malade of foot. Sick

feet. The front of your feet are turned in, a bit dodgy. Is it the

same as being pigeon-towed? Essentially. Is it easier to turn

them out if you're naturally like that? It's different for different

people. You put your heels together and hips out. Open those hips up. I

don't... Was I really? Put your legs on back to front! I don't think I've

naturally feet going like that. Maybe I have. Lime' looking at my

feet now! It's getting used to those shoes. You're up higher than you're

usually are. They are not comfortable, those shoes. I hate

them. Something we did notice, Jamil a ya, you said, gave us an idea. How

much does he make you feel better? He's like a cheerleader by my side

all the time. We thought, Tristan, you deserved a little present. Feel

free to take to the floor and give us a little routine. What do you

want me to do? Suitable music! # Hey, Mickey, you're so fine...

# And here's a fireman's outfit... No, I'm only joking. Tristan, you

are amazing. Thanks for being such a good sport. This week, it is the

Viennese waltz. The things we do to people. This week for you, is this a

dance you're thinking, I'm going to enjoy this one? Again, it's a great

opportunity for me to sink my teeth into a ballroom number. I haven't

been very positive or confident about ballroom. I think now I have

the opportunity to get it right. I'm going to work hard and do a really

good ballroom number. We love you Jamelia. It is tough to do dance-off

three times. There is a lot of love for you and you, you're all right,

Tristan. Jamelia and Tristan. Karen Hardy's residency in one of

Benidorm's finest hotels is nearly at an end. We made that bit up. But,

as they say here, the show must go on. Sharing her expertise with us

today, Joanne Clifton. Welcome back. Thank you. You were so brilliant

last week. Come can back for a second helping. What did you make of

the Halloween show? The dances, costumes and hair and make-up you

were amazing. Well done to everyone involved. Peter Janette and their

incredible foxtrot. So good. All the judges gave them the same score. The

only thing they commented on were his shoulders coming up a little

bit. What advice would you give him on that. It is something he's

sorting out. It is not a problem for him. Every time he's done ballroom,

he's improved them. I would like him to concentrate on how to lift his

arms up. I get the feeling he lifts them up from the top of the arm.

That causes the shoulders to come up like Darcey said. He should imagine

his arms are two shelves on each side of a wall. Put your armpits on

a wall, you feel two parts of must he is, one at the front and one at

the back. They act as the brackets, the supports on a shelf, to hold

underneath than from the top. Pull up from the brackets. That works.

Look at that! The second thing is to be careful of positioning. When he's

changing position with Janette, when they both move in the same

direction, it is very easy to turn the whole body. It creates this

shoulder coming up. He should imagine wringing water out of a

towel so the top half of his body has to stay with Janette and he

really has to twist his hips and head in order to keep that shoulder

line perfect. Thank you so brilliantly explained. Anita and

Gleb. 29 points for their waltz. A lot of people tweeted saying she was

undermarked. Craig said it needed to be a little more lyrical for it to

work. What do you think? Lyrical means feeling the music flowing

through your Booed Iy. One movement flowing into the next. It is

something I didn't really pick up on. I thought she did that really

well. I thought she pulled out another great performance. I would

say, as you can see in the picture here, especially on lines and spins

and turns, she has to keep her shoulder line parallel to Gleb's.

Offset but parallel so he can lead her round the floor smoothly. Guider

round. Otherwise it is for him like pushing a shopping trolly with a

wonky wheel. Just that, really. When that happens to me, I just drag it.

You can't Donna in dancing. Jay and Aliona and their American smooth, 34

points. Craig and Darcey picked up on his characterisation. They want

even more. Yeah, I mean, I think the choreography, the style of the dance

and song leant itself more to a cool wolf rather than a mean wolf. I

think he did. I don't know what he meant. He gets bit too cool that

it's cold when he's concentrating. I think he did well. He swings well.

You'll have heard that from Craig. The swing really is like a free

movement from a fixed point which accelerates and decelerates. It

causes this kind of movement. Like a church bell. Attached at the top. It

swings like that. Demo. Demo-time. Look at you in your fancy wellies. I

love those. We can't do that. If we had a fixed point here, we would be

dancing round like that in order to swing. We have to imagine there's a

pen on the side of our forehead here. An imaginary piece of paper.

Draw the design of that swing using your feet and ankles and going

through the knees. It will become slow, quick, quick, slow. Quick,

quick, slow. Beautiful. And again, now we understand. Carol and Pasha

and their rumba. They finished bottom of the leaderboard. Only got

13 points which was quite harsh. They are saying she needs to step

forward but not on her heel? Ballroom heel leads but rumba, no?

Not in the Latin. Only a few steps if in paso and samba. Stepping on

your heel hinders other technical elements like the straightening of

the leg. She needs to straighten it and pull it back. Also the hips.

Let's talk about her hips. Demo. Another. She tends to use her hips

in this direction which is fine. That's how we use it in the jive.

But something like a rumba, she has to be more circular. I don't know if

you can see this. I can. In your lovely skirt. She has to practise it

by holding the top of her body still and making an 8 shape with her hips.

Front to the back. Front to the back. She can practice that doing it

the reverse way. Back to the front and so on. She can create more

circular movements rather than side to side. That's what a rumba should

look like. Kate and Anton and their paso doble. 21 points. Katie was

suitably upset after the judges really gave her a hard time. Craig

said he wants her to power through the floor more. I want to say the

judges were extremely harsh on her. I don't think she deserved that at

all. She was giving some great lines. Her focus was brilliant.

Maybe she should imagine Craig in front of her saying those nasty

things and just attack him. Maybe he'll be happier. She has to have a

little more tension in her whole Booedy. It's as if there's

electricity running through her whole body. It's switched on all the

time. No empty movements or movements. Big bowl of custard.

Trying to move your arms through the custard rather than just... So much

custard. Thank you, been amazing as always. Joe Clifton.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE. This Sunday is Remembrance Day and

our pro dancers have been creating an extra special routine.

The dance is set in the 1940s, a jive with elements of a jitterbug,

tap dancing. This dance is full on. The dance today, a military theme,

the GIs are in the camp. Boys!

The girls have come in to build up morale.

I have two dogs with Kevin Clifton which is not so easy because when he

goes, he goes. The biggest thing is to keep up with him. And have fun.

Anton is the general in this dance. It comes with being here so long.

They are coming on, we are whipping them into shape. The great thing is

they start in the corner for the first bit which is very complicated.

This dance is really fast, there are a lot of kicks, a lot to remember.

I love it, my favourite sort of number.

Next up, there's ghostly foxtrot left their audience screaming for

more, Peter and Janette! CHEERING You wonderful clever ones,

your foxtrot was so dramatic. Were you feeling confident before

you went out, Peter? I will be honest, I got really

nervous minutes before I went on. I started panicking.

Jeannette looked at me, what's happened? I said, I am a ghost, I

should not have any feelings. She said, there is a glaze in your

eyes. I froze. Did you lose him? I did, I

thought he had turned into a ghost. Into character. Was it different to

other weeks, have you felt like that before?

It was really important for me to remember the footwork, one of the

things picked up every week. I was too focused on it that I

forgot other things. I was concentrating on making sure the

feet did not leave the floor, one thing I learned about the rise and

fall. It was great.

We got comments that we actually got the footwork pretty much right.

I let myself down on shoulders but I loved it.

Good, I am so pleased. Eventually all those things will

come. You have different things to worry

about. Was there an extra buzz in the studio because it was Halloween?

You looked incredible. It was, everyone was super excited.

Dressed as a witch, ghost. What was Pasha? If he doesn't

improve, he's getting it in the neck!

What was the story behind your dance, your choreography, Jeannette?

I was a strange forest creature with bushy eyebrows.

Trees in my hair. The concept was I could not get rid of his ghost. The

song is about something you want to get rid off and you cannot. That is

why in the middle section it was very dramatic, we were pushing and

pulling. You saw the story so well, I loved it, the story came across, I

am happy. You will need that later on. The

judges all in agreement together. What stops you getting a higher

mark? We had a lot of trouble with

rehearsal time, we lost all of Monday which is four hours extra.

Hopefully once we get back into everyday training, regular long

hours, we will feel that confidence of the routine.

That is what is missing, feeling confident.

I think he is fantastic. I love watching him rehearse. Watching him

perform. I want him to start believing in that.

I hope now we are on a regular schedule that will kick in.

You have your other job! And family. Joanne was giving if you

tips, did you listen? She was brilliant.

Even though she wasn't talking about me when talking the rumba, she did

it really well. When you watch her, it makes sense.

She is right. That is good advice. You have been

telling me for weeks to get my shoulders right.

All these little things people say are starting to sit, and I am hoping

it is not too late for me to put together.

It is never too late, we're not even half way. Still building. Bruno

mentioned characterisation. This week you have the charleston.

You said it is lots of fun. Anyone who is called Charles should watch

out because we are going to rock this.

I know! Work on that one!

I am so excited. The minute you put the music on, I could not stop

smiling. This is one of those songs where you can smile and smile.

I can't wait. It is high energy. You will find at the gym later.

Whatever the judges say, we do know Peter has fans everywhere. But there

is a secret fan admiring you that you did not know about.

I love Peter Andre come here is my biggest fan. All right, Pete? I am

at every training session that fell watching. But he never seems to

notice me. Peter! Peter! Don't block me out.

Do you like my new top, Pete? Do you know what, Pete?

I give up. Hey, make, it has been a while.

Can I get your autograph? Can you look at me when I am talking

to you, it is so rude! No!

What is his name? Bob. He is Bob. I love Bob.

I think Bob loves you. This is where everyone starts going slightly mad.

Jeannette, you will be answering questions with Joanne later.

Give it up for Peter and Janette! CHEERING Hang on, can you hear that

music? It can only mean one thing.

Yes! It is time for me to shake my maracas as we revealed some of the

songs are couples will be dancing to mount the weekend.

Shall we hear our first song? Here we go.

Yes. It is Volare, by the Gypsy Kings.

This was the Italian entry to the Eurovision Song contest in 1958. I

did. It had another name. Which literally means Stott in the blue

painting... Just because you're maracas are

bigger than mine. Who is dancing to it, let us find out.

It is Georgia and Giovanni. Very excited about that one. Right, next

up, here we go. Yes.

You may know the Pet Shop Boys version. This is the original song

by Village People. Who is dancing to this? What is he

doing? Here we go. Jeremy and Karen will be doing a

tango to that. Let us move on to our last song.

Here we go. Yes, this song has become the

biggest selling number one single in three years which means one of our

couples will be dancing to it. I am just making this up! Let us find

out, it is hard to concentrate with this going on behind me.

Who is dancing to this? Helen and Aljaz are doing a rumba.

There may be even more amazing songs coming up this week, there are, in

fact. Go The Strictly, the details are on screen now.

Thank, Peter Andre. I love you, Peter Andre. I love you.

Back with us are Jeannette, Tristan and Joanna.

Answering questions from our wonderful viewers. Jeannette, who

chooses the music for your dancers? OK, this is a very collaborative

thing, the professionals have ideas, production have ideas and the

director of choreography. It really is collaborative. Lots of things are

taken into account, what style of dance. What other songs are being

played. The number one thing we are doing is put on a great TV show. We

want to appeal to all the different audiences which is why it is a mix

of modern and classical music. It creates the magic of the show on

Saturday. Forever magical wants to know, if

you could add a new dance to the Strictly line-up, what would it be,

Tristan? I don't think I would add anymore,

it is pretty heavy the way it is, ballroom and Latin.

No hip-hop, street funk, tap dancing?

Interpretive dance. Perhaps a solo week for the celebs, do what you

have learned. Put it together in one routine, that

may well happen. Lucy wants to know how to you achieve the perfect

charleston swivel. I like to think of...

Demo time! I like to think of Dorothy from the

Wizard of Oz when she says, there is no place like home, and you put it

to the step, tap. There is no place like home.

And in wellingtons as well. Try getting hammered and then balk!

Natalie says you smiled throughout the whole show, can you show us your

grumpy face? We have seen it! Monday morning.

That is close. Joanne, Hannah wants to know what

was it like to win the World Championships?

That was a weird experience, so many emotions. Obviously I was happy.

Relieved, after 27 years of training I had finally got it. Upset because

I was retiring that night, my last competition.

Emotional because I was doing my dad. They had never got to first

place in the World Championships. I wanted to do it for them.

A brilliant answer. Thanks you very much to our prose.

That is it for tonight, a big thank you to all of our guests. Tune in

tomorrow when I will be joined by Helen and Aljaz, and Jay and an

owner. Ian Waite will be giving the first slice of his warm up. Goodbye.