Episode 28 Strictly - It Takes Two

Tonight is the first meeting of The 34 Club.

They got 34 for their Samba on Saturday night.

They also got 34 for their American Smooth.

Oh, Zoe, come on, darling, they're never going to believe that!

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

Ball. We're here to guide you over the

midweek hump and take you smoothly On Saturday,

we saw two yummy mummies wrapped up in bandages and dancing

around to the Scissor Sisters. No, it's not Len and Bruno in

the bar after a couple of shandies. Thank you. Well done on Saturday

night. I can't believe you can look so gorgeous wrapped in mucky

bandages. You looked absolutely amazing. And you mastered the samba.

How much fun did you have? I had so much fun and when begot parent

make-up and costume on, it transformed the dance and you get

the story of it and the fun of it. It was a brilliant night. You look

very good. It's like big hair, don't care. You loved that hair so much,

didn't you go out after that show? I went out clubbing with it. So

embarrassing. Easy to spot. And do you feel you finally have shown the

judges your Latin skills match your ballroom skills because we

definitely think you have? They haven't mentioned anything about my

word and hips were a couple of weeks so I hope they are forgetting about

that slowly. It was mummy hips last week. Craig gave you a fab-u-lous

and this week said absolutely spectacular. Are you bribing him? I

am paying him a lot of money to say nice things. Every week we get to

him I always assume is going to say something nasty. I'm still waiting

for it. Len picked up on a tiny mistake and we had to search for

hours to try and find it and we think this might be it. Is it?

It's horrible to watch. We refuse to admit it. What happened, Aljaz? It

was part of the choreography. No, it's a promenade run with a

handshake. There was a turn in between. Both of us got a little bit

too stiff and the term did not go smoothly but the next bit was on

time so you could not tell it was a mistake. Well covered. He threw me

into the next move and it was covered up. Like a professional. You

don't know what's going on on the dance floor because you are in a

performance bubble and things can so easily go wrong. It goes so fast.

That bit never went in rehearsals. You know what, because we do it so

many times, even if a little thing goes wrong, you know how to get out

of it. You know what's coming next. Is there sign language between you?

After that I saw his face and he was looking at me like, what are you

doing? Come on! I love it that you are still smiling. He was wearing

bandages too. You have been first or second on the leaderboard for the

last four weeks, well done. CHEERING

How does it feel to be a frontrunner in this competition? It is really

hard. That's the thing about this competition. You can be proper one

week and bottom the next. It's really hard to call this year, I

think. It's such a high standard. You are never safe even if you're at

the top. Very good. OK, this week you have the Rumba. You are dancing

to one of the biggest songs around at the moment. Hello, not the Lionel

version but the one by Adele. # We have been singled as all day. To do

a Rumba, number one until fabric next year, this must be a dream come

true. I can't believe we have been allowed to dance to this beautiful

song and it is a pressure because everybody is singing it at the

moment and we don't want to do an awful dance to a beautiful song. We

need to do it justice. The Rumba, in all of the history of

need to do it justice. The Rumba, in one person has ever got the perfect

need to do it justice. The Rumba, in score although a few have come

close. Let's have a little Matt Di Angelo, Rachel Stevens,

Kara Tointon and Chelsee Healey. Could you change all of that?

Definitely. I like it. Be Could you change all of that?

You know what, it's hard dance because it is slow and single

mistake, that important technique you have to

mistake, that important technique Rumba it is so exposed so as soon as

you go Rumba it is so exposed so as soon as

everybody can see it, so it's important to practice it and make it

go the whole way through. We like it, all but undulating that I'm not

very good at. Are you quite a romantic guy, Aljaz? Yes, very

romantic. When the last time you cooked a meal for Janette? Does not

have anything to do with romance? Yes, it does. Recently? I have, yes,

last week. What did you make? I have no idea. Beans on toast. Shall we

find out? I can't Rumba the last time I came home and he had dinner

and flowers ready. We always do it together. It has been a while. Think

yourself told. Where did you take Janette

on your first date? Actually, we were in Los Angeles. We

went to a Malibu beach. It has a beautiful restaurant on the coast.

Let's see if your better half remembers the same thing.

It's going to be completely different now. For first aid, Aljaz

took me to a beautiful restaurant overlooking the cliffs Malibu beach.

CHEERING How cute is that? Most people just

go to the local pub and have some chips.

OK, last one and this is an important one.

When it comes to spiders in the bathroom, do you do

the chivalrous thing and deal with them or do you leave it to Janette?

I know the answer to this one. He's so petrified of spiders. He kept

I know the answer to this one. He's running away last week from

Halloween. I could not look to the left. He runs in the opposite

are. APPLAUSE

I like that, getting to know them. Good luck with your Rumba. I think

it's going to be so good. No spiders.

Now, when I was at primary school, I did maths, science, PE, you know,

But the one thing I never did was critique ballroom and latin

We are the Junior judges. look scary. Halloween.

We are the Junior judges. the guitar. That is the Halloween

show. He's going up like this. Everything leaders is like a scary

monster. Two. That's not fair. Not fair. Not fair. I think it is magic.

It's quite funny. They look like monkeys. My, look at her. She looks

hilarious. She is dancing with a prince. It doesn't make sense. The

Princess and the Prince live happily ever together, not the Queen and the

Prince. He's flying. I don't believe he is flying. That was all summer.

He is a vampire. -- that was awesome. They both the cartwheel at

the same time. He makes me feel happy watching Jamelia's dance. The

skeleton is in the cupboard. I have to say, Jamelia and Tristan. Jamelia

and Tristan were great. I am sad Kirsty is leaving because she had

funny moves. Bye-bye. Over to you, Zoe Ball. Bye-bye. Thank you.

Wonderful kids. And we've got a couple of drawings

that the kids have sent us. Here's the many faces of

Peter Andre. Christopher, Hamido and Dominic.

Look at his lovely moustache. Thank you so much all of you.

Right, it's Wednesday, which means it's time to chat this man.

Have you bought your fans tonight? It's so accurate. Even the very long

legs right up to my armpits. Look at your pointy toes. And colourful

trousers. Only you would wear those. OK, what do you think of the

Halloween show? I loved it, the costumes and the storyline which

goes with it, just brilliant. Who was your favourite? I enjoyed all of

them but my favourite was Kellie. I loved their theme. I love the fact

that used every corner of the studio and the stage and all the

pyrotechnics. Magic wand. We know what you mean. Why doesn't my want

to do that? It is the budget, love, BBC Two. Let's talk about the

couples in training, first of all looking at Carol and Pasha. They

were bottom of the leaderboard on Saturday but the public loved them

and they have sailed right through. American Smooth this week. Is she on

the up? I certainly think she will do better than last week. A Rumba is

so exposing and it is slow. You know, this is going to be much

better, it's more her style, ballroom. There's a lot of free

styling in there. It's a bit easier to do. The only thing is, finishing

off her hands is not great. I wanted to highlight of this area. I know.

You can't wait, can you? This is the area. She was holding onto him and

it needs to be normal ballroom hold. If I must! There is a deltoid there.

She has had up on his shoulder. There is a triangular muscle here. I

can feel it. Yes, darling. But the thumb and the second finger create

in the second finger creates every shape which fits into that deltoid.

All of the other fingers. Used to be able to do this really well. Did I?

I call it the Zoe Ball hand. Back in the day. Next we have Helen and

Aljaz. They are very excited about their Rumba. How is it looking?

This will suit her because she is balletic and the closest you can get

for a ballet dancer is the rumba. I've stopped it here because I've

slowed down the next bed. Earlier, they were talking about the spin

that were going off centre. He is a classic example. She falls off and

he turns her and she falls backward. I think a lot of the time she's

throwing her body weight into the turn at her feet are not under her

to support her. As she spins she has to keep her feet underneath her.

Otherwise, it she's going to go like that. You know she will have

mastered that by the weekend. Jamelia and Tristan, the bottom to a

game for them, let's hope it's not four Times this weekend. They are

doing a Viennese waltz, could this put them in a safe place? I have

studied this and she doesn't do one he'll lead. She doesn't have her

dancing choose which does not help because she doesn't have any heels.

She is struggling with the term because she is falling and getting a

little sick from all those terms. I did notice that. -- she's struggling

with the turn. If this is your best angle, this is yours, just stand

there. When you are in front of each other it is difficult to get around

but if you go to the side a little, then we can actually get around each

other. Here I am! Just like that. I love that. Peter and Jeanette are

doing a Johnstone this weekend. I think this will be a great dancer

Peter, surely. Zoe, honestly, it's brilliant comedies on the balls of

his feet, that classic swivel in the Charleston, lovely flicks and kicks

and he's got a amazing energy and you can see and hear. I stopped it

here because he does this step which is not in character for the

Charleston so much. Has he gone a bit mind and 90s? He does that

street dance thing which is really good, he is really good about and

sometimes if he isn't sure he'll go back to that. He needs to stay in

that brilliant, I had arrows because I was going to point it out, he

needs to stay in that character because he is doing a brilliant job.

Good work Peter. Let's look at Katie. I think she needs some love

at the weekend because the judges were so mean to her. Hopefully she

can quickstep away back to the top. If she gets this it will be

brilliant comedies thrown in everything but the kitchen sink,

really, really difficult choreography. He is challenging her

but it makes for a brilliant quickstep. This is the area that she

has to get. She cannot be behind him, she must be with him and get

all that tough choreography right, lots of kicks and flicks, every step

in the book Anton has thrown in. It's got the content. Hopefully she

can bring on the performance. I'm looking forward to it. I think it

will be brilliant. Thank you, Ian Waite, use back tomorrow.

If all that insight from Ian has whetted your appetite you'll be

pleased to know we've got even more training updates for you.

Have a look at this. As I suspected, the jive is difficult and very, very

fast. At the moment it doesn't feel so much like a jive as an acrobatic

session! Went the lab launches himself at me, -- Gleb launches

himself at me and basically my head is in his crotch. It's going to be

one of those weeks. I will be pooped by the end of it. We are doing a

waltz. I can't wait. It is likely head honcho of the ballroom in my

head. The waltz is a slow controlled dance that requires a lot of

finesse. I am really going to have to work hard on not raising my

shoulders. Now I know Kellie's little habits this is a big chance

for us to show that we can keep control and flow and finesse

throughout the dance. Anita and Gleb and Kellie and Kevin looking

Get well soon, Karen! One, training.

Get well soon, Karen! One, three, four. I came

Get well soon, Karen! One, because we had the place booked and

Karen had left me a film so I have to do it without my dance Purdy and

it is hard without her. What does that mean? Jeremy, he's such a good

boy. That is how you get better. Good luck, Jeremy, get well soon

Karen. So far we've had everyone

from the GB rowing team to Dangermouse and even a field of

farmers giving The Strictly a go. Your entries are coming in thick

and fast so let's see how you lot Oh! Those wonderful patients, give

them a ten. Well done, all of you clever monkeys.

Remember the competition is still open for

your chance to win those money can't buy tickets to Strictly Blackpool.

But you've only got a couple of days left so head online

Right, time to chat to our final couple.

At the weekend he transformed himself into a werewolf.

Lucky for him, his performance was far from a howler.

Hurray for Jay and Aliona, they are here. An incredible performance, the

makeover to become the wolf, how long did that take in make-up?

Altogether, two hours, over the course of the day, so I went in and

got darkened and other time I got crafted into a wee Wolf. People were

asking, what are you, and eventually, they said, that looks

great. The person doing the make-up really had a vision and really made

it happen. Those little ears! I loved them. They transformed my

Spockies! I had not noticed them before.

There's been a lot of love for the wolf look on social media.

Layla said, 'slightly concerned about how attracted I was to Jay

McGuiness as a wolf tonight.' Sophie said, 'WHAT! How does he

You should try that look more often! I'm on the way! How was your week of

training leading up to it, Aliona, how pleased were you with his

performance? The week was good. We enjoyed the rehearsal because they

are such strong characters and it was fun to get into the quirky,

slightly naughty characters. Because this is Jay's third ballroom dance,

a lot of things that we did in the previous two dances, like the frame

and the footwork, this was somewhat similar. So he already knew some of

the technical things from the previous dances. So it made things a

bit faster, the progress. You know that thing you forgot to do in the

waltz, do it now! It was like a faster processor so we could work

more on the character. This is all very good. Craig is in love with

your feet, your beautiful pointy toes. Do you do good toes, naughty

toes? Do you work on them a lot? When I worked with Jay from the

beginning I worked down to the Pinky. Everything is staged. I make

sure that everything is perfect! Not always perfect on the night but that

is what you almost expect. You would expect about 90%, 80% of the best

you can do in rehearsal, on the show because of the nerves, and people

cheering. The toes, I make sure everything is in order! Toes, knees,

heads, shoulders. Fingers! You have the Argentine tango this weekend and

this is the music. It is traditional. It's so good. The first

Argentine tango of this series. A blessing or a curse? I think it is a

blessing. A heady mixture of both. Because it is the first one, people

will be looking, what does that dance le Gleick, it looks like that,

they will be wrong because it's wrong. Nobody else has done it yet

so they have nothing to compare it to sow their standards might be

lower. I don't know if you could set that bar any higher. With us, you

never know. I like your confidence. As you are the first celebrity to do

this dance we thought, we need to see if you are apt to speed. Can you

tell me what is a garage? -- what is a gaucho? It is a hoax. Ready,

everyone? Well done, Jay. You might as well stay up, don't injure

yourself falling off the sofa. Can you explain what the ocho is? He

wouldn't know it. I do more of them. He doesn't have any in the routine.

It means a figure eight, so you would step forward and twist. It is

almost like a more feminine move. So he would not do that. He would lead

it. We will let you off. We all feel suitably educated now

but it doesn't stop there. At the weekend the judges said you need to

work on your characterisation, so we're going to help you with your

storytelling. Jay, it's time What's Wrong With You?. A little

game show. It's simple, I'm going to give you

a series of emotions and scenarios that you need to act

out, Jay, and Aliona has to guess Hugo, don't show her. Ready? -- here

you go. You mysterious girl loving dude, you are already sun-kissed and

I need more of that attention. What is the emotion? Angry? Yes, well

done. Either angry or frustrated. We will take angry. Situation number

two. That was in the realm of quickstep, time for me to light

under a server in a darkroom and not talk to anyone. Just upset. We were

looking for sad, I think we can get away with that. Very good indeed.

Very quickly, do this one. You've got 20 seconds. Look at his face,

Aliona. It's all in the face. Confused? Helpful? It was actually

scared and unnerved! But you did very well.

We cannot wait to see your Argentine tango, I think it's going to be

awesome. Tomorrow we have so much, Georgia

and Giovanni, and Vicky Gill, we will see

Even at lunch, you see them running around, doing interviews

They're really engaging with the world around them.

And it builds so many skills, researching stories,

discussing and presenting, but also giving them memories for life.