Episode 29 Strictly - It Takes Two

It's all happening tonight, folks, we've critique. We have fashion. We

have glitz. We have glamour. And now, we have you! Welcome.

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

host, Zoe Ball. CHEERING AND

APPLAUSE Hello. Welcome to it takes two. In our glamorous green room we

have Katie and Anton. Lovely teeth. Ian Waite is back to cast his eye

over our couples in training. Plus, our very own frock star, Vicky Gill

is here to give us a sneaky peek inside this week's Wardrope. On

Saturday night, they proved they were not afraid of no ghosts they

tang owed their way to the top. It's Georgia and Jee. -- Joffe an.

Giovanni. They are here. Thank goodness. You cheeky ghost-chasers.

You were fantastic on Saturday night. It was one of my favourite

dances of the night. Top of the heap. The number one. At last. How

does it feel, Georgia, to final which be up there top on the judge's

leaderboard? I don't think it's sunk in. It's amazing. We've worked so

hard. It's all I've been wanting and hoping for. To do it, amazing. Did

you have a feeling at the end of it, that went really, really well? Yeah,

we looked at each other. I got this cockiness about me. Yeah. Then, I

don't know. I got to the judges and thought that might have been amazing

but they might not have liked it. But they did. You never know,

though. Len loved it so much he crowned you the Queen of

Halloweenment were you hysterical with glee. What were the best thing

the judges said? Do you remember? I was hysterical. I was awful. Like a

little kid. Did she calm down the rest of the night? I've been like

that all week. Still like that. Were awe a little bit like that on the

inside Giovanni? Yes, a little bit. That cool Italian exterior. Three

9s. Your highest score. Can you keep that stand card up? I hope so. I try

to do my best. Carry on like this. Keep focus on the competition. Work

hard. We will be fine. Fantastic. Do you feel like something's changed a

bit, doing that well? Last week was so much fun. It was probably the

best opportunity to have that fun with it being Halloween. I was like,

go out there and enjoy yourself. Something did change. I'm in good

spirits. Carry that on into the weekend. Are you starting to feel

competitive now? Has that changed at all? You are. The pros are really

competitive. They are natural competitors. Want to do really well.

Sportsmen are often competitive. Are you like, hang on, I want to get to

Blackpool, the final. I would love to get to Blackpool and the final.

I'm not going to lie. Not competitive in a bad way. ?

Confident. This is the most amazing opportunity I've been given. I just

want to get as far as I can. That's my aim. To just get as far as I can.

So, so good. Were your family proud of that performance? So proud. I

rang them all. They were all dressed up for Halloween. I was like, who's

that? Shrek? Mum, dressed as Shrek. The judges commended you on the

speed and content, Giovanni. You must have been chuffed. How excited

does it make you to see Georgia's ability be so good? To be honest,

when you work with somebody like Georgia what can Cannes, she really

works hard in the training room every day, every week. It's easy.

Really easy. Thanks. But... There's always a but. I do whinge a lot. I'm

always tired. I just want to say I'm really proud and really happy to

dance with you. After week 7, I'm really happy to dance with you.

Timy. He finally gives in. You must be missing your family? I enjoy the

show. I miss my family but loving every minute on Strictly. After the

final, we've time for family. We thought it would be nice to see your

family. Hopefully, we can say, come in Sicily.

CHEERING CHEERING

That's your family? My sister and Mahela Jayawardene. Choi!

ALL: Choi. There's a lot of woman in your life,

Giovanni. You want to speak to your sister or mother? SPEAKING ITALIAN

We're all going! Were they saying how proud they were of you? They are

proud of me. That's so lovely. You have a hanky in your pocket. You can

use that. Will you say thanks to them for coming on the show. I don't

speak Italian. They are really proud of me. Give them lots of love from

everybody on it takes two. It's difficult to say. SPEAKING ITALIAN

Choi! Wasn't that a nice thing to do. Next week, they'll all be here.

Tell me about your samba? What's the concept behind your samba this week?

She pretends to be an actress. This is awful. This was at the beginning.

It is the beginning of the week. Please don't show this. It gets much

better. There's the horse. How are you finding the samba technique? Any

samba rolls? Yes, special samba work. A lot of content. I don't know

why, I love content. It's very fast. We nearly keep hitting the pillars

in the training room. They are not in a very handy place. Good luck

this weekend. Keep up the brilliance. Really lovely seeing

your mum and sister and family. Georgia and Giovanni. I was going to

try to say something in Italian. I chickened out and said, see, see!

Imagine if you will, the Teletubbies doing Strictly. Imagine no more.

Have a look at this. , Lala, Po, Tinky Winky and Dipsy.

If you can do he better than the Teletubbies, send in your attempt

and possibly win tickets to Strictly in Blackpool. Shall we talk garments

around garbs? The divine Vicky Gill is here. Well

done last weekend. Halloween was an absolute spectacular. Did you have a

personal favourite? A little look at the end? I thought Helen. I liked...

The mummy. I liked what we achieved. With bandages. Return to normal this

week if that ever happens. Is if ever normal? It's bonkers, we very

dates where we think it'll be fine. But it's never ending November, I

need an add vented calendar for every day in November. Let's look at

Katie's dress. She's doing a quickstep. 42nd Street is the music.

Looks like you're going old school here. This is stunning? Absolutely.

Anton is our ballroom superstar. King of ballroom. He will be

delighted if Katie had a more treadationle ballroom dress. It is a

long line. Eight panels. Eight to ten metres of boa running through

the hem. We've broken the boa, different colours through the

panels. Katie's in the house tonight so even if she hates it... I'm

trying to gauge the look an other face. Give her more wine! It's a

goday. Haven't haven't seen one of those in ages. Everyone loves the

crystals but we will apply more once we get to studio. Once we've met

with Katie, talked about it, we'll decide where that will happen. She's

going to be our own Ginger Rogers. You'll rock that, Katie. An always,

longer than this usually. Gone short. Why? This isn't a traditional

ballroom dress. Katie's -- Kellie's had shorter lines. I'm getting

confused.ility I don't help. Kellie is very petite. This is the reverse

bluff, thanks, Vicky. Shorter length. Because she's petite, I

don't want long lines and feathers. They may happen at some point. It's

really fun, very light. I think it's pushing the boundaries a bit.

Hopefully it will make it to live. Sometimes we watch the show and that

dress is on someone else. This is Georgia's samba. They're doing an

Italian Riviera number with the samba feel. You've brought that out

in the designs. A flamenco vibe. Use polka dot to embrace that. Not

traditional red and black. Just a nod to it. All the gaps within the

polka dot will be crystalled in topaz and crystal ab. It will be

sparkly with the polka dot base. Nice interesting detail on the back.

Looks low on the sketch. There will be a basque. No bums. Family show.

An elastic detail running down the back. We made add more on Friday.

See what Giovanni says. Great movement when she does her lovely

hips. That's it, really. Finally, we have Helen's rumba. Dancing to

Adele. We all keep going into a bad rumba, singing it constantly. This

is unusual for rumba? It is. It's a very modern trackment Helen embraces

lots of different styles. Long line, a shirt dress vibe. Had George the

so sheer. -- George yet, with crystalled ab. Shorts and a crop top

with a see # Through shirt over the top? Kids,

I say kids, they're kids to me. Young people are wearing things like

that at the moment? They are. It is unusual. We may see it on Saturday?

If Helen's comfortable, I hope we do. We always have a skirt in the

background. The emergency skirt. Always giggly and gorgeous Vicky

Gill. The Strictly dresses are adorned with thousands and thousands

of sparkly gems. How do you do that by hand? Shall we find out? ? My

name is Vicky I work in the stoning department. Everyone likes sparkle

and each dress contains up to 9000 stones. All of your dresses are

passed through Ash, putting the finishing touches to the dresses. We

use beeswax. You attach it to a stick which enables us to pick up

the stones and place them on to the dress. It is sticky enough to pick

up the stone, but not too sticky so that you can't place it on the

dress, that is my trick of the trade. Thank you Becky and Ash from

the stoning department. The weight is over, he is back for more, thank

goodness. Ian Waite is here. Happy bonfire

night. Fantastic. Watch this. Oh. Amazing. You and your clever tools.

With all of the pyrotechnics, I thought I should have it. Can you

imagine if he sets everything on fire? Second knock of couples,

Jeremy and Karen. They are doing a tango for the first time. He was not

the bottom of the leaderboard for the first time in weeks. Very happy.

Is he on the up, this is looking good? He had a nice, compact frame.

Sometimes he's missing his heel leaves, a must in Tango, because you

are down and you need the heel leads. I am pointing out the fact

that there is quite a big gap. It is created because he has opened his

left side. That means his right shoulder is going forward.

How should he correct that? He needs to bring his left side forward in

the promenade position which will get his right shoulder back. Then he

will be in the right position. His body will turn around and be flat

against Karen's. Looking promising, I am liking the look of that. George

and Giovanni are doing a Samba. So lovely. -- Georgia. There has been a

funny discussion between Anton and Ian and Giovanni, there is no double

bounce, does not exist, it is a single bounce? Whatever

interpretation you want to mate. Craig made it up. Have a look at

this, how is their bounce, single? There is some really great voltas in

their, lovely action into the floor. Sometimes she doesn't lower her

foot. As you can see. Sometimes it has just got to go... Down. Her heel

has to go flat. The ball of her foot has to go flat. There has to be a

straightening at some point. If we do a shadow Botafogo. What is that?

One, two. One and two. Never look at me for tips. It's so confusing. You

were so much better in the hustle. I was so much better 58 years ago! I

have seized up in my old age. She needs to make sure she finishes it

off. Argentine Tango, first of the series. It is very exciting and it

goes to Jay and Aliona. Potential for a while? Not so sure? Not at the

moment. This is only Tuesday's footage. It is not quite beefy

finesse we expect from Jay. Early days. -- not exactly the. He needs

to create a lot more drama in this dance. Looking like he is walking

through the steps. There has to be that sort of emotional contact. It

has to be very dramatic. Quite moody. Very moody and intimate. It

is almost done just between the two of you, you cannot show off to the

audience, it is about you two. You look at the lady or look away? There

are times when you look at her. But it is more about feeling that she is

there, you look down your nose. I can feel her. Like you can smell

her. Hopefully she smells good and she has brushed all her teeth.

Kellie and Kevin dancing a waltz. Vintage take that. Love Ain't Here

Anymore. How is it looking? Kevin has stolen Anton's look, he can't

find his own identity! He does a lovely double reverse then. They do

three double reverse bins, absolutely perfect. Not a lot wrong

with this. -- reverse spins. As a standing spin, she's doing sideways

steps. Really, it would be nice if she did forward steps. Forward

steps. Like a run forward? Try and do it. That it. She ran forward and

then it would be more efficient and you would go faster. Do you see what

I mean? Yes. You can't trot. Was that aimed at me? Anita and Gleb

dancing the drive -- jive. I love the purple socks from Gleb,

particularly nice. Lots of energy, great. Basic action is quite good.

She has to be careful that she doesn't... But she looks a bit weak

in places, she needs to create a strength. I wanted to highlight this

area. Feet. In order to do that, she needs to pull up from here and tuck

her tummy in. That will get her weight over the balls of her seat

and she can pick up her knees more and shaped like this. And we get the

lovely action. She is getting her heels down, which is part of the

technique of the drive. Very quickly, we are losing more and more

couples at the end of this weekend, nine couples left, who is in danger

of losing their legwarmers? I can only go by who, for me, is not the

strongest answer, Carol and Jeromy. The public love them. Until we meet

again, our dear friend in pink trousers, Ian Waite. CHEERING

Friday's are now super-sized and this is your super-sized reminder.

Huge. We mark Remembrance Day by celebrating the story of one amazing

dancing couple. Robin Windsor continues his journey through the

Strictly dictionary. Boy do they know how to make an entrance.

Alexander Armstrong will be performing live in the It Takes Two

studio. Live every Friday at 6pm. Thank you, JB werewolf. The Phantom

of the Opera paso doble may have got mixed reviews from the judges but

they will always get a standing ovation from us. Katie and Anton.

Here they are, welcome. Hello my beauties, your performance on

Saturday, opening the show, full of drama and the tricks, how did you

feel in that mysterious lovely, long flowing wig? Coming through the

mist? I was there a bright and as I live and breathe. -- Sarah

Brightman. I loved opening the show. We had a gondola! It was tremendous

from start to finish, I say from start to finish comment of the

judges started is big. Until then we had a lovely time. Were you any more

nervous opening the show and it being Halloween or do you always

feel that way? I was quite nervous, always am. It was quite an honour to

be asked to open the show on Halloween, I was quite chuffed. And

you were. I was thrilled, excited, I don't think I have ever opened the

show before. I have never once started it off. How dare they? The

judges did give you quite a hard time. I am imagining... I thought

this must be upsetting and if it had been me, I would have cried, you

were very brave. Darcey said there were positives, she is seeing

improvement. And you are working in the right direction. She's yet you

look nice. That's what she said. Improvement. You look nice. I have

been in your position, when you are working that hard and it is very

emotional, it is very hard and you are working hard, you do need to

hear some positives from the judges. Bless you that you did

mention the one little glinting straw of positivity in the rough of

gloom. How was that for you? To finish that dance and hear those

comments. I felt a bit deflated. Is that the right word to describe my

mood? Yeah. We worked hard and we enjoyed it and the audience were on

their feet and everybody said nice things before. It was going to be

great. I was feeling perky going over there as I approached the

judges. And then I looked at their faces. You know when you just go,

oh. It really is Halloween. Their faces never change. Anton, did you

have a cry? I would have. I was behind the mask, it was quite nice.

It wasn't great, need to be honest but it was so damning. The comments,

after the cells as well, you don't mind a comment like make sure you

stating your leg --. After salsa like Ian says. Your shadow Botafogo

is great. But you don't like it when they said it is rubbish. All of it?

Lovely smoke! There was a boat! And a cape! It wafted off on its own.

That's worth something, nothing. Nothing at all. Would miss me. What

do you say to the judges? Can you say later in the bar say, could you

just... Not really, because they say it wasn't very good. You don't get a

chance to speak to them. The problem is that you get in a situation where

you disregard the comments a bit, because they are sort of so

unhelpful. And then you say, fair enough and then I say it was good,

this, that and I don't think it was too bad, that was quite good. Let's

put that to bed and work towards the quickstep and you move on. It is

nice to have each other. It's all you've got sometimes. You will

always be there for him and him before you. Let's move on to the

quickstep. I am thinking it is going to be a cracker. You are dancing to

42nd street, I'm so jealous. How is it going? Look at this. It looks

good. Flowery leggings and everything. Beautiful. Go, go, go,

go, go. Oh! Ian said you have crammed it full of intricate

choreography. Is she picking it up fast? It is coming together nicely,

today was good, coming together. As the week goes, as you know, you

start to learn it and realise you don't know it and then you have to

do it to music and it is Thursday already. Panic. Then you get it up

to speed and then you say I feel it, now. Feel it. We were there, today

and it is great. I have a thing with a hat and a cane. The dress will be

incredible. You are always delightful as there is a lot of love

for us, for you. Katie and Anton! Thank you. 42nd St. It is safe to

say the training gets tougher the longer you stay in the competition,

sorry Katie let's see. How some of our couples are handling that

stress. I am enjoying the number. We are trying to find the emotion of

it. -- the Rumba. This will be a rough, emotional love story. Look at

me. I don't want to. It is very dramatic and lots of moments when

you come together and pull apart, I keep hitting him very hard. That's

OK. There are a lot of times we have come together and one of us needs.

Yes and no moves. Yes, no, no, no, yes. Yes, no, maybe, who knows? That

feels good, doesn't it? Yeah. This week is the Charleston. Robbie the

most fun I have had since the beginning of this competition. Boom,

boom, bang, bang. It is really sitting into this style. It is

almost in his blood. I feel like I am working for my dollar. I have

been too nervous and focusing on the steps in the past to really enjoy

the performance. I want to do that. There are three really big lifts. It

is my first ever attempt of doing a lift. I am scared, but if I do it

right, it will be a real show stopper. Sorry, I get excited.

It Takes Two studio with views of London city. You only have one glove

on. Our couples are safely enjoying their sparklers and eating their

apples. Let me tell you what we have in store tomorrow. What time do we

start? 6pm! 6pm. Are you on fire Anton du Beke? I will serve up

Kellie and Kevin, Anita and Gleb, Carol and Pasha and Alexander

Armstrong will sing. Good night!