Episode 32 Strictly - It Takes Two

Karen, when we said "rehearsal" we meant for tonight's show.

From London, this is Strictly it takes to! Please welcome your host,

Zoe Ball! APPLAUSE

Tonight we are bringing you contenders and survivors.

We've got some music exclusives on this weekend's dances

and we take a peek at our professionals in group training.

Plus, the mistress of the ballroom, Karen Hardy is back

But first, their Charleston on Saturday night

opened the show and set the bar so high, that bar was interstellar.

APPLAUSE Unbelievable! I have to say you were

total firecrackers. It was a wicked Charleston. An incredible comeback

and a total moment in this series. Are you still on a high? Janette

thought I got emotional backstage, it was swept. I was so overwhelmed,

absolutely blown away! I just couldn't believe the way everyone

was dancing and the atmosphere and the pace was incredible.

You made it look effortless which is so hard to do with something as

tricky as that dance. There was a lot of complicated synchronisation

in that routine and he picked it up so well. I was so happy. My

favourite bit was the mirror bit at the start. Didn't you love her hair

like that. It was a need to's wig! This is the BBC, nothing gets

wasted. -- ammeter's wig. It was neater than your normal hairstyle.

38, your highest score. And the highest score of the series, ladies

and gentlemen! I have to say, nothing else happens from now. I

will cherish that moment forever. Of course I will try my best but that

was the moment, for me. You will have that forever and I think it

will go in the Strictly record books. Hopefully, in a big filing

cabinet! Darcey did say that she could almost have mistaken Peter for

a pro. That must have been music to your ears, Janette? Yes. Our goals

as professionals is to get our celebrity partners as good as they

can possibly be. When you hear a judge say something like that, that

they are close to the level of a professional, I could not be prouder

of any other compliment. It was amazing! You were in shock. And when

Len stood up, wasn't it an incredible moment. The first ten and

he stood up on his dodgy knee. How will you keep that level up, Peter?

We not! But it was really great fun! You can't be like that. You can

do it again. I'm just going to do my best. I think what I have learned

from this is that things are achievable which you don't think

they are. Once you start hovering and losing points, you have to think

I accept that. I think it makes the whole adventure more exciting. To be

at the top must fill you with such confidence? We have had some very

hard dances back to back like the rumba and foxtrot, so it was good to

do a routine which boosted your energy and woke you back up and made

him gain his confidence again. It is scary. No matter who you are in the

Scottish and, how much training you have had or have not had, going in

front of that many people watching to be judged is very scary. When a

number like this comes along, it fills your confidence and makes you

feel good. It is the lift and drops and timing in the mirror. You could

not even see each other. and timing in the mirror. You could

genius. The only criticism came from Craig but it is a tiny one. He said

perhaps he overbalanced a bit at the end. Let's see.

perhaps he overbalanced a bit at the the lift at the end.

I really thought the fireworks covered it! But you are not

professional dancers. That is incredible. You take the criticism

really well. I could see him laughing. It was so nice because

Craig was the one that I felt I wanted to prove to him that I had it

in me because he had mentioned before that you don't just want to

be not showing what you have got. For once, I felt he could -- I could

do it and he gave me and nine. I was over the moon. I could not stop

grinning like a Cheshire cat. I have watched it again and again. You

moved on to the beanies waltz. We loved the character you had for the

Charleston. What kind of loved the character you had for the

beanies waltz? Someone from Vienna. -- Viennese waltz. I am allowed to

smile. This routine we were saying in rehearsals, this routine is kind

of a dedication to his kids. It is about the love he feels for his

children. I said, just feel that and whatever you feel that it come out

through your arms and legs. The only thing I am not allowed to do in the

middle of the routine is say, go to bed which could happen! Brush your

teeth! What to think about the news that Jeremy Vine has agreed, once he

should get to the final, to recreate the Mysterious Girl video?

should get to the final, to recreate things first, I want him to get to

the final. I think things first, I want him to get to

and I'm so glad he's doing so well. If he recreates that, I am worried

he will put me out of work. Everyone should get into the final because I

would love to see that. Even if he doesn't get to the final, he is

doing it, I did care! Good luck on your Viennese waltz. Peter and

Jeannette! -- Jannette. If music be the food of love,

play on. It's time for Tunes on Tuesday!

The great Bob Marley once said, "The good thing about music is, when

Well, hit me with your rhythm stick Mr Jukebox

because we want to know what songs our couples are dancing to

This year marks the 30 year anniversary since the band formed.

But I digress, which of our couples will be dancing

That's right, Jamelia and Tristan will be hoping

the judges show a little respect to their Samba on Saturday night.

That's The Jam with Going Underground.

Although it wasn't written about the London Underground,

did you know London's tube travels 43 million miles every year?

That's right, Jeremy and Karen will be Going Underground

I can see Jeremy as a Mod, can't you?

That's Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince,

also known as Will Smith, with Boom Shake The Room.

But which of our couples will be dancing to this classic?

Kellie and Kevin will be tackling the Samba to that.

If you want to find out what all of our couples will be dancing to,

click on the Strictly website. Can I sit down yet? I look ridiculous!

Now, it's like she's never been away and she's back for more.

I quite like it when you tell me off, I have to say. Let's talk about

Peter and Jeannette. The highest score for him and for them so far.

Utterly brilliant. Why was it so good? The great thing about

choreography and teamwork is it leaves a lasting memory. It is all

about the contouring. They were going fast into that lovely slow

action. There were lifts and drops. It is just the teamwork between

those two. And also the quality of the choreography. All the layering

which is going on. I am in love with it from week to week. They have to

keep coming back with more like it. It is all about the lasting memory.

Let's have a look at Helen and Aljaz's drama filled rumba. There

was the added drama of Len and Craig. Was there enough rumba or

not? There is the drama of the drag here building up at the end,

combined with the fundamentals of the basics and then the finish. That

silence. I just loved it. If she had even slightly dropped her hand, it

would have ruined the moment. I had to write my notes on this. What I

like to say, not enough fundamentals. These two are poor

imitation of the dance. Too much fundamentals can leave a performance

with no appeal. So really we are saying, it is

finding the balance. For Aljaz and all of our professionals, the

Strictly clock is ticking. They can be changing choreography even to up

on the day. We don't know where Aljaz was going. For me, our

beautiful lady, she has still got to keep working on those legs. She has

to be the master of seven different rumba walks. And let's talk very

quickly, I don't want to upset everybody at home, I just want to do

my demo. All the mums at home will be opening the fridge door, getting

the dinner out and they will be closing it again. We are going to

forward walk turning and then back. Seven different rumba walks they

have to master. They have to get it out the way. They have got it out of

the way, now let's get onto next. Anita and Gleb, their joys. Craig

think he Anita and Gleb, their joys. Craig

style, what did he mean? Full of energy, fast, energy, kicks but

Craig was on the money. Kicks and flicks first of all, straight back

and trainers gives the image of a rock and roll style dance and that

was the first thing that was probably affecting the style of the

dance. The second thing is we have the musical timing of a jive. Our

international jive is a slower slow. That means one beat, three quarters

of the time we stand on it. On another beat we stand there for a

quarter of a moment and on the final moment we stand there for a whole

beat. Basically one should be held for the longest amount of time. So

it goes one two, 12-macro. That gives us this jive style. Where it

was going quick, quick, quick, changes the style of the dance.

Craig was nit-picking but it was only a little thing. Well done to

them. Onto Jeremy and Karen and their Wild West tango. The audience

went crackers. The judges were almost speechless. Was it a good

tango? I am in love with the horse! That is another story. In general,

he is mastering it. We have the head turns very sharp. It is all about

the delivery of the execution. We love Jeremy. We just want to see

more and more of the execution now. Before the end he goes, come on! He

is saying Mark May. This is performance, entertainment and we

are seeing him going back and back again! George and Giovanni finishing

the show with their spicy samba. High praise, such speed, incredible

technique. The judges said speed may have been George's downfall. What do

you think? Gosh no. It is not only speed she

has, it is the control. You can see the slow there. You have to be so in

control of your legs and action, to be flying around that dance floor

and to be able to control the slow is incredible. I love the power of

her legs. The relationship between them. So much so, there is a tiny

little error I have picked up on. I have to do it in slow motion. A

simple arm. Watch now. The arm is going into the wrong position and in

a heartbeat, he picked it up, put it in the right position and they have

carried on as though nothing happened. None of us would have seen

that. That's how strict my eye is. But so fast, they are that in tune

with each other, he saw that arm going wrong, put it in the right

place and it looked flawless. This is how clever they all are. Thank

you for coming back, the wonderful Karen Hardy.

This week's group dance is all about the many faces of love.

I cannot wait for this week's group dance rehearsal. Romance has hit the

Strictly studio and sweeping all the pros along with it. It is a row tan

particular dance. A few love stories. In the dance you will

follow through three different relationships. It is a love story

initially, from the park, into the office, back into the park and

eventually you will see how tlinges together. We are following different

relationships through of the different dances. We have used

ballroom dancing as the medium but we wanted to use a fusion, sometimes

you see the Viennese waltz, sometimes the foxtrot, a little

contestifiry in there. It is beautiful when they come together at

the end. Working with Jason is probably by far one of my favourite

things to do. He is so involved in every aspect and every inch of the

routine. Five, six, seven, eight and one... He works us hard but he is

one of the best choreographers in the world. Coming up with these

ideas, it is outstanding. One or two key individuals pull it together and

Jason is right at the top of that. It looks like another goody. Two

weeks awhy they were joint first. But on Sunday night they fought

and survived the dance off. Dare we say

the word "roller-coaster"? Give them extra amounts of love,

Kellie and Kevin. Hello my darlings. Give them extra amounts of love,

Bless you, nobody saw Give them extra amounts of love,

the weekend. Everyone was like - what's going

the weekend. Everyone was like - shocked and gutted as we were all

the weekend. Everyone was like - surreal moment. Not because it was

the weekend. Everyone was like - does that mean we're through?

the weekend. Everyone was like - and then - I mean everyone could see

my face. When I watched it back I felt - oh my God, I look like I've

been punched in the tummy or something. It felt like all the air

had gone out of me. And my first thought was - don't krie, just don't

cry. I looked at you and you went, "Are you OK?" And I was, "I'm OK."

That was the hardest thing like, taking that big breath in and going

- right, OK, here we go, onwards and I'm going to have to try to manage

my nerves and all these emotions that are rushing through me and get

through this next bit. Because I can't afford to mess this up. That's

what I was thinking. All of that in a split second. In a split second.

And when I watched it back, seeing everyone else's faces, which of

course I had no idea about. They were all like - WHAT. Honestly Kev

first time in the dance-off, dump - first time in the dance-off. What

did it feel like? I felt bad. Don't. We were both in a daze. Not quite

sure what to do. Full credit to Kellie. She picked up and danced

even better in the dance-offs. I didn't, I was panicking. He was a

superstar. Whatever was going on for him inside, he didn't let me know

any of it. He was like a rock. He was like, "You can do this, we can

do this, it is going to be fine. I know you have this in you, don't

worry, it is all good." And you turned around and went - I want my

mum! The wonderful thing is the judges unanimously saved you.

mum! The wonderful thing is the said goodbye to Carole. They all

decided to save you. Does that give you confidence back? The judges were

all lovely. They were lovely right from the minute we were in the

dance-off. They said really lovely things and yes, of course, it was

great they all agreed to save us but for me t doesn't take away from the

fact that people didn't vote for us. You know, they didn't vote. But

there are all sorts of reasons why. That's hard not to take personally

and not to go... What have you done, people? They don't like me. You have

to remember that this often happens. Abbey Clancy, bottom two, went on to

win. I think sometimes people who are doing well, the people who have

less votes, I think sometimes get more votes. I don't know, you maybe

wrong. That's what I'm thinking. Let's talk about your right

shoulder, the nemesis. Get down! Let's remind ourselves of what

happened. Only that right shoulder. . Oh, my right shoulder has a life

of its own, Darcey. It has a lot of feeling. You bring it into it just

too much. But when we - we did talk about this with Karen Monday's show.

And she was like - it is only a little bit and then you correct it

as well Well, apparently so. Kevin probably mentions my right shoulder

in training, oh, how many times a session, do you reckon, 20? Probably

more. Probably more. Don't give me your shoulder, don't give me your

shoulder. I get that a lot. I don't know what it is. I don't know if it

is tension. I think in ballroom because you have to be out to the

left, I just automatically sort of do that to force myself out, rather

than laying back there. Karen says you have to twist here and there.

These are pernickity tiny things, aren't they? . Really small things.

What I was really pleased about, though, was Len picked up on the

double reverse swings and heel turns. We are working on technical

things. We wanted it to be a quality waltz. It is not a big, flashy,

showy dance, you can't throw yourself around and do lifts. You

have to show quality. Obviously we had done fast dances for the weeks

before, so we wanted to show that finesse and technique. Of course

there will be things here and there, but I was pleased Len picked up on

the quality of that. So was I. Let's leave that behind and let's move on

you are doing a samba to Boom Shake The Room. Come on! Is it going to be

like some crazy multi-coloured '90s' moment? Exactly what it is going to

be. Exactly. We are so excited. I said to Kevin - we can't go home, we

have to do next week, we have just got to do this routine. We have been

so excited about it. I know. And because we are fighting for our

lives now, we are going all out. What do you have planned then? You

are already excited about it now, he is going crazy with the

choreography, what delights can we witness? A lot of energy, full-on

samba and a massive ghetto blaster. I can't wait There is a lot of hip

action. That's what I will say a lot of hip action. Quite excited by

that. You were saying at the weekend you wish you had more time to

practise. You don't physically have any more time. You have massive

storylines in EastEnders at the moment. It is a really difficult

thing for me. I knew that I would be doing both things at the same time

when I said yes. I wanted to do it so much that I was - I will be fine,

I will be fine but my brain is reaching saturation of going - you

cannot remember any more routines or any more line, there is no room but

I'm going to have to pull it out of the bag this week because like Kevin

said, I feel we are really fighting now to have a place here. So, I'm

going to literally dance in my sleep. You know that thing you said

last week about not sleeping, I'm going to do that. Yes, don't bother

sleeping, act, dance. Don't lose heart, you are brilliant, both of

you. I think it is going to be great.

Now, Kevin is going to remain with us

Now, we have a tonne of questions for you both so let's get into it.

Niamh would like to know - how long does it take for you to learn your

pro routines? Oh, well we start early. We start in August and we

usually have a day per dance. About eight hours, isn't it? About eight

hours. How do you remember that? Well we don't. They all go on a

private website that we all have, that we can then look at and recap

the dance and we come in for rehearsals on Monday mornings to

recap it all. Who is the worst at forgetting things? Oh... . Some

people just don't watch the video. Janette, Charlie asks - what is your

favourite part of being a pro on Strictly? That's a question. I think

just the job in itself. I get to dance, I get to teach, I get to

choreograph. And on top of it all I get to do it with the love of my

life and some of my best and closest friends. It is just everything about

it is amazing. I couldn't ask for a more perfect job. It is a dream job.

I love everything about it. Everything, everything, everything.

A good answer. Kimberly wants to know - what is it like having your

other halves on the show? Annoying. No, it is really nice, actually. I

mean me and Karen love working together and Aljaz and Janette love

working together. For the four of us, because we are all best mates,

we have our own little team. We all ourselves the dream team,

#Dream team, the coolsome foursome. So what whoever celebrities we are

paired up with, they have a support team. Do you ever swap parters? We

do. In Blackpool Kevin and I will be dance together. High standards. Yes.

And Georgia asks - what is your favourite song to dance to, if you

are at home with Aljaz and you have some wine I don't have a favourite

song. Not one that makes you crack out. I like everything groovy.

Kevin. . Theme tune to the Muppets. Brilliant. Looking forward to seeing

you dancing in Blackpool. That's all we have time for tonight,

folks. Tomorrow Jay

and Aliona will be popping in, We commence our worldwide tour

of the various Strictly shows Plus, Ian Waite will be weighing

up our couples in training. Join us on BBC One for a truly epic

night of entertainment,