Episode 34 Strictly - It Takes Two

On tonight's show, we've got the gorgeous Georgia and Giovanni.

We've also got Strictly's newest cleaning team.

Gleb, did you get to keep those blue overalls?

Well, I wanted to, but they disappeared from

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

Ball! I don't know about you,

but there's nothing I love more than starting the show with a bit

of viewer interaction. So, what we'd like to know, for none

other reason than it's a bit of fun is, who has been your favourite ever

male celebrity winner of Strictly? There's only been six of them,

so who's your number one? Let us know what you think

by heading online to: The vote closes at 6.45 tonight,

so you've only got 15 minutes. We'll reveal the results

at the end of the show. Our couples can almost smell that

Tower Ballroom in Blackpool. The only thing standing in their way

is the show this weekend, darn it. So, let's see how

their routines are shaping up. The foxtrot is pretty technical. I

want to nail the technique. Forward. Side. That is it.

I also want to make sure I am bringing out the emotion I am trying

to get from the song. Amazing.

Aliona has been nothing but encouraging.

A lot of things are ticking for the first time after weeks.

The theme of this amber is 19th hip-hop.

Last week we were in the dance off. Next week is that Paul.

This is our most important week yet. Kevin Clifton thinks about the music

and concept really carefully. This is another routine which will

kill me. We are really going for it. We are

switching gears, go harder. So excited.

Somebody stop me! Come on!

I like his hair, it has been in a wind tunnel!

Whilst our couples are locked away in rehearsals, it looks like one

of our Strictly judges has been moonlighting elsewhere.

Come here, boy. His name is Craig. Who calls a Kat Craig?

I love my Strictly. Craig. You have to say Craig Revel

Horwood! There is no way that is happening.

Please? Craig Revel Horwood!

Brilliant. Right, hope you're ready

for my first couple. The last time they were here,

my O level Italian let me down. E la samba piu veloce

che ho mai visto. I love your Italian accent. If you

make it to the final at Christmas, I may have perfected it.

Well done. Let us remind ourselves how

brilliant you work on the floor. Could that samba have

been any faster? It was really hard. I enjoyed it and

you learn it more easily. It was a nice week. And that dress.

I loved it. We need to talk about this.

Can you explain that outfit? It is so cute. What were you dressed as?

Actually, I don't have any idea. You don't remember.

I can't. I need to call my mum and ask.

An Italian telly tubby! You looked very cute.

I don't think I've seen a male pro's hips move so fast.

How difficult was that routine for a learner like Georgia?

That routine was really, really hard, to be honest. We started with

zigzag, and a lot of difficult stuff.

The finish was really good. Really good. Every week she is

getting better. Yes!

That is what we want to hear. The judges loved it, and even Craig

said it was incredible. However, he is the only judge

not to give you a 9 yet. How are you going to get a 9 out

of him? The vote was amazing. And I still

made a mistake. I was over the moon. What will it take to get a higher

mark from Craig? From Craig? I was thinking to take off my top!

But I realised we are doing the charleston so I can't. You have to

be fully digest for a charleston. Good to know.

For the past two weeks, you've either been top or second

You must see yourself as a contender now?

Yes, I feel like an actual dancer, it is amazing. I don't know how this

has happened. I was feeling sick to six weeks.

I love the way he underplays it. Yeah, you are doing all right.

Solid. Giovanni is confident how far you can make it.

It says, Nato per sincere, which means, born to win.

I like that faith. Are you going to get a matching tattoo?

We had a T-shirt with, born to win, on the back.

This week, you've got the Charleston and you're dancing to this.

You've been looking forward to this one.

I don't know, I have always been obsessed by it. It is good fun.

Chicago is my favourite musical, so the song is amazing to dance to.

Here you are in training, look at that swivel, ladies and gentlemen,

looking good. Last week, at the weekend, Peter and

Janette got the highest score. How much pressure are you

feeling to top them? They did a great job but we need to

do better. We have been trying. My legs are broken.

From doing the charleston. Aches and pains.

We have an amazing list. They wouldn't even let us watch. In

case we gave anything away. I have a big mouth.

If you get through this weekend, then you'll be dancing at the

What would it mean to you to dance there?

That is the most amazing thing ever, as a northerner, that Paul is

amazing. To be able to dance in an iconic place would be a dream come

true. Have you been to the Tower Ballroom?

Yes, as a kid, I went to Blackpool a lot.

And last time I went, was to Blackpool rocks.

A lot of dancing, still. We have this lovely little picture.

Now, our backstage beavers have been busy this week.

They stumbled upon this little beauty which proves, Georgia,

That lasted about a week because I was a bit too naughty for ballet.

I hear it wasn't long before you ditched the dancing

I didn't even get my white belt because I was so bad. I was in my

Aladdin pyjama top. Would you like to change how they

remember you? Psych yourself up, don't damage your

hands. Brush on, brush off.

We should probably do the old wax on, wax off from

Sounding good, that was quite impressive. I am really scared.

Now, Giovanni is definitely in my top three favourite new pros

Diplomatic! I love you too.

But these pros aren't just dancing machines, as we found out when Pasha

Hey, neighbour. How are you? Good to see you.

I did not grow up in England. What was it like in Siberia?

Much colder. Here, a lot of rain. There, a lot of snow. Snowing

everywhere, beautiful and white, -20.

Do you still have family there? My mum and brother. I am from

Wicklow, south of Dublin. Seaside resort. Yes.

But there is not too much sun, not too many people dance. I don't know

what it is like in Siberia. Who did dancing? My grandparents,

social dancers, starting late in their life, competing. They got my

sister and me into it and it developed. How did you get into

dancing? My mum took me to a dancing cop

edition. Was she a dancer? I am the only one.

In Siberia? Not in Siberia. When I was eight, I did dancing, martial

arts, swimming, music stuff. One by one, everything fell off and

disappeared and I ended up in a sparkly shirt.

Impressive. 18, I moved to Moscow, 20 mood to

New York. To dance. Everything was different,

everything. For example, food. For dessert, they said, cheesecake.

I like cheese but not that much that I have to eat the whole cake. You

know. I had never seen or heard of things

like that growing up in Russia. My experience of dancing I suppose

is quite different to yours, I never thought about it before.

I left dancing for a couple of years and tried everything. I worked in a

bag. Yes. Landscape gardening. Worked on

building sites, as an electrician. A bunch of stuff. I started getting

into dancing a bit more. I was older and started

understanding it more. There is something I need to ask you

about. Any time you are not talking to me or dancing, I see you playing

computer games. White, what is it? When I was a little kid, the first

time I saw computers, it was so amazing. I was writing programmes

for computers when I was 12. I don't remember what I was doing at

12. I was properly figuring how to put my child is not back to front

anymore! Last question. All the guys on

Strictly quite close, we chat and support each other. If you had to be

on a deserted island, who would you take?

Everyone is cool. And support each other. If you had to be on a

deserted island, who would you take? Everyone is cool.

You are strong, you could take the coconuts from the tree.

I would definitely take Tristan fifs on a deserted eye tanned. And -- I

would definitely take Tristan if I was on a deserted island. And my

husband, and Ian Waite. And there'll be more pro

tete-a-tetes to come Now, speaking of ex-computer

programmers turned electricians All that cleaning I have been doing.

So shiny. Gleb wants his outfit back. He looked much better than me

in it. I can tell you. This weekend, if they get through, the couples go

to Blackpool. Do you know why? Why? Because of the wrap party

afterwards. I can understand. My dad was the last one to leave. Let's get

on with our couples. In training, Jeremy and Karen, who knows how they

are going to get over that horse business. This week it is a

quickstep for them. What do we think? Yes, well, he is quite light

on his feet. Do you think? Is it a good thing? It is a good thing in

quickstep. There are places where he is doing kind of this pick-up where

he picks his leg up and sticking his legs out, which is wrong. On a

Charleston sort of step like that, which he just z it is OK. But I will

say - if I just get this out... AUDIENCE: OHHHH As you can see his

elbow is higher than his shoulder and his hand. Not good? No. He needs

to drop it. I will demonstrate it with you. I'm here. He is like that

at the moment, amount. He gets to that stage and his elbows are behind

his back. He needs to take them in front and drop them down a bit. So

more of a... Perfection. More of a rounded shape. Not too round but

there, rather than there. Other than that, looking fine. Jamelia and

Tristan. A break from the bottom two. This week, it is a samba for

them. How are they looking? Not great at the moment. Lots of

promenade runs. Really? Not this particular step She needs to pick

her body up here, underneath. If I just do this, the tall. It is the

whole thing, she needs to pick up her body underneath, bend into the

knee and stretch the back foot so she has all her weight forward. She

can only do that if she brings her chest forward and takes her arms

forward. She tends to let the arms flop back. I mean it is looking a

little bit. As she does it quickly and goes around how does it look?

Like that. And how should it look? Like that. And a binge, and a bang.

Like Georgia did it last week. She needs to be in control. You have the

ladies in the audience giggling. Katy and Anton do a romantic rumba.

Notoriously this dance can be difficult. These two are looking

good. She has nice legs and feet. That helps for a rum BA they look

gorgeous. What she needs to do, she needs to settle her weight into the

hip. What do you mean? That's the problem. Sometimes when you have

done a lot of ballet, to keeps you up and out of the floor. What we

need to do, as she passes the foot through, she needs to release. Like

you do in the supermarket queue? Yeah, settle into the hips Here they

do an opening out. # the hand is like - urgh. How should it be? Show

her. Finishing off the lines. Open out. Palm down to the floor and then

the other way. Like that. Palm down to the floor. In the hips.

Let's move on to Georgia and Giovanni. They are so excited about

their Charleston. I think this is going to be truly epic. I think it

is really going to suit them. They are light, they are fun. All the

things that Charleston are. It'll suit their cheeky sort of character.

Lovely swivels there from Georgia and a great, great lovely step. I

think that's called a winding up the aeroplane or something like that.

They go slightly out of sync at the end but I do think it is going to be

a really good dance for them. They have lots of energy. They are at

that stage in the competition, it'll definitely get them through to

Blackpool. So exciting. We will see Ian Waite next week for a Blackpool

ex-graph began zoo. Thank you. I know what you're thinking,

we haven't had an update on The Strictly dance for a matter of

days! Don't worry, the competition may

have closed but, whilst the judges choose their winners,

there's no reason why we can't Show us how it is done. I'm waiting

for the music. Is there any music? Here it comes.

Go. STRICTLY THEME TUNE PLAYS

APPLAUSE Well done to them. The nurses, the

lovely people in orange. Those ladies in the hats and that little

old lady walking across. Remember the competition is closed. We'll be

revealing the winners of those Strictly Blackpool tickets here on

Monday. Don't miss it, it could be you.

OK, it's nearly Friday which means two things.

And, secondly, it's Children In Need which means this fella might make

Hey Pudsey. We are going Pudsey for Pudsey at

the Children In Need Call The Midwife special. And we are

backstage with the East Ender's cast as they rehearse for the evening and

ill Divo will be here to sing us a song from their new album.

They cleaned up on the dance floor on Saturday night.

I tell you what, that ballroom has been calling for

Well done, I have never seen cleaners so glamorous in my whole

life. Blimey that was good Anita. So good. Brilliant performance. Will

you ever look at mop in the same way again? No, talk about Wonder Woman.

. I did think Wonder Woman. I thought you were going to fly On

Saturday night, when I got home, the first thing I z I got my mop, it was

there, I had been practising, and put it in the cupboard. It was great

fun. The speed of the dance was something else. The kicks and

flicks. Your stamina is incredible. I know how many times you have to do

that, to practise. You must be the fittest you have ever been. Yes. .

Some abes going on. I have abes. Have you counted. We have a

competition every morning when we look at each other's abes. I just

look at his. It is a hard job. A nightmare. And well done, your

scores, finally 9s. So deserved. Was it worth the wait? We are working so

hardful every week, Monday morning we start and whatever I perform on

Saturday. It is graft, you know. I often say - these are my feet on a

Monday and Gleb has to prise out every toe until we are dancing on a

Saturday. Not like that. Look even now he is instructing are you. We

must talk about one specific move that we now call the Flying Gleb.

Let's remind ourself. Firstly, where did the move come

from? I don't know. You know what t just happened on Monday. I came in

avens like - Anita I have something special for you this week. That's

something you could call it! . I said, you know what, stand there,

I'm going to jump at you. She goes - how are you going to jump? And I was

like - I'm going to jump right here. She was asking what would she do. I

said - just catch me. It looks terrifying. Did you not lose

anything teeth? Get a faceful of... Was it not quite scary? I don't

know. You just have to go for T I can't explain how it happens. It is

terrifying watching it. When you do it, you have to have faith. I just

trust him. You want to do it now. In the heels could you do it now? Um...

Do you want to try it? Oh my goodness me This is live TV. I'm in

epic heels. Are you ready? Incredible. It is fantastic.

Incredible. The Flying Gleb is one of many memorable move that is Gleb

has rated. I thought I was actually going to have a heart attack there.

That was incredible. Welcome to the countdown of Gleb's

famous moves. At six, it is the Boiler suit bounce.

At five, the one-handed heart wheel. At four - is that the karate kid? No

it is Gleb with the kick. At three, the floor has never looked so fast.

The floor sweep. At two, gravity, it is easy does T at number one and a

new entry in the Strictly dictionary, the now iconic Gleb

Special. Bruno needed a lie down in a dark

room after that. You lucky thing. This week you are dancing to to The

Pretenders. How is it going? The jive, high energy, I love doing all

that but to go back and do a ballroom and it is light on the

feet. I love the song. It is dreamy, romantic, a different feel

completely. I can't wait to do it. What kind of Gleb special are you

going to cram into a quickstep? Well the story is a special storey. We

are both on a blind date. Nice. You know, so we don't know who we are

going to meet, we are literally on on Tinder.

Other dating apps are able. Then we do a fun quickstep. Don't go on

dating websites, he is married. He is not there. How excited are you

about Blackpool if you get through this weekend? Hugely. Like Georgia,

being a northerner, love Blackpool. My mum, in the' # 0s when they got

married. Mum married my dad, and they went to Blackpool on honeymoon

with family in tow. I have pictures in a gorgeous sari with Blackpool

Tower behind her. I would love to dance in that ballroom. That would

be amazing. Fingers crossed it'll happen. Aknow at that and Gleb.

Now, earlier on, we asked you lot at home, who was your favourite ever

male celebrity winner of Strictly out of this handsome bunch?

They were all brilliant. Mark Ramprakash stands out. His hips. And

Louis Smith, when he lifted Flavia. With one finger.

Well, the results are in, and I can reveal that your favourite ever male

Harry Judd. Very deserving I would say. A huge thank you to all my

guests. Don't forget to tune in tomorrow at the earlier time of

6.00pm for an hour-long Children In Need special.

Jamelia and Tristan and Katie and Anton will be on the sofa, along

with my Friday panel made up of Sophie Raworth, Richard Osman and

And I'll even treat you to the rather dashing Il Divo who will

I can't wait. See you tomorrow. Good night.

Join us on BBC One for a truly epic night of entertainment,