:00:44. > :00:46.Live from London, this is Strictly: It Takes Two.
:00:47. > :01:01.Hello and welcome to your Wednesday edition of It Takes Two.
:01:02. > :01:05.We have a jam-packed show for you, my friends, so come join the party.
:01:06. > :01:09.In our glittering green room tonight we've got Helen and Aljaz and Jay
:01:10. > :01:18.We are still waiting for Helen to turn up!
:01:19. > :01:20.With Blackpool just days away, tonight Ian Waite takes
:01:21. > :01:24.an exclusive first look at all of our couples in training in the
:01:25. > :01:33.But first, they opened the show last weekend and quickstepped
:01:34. > :02:06.Alert! Anita, show me your hands! Tell me what happened. Is it his
:02:07. > :02:11.fault? I got him back! I have a scar here. He's not stopped crying about
:02:12. > :02:17.it. It is not - the headline is, it is not broken. The headline, it is
:02:18. > :02:23.not broken. How did it happen? She was going through my legs and she
:02:24. > :02:28.didn't close her thumbs... My thumbs ended up down here. Don't! You did
:02:29. > :02:32.go to the hospital. Let's see what happened. There is no margin for
:02:33. > :02:37.error or anything to go wrong, so I need to get this x-rayed to make
:02:38. > :02:44.sure that it's still useable. The x-ray is clear. Excellent. It is not
:02:45. > :02:53.broken? No. Gleb, you are one lucky man! What lovely metatarsals you
:02:54. > :02:57.have(!) Is it going to be alright for the weekend? It will have to be.
:02:58. > :03:02.The thing is, every single one of us have had some sort of injury. Yeah.
:03:03. > :03:06.This feels like, oh yes, this is nothing compared to what my ribs
:03:07. > :03:10.were doing in Week 3, or the fact my hamstring went. It doesn't matter.
:03:11. > :03:14.You are talking like a dancer, it's a mere flesh wound! If you need a
:03:15. > :03:17.plaster, Gleb, we can get some. Let's go back to Saturday night. And
:03:18. > :03:22.another winning performance from the two of you. This was absolutely
:03:23. > :03:26.beautiful. Look at you out there. The judges were full of praise for
:03:27. > :03:29.you. Wonderful. And very complimentary about how consistent
:03:30. > :03:34.you are. Starting this competition, having never been to stage school,
:03:35. > :03:39.having never done any dancing, are you starting to feel like a dancer?
:03:40. > :03:49.I don't know. It's really hard to say. Yeah, I'm a... Say yes! Yes! Am
:03:50. > :03:54.I getting better? You are right, I entered Strictly with zero, nothing,
:03:55. > :03:59.like, what, I don't know. Week on week, the fact that Gleb said to me,
:04:00. > :04:04.I feel you are getting better, yes, it is, like, that, to me... She is
:04:05. > :04:09.getting better every week. That is the biggest compliment. I loved
:04:10. > :04:15.every second of that quickstep. I just loved it. You can tell when
:04:16. > :04:18.someone's enjoying it because it oozes out of your every pore. How
:04:19. > :04:25.was it opening the show? Do you like that? Is it more terrifying than
:04:26. > :04:29.normal? We opened with the Samba. It is quite terrifying. It is quite
:04:30. > :04:33.nice as well. You do it and you get the - if it goes well... It depends
:04:34. > :04:37.on the dance. If you have tricks and flicks, you have to warm up. Yeah.
:04:38. > :04:39.If it's a quickstep where you are always in hold, there is not much
:04:40. > :04:46.going on. It is easier. always in hold, there is not much
:04:47. > :04:50.going on apart from all of this and that(!) Gleb, you did have a bit of
:04:51. > :04:57.quickstep classing from the master himself. Anton. Did that help or
:04:58. > :05:00.were you being polite? It helped. He's a master of ballroom. So he
:05:01. > :05:05.came in the room and I was, like, Anton, I have this step, what do you
:05:06. > :05:10.think? He was, like, do that and change your foot. Oh, yeah, that
:05:11. > :05:16.might work. I still didn't use it. Didn't you use it? Ah! Great advice.
:05:17. > :05:21.Did you show him any rumba? I tried to. We did a little bit. He is good
:05:22. > :05:26.at the rumba. Last night, Karen Hardy was on the show and she said,
:05:27. > :05:29.what a lot of other people have been saying, she feels you are being a
:05:30. > :05:35.bit undermarked. And she wants saying, she feels you are being a
:05:36. > :05:39.see an end to that and see you getting good, good scores. How does
:05:40. > :05:43.that feel to hear someone like Karen saying give them more marks!
:05:44. > :05:46.that feel to hear someone like Karen support from Karen Hardy is immense.
:05:47. > :05:50.I got loads of people on social media saying, yeah, for me, as long
:05:51. > :05:53.as I'm improving, the scores - obviously, it would be incredible to
:05:54. > :05:57.get amazing scores from the judges. I'm happy. Let's think about the
:05:58. > :06:01.dance. It is all about the dancing. It is just about the dance. As long
:06:02. > :06:06.as I can nail the dance every week, that is what it is about. Nines and
:06:07. > :06:11.tens would be good at Blackpool! You are in the middle of the leered
:06:12. > :06:15.board. -- leaderboard. It is getting tough, this competition. How does it
:06:16. > :06:19.feel to be in there? If you get high scores, you are not so in danger? I
:06:20. > :06:23.don't know. I don't know. I want to do the best that I can do on the
:06:24. > :06:27.night. And enjoy it. And be able to nail the routine that we are
:06:28. > :06:31.rehearsing. If people go, oh my God, you managed to do that! That is it.
:06:32. > :06:36.That is it. That is all that matters. Off to Blackpool with a
:06:37. > :06:42.paso doble. What more could you want? I'm so excited, I spat at you
:06:43. > :06:45.there! This looks fantastic! Are you loving the drama of this dance and
:06:46. > :06:48.how is the training going? I can't tell you how much I'm loving the
:06:49. > :06:51.drama. It is different to the quickstep.
:06:52. > :06:56.drama. It is different to the light and breezy, this is intense
:06:57. > :06:57.and passionate and romantic and I love it! The training is the same as
:06:58. > :07:02.every week. It is difficult. It love it! The training is the same as
:07:03. > :07:06.starting from scratch. I'm looking forward to it. Now, with cape, let's
:07:07. > :07:21.MUSIC with that.
:07:22. > :07:25.It's going to be amazing. APPLAUSE
:07:26. > :07:29.You look like you are putting the APPLAUSE
:07:30. > :07:34.duvet on! You showed the entire routine! Do that, it is a winner. It
:07:35. > :07:37.is huge, this weekend, it is Blackpool, you are doing a paso
:07:38. > :07:41.doble. We are looking forward to the Gleb special moves that he is going
:07:42. > :07:45.to throw in. There will be plenty. Good luck this weekend. Thank you.
:07:46. > :07:52.Thank you. Anita and Gleb! APPLAUSE I like the chain!
:07:53. > :07:54.Now, how about a first look at our couples in training for Blackpool?
:07:55. > :08:17.The result of yesterday's iVote is in.
:08:18. > :08:20.We asked you to vote on what Blackpool style costume you would
:08:21. > :08:25.The votes have been counted and verified, and I can now reveal
:08:26. > :08:41.APPLAUSE I have to say, we could have
:08:42. > :08:44.splashed out a bit more on a proper donkey outfit! I come on live
:08:45. > :08:54.television for you to make an ass out of me! I have you a special
:08:55. > :08:59.wand! I will eat that later! It is a snack. It is Blackpool, it is upon
:09:00. > :09:05.us, there is a frenzy in the air. We are all so excited. What excites you
:09:06. > :09:09.the most about Blackpool? It's - the professionals love it. We have
:09:10. > :09:13.danced there all our lives. It has the biggest competition in the world
:09:14. > :09:17.there. It has that history in the ballrooms there. You can't beat the
:09:18. > :09:20.history that it has. It is so special to go back there. What about
:09:21. > :09:26.the floor? Everyone talks about the floor. The floor is so - I nearly
:09:27. > :09:29.dropped my carrot! It goes up-and-down about six or seven
:09:30. > :09:37.inches. That is the floor, ladies and gentlemen! Jay and Aliona in
:09:38. > :09:44.training, they had a hiccup on the floor on Saturday. They are dancing
:09:45. > :09:48.the salsa to Cuba. It is a classic. Could this be the best salsa we have
:09:49. > :09:53.ever seen? I think it will be awesome, Zoe. I think it is very
:09:54. > :09:57.fast and frenetic. If you look at all this fast armography, it looks
:09:58. > :10:02.immense, especially with Jay's long arms. Oh, yeah, lovely, long limbs.
:10:03. > :10:08.He makes it look effortless and good. But... There is always a but!
:10:09. > :10:13.It can always go wrong. This area here is what I would like him to
:10:14. > :10:19.work on. Oop! The end of your carrot has come off! Excuse me. Do you want
:10:20. > :10:27.your old wand back? I can do it with my finger. This area here, his hips,
:10:28. > :10:31.they have to be like... Like that - loose! They have to oscillate and
:10:32. > :10:37.move. With all of the armography that is going on, he's forgetting
:10:38. > :10:43.about his hips, so he needs to make sure that he's using those as well.
:10:44. > :10:49.Let's move on to Jamelia and Tristan. They have broken history by
:10:50. > :10:52.being in the dance-off and surviving for the fourth time. It takes a lot
:10:53. > :10:57.of guts to still dance with a smile on your face. She has a quickstep.
:10:58. > :11:03.How is she doing? Hasn't she done amazing to survive all of those
:11:04. > :11:07.dance-offs? Here, as you can see, sometimes they are out of sync and
:11:08. > :11:12.the quickstep is so fast. There are so many steps involved, it is so
:11:13. > :11:16.easy to just take one step and then be completely out of sync, you are
:11:17. > :11:20.going down whilst he is going up. This is an example of that. As you
:11:21. > :11:25.can see... You are struggling with your tail and your carrot! As you
:11:26. > :11:27.can see here, we need to see her over here rather than disappearing
:11:28. > :11:38.because she's sort of gone down there. She needs to banana her body
:11:39. > :11:43.into Tristan's right side so that she needs to be seen from behind.
:11:44. > :11:47.Alright. We want to see her face over his lovely shoulders. Anita and
:11:48. > :11:52.Gleb, they are excited about their paso doble. This could be quite
:11:53. > :11:57.awesome. How is it looking? It is. I have got a bit of insider
:11:58. > :12:04.information. Do tell. There will be three boys with capes as well. Ah!
:12:05. > :12:09.This is going to be very dramatic and it will be wonderful, a
:12:10. > :12:15.wonderful piece of music to Malaguena. This is the place where I
:12:16. > :12:20.want to highlight. Look at her... What is going on with your tools
:12:21. > :12:26.today? Hang on. There you go! I want to highlight this. She has lovely,
:12:27. > :12:30.curved hands, even with that sore thumb, she's doing very well with
:12:31. > :12:33.that. It looks fantastic. I think all she needs to do is shape it a
:12:34. > :12:38.bit more and she will be there. More exaggeration. On to Katie and Anton,
:12:39. > :12:43.the rumba was full of drama and intensity. They go to Blackpool with
:12:44. > :12:48.an American Smooth, which they are dancing to Ain't That A Kick In The
:12:49. > :12:53.Head? This will be perfect for them. It is a typical Anton, sort of
:12:54. > :12:57.old-time, old-school, big band number, and we are at Blackpool. How
:12:58. > :13:02.could it be any better? It will be perfect. She is doing some lovely
:13:03. > :13:09.fall-aways, I would like her to release her toes a bit. She is in
:13:10. > :13:15.the perfect place on him. Isn't he a pretty donkey? Peter and Janette are
:13:16. > :13:20.doing a jive. He did so great at the Charleston. They are dancing to Tina
:13:21. > :13:26.Turner, could this be a goody for him? A brilliant song. A classic
:13:27. > :13:30.jive number, River Deep Mountain High. He is light on his feet. He
:13:31. > :13:36.goes for it. The jive is perfect for him. What I would like him to do, he
:13:37. > :13:40.does this flick-ball changes and he is very upright. Janette is further
:13:41. > :13:45.forward in the chest and she's picked up from behind. Yes. She's
:13:46. > :13:49.picked up from behind, tucked under and she is flicking like this - do
:13:50. > :13:53.it with me! It is like this, like that, and then you go like that. I
:13:54. > :14:01.always wanted to be the back end of the donkey! OK, let's move on to
:14:02. > :14:04.Georgia and Giovanni and their Viennese with an American Smooth
:14:05. > :14:07.twist with it. Top of the leaderboard. Can they stay up there
:14:08. > 0:07:13this week? Such a great dance last week. I loved it. That