:00:16. > :00:25.# From cradle to turn # Isn't that
:00:26. > :00:28.# Life is a cabaret old chum # And I love a cabaret
:00:29. > :00:35.# ANNOUNCER: #
:00:36. > :01:24.CLEAR Live from London, this is Strictly
:01:25. > :01:34.It Takes Two. Please welcome your host, Zoe Ball.
:01:35. > :01:38.CHEERING Welcome to It Takes Two, tonight, Ian Waite will be scroti
:01:39. > :01:41.needing the latest training room footage for the musicals week. How
:01:42. > :01:47.good was that opening? I love that man. He's ever so slightly excited.
:01:48. > :01:52.Top of the leaderboard Helen and Aljaz are here. Three times. We
:01:53. > :01:57.continue our Strictly round the world trip. Next stop, Lebanon.
:01:58. > :02:01.Plus, we put your questions to Ian and Aljaz. You can ask them
:02:02. > :02:07.anything, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls. Get them to us using the
:02:08. > :02:18.hashtag ask ITT. Jay's doing really well with his
:02:19. > :02:22.rumba. That was good. It's the technique and feel of the steps
:02:23. > :02:28.that's really important. That's what we're trying to ingrain in him. If I
:02:29. > :02:33.miss a step, it will be really obvious. It is such a simple dance
:02:34. > :02:37.any mistakes will be glaring. Jay needs to live in the moment and feel
:02:38. > :02:43.each step he does not just make steps. That's it. Did you feel that?
:02:44. > :02:46.Yeah. I just want to have it so ingrained in my body I can focus on
:02:47. > :02:57.telling the story. Yeah! This week, we're doing a Viennese
:02:58. > :03:02.waltz. Slightly disturbing me how easy it feels. I think Kellie's
:03:03. > :03:07.picking up the routine quickly. I'm not having to teach her as much as I
:03:08. > :03:11.was earlier in the series. She's finding the nuances of the character
:03:12. > :03:18.she has to play. If I'm emulating being a lady, I want to pick up my
:03:19. > :03:22.skirt. OK. She's choreographing now. Kellie can really get hold of this
:03:23. > :03:30.dance. It's exciting to watch. I like that little skirt bit as well!
:03:31. > :03:41.Well, it all looks great to me but I'm easily pleased, unlike this man!
:03:42. > :03:50.It's Ian Waite. CHEERING Look at your crazy getup? I
:03:51. > :03:55.know, more, encore. I loved your opening number, honey. They said
:03:56. > :04:03.would you choreograph this bit. I mean, you know. Nightmare. As if I
:04:04. > :04:07.would! He's the Mac to my Mable. The Jo to my Norma Desmond.
:04:08. > :04:12.Quarter-finals week. Very, siting. What do you make of it all? We
:04:13. > :04:16.haven't seen 40 yet. Full Martian. Could it be this week or are we
:04:17. > :04:21.never going to see that? It could be this week. It is all very story-led
:04:22. > :04:25.with those wonderful musicals and brilliant pieces of music. There's a
:04:26. > :04:31.couple of foxtrots as well. A couple of foxtrots. Always a winner. If
:04:32. > :04:35.they get the footwork right, Zoe, which is really important, they may
:04:36. > :04:42.get a 40. Let's look at Jay and Aliona. They are doing a rumba to
:04:43. > :04:47.Falling Slowly from Once. Never seen it have you? No. What are they
:04:48. > :04:51.looking like? What can you tell us? It is very smooth. Has a nice little
:04:52. > :04:56.action going on. It is a little apologetic for me. He's doing some
:04:57. > :05:03.nice settling into the hips. It has a nice quality of action. The only
:05:04. > :05:22.thing I do think - hold on one second! WHOOPINGS Obviously he's
:05:23. > :05:27.dancing into his partner so has to be sympathetic. The rest, he needs
:05:28. > :05:31.to open up his chest, be proud and arrogant. He's masculine, leading
:05:32. > :05:38.it. He needs to be a little author tiff. He's a little sympathetic and
:05:39. > :05:44.a little bit... Apologetic at the moment. I think he can take command.
:05:45. > :05:53.On to Katie and Anton. Foxtrot for them. To Maybe This Time. So
:05:54. > :05:57.exciting. You did an audition for Cabaret? Just then. You didn't get
:05:58. > :06:08.the job. How's it looking. What can you tell us? Extremely good. Very
:06:09. > :06:14.smooth as you would expect. I'd like her to bend into the knees more to
:06:15. > :06:20.give even more softness. If you look just there, you have some gapping
:06:21. > :06:23.there. Mind the gap! The gap's being created because she's in the wrong
:06:24. > :06:28.place. She should be a little more in front of him. I'll do this with
:06:29. > :06:33.you. Right foot, right foot. One, two, three. It is quite hard to
:06:34. > :06:40.stay... You have to turn your body to me. Like that? Behind my hip. Do
:06:41. > :06:43.that with the movement. Then you shouldn't have that gap between you.
:06:44. > :06:58.Never the gap. On to Kellie and Kevin. A bit of Umpapa from scale
:06:59. > :07:03.Oliver. Look a that skirt. It looks gorgeous. The action's amazing.
:07:04. > :07:08.She's in the right place in Kevin. Right over that left-hand side.
:07:09. > :07:12.She's got a very nice position. The only thing is the closes can be a
:07:13. > :07:17.little smoother so the transition. What I'm loving is she's really
:07:18. > :07:22.getting into this. She's having a great time. Go on, Kellie, we love
:07:23. > :07:30.her. I think she'll revel in the fact she's doing these story
:07:31. > :07:36.lines... As an actress. Anita and Gleb have the cellblock tango from
:07:37. > :07:41.Chicago for an Argentine tango? Look, Zoe, I've slowed this down a
:07:42. > :07:47.little bit. Lovely displacement where he flicks her leg up. He
:07:48. > :07:53.brings her round almost like a horizontal step. Ooh, thought she'd
:07:54. > :07:59.too many Sherries there! They come round and they have those typical
:08:00. > :08:04.flicks... Are they ganchos? Ganchos. I'd like to see her leaning a little
:08:05. > :08:10.more to him so she gives her body weight. How far do you lean? Not
:08:11. > :08:21.quite that much. OK, slightly more up. Not a bad attempt. Loving the
:08:22. > :08:28.top knot, Gleb. Georgia and Giovanni, Beauty and the Beast.
:08:29. > :08:32.She's turned into an amazing ballroom dancer. In exactly the
:08:33. > :08:36.right position. Look at her fingers, even her hands are in the right
:08:37. > :08:40.position. The only thing I can really take out of this which needs
:08:41. > :08:45.working on, there's not very much, is the shaping in her body.
:08:46. > :08:51.Sometimes she loses her neck. She needs to pull up in her body to give
:08:52. > :08:57.her more length in the neck. Aapart from that? Looking drop dead. Helen
:08:58. > :09:05.and Aljaz, we're about to see them in a moment. They've a paso doble?
:09:06. > :09:09.Look at this. Very dramatic. The thing is, it's a difficult dance.
:09:10. > :09:13.You have to have that character. It needs to have resistance, strength
:09:14. > :09:18.and focus. That's what Helen has to work on a little bit. She looks very
:09:19. > :09:23.soft. She does the soft dances very well. It is these strong dramatic
:09:24. > :09:28.dances where she needs to make sure she's creating. A bit more space and
:09:29. > :09:36.curving in the arms to cremate... Cremate? Create... That's a
:09:37. > :09:40.different thing. The flamenco and the paso doble shaping. She's
:09:41. > :09:45.working very hard at that. We'll talk to her and Aljaz in a moment.
:09:46. > :09:51.I'd like to play a game with you. For each remaining couple, we've
:09:52. > :09:55.added up all their scores to get an overall leaderboard total. Can you,
:09:56. > :10:00.Ian Waite, put them in order going from sixth place? Total on their
:10:01. > :10:13.Martian over the whole series? Yeah. There's pictures
:10:14. > :10:18.Martian over the whole series? Yeah. Kellie? Kellie in sixth place. Let's
:10:19. > :10:24.find out if he's right. No? Katie and Anton with 273. Who's in fifth
:10:25. > :10:30.place? God, now you've said that, maybe one of the others then. Kellie
:10:31. > :10:38.again? In fifth place, no? Kellie's going to hate you. Anita and Gleb
:10:39. > :10:44.with 305. This is terrible. Who Who's in fourth place? Not saying
:10:45. > :10:47.Kellie again. Georgia? Let's have a look. It's Kellie and Kevin. Top
:10:48. > :12:47.three... You can P is for badles. All the couples
:12:48. > :13:05.will be looking for that perfect score. 10, 10 from Len. 10, 10. 10.
:13:06. > :13:10.Did you know, Len's only ever got his 3 out once. That just happened
:13:11. > :13:14.to be on the lowest score ever on Strictly Come Dancing. I'm sure you
:13:15. > :13:22.all remember Quentin Willson's cha-cha-cha?
:13:23. > :13:31.Q is for quaking, quaking in their boots. Nerves play such a huge part
:13:32. > :13:39.in Strictly Come Dancing. I've got to get rid of the nerves and go out
:13:40. > :13:44.and enjoy it. Nail biting time. This is like the corridor of doom.
:13:45. > :13:55.Nervings and fear. The nerves. This is too much! Here we are at R. R is
:13:56. > :14:04.for... Urgh, all right then, R is for rhinestones and there are
:14:05. > :14:15.thousands of them. Hit it. I need a few more thousand crystals! You're
:14:16. > :14:20.boot lurks in that little outfit. We asked the celebs to count how many
:14:21. > :14:28.rhinestones are on their costumes. 11, 12, 13, 14, 15... You're having
:14:29. > :14:38.a laugh. And the answer is... A lot! S is for seven. But my favourite S
:14:39. > :14:41.makes even the pastiest of celebs look like they've been holidaying in
:14:42. > :14:51.the met. Of course, it's the spray tan. Snooty you know me. All natural
:14:52. > :14:55.here! Mr Windsor, the tanning booth is ready for you now. Zoe, back to
:14:56. > :15:06.you, my dear. The phrases that come out of Len
:15:07. > :15:14.Goodman and's mouth leave a slightly bemused. I'm a cup of tea in the
:15:15. > :15:18.world of skinny lattes. It was a bit like a pile, tasty in
:15:19. > :15:24.places but there are always a few funny bits floating about. He did
:15:25. > :15:31.outdo himself on Saturday with this. To call my bum and call me Donald.
:15:32. > :15:34.Whatever you say, Len! And it was Helen and Aljaz on the end of that
:15:35. > :15:51.one. Hello and welcome, Helen and Aljaz!
:15:52. > :15:54.APPLAUSE Great Froch, Helen, and
:15:55. > :16:04.congratulations on being top of the whole series. -- great frock. Don't
:16:05. > :16:10.feel any pressure! Your Viennese waltz on Saturday was delightful,
:16:11. > :16:17.delicious. How good did it feel to dance that? It felt so lovely. I
:16:18. > :16:21.have enjoyed all of our dancers, but this one particularly, because it
:16:22. > :16:26.just felt so easy. We just really enjoyed performing it, and the story
:16:27. > :16:30.of it. I was completely laughing because I was just loving it. And
:16:31. > :16:38.we're giggling as well, Aljaz? Yes, I was. It is one of those dances
:16:39. > :16:45.that gets you right there, it was the music, the frock, the dancing.
:16:46. > :16:49.Did you have any fears from the week before or had you banished all
:16:50. > :16:52.thoughts? I think I had let everything go a bit, and I hadn't
:16:53. > :17:00.thought about what the judges were going to think or what people might
:17:01. > :17:04.make of it, I thought I have just to enjoy it, or I will drive myself
:17:05. > :17:08.crazy, so we just did the dance and loved every second. We did decide
:17:09. > :17:15.that if we used as in the future, it will be escalators. Working
:17:16. > :17:25.batting! Can they work that in? Made from cardboard! Not only your first
:17:26. > :17:30.ten, your first three tens, and a 9 from Craig. It must have felt good
:17:31. > :17:41.to see all that hard work paying off. We have been working so hard
:17:42. > :17:45.this whole time, and to go out there and do that, I felt like the moment
:17:46. > :17:48.stop when we did that Viennese waltz, and then it was done, and
:17:49. > :17:55.then you have to go to the judges, and the panel was just so beautiful,
:17:56. > :18:00.I wanted to listen to what they had to say, but I was so happy with what
:18:01. > :18:06.hell indeed, and then to get three tens, it was brilliant. And then
:18:07. > :18:14.also first place in the quickstep as well. Jay said he really loved it,
:18:15. > :18:21.all of you being out there on the floor. Was it hard dealing with the
:18:22. > :18:26.floor awareness? It is very hard for the man leading, and I am very lucky
:18:27. > :18:29.that I have this ballroom ways steering me around making sure I
:18:30. > :18:33.didn't bump into people, but I would imagine for the man leading it is
:18:34. > :18:45.incredibly difficult full up Aljaz just literally dragged me around. A
:18:46. > :18:49.nice bit of elegance there. You, along with Aliona, are at the moment
:18:50. > :18:53.in the running to be one of only two professional dancers to win the
:18:54. > :19:01.title twice. This could happen, Aljaz. How excited would you be? I
:19:02. > :19:08.don't ever really want to think about it, because I never really an
:19:09. > :19:13.Strictly wants to give myself any goals or expectations, because I
:19:14. > :19:21.feel like the way we have been going on our Strictly journey so far,
:19:22. > :19:24.going week to week, doing a great dance every single week, I think
:19:25. > :19:29.that is how you get through the competition, and that is how, you
:19:30. > :19:33.know, the standard this year is incredible and we have to do our
:19:34. > :19:36.best. It is still a couple of weeks to go. This week and a couple of
:19:37. > :19:43.weeks. So it will be interesting to see how everything pans out. It is
:19:44. > :19:57.so exciting! I need tranquillisers. Now, paso doble three-year two. --
:19:58. > :20:06.for you two. Does it lend itself nicely to a paso doble? It is very
:20:07. > :20:13.fast! We spent it on a little bit, I haven't told you that. It is tricky
:20:14. > :20:25.to fit it to that track, but I feel that with the whole story behind Les
:20:26. > :20:32.Mis, and to incorporate it with the paso, I really wanted to do that.
:20:33. > :20:38.And you said music inspired you to become an actress, that musical?
:20:39. > :20:42.Yes, I saw it when I was 15 with my mum and my sister, and I loved it so
:20:43. > :20:47.much, I decided I wanted to do that. So it is even more special! Lets
:20:48. > :20:59.hope you can dance to it at the new can it, Helen. Finn musicals week,
:21:00. > :21:14.we are doing a paso double. Do they? Is that how you say it? Dough
:21:15. > :21:24.play? They all say it differently! Identity than understand how Bruno
:21:25. > :21:39.says it. -- I don't even understand. Now, the thing with layers -- Les
:21:40. > :21:43.Mis, they always ranks, is that what you will be wearing? Haven't seen
:21:44. > :21:48.the costumes yet, but I think the idea is that it will be dirtier and
:21:49. > :21:55.earthier. There will still be make up! That is what I'm hoping for,
:21:56. > :21:59.just a bit earthy and dirty. Before the show, we're going to go outside
:22:00. > :22:06.and just run around in the fields. The perfect look. Yes, just
:22:07. > :22:11.someone's dress from ten years ago, just/debate. How prepared you feel,
:22:12. > :22:20.only a few days until you perform it in front of millions of people. It
:22:21. > :22:24.is really nerve wracking. I love doing the dance with Aljaz, and he
:22:25. > :22:28.has choreographed a really beautiful dance, but it makes me angry because
:22:29. > :22:32.I am so frustrated because it is so difficult and I am dreading it but
:22:33. > :22:37.excited. The perfect juxtaposition, I love it. Good luck this weekend.
:22:38. > :22:43.Helen and Aljaz! APPLAUSE
:22:44. > :22:44.For the past couple of weeks, we have gone across the globe to take a
:22:45. > :22:49.peek at international versions of peek at international versions of
:22:50. > :22:58.strictly, and our next stop features a familiar face.
:22:59. > :23:02.# All over the world over 3000 episodes and 285 series of title
:23:03. > :23:18.case dancing with the stars sentence -- Dancing With The Stars.
:23:19. > :23:22.Contestants this year in Lebanon included celebrities from Lebanon,
:23:23. > :23:28.Tunisia and Egypt. Strictly viewers may well recognise one of the
:23:29. > :23:35.judges, one half of the only couple ever to get a perfect score in the
:23:36. > :23:41.jive. At his local Lebanese restaurant, it is Darren Bennett. We
:23:42. > :23:46.have now done three seasons, and it is the number-1 rated show across
:23:47. > :23:54.Lebanon. From start to finish, you maintained that character all the
:23:55. > :23:58.way through. The show is in Arabic, so my comments are directly
:23:59. > :24:01.translated by the host live on air. When you bring your legs underneath
:24:02. > :24:19.your body, I want you to flex your knee. Claire on the judging panel, I
:24:20. > :24:22.actually occupy Bruno's chair. This year, you are doing well in your
:24:23. > :24:28.competition, but I just want more. Former Miss USA came out and
:24:29. > :24:35.performed one of the best tangos I have ever seen a celebrity perform.
:24:36. > :24:36.She absolutely not only set the season on fire but left a inch mark
:24:37. > :24:53.for everybody to reach. As a live set, we really incorporate
:24:54. > :24:58.real theme, whether it is lighting, graphics, 3-D. We try to incorporate
:24:59. > :25:06.that very much as part of the dance. I can't wait for the next season.
:25:07. > :25:12.The gorgeous Darren Bennett. I have asked all of my questions today, so
:25:13. > :25:41.now it is over to you lot. Welcome back, Aljaz and Ian. Come
:25:42. > :25:46.on, grandpa. Rear asks, can someone please explain a samba double
:25:47. > :25:53.bounce? Thank you for your question. They would choose this one. So am I,
:25:54. > :26:02.because I never heard of that. It is a bounce action. When you bounce the
:26:03. > :26:11.ball, it bounces once. Unless you whack it. What should it look like?
:26:12. > :26:16.In saying that, you do straighten and bend the knee, but it is crucial
:26:17. > :26:24.and by the hip action. I think we need a demonstration! Because I am
:26:25. > :26:30.actually using my hips backwards and forwards, I am not going up and down
:26:31. > :26:37.so much, so it is going more across to the side. So it is a bounce but
:26:38. > :26:48.not a double. I hope you understand that. Venous asks, how long does it
:26:49. > :26:53.take to wash off the tan? I think it depends what you put on. I don't put
:26:54. > :26:58.it on every week, only when we do a Latin dance when you have to have
:26:59. > :27:04.your chest out or your neck or whatever. You have shown a lot of
:27:05. > :27:14.body this season. No one is complaining! I don't think I ever
:27:15. > :27:21.do. Ian, what is your favourite musical song to dance to, and why? I
:27:22. > :27:25.showed you that earlier on! I loved all the Gene Kelly movies, set
:27:26. > :27:32.anything from singing in the rain and all those numbers where he
:27:33. > :27:37.dances. Sarah asks, do the dancers really have a healthy diet, or do
:27:38. > :27:48.you eat what you want? I pretty much eat what I want. Sorry! So unfair!
:27:49. > :27:53.If you are dancing all day everyday, like you are and like I am, in my
:27:54. > :27:59.bedroom. Good to know! You just lose the weight. It is very physical, and
:28:00. > :28:04.especially when you have a charleston or a jive or something
:28:05. > :28:10.fast, it you burn so much. Image and would like to ask, what will your
:28:11. > :28:14.first dance at your wedding be? You are both getting married next year.
:28:15. > :28:19.Not to each other! We don't know yet. We don't know when the wedding
:28:20. > :28:29.is going to be yet. But we have our song that plays when I proposed. Can
:28:30. > :28:38.you tell us what it is? It was You And I by Michael Buble. We wondered
:28:39. > :28:42.what we would do, do we do a contemporary number, because who
:28:43. > :28:46.would be the girl? If you need all of your ex-partners to be in it, we
:28:47. > :28:51.will all be there! Thank you, Aljaz and Ian! Tune in
:28:52. > :28:55.tomorrow. Anita and Greg will be here, and Jeannette teachers asked
:28:56. > :28:57.some moves for this weekend's group performance so we can do it at home.
:28:58. > :29:01.Good night! celebrating 12 extraordinary
:29:02. > :29:08.months in music. Join Chris Evans and me,
:29:09. > :29:26.Fearne Cotton, The knives are sharpened,
:29:27. > :29:35.and the heat is on...