Episode 48 Strictly - It Takes Two

# From cradle to turn # Isn't that

# Life is a cabaret old chum # And I love a cabaret

# ANNOUNCER: #

CLEAR Live from London, this is Strictly

It Takes Two. Please welcome your host, Zoe Ball.

CHEERING Welcome to It Takes Two, tonight, Ian Waite will be scroti

needing the latest training room footage for the musicals week. How

good was that opening? I love that man. He's ever so slightly excited.

Top of the leaderboard Helen and Aljaz are here. Three times. We

continue our Strictly round the world trip. Next stop, Lebanon.

Plus, we put your questions to Ian and Aljaz. You can ask them

anything, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls. Get them to us using the

hashtag ask ITT. Jay's doing really well with his

rumba. That was good. It's the technique and feel of the steps

that's really important. That's what we're trying to ingrain in him. If I

miss a step, it will be really obvious. It is such a simple dance

any mistakes will be glaring. Jay needs to live in the moment and feel

each step he does not just make steps. That's it. Did you feel that?

Yeah. I just want to have it so ingrained in my body I can focus on

telling the story. Yeah! This week, we're doing a Viennese

waltz. Slightly disturbing me how easy it feels. I think Kellie's

picking up the routine quickly. I'm not having to teach her as much as I

was earlier in the series. She's finding the nuances of the character

she has to play. If I'm emulating being a lady, I want to pick up my

skirt. OK. She's choreographing now. Kellie can really get hold of this

dance. It's exciting to watch. I like that little skirt bit as well!

Well, it all looks great to me but I'm easily pleased, unlike this man!

It's Ian Waite. CHEERING Look at your crazy getup? I

know, more, encore. I loved your opening number, honey. They said

would you choreograph this bit. I mean, you know. Nightmare. As if I

would! He's the Mac to my Mable. The Jo to my Norma Desmond.

Quarter-finals week. Very, siting. What do you make of it all? We

haven't seen 40 yet. Full Martian. Could it be this week or are we

never going to see that? It could be this week. It is all very story-led

with those wonderful musicals and brilliant pieces of music. There's a

couple of foxtrots as well. A couple of foxtrots. Always a winner. If

they get the footwork right, Zoe, which is really important, they may

get a 40. Let's look at Jay and Aliona. They are doing a rumba to

Falling Slowly from Once. Never seen it have you? No. What are they

looking like? What can you tell us? It is very smooth. Has a nice little

action going on. It is a little apologetic for me. He's doing some

nice settling into the hips. It has a nice quality of action. The only

thing I do think - hold on one second! WHOOPINGS Obviously he's

dancing into his partner so has to be sympathetic. The rest, he needs

to open up his chest, be proud and arrogant. He's masculine, leading

it. He needs to be a little author tiff. He's a little sympathetic and

a little bit... Apologetic at the moment. I think he can take command.

On to Katie and Anton. Foxtrot for them. To Maybe This Time. So

exciting. You did an audition for Cabaret? Just then. You didn't get

the job. How's it looking. What can you tell us? Extremely good. Very

smooth as you would expect. I'd like her to bend into the knees more to

give even more softness. If you look just there, you have some gapping

there. Mind the gap! The gap's being created because she's in the wrong

place. She should be a little more in front of him. I'll do this with

you. Right foot, right foot. One, two, three. It is quite hard to

stay... You have to turn your body to me. Like that? Behind my hip. Do

that with the movement. Then you shouldn't have that gap between you.

Never the gap. On to Kellie and Kevin. A bit of Umpapa from scale

Oliver. Look a that skirt. It looks gorgeous. The action's amazing.

She's in the right place in Kevin. Right over that left-hand side.

She's got a very nice position. The only thing is the closes can be a

little smoother so the transition. What I'm loving is she's really

getting into this. She's having a great time. Go on, Kellie, we love

her. I think she'll revel in the fact she's doing these story

lines... As an actress. Anita and Gleb have the cellblock tango from

Chicago for an Argentine tango? Look, Zoe, I've slowed this down a

little bit. Lovely displacement where he flicks her leg up. He

brings her round almost like a horizontal step. Ooh, thought she'd

too many Sherries there! They come round and they have those typical

flicks... Are they ganchos? Ganchos. I'd like to see her leaning a little

more to him so she gives her body weight. How far do you lean? Not

quite that much. OK, slightly more up. Not a bad attempt. Loving the

top knot, Gleb. Georgia and Giovanni, Beauty and the Beast.

She's turned into an amazing ballroom dancer. In exactly the

right position. Look at her fingers, even her hands are in the right

position. The only thing I can really take out of this which needs

working on, there's not very much, is the shaping in her body.

Sometimes she loses her neck. She needs to pull up in her body to give

her more length in the neck. Aapart from that? Looking drop dead. Helen

and Aljaz, we're about to see them in a moment. They've a paso doble?

Look at this. Very dramatic. The thing is, it's a difficult dance.

You have to have that character. It needs to have resistance, strength

and focus. That's what Helen has to work on a little bit. She looks very

soft. She does the soft dances very well. It is these strong dramatic

dances where she needs to make sure she's creating. A bit more space and

curving in the arms to cremate... Cremate? Create... That's a

different thing. The flamenco and the paso doble shaping. She's

working very hard at that. We'll talk to her and Aljaz in a moment.

I'd like to play a game with you. For each remaining couple, we've

added up all their scores to get an overall leaderboard total. Can you,

Ian Waite, put them in order going from sixth place? Total on their

Martian over the whole series? Yeah. There's pictures

Martian over the whole series? Yeah. Kellie? Kellie in sixth place. Let's

find out if he's right. No? Katie and Anton with 273. Who's in fifth

place? God, now you've said that, maybe one of the others then. Kellie

again? In fifth place, no? Kellie's going to hate you. Anita and Gleb

with 305. This is terrible. Who Who's in fourth place? Not saying

Kellie again. Georgia? Let's have a look. It's Kellie and Kevin. Top

three... You can P is for badles. All the couples

will be looking for that perfect score. 10, 10 from Len. 10, 10. 10.

Did you know, Len's only ever got his 3 out once. That just happened

to be on the lowest score ever on Strictly Come Dancing. I'm sure you

all remember Quentin Willson's cha-cha-cha?

Q is for quaking, quaking in their boots. Nerves play such a huge part

in Strictly Come Dancing. I've got to get rid of the nerves and go out

and enjoy it. Nail biting time. This is like the corridor of doom.

Nervings and fear. The nerves. This is too much! Here we are at R. R is

for... Urgh, all right then, R is for rhinestones and there are

thousands of them. Hit it. I need a few more thousand crystals! You're

boot lurks in that little outfit. We asked the celebs to count how many

rhinestones are on their costumes. 11, 12, 13, 14, 15... You're having

a laugh. And the answer is... A lot! S is for seven. But my favourite S

makes even the pastiest of celebs look like they've been holidaying in

the met. Of course, it's the spray tan. Snooty you know me. All natural

here! Mr Windsor, the tanning booth is ready for you now. Zoe, back to

you, my dear. The phrases that come out of Len

Goodman and's mouth leave a slightly bemused. I'm a cup of tea in the

world of skinny lattes. It was a bit like a pile, tasty in

places but there are always a few funny bits floating about. He did

outdo himself on Saturday with this. To call my bum and call me Donald.

Whatever you say, Len! And it was Helen and Aljaz on the end of that

one. Hello and welcome, Helen and Aljaz!

APPLAUSE Great Froch, Helen, and

congratulations on being top of the whole series. -- great frock. Don't

feel any pressure! Your Viennese waltz on Saturday was delightful,

delicious. How good did it feel to dance that? It felt so lovely. I

have enjoyed all of our dancers, but this one particularly, because it

just felt so easy. We just really enjoyed performing it, and the story

of it. I was completely laughing because I was just loving it. And

we're giggling as well, Aljaz? Yes, I was. It is one of those dances

that gets you right there, it was the music, the frock, the dancing.

Did you have any fears from the week before or had you banished all

thoughts? I think I had let everything go a bit, and I hadn't

thought about what the judges were going to think or what people might

make of it, I thought I have just to enjoy it, or I will drive myself

crazy, so we just did the dance and loved every second. We did decide

that if we used as in the future, it will be escalators. Working

batting! Can they work that in? Made from cardboard! Not only your first

ten, your first three tens, and a 9 from Craig. It must have felt good

to see all that hard work paying off. We have been working so hard

this whole time, and to go out there and do that, I felt like the moment

stop when we did that Viennese waltz, and then it was done, and

then you have to go to the judges, and the panel was just so beautiful,

I wanted to listen to what they had to say, but I was so happy with what

hell indeed, and then to get three tens, it was brilliant. And then

also first place in the quickstep as well. Jay said he really loved it,

all of you being out there on the floor. Was it hard dealing with the

floor awareness? It is very hard for the man leading, and I am very lucky

that I have this ballroom ways steering me around making sure I

didn't bump into people, but I would imagine for the man leading it is

incredibly difficult full up Aljaz just literally dragged me around. A

nice bit of elegance there. You, along with Aliona, are at the moment

in the running to be one of only two professional dancers to win the

title twice. This could happen, Aljaz. How excited would you be? I

don't ever really want to think about it, because I never really an

Strictly wants to give myself any goals or expectations, because I

feel like the way we have been going on our Strictly journey so far,

going week to week, doing a great dance every single week, I think

that is how you get through the competition, and that is how, you

know, the standard this year is incredible and we have to do our

best. It is still a couple of weeks to go. This week and a couple of

weeks. So it will be interesting to see how everything pans out. It is

so exciting! I need tranquillisers. Now, paso doble three-year two. --

for you two. Does it lend itself nicely to a paso doble? It is very

fast! We spent it on a little bit, I haven't told you that. It is tricky

to fit it to that track, but I feel that with the whole story behind Les

Mis, and to incorporate it with the paso, I really wanted to do that.

And you said music inspired you to become an actress, that musical?

Yes, I saw it when I was 15 with my mum and my sister, and I loved it so

much, I decided I wanted to do that. So it is even more special! Lets

hope you can dance to it at the new can it, Helen. Finn musicals week,

we are doing a paso double. Do they? Is that how you say it? Dough

play? They all say it differently! Identity than understand how Bruno

says it. -- I don't even understand. Now, the thing with layers -- Les

Mis, they always ranks, is that what you will be wearing? Haven't seen

the costumes yet, but I think the idea is that it will be dirtier and

earthier. There will still be make up! That is what I'm hoping for,

just a bit earthy and dirty. Before the show, we're going to go outside

and just run around in the fields. The perfect look. Yes, just

someone's dress from ten years ago, just/debate. How prepared you feel,

only a few days until you perform it in front of millions of people. It

is really nerve wracking. I love doing the dance with Aljaz, and he

has choreographed a really beautiful dance, but it makes me angry because

I am so frustrated because it is so difficult and I am dreading it but

excited. The perfect juxtaposition, I love it. Good luck this weekend.

Helen and Aljaz! APPLAUSE

For the past couple of weeks, we have gone across the globe to take a

peek at international versions of peek at international versions of

strictly, and our next stop features a familiar face.

# All over the world over 3000 episodes and 285 series of title

case dancing with the stars sentence -- Dancing With The Stars.

Contestants this year in Lebanon included celebrities from Lebanon,

Tunisia and Egypt. Strictly viewers may well recognise one of the

judges, one half of the only couple ever to get a perfect score in the

jive. At his local Lebanese restaurant, it is Darren Bennett. We

have now done three seasons, and it is the number-1 rated show across

Lebanon. From start to finish, you maintained that character all the

way through. The show is in Arabic, so my comments are directly

translated by the host live on air. When you bring your legs underneath

your body, I want you to flex your knee. Claire on the judging panel, I

actually occupy Bruno's chair. This year, you are doing well in your

competition, but I just want more. Former Miss USA came out and

performed one of the best tangos I have ever seen a celebrity perform.

She absolutely not only set the season on fire but left a inch mark

for everybody to reach. As a live set, we really incorporate

real theme, whether it is lighting, graphics, 3-D. We try to incorporate

that very much as part of the dance. I can't wait for the next season.

The gorgeous Darren Bennett. I have asked all of my questions today, so

now it is over to you lot. Welcome back, Aljaz and Ian. Come

on, grandpa. Rear asks, can someone please explain a samba double

bounce? Thank you for your question. They would choose this one. So am I,

because I never heard of that. It is a bounce action. When you bounce the

ball, it bounces once. Unless you whack it. What should it look like?

In saying that, you do straighten and bend the knee, but it is crucial

and by the hip action. I think we need a demonstration! Because I am

actually using my hips backwards and forwards, I am not going up and down

so much, so it is going more across to the side. So it is a bounce but

not a double. I hope you understand that. Venous asks, how long does it

take to wash off the tan? I think it depends what you put on. I don't put

it on every week, only when we do a Latin dance when you have to have

your chest out or your neck or whatever. You have shown a lot of

body this season. No one is complaining! I don't think I ever

do. Ian, what is your favourite musical song to dance to, and why? I

showed you that earlier on! I loved all the Gene Kelly movies, set

anything from singing in the rain and all those numbers where he

dances. Sarah asks, do the dancers really have a healthy diet, or do

you eat what you want? I pretty much eat what I want. Sorry! So unfair!

If you are dancing all day everyday, like you are and like I am, in my

bedroom. Good to know! You just lose the weight. It is very physical, and

especially when you have a charleston or a jive or something

fast, it you burn so much. Image and would like to ask, what will your

first dance at your wedding be? You are both getting married next year.

Not to each other! We don't know yet. We don't know when the wedding

is going to be yet. But we have our song that plays when I proposed. Can

you tell us what it is? It was You And I by Michael Buble. We wondered

what we would do, do we do a contemporary number, because who

would be the girl? If you need all of your ex-partners to be in it, we

will all be there! Thank you, Aljaz and Ian! Tune in

tomorrow. Anita and Greg will be here, and Jeannette teachers asked

some moves for this weekend's group performance so we can do it at home.

Good night! celebrating 12 extraordinary

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