:00:56. > :01:01.Now, last night, we received the news that Will Young has
:01:02. > :01:06.withdrawn from this year's Strictly due to personal reasons.
:01:07. > :01:09.Of course, the whole team at Strictly and It Takes Two wish
:01:10. > :01:17.We will miss him! He was so brilliant.
:01:18. > :01:19.The competition will continue as normal on Saturday,
:01:20. > :01:21.with an elimination on Sunday night's results show.
:01:22. > :01:23.So, what a line-up we've got for you tonight.
:01:24. > :01:40.But when I think of my first guest, a few words spring to mind.
:01:41. > :01:41.Good-looking, supremely talented, one of the greatest
:01:42. > :01:46.Hang on - has someone let Ian change the script?!
:01:47. > :02:16.Now, before we begin - you know what to do, Waitey.
:02:17. > :02:37.Where did you think of movie week? I absolutely loved it. So many
:02:38. > :02:41.characters, so much fun. I have to say that Leslie and Anton are
:02:42. > :02:48.actually training out in Malta, where she is filming her programme,
:02:49. > :03:03.Christmas special, nice for Anton. A gin and tonic by the sea! Will start
:03:04. > :03:09.off with Ore. This week, they have a jive. What can you tell us? From
:03:10. > :03:14.what I can see, it is very good. He is up on the pools of his feet,
:03:15. > :03:18.bouncing away, but I love tea has got lots of energy. You create lots
:03:19. > :03:25.of energy, whether in an American Smooth all this jive, which is
:03:26. > :03:31.important. The energy factor in jive is always keep. What I wanted to
:03:32. > :03:36.point out was here, as you can see, he's doing kicks and flicks but his
:03:37. > :03:40.hips are back and he needs to get... No, they are forward. He needs to
:03:41. > :03:48.get them back, captain underneath and picked up behind. A little bit
:03:49. > :03:54.like that. My teacher used to do that with her nails! It used to do
:03:55. > :04:01.the trick. Odd behaviour! Also different! Digging the nails. She
:04:02. > :04:17.was called Nina. This week we have a Viennese Waltz
:04:18. > :04:22.from Judge Rinder. How is it looking? Every week I'm always
:04:23. > :04:27.excited to see what he's going to produce and this wiki has a lovely,
:04:28. > :04:33.flowing steps, I'd like to seem a bit through those ones, his arms are
:04:34. > :04:39.a little bit polite, a little bit trooped if I'm honest. We don't want
:04:40. > :04:45.any drooping! His head is slightly mulling around, his body is there.
:04:46. > :04:50.He should be upright. And to be there with his head. As he goes into
:04:51. > :04:55.it, he should shape into it with the head and it should be out. He should
:04:56. > :05:09.go that way. We understand. This weekend we have the rumba. They
:05:10. > :05:13.often don't go down so well with the judges were very difficult, but I
:05:14. > :05:18.love them. The men often struggle with the rumba, the slow sexiness.
:05:19. > :05:26.If you look here, Daisy doesn't have a problem at all. She's losing
:05:27. > :05:31.gorgeousness all the time. This is a great dance for her Tsotsobe
:05:32. > :05:35.character. There are some places where she's settling in quite
:05:36. > :05:41.nicely, she does some nice lines, and she has long legs, she is a tall
:05:42. > :05:48.girl. What I would like to see is here, Aljaz is here, in a settled
:05:49. > :05:56.position, really, she should be bringing that fit in already to meet
:05:57. > :05:58.the other foot. -- foot. But I like the lead, she's collecting his lead
:05:59. > :06:09.which is great. Demonstrate that quickly? If I go in, I go in with
:06:10. > :06:15.that... And then you go... Right. So there is always a neutral position.
:06:16. > :06:21.Louise and Kevin, she follows her brilliant cha-cha-cha with the F.
:06:22. > :06:25.How is it looking? Flowing lovely. As you would expect from Louise,
:06:26. > :06:31.she's a lovely dancer. There are places, though, where I would like
:06:32. > :06:36.to see the footwork improved, because there is a lot of places,
:06:37. > :06:47.like here, if I can show you, that should have been a heel there. So
:06:48. > :06:51.every forward step she does in the F, everyone should be a heel league,
:06:52. > :06:59.she's doing everyone on the toe. She will get that right, she will
:07:00. > :07:04.perfect it. We will all be watching. Onto Anastacia and Brendan, also
:07:05. > :07:13.doing a rumba to a Barbra Streisand song. I love her! I always wanted to
:07:14. > :07:22.be a Barbra Streisand impersonator! We can make this happened! I don't
:07:23. > :07:29.have the nose for it. Noted! Talk about this rumba. She is doing quite
:07:30. > :07:31.a nice one, I would like to see her settle into the hips applicable,
:07:32. > :07:38.straight in the legs, the main thing with Anastacia issue needs to finish
:07:39. > :07:44.off those lines, doesn't quite get to the end. She makes a lovely shape
:07:45. > :07:47.in the body, let's continue and get it out right to be very end of your
:07:48. > :07:56.fingertips rather than finishing it halfway. I'm thinking of you in the
:07:57. > :08:00.Barbra Streisand week! In the curly perm! Finally, Laura and Giovanni
:08:01. > :08:06.found themselves in the dance off, hopefully that won't happen this
:08:07. > :08:11.week, the heavy quickstep. Very good. You will see here, all the
:08:12. > :08:16.skipping and the bouncing steps, they are not losing contact at all.
:08:17. > :08:24.That is very difficult. The couple of moves, places I want to see and
:08:25. > :08:31.point out is there. She has the lovely flower in a vase. And that
:08:32. > :08:37.she has the lovely contact here, and then she's right front. And she's
:08:38. > :08:46.staying there all the time, gorgeous. So comfortable! Gorgeous!
:08:47. > :08:51.We will have another helping... I am so dizzy! For now, give it up for
:08:52. > :09:01.Ian Waite! it's time for the first update
:09:02. > :09:04.of the evening - kicking off with Judge Rinder and Oksana,
:09:05. > :09:13.and Daisy and Aljaz. The nice thing about this dance is
:09:14. > :09:19.when it works, it feels amazing and when it doesn't, it feels so bad!
:09:20. > :09:24.Sorry, you are spinning round and round and quite a lot of speed and
:09:25. > :09:29.trying to throw up is difficult. It's harder for Oxon, she's looking
:09:30. > :09:34.at me. As long as he can keep hold of his frame and keep waltzing
:09:35. > :09:43.around the room, we will be OK. Good job! Our aim for the rumba this week
:09:44. > :09:46.is to create a love story. Aljaz feels like my brother said during a
:09:47. > :09:55.sexy dance with him is a little embarrassing. -- so doing a sexy
:09:56. > :09:59.dance. Everything is very slow, you have got to have the right hips,
:10:00. > :10:07.arms, legs, feet, my whole body has to be right for stop very nice!
:10:08. > :10:13.Thank you. I hope I can give some hip action!
:10:14. > :10:18.Now, everyone remembers where they were the first time
:10:19. > :10:23.For me, it was Saturday 8th October, the time was 8.29pm, and I was sat
:10:24. > :10:25.on my sofa weeping tears of pure joy.
:10:26. > :10:38.Don't anyone try to stop them - it's Ed and Katya!
:10:39. > :10:46.you could not have given more impact to that performance! I can't quite
:10:47. > :10:53.believe what I have just been witness to. It was driven but
:10:54. > :10:55.different, sadly, that any samba. You're not the best dancer but
:10:56. > :11:14.you're definitely the most fun! As you walked in, you did the walk!
:11:15. > :11:22.Do it one more time! I'm smoking! Somebody stop me! I have to say,
:11:23. > :11:28.your samba was such a revelation, on the floor. Did it feel fantastic out
:11:29. > :11:33.there in that yellow suit? Beginner suit was totally wild but also the
:11:34. > :11:39.green make-up was even better, they did such a good job, the best green
:11:40. > :11:44.make-up people in the whole of the country, Giorgio and the team. The
:11:45. > :11:47.shading was just wonderful. I felt like I could do anything, other than
:11:48. > :11:54.Dunster samba, which couldn't do very well at all! He had green
:11:55. > :12:03.mascara, he looked so pretty! I have never run mascara before! At all
:12:04. > :12:09.happens to you here. The audience would absolutely crackers. That must
:12:10. > :12:12.feel amazing and help so much. When you dance, don't really notice it at
:12:13. > :12:16.the beginning, you're so focused in the dance and the connection between
:12:17. > :12:21.you two, but when you finish and you feel the energy, it's just so
:12:22. > :12:26.amazing, you know you have done well. You have done what you had to
:12:27. > :12:35.do. Does it make you giddy at the end? The giddiness comes from doing
:12:36. > :12:39.the dance critic and hardly breathe! It's hard to concentrate on what the
:12:40. > :12:42.judges are saying, tend to watch them back and find out there and
:12:43. > :12:47.what they have research because in that moment, it's quite a while. He
:12:48. > :12:52.is doing his homework! So much praise your performance from
:12:53. > :12:56.everybody. Your friend and arrows, Jeremy Vine, called you just
:12:57. > :13:00.incredible, he was quite upset, couldn't get enough of the fishing
:13:01. > :13:06.rod move where you reeled her in. He is on the Friday panel this week.
:13:07. > :13:14.Also Ed Miliband called you a national treasure! What's one of
:13:15. > :13:17.those? We will explain later! Something which gets locked away in
:13:18. > :13:23.the Tower of London for a very long time! That had that doesn't happen
:13:24. > :13:28.after the pasodoble! The judges's scores, quite incredible. How are
:13:29. > :13:35.you feeling each week? Scores are going up. We got a seven from Len,
:13:36. > :13:42.let me just say, that was quite amazing, and Bruno. We tried to
:13:43. > :13:46.focus more on what we want to deliver every week. Of course we
:13:47. > :13:48.think about what the judges are saying and it reflects our
:13:49. > :13:54.improvement, which is amazing but we just know what it is about. Her
:13:55. > :13:58.choreography was brilliant. That was a special moment. That's the thing,
:13:59. > :14:05.you are packing those routines with content. Normally I arrive and say,
:14:06. > :14:11.boom, boom, you have got to do this and then we tried find a happy
:14:12. > :14:21.medium! But I don't want to come from on dancing. I don't think Craig
:14:22. > :14:27.has noticed. I quite like the pot stir. It was the only one that has
:14:28. > :14:33.ever worked! On the night, that's all you need! The flip side, talking
:14:34. > :14:41.about Craig, he has the bit about the samba, how you will you impress
:14:42. > :14:45.him and win him over? I don't know. Just constant improvement, bringing
:14:46. > :14:53.that character out, we have a bit of cake work this week. Let us discuss
:14:54. > :15:03.the pasodoble! Not just a pasodoble, a pasodoble to Holding Alt For A
:15:04. > :15:10.Hero. This sounds bonkers. She is in prison, I have to decide at the
:15:11. > :15:15.beginning, do I free her and if so, we then danced the pasodoble, it is
:15:16. > :15:19.all in the balance. Looking good in training! I would like to know, who
:15:20. > :15:31.is indicate? The cape work is quite hard and I
:15:32. > :15:36.have never done it in my life. Katya has been doing it for 20 years. She
:15:37. > :15:42.said there is a few things, how you turn your wrist is, how you get the
:15:43. > :15:46.momentum. Essentially, if you can get it moving, it's beautiful.
:15:47. > :15:51.Fingers crossed, my cape work will be OK. I actually went home last
:15:52. > :15:59.night and demonstrated my cape work to yes, and the family. This whole
:16:00. > :16:14.bunch of cups when flying! Forgive him, it's all worth it! Ed and
:16:15. > :16:19.Katya! I love those nails, Katya! They're amazing!
:16:20. > :16:21.Now, we know how Ed and Katya are getting on.
:16:22. > :16:24.But lately I find myself wondering just how Louise and Kevin and
:16:25. > :16:26.Anastacia and Brendan are getting on?
:16:27. > :16:41.This week we dancing foxtrot, and I'm enjoying it. She keeps saying,
:16:42. > :16:44.I'm not girly, I just want to be in my tracksuit and trainers. I was
:16:45. > :16:50.going to change but he said I didn't have to, so I stayed like this.
:16:51. > :16:56.Shall we put my shoes on? Let's do that. I feel like I've been trying
:16:57. > :17:05.to teach Louise how to be girly. I will wear a skirt, promised! We are
:17:06. > :17:10.doing a rumba, and I think it's going well. We're working on the
:17:11. > :17:16.steps, to get them 100% locked in for the choreography. She will know
:17:17. > :17:19.where she's going. He just wants to make sure that I understand arms,
:17:20. > :17:25.and where the face is looking. It's pretty structured with this dance.
:17:26. > :17:27.So far, looking pretty good. We will see how it turns out. I love that
:17:28. > :17:29.move! Right, we've already had
:17:30. > :17:31.a first helping of Ian this evening, but for those
:17:32. > :17:34.of you who are shouting more... Here he is for Waite's
:17:35. > :18:02.Warm-Up Part Two. Let's have a look at the top of the
:18:03. > :18:10.leaderboard, Danny and Oti were up there, after last weekend and there
:18:11. > :18:14.are utterly splendid paso doble. How will they repeat that? It's going to
:18:15. > :18:18.be difficult staying on top of that leaderboard, week after week, after
:18:19. > :18:24.such a beginning. This looks nice and light and frothy, like a quick
:18:25. > :18:28.step should be. Loads of content. I would like the rise and Tom Brake to
:18:29. > :18:34.be a bit more the shame. This is Monday's footage. -- the rise and
:18:35. > :18:38.fall to be a bit more the same. I would like a bit more body contact,
:18:39. > :18:43.maybe because it was Monday also. And also the shoulders keep on going
:18:44. > :18:47.up and down. He needs to keep those shoulders down and just bounce in
:18:48. > :18:53.the balls of the feet. Danny, have you got that? Yes. Next, Greg and
:18:54. > :18:58.Natalie scored their highest marks this series so far. So chuffed with
:18:59. > :19:05.their American smooth. What are you making of their salsa training so
:19:06. > :19:09.far? It was beautiful, and last week, his feet were so brilliant,
:19:10. > :19:14.and nobody pointed it out, I thought Len of all people should have
:19:15. > :19:17.noticed. Bags of fun, in the salsa, loads of atmosphere, loads of
:19:18. > :19:20.energy. Although this week, I thought his feet were fantastic last
:19:21. > :19:29.week, and this week it's another story. Oh, no, that's shocking,
:19:30. > :19:35.white socks and black shoes! It's not the '80s any more! No! And I
:19:36. > :19:41.think he needs to pick up the body and get onto the balls of the feet
:19:42. > :19:44.so that he's using all of the foot because it is very flat. I think
:19:45. > :19:47.maybe some exercises to strengthen his feet and his ankles would be
:19:48. > :19:53.very good. Because that's what he does. He runs and jumps on those
:19:54. > :19:59.feet. But it's in the actual lifting. And those little details
:20:00. > :20:03.make all the difference. Next, Claudia and AJ, their Charleston was
:20:04. > :20:08.epic last week. How is the foxtrot? It's flowing nicely, although they
:20:09. > :20:12.will always have the disadvantage with the height difference. It will
:20:13. > :20:18.always be a struggle for her to stay up to AJ. I have slowed this one
:20:19. > :20:22.down, you can see her falling off the second one, and the third one as
:20:23. > :20:27.well. Really, she needs to get her foot further back. That will give
:20:28. > :20:32.herself the chance to get over the heels and stay on them without
:20:33. > :20:37.falling off. I think because the step is to small, she's falling off
:20:38. > :20:44.the back of it. But it's early days. A bit more practice, and it's a
:20:45. > :20:51.difficult step. That is like a type of slip pivot step. I love that! You
:20:52. > :21:00.can always say type of, you get away with everything! Next, doing the
:21:01. > :21:03.charleston this week hasn't Naga and Pasha. Hopefully she's been boosted
:21:04. > :21:07.by the judges saying some lovely things to her this week. She has a
:21:08. > :21:14.wonderful physique, she's very pretty, she looks great in a dress,
:21:15. > :21:18.in the Latin American dresses. They've got the Charleston, which is
:21:19. > :21:22.very much led by the character and the acting of the dance, which might
:21:23. > :21:27.let her down. I'm showing two clips here. The first one is a lot of
:21:28. > :21:30.side-by-side. It is the face that she's going to have to set alight,
:21:31. > :21:34.and those character steps which she will have to make real and act them
:21:35. > :21:46.out. That's what Charleston is all about. It's all that he is,
:21:47. > :21:53.literally! And finally, Ed and Katya, a paso doble... Can I just
:21:54. > :21:56.say, I loved the dance on Saturday, and I thought it was grossly under
:21:57. > :22:01.marked, and I thought it was a delight. It takes a lot of technique
:22:02. > :22:05.to do that, and he did it brilliantly. He absolutely did. He's
:22:06. > :22:13.a lot better than people give him credit for. First book this walk in
:22:14. > :22:16.the paso doble, which he does the beginning, it's a bit like a cross
:22:17. > :22:27.between Larry Grayson and Frankie Hammond. I mean...! But the rest of
:22:28. > :22:31.it is absolutely brilliant! -- Frankie Howard. I love that he's
:22:32. > :22:36.doing it with 100% commitment, which is what we are asking to do. Here,
:22:37. > :22:43.he's got more shape in the body, and then she shapes out a little bit
:22:44. > :22:49.more. Oh, Lord! Then you can go. Oh, thank you very much. A bit like
:22:50. > :22:50.that. He can do anything, he's Ed Balls!
:22:51. > :22:54.Thanks, Ian, we'll see you next week for another warm-up.
:22:55. > :23:06.Now, our final guests of the night performed a breathtaking
:23:07. > :24:15.Zorro-themed paso doble at the weekend, which was
:24:16. > :24:28.We never got it right once. I was early, and even that time now. I was
:24:29. > :24:33.doing it completely... You see, if you were a professional dancer, you
:24:34. > :24:40.can't even hear it, that's terrifying. There was a break in the
:24:41. > :24:45.music, and that had not come yet, so I stopped, and now I have to start
:24:46. > :24:49.again. Goodness me, well done, that was incredible. I was wondering, you
:24:50. > :24:55.did your own stunts on Hollyoaks, didn't you? I did, yes. So you're
:24:56. > :24:59.good at that kind of stuff. And it was so ambitious. I mean, there were
:25:00. > :25:04.so many incredible steps in there. Were you nervous about this one?
:25:05. > :25:10.This was my most stressful routine so far, absolutely. I was so
:25:11. > :25:15.stressed all week about it. I was nervous, I wasn't sure you wear that
:25:16. > :25:25.confident whether I loved it, I loved it! Were you confident, Oti?
:25:26. > :25:32.Yes! Oti does not come for mentally all week. I guessed no notes good
:25:33. > :25:43.notes. That's all week. Once it gets to the judges, I'm like, bring on
:25:44. > :25:49.the compliments, I will take it! It works, though, it works! This is
:25:50. > :25:55.like a dream for you, surely? It is. We were saying last week, oh, my
:25:56. > :26:01.goodness, last year, I went out in week three. So this year was kind of
:26:02. > :26:09.nice. She has turned up now! We can go now! No, that's not the end!
:26:10. > :26:20.Don't go anywhere, please, not you two as well! And Len loved the,
:26:21. > :26:26.what's it called, the coup de pique! One of my favourite steps, the coup
:26:27. > :26:34.de pique! What is a coup de pique? Shall we show you? Come on, talk us
:26:35. > :26:40.through it. So, you go, leg through, you go up onto the balls, you go
:26:41. > :26:47.back and close. That is a coup de pique! And you keep this arm
:26:48. > :26:54.upright! Yes, the arm stays up. Do you want to do it through again?
:26:55. > :27:02.That has got my blood racing a little bit! You're putting moves
:27:03. > :27:06.like that in for Len? Yes, it's very important, when you start with a
:27:07. > :27:10.beginning, you've got to start with the foundation the dance. Usually it
:27:11. > :27:15.is like a set of figures that you would do with a beginner. That's
:27:16. > :27:22.what I do with him, because a really is difficult. The paso doble is not
:27:23. > :27:26.easy, but he was able to trust me, which was amazing. He was like, OK,
:27:27. > :27:32.let's do this. Or I get is that routine. I do not know the ins
:27:33. > :27:36.announce the paso doble, it is just, you step there, and you do this.
:27:37. > :27:42.Onto the quickstep, Ian was giving you the critique - how is it going?
:27:43. > :27:48.This is going surprisingly... I'm enjoying it, this one. It's the
:27:49. > :27:52.first one, I do not want to say it's going well, it's just that I'm
:27:53. > :27:56.enjoying it. The previous three routines, I've been stressed the
:27:57. > :27:59.entire week. This is massively disconcerting, because the others
:28:00. > :28:03.have gone so well, and I've been stressed. Now I'm enjoying it, is it
:28:04. > :28:12.all going to go horribly wrong? What do you say to that, Oti? You'd
:28:13. > :28:18.better not! Can you even imagine?! She's been nice this week. Why has
:28:19. > :28:21.she been nice? I don't know. Such high expectation as well, joint top
:28:22. > :28:25.of the leaderboard, how do you follow that? I was getting worried
:28:26. > :28:29.and stressed, but at the same time, you cannot compare this routine this
:28:30. > :28:35.week to me last week. So you start at 0. And if we get fours or fives,
:28:36. > :28:41.sixes, whatever, it's for that routine. I cannot try and beat the
:28:42. > :28:42.paso doble because it is a completely new dance. He's got it!
:28:43. > :28:48.Keep it up! Danny and Oti! That's all we have time
:28:49. > :28:51.for tonight, I'm afraid. I'll be back here tomorrow at 6.30
:28:52. > :28:54.with Ore and Joanne and Plus, Vicky Gill will be giving
:28:55. > :28:59.us a preview of all of