Episode 13 Strictly - It Takes Two

Now, last night, we received the news that Will Young has

withdrawn from this year's Strictly due to personal reasons.

Of course, the whole team at Strictly and It Takes Two wish

We will miss him! He was so brilliant.

The competition will continue as normal on Saturday,

with an elimination on Sunday night's results show.

So, what a line-up we've got for you tonight.

But when I think of my first guest, a few words spring to mind.

Good-looking, supremely talented, one of the greatest

Hang on - has someone let Ian change the script?!

Now, before we begin - you know what to do, Waitey.

Where did you think of movie week? I absolutely loved it. So many

characters, so much fun. I have to say that Leslie and Anton are

actually training out in Malta, where she is filming her programme,

Christmas special, nice for Anton. A gin and tonic by the sea! Will start

off with Ore. This week, they have a jive. What can you tell us? From

what I can see, it is very good. He is up on the pools of his feet,

bouncing away, but I love tea has got lots of energy. You create lots

of energy, whether in an American Smooth all this jive, which is

important. The energy factor in jive is always keep. What I wanted to

point out was here, as you can see, he's doing kicks and flicks but his

hips are back and he needs to get... No, they are forward. He needs to

get them back, captain underneath and picked up behind. A little bit

like that. My teacher used to do that with her nails! It used to do

the trick. Odd behaviour! Also different! Digging the nails. She

was called Nina. This week we have a Viennese Waltz

from Judge Rinder. How is it looking? Every week I'm always

excited to see what he's going to produce and this wiki has a lovely,

flowing steps, I'd like to seem a bit through those ones, his arms are

a little bit polite, a little bit trooped if I'm honest. We don't want

any drooping! His head is slightly mulling around, his body is there.

He should be upright. And to be there with his head. As he goes into

it, he should shape into it with the head and it should be out. He should

go that way. We understand. This weekend we have the rumba. They

often don't go down so well with the judges were very difficult, but I

love them. The men often struggle with the rumba, the slow sexiness.

If you look here, Daisy doesn't have a problem at all. She's losing

gorgeousness all the time. This is a great dance for her Tsotsobe

character. There are some places where she's settling in quite

nicely, she does some nice lines, and she has long legs, she is a tall

girl. What I would like to see is here, Aljaz is here, in a settled

position, really, she should be bringing that fit in already to meet

the other foot. -- foot. But I like the lead, she's collecting his lead

which is great. Demonstrate that quickly? If I go in, I go in with

that... And then you go... Right. So there is always a neutral position.

Louise and Kevin, she follows her brilliant cha-cha-cha with the F.

How is it looking? Flowing lovely. As you would expect from Louise,

she's a lovely dancer. There are places, though, where I would like

to see the footwork improved, because there is a lot of places,

like here, if I can show you, that should have been a heel there. So

every forward step she does in the F, everyone should be a heel league,

she's doing everyone on the toe. She will get that right, she will

perfect it. We will all be watching. Onto Anastacia and Brendan, also

doing a rumba to a Barbra Streisand song. I love her! I always wanted to

be a Barbra Streisand impersonator! We can make this happened! I don't

have the nose for it. Noted! Talk about this rumba. She is doing quite

a nice one, I would like to see her settle into the hips applicable,

straight in the legs, the main thing with Anastacia issue needs to finish

off those lines, doesn't quite get to the end. She makes a lovely shape

in the body, let's continue and get it out right to be very end of your

fingertips rather than finishing it halfway. I'm thinking of you in the

Barbra Streisand week! In the curly perm! Finally, Laura and Giovanni

found themselves in the dance off, hopefully that won't happen this

week, the heavy quickstep. Very good. You will see here, all the

skipping and the bouncing steps, they are not losing contact at all.

That is very difficult. The couple of moves, places I want to see and

point out is there. She has the lovely flower in a vase. And that

she has the lovely contact here, and then she's right front. And she's

staying there all the time, gorgeous. So comfortable! Gorgeous!

We will have another helping... I am so dizzy! For now, give it up for

Ian Waite! it's time for the first update

of the evening - kicking off with Judge Rinder and Oksana,

and Daisy and Aljaz. The nice thing about this dance is

when it works, it feels amazing and when it doesn't, it feels so bad!

Sorry, you are spinning round and round and quite a lot of speed and

trying to throw up is difficult. It's harder for Oxon, she's looking

at me. As long as he can keep hold of his frame and keep waltzing

around the room, we will be OK. Good job! Our aim for the rumba this week

is to create a love story. Aljaz feels like my brother said during a

sexy dance with him is a little embarrassing. -- so doing a sexy

dance. Everything is very slow, you have got to have the right hips,

arms, legs, feet, my whole body has to be right for stop very nice!

Thank you. I hope I can give some hip action!

Now, everyone remembers where they were the first time

For me, it was Saturday 8th October, the time was 8.29pm, and I was sat

on my sofa weeping tears of pure joy.

Don't anyone try to stop them - it's Ed and Katya!

you could not have given more impact to that performance! I can't quite

believe what I have just been witness to. It was driven but

different, sadly, that any samba. You're not the best dancer but

you're definitely the most fun! As you walked in, you did the walk!

Do it one more time! I'm smoking! Somebody stop me! I have to say,

your samba was such a revelation, on the floor. Did it feel fantastic out

there in that yellow suit? Beginner suit was totally wild but also the

green make-up was even better, they did such a good job, the best green

make-up people in the whole of the country, Giorgio and the team. The

shading was just wonderful. I felt like I could do anything, other than

Dunster samba, which couldn't do very well at all! He had green

mascara, he looked so pretty! I have never run mascara before! At all

happens to you here. The audience would absolutely crackers. That must

feel amazing and help so much. When you dance, don't really notice it at

the beginning, you're so focused in the dance and the connection between

you two, but when you finish and you feel the energy, it's just so

amazing, you know you have done well. You have done what you had to

do. Does it make you giddy at the end? The giddiness comes from doing

the dance critic and hardly breathe! It's hard to concentrate on what the

judges are saying, tend to watch them back and find out there and

what they have research because in that moment, it's quite a while. He

is doing his homework! So much praise your performance from

everybody. Your friend and arrows, Jeremy Vine, called you just

incredible, he was quite upset, couldn't get enough of the fishing

rod move where you reeled her in. He is on the Friday panel this week.

Also Ed Miliband called you a national treasure! What's one of

those? We will explain later! Something which gets locked away in

the Tower of London for a very long time! That had that doesn't happen

after the pasodoble! The judges's scores, quite incredible. How are

you feeling each week? Scores are going up. We got a seven from Len,

let me just say, that was quite amazing, and Bruno. We tried to

focus more on what we want to deliver every week. Of course we

think about what the judges are saying and it reflects our

improvement, which is amazing but we just know what it is about. Her

choreography was brilliant. That was a special moment. That's the thing,

you are packing those routines with content. Normally I arrive and say,

boom, boom, you have got to do this and then we tried find a happy

medium! But I don't want to come from on dancing. I don't think Craig

has noticed. I quite like the pot stir. It was the only one that has

ever worked! On the night, that's all you need! The flip side, talking

about Craig, he has the bit about the samba, how you will you impress

him and win him over? I don't know. Just constant improvement, bringing

that character out, we have a bit of cake work this week. Let us discuss

the pasodoble! Not just a pasodoble, a pasodoble to Holding Alt For A

Hero. This sounds bonkers. She is in prison, I have to decide at the

beginning, do I free her and if so, we then danced the pasodoble, it is

all in the balance. Looking good in training! I would like to know, who

is indicate? The cape work is quite hard and I

have never done it in my life. Katya has been doing it for 20 years. She

said there is a few things, how you turn your wrist is, how you get the

momentum. Essentially, if you can get it moving, it's beautiful.

Fingers crossed, my cape work will be OK. I actually went home last

night and demonstrated my cape work to yes, and the family. This whole

bunch of cups when flying! Forgive him, it's all worth it! Ed and

Katya! I love those nails, Katya! They're amazing!

Now, we know how Ed and Katya are getting on.

But lately I find myself wondering just how Louise and Kevin and

Anastacia and Brendan are getting on?

This week we dancing foxtrot, and I'm enjoying it. She keeps saying,

I'm not girly, I just want to be in my tracksuit and trainers. I was

going to change but he said I didn't have to, so I stayed like this.

Shall we put my shoes on? Let's do that. I feel like I've been trying

to teach Louise how to be girly. I will wear a skirt, promised! We are

doing a rumba, and I think it's going well. We're working on the

steps, to get them 100% locked in for the choreography. She will know

where she's going. He just wants to make sure that I understand arms,

and where the face is looking. It's pretty structured with this dance.

So far, looking pretty good. We will see how it turns out. I love that

move! Right, we've already had

a first helping of Ian this evening, but for those

of you who are shouting more... Here he is for Waite's

Warm-Up Part Two. Let's have a look at the top of the

leaderboard, Danny and Oti were up there, after last weekend and there

are utterly splendid paso doble. How will they repeat that? It's going to

be difficult staying on top of that leaderboard, week after week, after

such a beginning. This looks nice and light and frothy, like a quick

step should be. Loads of content. I would like the rise and Tom Brake to

be a bit more the shame. This is Monday's footage. -- the rise and

fall to be a bit more the same. I would like a bit more body contact,

maybe because it was Monday also. And also the shoulders keep on going

up and down. He needs to keep those shoulders down and just bounce in

the balls of the feet. Danny, have you got that? Yes. Next, Greg and

Natalie scored their highest marks this series so far. So chuffed with

their American smooth. What are you making of their salsa training so

far? It was beautiful, and last week, his feet were so brilliant,

and nobody pointed it out, I thought Len of all people should have

noticed. Bags of fun, in the salsa, loads of atmosphere, loads of

energy. Although this week, I thought his feet were fantastic last

week, and this week it's another story. Oh, no, that's shocking,

white socks and black shoes! It's not the '80s any more! No! And I

think he needs to pick up the body and get onto the balls of the feet

so that he's using all of the foot because it is very flat. I think

maybe some exercises to strengthen his feet and his ankles would be

very good. Because that's what he does. He runs and jumps on those

feet. But it's in the actual lifting. And those little details

make all the difference. Next, Claudia and AJ, their Charleston was

epic last week. How is the foxtrot? It's flowing nicely, although they

will always have the disadvantage with the height difference. It will

always be a struggle for her to stay up to AJ. I have slowed this one

down, you can see her falling off the second one, and the third one as

well. Really, she needs to get her foot further back. That will give

herself the chance to get over the heels and stay on them without

falling off. I think because the step is to small, she's falling off

the back of it. But it's early days. A bit more practice, and it's a

difficult step. That is like a type of slip pivot step. I love that! You

can always say type of, you get away with everything! Next, doing the

charleston this week hasn't Naga and Pasha. Hopefully she's been boosted

by the judges saying some lovely things to her this week. She has a

wonderful physique, she's very pretty, she looks great in a dress,

in the Latin American dresses. They've got the Charleston, which is

very much led by the character and the acting of the dance, which might

let her down. I'm showing two clips here. The first one is a lot of

side-by-side. It is the face that she's going to have to set alight,

and those character steps which she will have to make real and act them

out. That's what Charleston is all about. It's all that he is,

literally! And finally, Ed and Katya, a paso doble... Can I just

say, I loved the dance on Saturday, and I thought it was grossly under

marked, and I thought it was a delight. It takes a lot of technique

to do that, and he did it brilliantly. He absolutely did. He's

a lot better than people give him credit for. First book this walk in

the paso doble, which he does the beginning, it's a bit like a cross

between Larry Grayson and Frankie Hammond. I mean...! But the rest of

it is absolutely brilliant! -- Frankie Howard. I love that he's

doing it with 100% commitment, which is what we are asking to do. Here,

he's got more shape in the body, and then she shapes out a little bit

more. Oh, Lord! Then you can go. Oh, thank you very much. A bit like

that. He can do anything, he's Ed Balls!

Thanks, Ian, we'll see you next week for another warm-up.

Now, our final guests of the night performed a breathtaking

Zorro-themed paso doble at the weekend, which was

We never got it right once. I was early, and even that time now. I was

doing it completely... You see, if you were a professional dancer, you

can't even hear it, that's terrifying. There was a break in the

music, and that had not come yet, so I stopped, and now I have to start

again. Goodness me, well done, that was incredible. I was wondering, you

did your own stunts on Hollyoaks, didn't you? I did, yes. So you're

good at that kind of stuff. And it was so ambitious. I mean, there were

so many incredible steps in there. Were you nervous about this one?

This was my most stressful routine so far, absolutely. I was so

stressed all week about it. I was nervous, I wasn't sure you wear that

confident whether I loved it, I loved it! Were you confident, Oti?

Yes! Oti does not come for mentally all week. I guessed no notes good

notes. That's all week. Once it gets to the judges, I'm like, bring on

the compliments, I will take it! It works, though, it works! This is

like a dream for you, surely? It is. We were saying last week, oh, my

goodness, last year, I went out in week three. So this year was kind of

nice. She has turned up now! We can go now! No, that's not the end!

Don't go anywhere, please, not you two as well! And Len loved the,

what's it called, the coup de pique! One of my favourite steps, the coup

de pique! What is a coup de pique? Shall we show you? Come on, talk us

through it. So, you go, leg through, you go up onto the balls, you go

back and close. That is a coup de pique! And you keep this arm

upright! Yes, the arm stays up. Do you want to do it through again?

That has got my blood racing a little bit! You're putting moves

like that in for Len? Yes, it's very important, when you start with a

beginning, you've got to start with the foundation the dance. Usually it

is like a set of figures that you would do with a beginner. That's

what I do with him, because a really is difficult. The paso doble is not

easy, but he was able to trust me, which was amazing. He was like, OK,

let's do this. Or I get is that routine. I do not know the ins

announce the paso doble, it is just, you step there, and you do this.

Onto the quickstep, Ian was giving you the critique - how is it going?

This is going surprisingly... I'm enjoying it, this one. It's the

first one, I do not want to say it's going well, it's just that I'm

enjoying it. The previous three routines, I've been stressed the

entire week. This is massively disconcerting, because the others

have gone so well, and I've been stressed. Now I'm enjoying it, is it

all going to go horribly wrong? What do you say to that, Oti? You'd

better not! Can you even imagine?! She's been nice this week. Why has

she been nice? I don't know. Such high expectation as well, joint top

of the leaderboard, how do you follow that? I was getting worried

and stressed, but at the same time, you cannot compare this routine this

week to me last week. So you start at 0. And if we get fours or fives,

sixes, whatever, it's for that routine. I cannot try and beat the

paso doble because it is a completely new dance. He's got it!

Keep it up! Danny and Oti! That's all we have time

for tonight, I'm afraid. I'll be back here tomorrow at 6.30

with Ore and Joanne and Plus, Vicky Gill will be giving

us a preview of all of