Episode 22 Strictly - It Takes Two

From London, this is Strictly, It Takes Two. Please welcome your host,

Zoe Ball. I'm very excited tonight

because the most wonderful time of the year is just

around the corner. Yes, Strictly Halloween

is four days away, people! And to celebrate, we've got

an exclusive first-listen to this Saturday's songs

and a preview of a particularly Plus, if that wasn't enough,

later on tonight, I'll be exclusively revealing the line-up

for this year's Children But first, let's see who we have

in our green room tonight. It's Daisy and Aljaz and Greg

and Natalie. Plus, Strictly legend

Camilla Dallerlup will be back But first up, their Charleston

at the weekend to Happy Feet resulted in four Happy Judges

and an incredibly rare sighting But it wasn't enough

to save them from a shock That was just heaven. The style

really suited you. Clever, full of joy. Very, very smart concept.

Slightly late end. You were just a little bit tired but I loved it,

brilliant. Daisy and Aljaz, everyone.

It was brilliant. I totally agree with krachlingt can I just say -

look, you are wearing matching outfits tonight. Well. You dance

together, you start to look like each other. You were in your element

doing this dance. I know you were so excited about this one from the off.

How much fun? I did. I had one of the best weeks of my whole life. I

have never giggled and smiled so much. It was just brilliant. I loved

performing it. It was just the results show! We will talk about

that in a minute. I think this is your joint highest scores of the

series. Craig gave us an 8. I know! Love you, Craig. Were you encouraged

by the judges' comments? Completely. I was blown away by them. For Craig

to be lovely to us was lovely and everyone was really... I mean the

energy level, to be honest, my body has never been through so much

strain in my life, ever. There was a lot of moving. There was so much

moving but your timing, together, I thought it was an absolute joy. How

heart broken were you then? I know how much you hate waiting for the

results anyway. To be in the bottom two when you have worked that hard

on a dance you loved? You know, it was one of my worst fears realised

and weirdly it was the calmest I have ever been through a results

show, it was almost like - thank goodness I was calm. Yes, thank you.

Thanks angels. I was genuinely pleased I got another shot at

dancing T I was annoyed I didn't make that last timing. - at dancing

it. We got to do it again. We got to see it again, a win-win for us. How

did you encourage daisy, I mean are you scared when you have to do a

dance off, you don't want to go home, either? How do you talk each

other down? Of course you are scared but I always say it Daisy whenever

we go on and perform - it is just the two of us. Do exactly what we

did in rehearsals. No more, if we didn't practise anything, don't do

it. But she did such a good job in the show. Doing Charleston in the

dance off is always tricky. You get to the parts of choreography where

it is side-by-side, if you do ballroom or Latin, if something goes

wrong, there is a way to fix it but Charleston when you are standing

next to each other, it is so exposing, Secretary of State I was

generally impressed that Days - so I was genuinely impressed that Daisy

got through that, if anything. She did it better than she did in the

show. Well done. I can only imagine how emotional you were. The judges

unanimously saved you. Hooray and then boo because you have to say

goodbye to Lesley. It was bitter sweet. I felt awful. She has been

such an inspiration to all of us. Regardless of her age, she's also

been working every morning at 5.00am and performing incredibly and being

so enthusiastic all with a big smile on her face. I'm going to miss her.

I was gutted and you feel it was your fault. My dad was watching it,

and he said you were so upset and he wanted to give you a cuddle. You had

so much praise for your dance. The internet was going crazy, Jenny a

Eclair, a fan of the show, she said: I love her so much. I didn't see

that. That's amazing. I'm obsessed with her. More of that coming N and

paso doble. Now it is Hallowe'en. I can't do that. I wasn't good at

that. Tell me what you have learned so far? Well, only one day of

training so far. Lots of shaping and resistance. Well, look at that. Your

body has to be very strong. Well, look at that, nice. She is the

perfect student. Can you tell me about the character you are going to

play? It is Hallowe'en, there is lots of dressing up but just more

joy? Well, it is going to be just really, hopefully a good paso doble.

I love doing it, it is a strong, passionate dance, a perfect story

between a man and woman. It is a huge resemblance to the bull fight

there. Has to be a tension between me and Daisy the whole time. But

because Daisy is so sweet and, it is Daisy, and paso doble is so strong,

so we need to put those two together. I'm looking forward to

seeing that fiery senorita come out of you. Me too. I'm hoping the

bottom two last week will help that. I think hopefully that won't happen

again next week. It is a hard thing to go through, but you did it

brilliantly. Don't lose heart. You are amazing. Good luck this week,

Daisy and Aljaz. Now, with Strictly's

own Fright Night fast approaching, I find myself wondering what songs

the likes of Daisy and Aljaz But rather than ask them myself -

too easy - I'll be using my very This Saturday, our ten remaining

couples will be hoping to pull out every trick or treat in the bag

in order to stay in the competition. So, let's have our first horrifying

tune of the night. Hopefully this old

thing still works. This is Bat Out of Hell

by the brilliant Meatloaf! The Bat Out Of Hell album spent

an incredible 474 weeks on the UK album chart, that's over

nine years and almost half the life-span of your

average bat outta hell. a recent study at Sussex University

found that Meatloaf's music was an excellent stimulant

for plant growth. Let's see who will be dancing to? .

Give me an Oh. Ooooohhh!

They'll be taking on the jive to this absolute classic

but will they be flying up that leaderboard?

Right, what's next on the jukebox tonight?

This track topped the UK charts last year and was a top ten hit

The accompanying music video for this song is loosely based

on horror film The Craft and features the girls as geeks

who find an old book that suddenly transforms them into popular girls

APPLAUSE. Looking good, girls, incredible.

But which of our couples will be turning to Black Magic to conjure up

Nice work, ladies. I'll clear up, don't you worry.

They'll be dancing an American Smooth to this.

Right just enough time for one more tune.

It's Born This Way by Lady Gaga - whose real name is Stefani Joanne

How are you doing? Are you all right Good. No idea who this is.

She refers to her fans as Little Monsters

This song sold more than one million copies in its first five days

on sale but was written by Gaga in only ten minutes.

Although she has said she believed close friend Alexander McQueen

helped her write the track from beyond the grave.

But, who will be dancing to it at the weekend?

They'll be performing a Paso Doble to this.

But will they be able to Out-Gaga Gaga?

If you want to find out what songs the rest of our couples

are dancing to this Halloween, head to the Strictly

Now, it's time to find out what our pros have in store for this

This week, it's Hallowe'en. It's fair to say, there's something

spooky in the air tonight. Whoooh. It's Hallowe'en this week, we have a

vampire-themed performance for the pros. They are very much in love and

at bred night Brendan comes to capture Karen and take her to the

dark side. I love doing it, because you get to do things you don't

normally do. It just feels great. So we are dancing to In The Air

Tonight. It is a different version. It is a lot darker and quiteery. The

movements that goes with it, is very sort of strange, perfect for

Hallowe'en Hallowe'en is fun because we get to play dress-up. The whole

show feels like a massive production. I actually really don't

like Hallowe'en. I get really, really scared. One, I'm scared of

the dark and two, if somebody puts a face mask on, I just scream and run

awane nearly faint. The most challenging part is that Karen does

have to fling herself towards the pack. It is scary because you have

to do it for quite a distance. She just has to trust that they are

going to catch her I'm so delighted to be back and to be back first

thing, for this number. Goodness me, how did I ever have a week off? OK,

the clock is ticking, you guys need to go, you don't want to ruin the

surprize. Tune in on the weekend. It's going to be scarily good.

I can't wait to see that. The way Karen throws herself at them.

Amazing. It's time now to reveal the line-up

for this year's BBC Children Past Children in Need editions

of the show have featured the BBC Newsreaders,

the cast of Call the Midwife and once even pitted the legendary

Sir Terry Wogan against Tess Daly. This year, it's going to be

an Olympic effort for Pudsey, as four Team GB medallists from Rio

take to the Strictly dance floor. But who's swapping their

tracksuits for the lure First up is Taekwondo

star, Lutalo Muhammad. He recently became the most

successful male in British Taekwondo history having won

a Silver medal in Rio. But can he win Gold

on the Strictly dance floor? He's going be paired up with hot

lips Karen Clifton, so the odds could be

in his favour. It's queen of the Hockey

field, Hollie Webb. She, of course, won Gold

with her team this year in Rio and will be hoping to repeat that

success with Strictly newbie, Third up is Joe Clarke,

who took home a Gold medal this summer in the Slalom Canoe

event becoming the first He'll be dancing with the lovely,

Janette Manrara. And, finally, we have Helen Glover,

two-time Olympic champion and current number one

female rower in the world. She'll be dancing with former champ,

Pasha Kovalev. Will she have the dance moves

to match her oar skills? What a brilliant bunch,

but who will be lifting You'll have to wait until Children

in Need night on Friday, We'll have more details on that

special nearer the time. Now to another of my

own personal heroes. Her crowning achievements include

representing the UK in the Eurovision Dance Contest,

coming first on an episode of Pointless Celebrities

and lifting the Strictly But it was her star turn

on Choreography Corner - a mere 24-hours ago -

that truly won the nation's hearts. We shall continue what we started

yesterday. Lovely to have you back. Kicking off with Ed and Katya's

American Smooth. We have to talk about that lift. What do you think

happened here dochl you think nerves got the better of him? Do you think

it was too ambitious or was it it brilliant? Before we talk about that

lift. Can we acknowledge the fact he did two amazing lifts before that

one. Yes. Here, as we see, he eases her on to the floor with amazing.

He guides her around and takes his time. That was lovely. Here, this

was over ambitious. Katya did something, she decided to take a

gamble. It could have gone well and got good scored. Shall we do the

lift? Shall we do the lift now? I'll be Ed.

Each week we see him attempting more and more difficult and precise

moves. What does he particularly need to work on to impress the

judges, especially Craig, who is always very hash on him? He needs to

do what he did here. He improved the actual foxtrot he was doing in the

American Smooth, the basics and keep doing that. The judges love the

proper basic. Keep it up. Ed. Louise and Kevin's Rumba. Len said she was

plateauing a little bit and needs a bit more wow. Did you think this was

wow or did you know what he meant? Yes. I know exactly what Len meant.

That maybe Kevin has made a choice here and go for the softer,

emotional kind of romantic version because the melody was so soft. If I

can demonstrate. Please do. There are a couple of ways. With a soft

tune you can walk away. You can just, sort of, softly turn and use

the bringing in the partner. If you want, wow, you could turn. Oh, wow.

Then go soft. That would bring... That was the wow he was looking For.

Yes, OK. I actually really loved the softness. I think we saw a new side

to her. I think the chemistry between them was brilliant. They

were kind in their own bubble. You will be trying that over the

spaghetti, coming in like that. It never works. They have the

Charleston next week. That is a fun dance. Maybe that could be her wow

moment? It could be the one. She owns it and confident and do amazing

lift. That would be awesome. She can do it. Claudia and AJ and their

Samba. Despite high scores all around, Len felt that the speed of

the music, it was quite difficult for her to keep up. Would you agree?

Yes. I totally agree. When the tune came on I thought - wow, this is

fast, even for a professional. She did a really good job up until this

moment. Then I thought this started becoming sort of steppy and runny. I

felt sorry for her because it was fast, very, very fast. I think they

have gone for the high energy. The energy is there. You either have the

speed and the energy or you have it slow and maybe it would have been

more boring. Could you do it like a record and turn it on to the other

speed and slow it down like that? No, you can't. Bruno said that AJ

had tried to fit in every possible Samba move then. Content, content.

It seems to be very important? It is important to get the high scores.

Equally, technique is important too. Maybe a little bit of both. All

right. Moving on to Anastacia and gourd can's Quickstep which was such

a moment. Loved this. Were you impressed at how well she adapted to

a new partner? So impressed. When she came on I thought - hello, I

haven't seen this lady before. She looked relaxed and at home in this

dance until they got into the hold. I noticed a lot of gapping

happening. You will see it in a moment here. That could be a up

could of things. The fact she has just met this man and maybe like

Gethin in Series 5 he would giggle when I got close. Awkward. A new

partner. Maybe she felt it's a bit awkward. Maybe they haven't had the

time to spend on the leg action and technique to get close. It's

difficult for the man to lead the lady without getting close. He would

have to lead with the arms, it's not ideal. As a female pro how do you

get that getting close. Ian says you have to get this part of your body

to where ever... Match, right side to right side. You ease in with the

basic steps, walking around the floor in the waltz and the beginning

and get use used to each other's bodies. Then you can get the

closeness. Judge Rinder and Oksana's jive. He is so popular. A lot of

people in our stud Yeo audience who love Judge Rinder. Their highest

score yet. Did they impress you, they impressed the judges? When he

was doing the kicking he was getting his knees together. When Then he was

more like. This I would like to see him keep the closeness. He got too

excited. Got carried away. There he is. Off he goes. Super. So tight in

the legs here by the knees. You see the big gap. OK. What I love about

watching him. He seems like a natural. He is a joy to watch.

Darcey said that sometimes his enthusiasm takes over a little bit.

What you agree? What advice would you give him to stop that happening?

I agree. I was worried it would come across he is taking it as a joke,

not serious. He is a good dancer. I would like him to be contained and

do the moves and not have to always the fun with it. OK. Hallowe'en

week. It's next weekend. How much would you love to be on that dance

floor in all the costumes and he get up. Maybe that is what you are doing

at home? I would rather sit and watch them all. I shall enjoy doing

that. I love Hallowe'en. It's the best. I hope you will be dressed up

with your fell latch lovely to see you. Of course. Don't stay awith a

too long. Camilla Dallerup. Our final couple of the night

were hoping to find love from the judges on Saturday,

but all they got were their lowest Forget about the judges though,

we found it all en-cha-cha-chanting! I always love your heroic muscular

stance. Sadly, it looked very stiff. You're very pigeon toed. The walks

look awkward. You did a good job. Be proud of yourself. Well done. It's

Greg and Natalie everybody. APPLAUS. You look devine. Last week you

weren't a massive fan of the cha-cha-cha. Are you glad it owes

over and done? Yes. It was a hopeless place we found ourselves.

No. I tried to be positive all week. I was really struggling. I was

saying - had is wonderful, we are doing well. She puts together

wonderful dances. I was thinking - I'm the worst dancer who has stepped

on to the strictly dance floor. I remember that feeling. For me it was

the pass low Kobe blah and the cha-cha-cha. You have to concentrate

to remember the steps when it's not coming naturally? Most people noted

that I looked like I wanted to murder Natalie during the dance. A

tense look. I'm trying to think - What's coming next. It was coming at

me so fast. All week I couldn't retain the dance. It was driving me

up the wall. So I'm very pleased that, hopefully, I don't have to do

that again. We may need to, actually, in the future, I'm sorry

to tell You have to you. Get on and do it again. Do another one now. I

think that with the cha-cha-cha if we had more days, like the jive.

Two-and-a-half weeks to learn the jive, it's intricate. Cha-cha-cha is

the same. If we had a couple more days we nailed it that morning. You

were fantastic. That annoyed me more, to be honest. We have a

practice in the studio on Friday. I didn't finish it once. We went in

back into the studio, we practiced for three hours, we got it together.

Went in the following morning, I completed it. I was thrilled. You

were loving i I was founsing off the balls because -- bouncing off the

walls because I completed the dance. I blew it We got fast entirely. With

the foot work. It catches up. Bless you. Oh! Move on from it. The lowest

score you had so far. What did you think about the judges' comments?

Craig is amazing. He has constructive criticism. The things

that weren't right, the feet, we will work on this week, very much

so. Thank you Craig for that. It makes us work even harder. Maybe it

was a bit harsh because you partner me so well. You allowed me to do

everything I needed to do on the night. Thank you for that. You

allowed me to shine still. There was nothing there that I didn't feel

like you couldn't enable me to do make the dance work. That is an

amazing quality. We do watch you. You always look... I'm not looking

at your feet. I'm watching the two of you on the dance floor. You are

great. When you get to the results, when your name, they left it until

quite late. You had to wait a long time. When you through your faces

were absolutely priceless. You both looked gobsmacked not to be in the

Dance-Off? Before that, when it was us and Daisy and Alijaz I just

nudged Nat, one more dance, it's OK. I will do it better. They announced

it. The look of shock is genuine. I was really mentally prepping. You

have to get out there, don't do that bit wrong, don't do that bit am I

wasn't thinking about my name not being called. Then it wasn't. It was

- how on earth did that happen? It was down to people being wonderful

at home and voting to keep us in. That is hugely important at this

stage. We thank every single one of you. A massive kiss from us. As an

athlete, you must have performances sometimes where it doesn't go

according to plan and you psych yourself up and get back in the

arena again. How do you do that as an athlete, that is what you have to

do this week? It's remembering, for me, it's easier in jumping terms

because I have had good days before, very good days. You sort of think

about those more and you remember and go over video footage, in my

case, of why it was good. You reassess and go at it. We had a

couple of good days. . Yes I'm trying to remember that. The

American Smooth. I loved it. So amazing. I'm trying to remember

those sensations. And the Jive. The American Smooth leads nicely to the

dance this week. You have the Rumba, remembering the partnership. There

is a connection between the two of you. You told that love story

beautifully. It's with a you have to do in a Rumba had? This week's theme

is about man and woman. A great song. We had an awesome rehearsal

today. Rumba is technically difficult. With the choreography

that we're creating together, he's really helping with some of the

movements. Aren't you? Yeah? You are. Am I. He's applying himself.

You can tell this week is going to be a good week. I'm relieved to hear

it. Your whole demeanour seems more positive? I have to try hard because

sometimes you can get down and think - this is terrible, I'm awful at

this. But the day we had today, it was wonderful. The first day ever,

even American Smooth, we went through to the dance. We got to the

end. I saw the end. Tweaking the end to make it more animated and

everything else. To be in that position already is a really good

feeling. I'm super keen to keep pushing. I thought you were

twerking! At the end of the Rumba - tweaking! Hallowe'en so much fun.

You will be dressed up. Scared the dear life out of me. How much will

you enjoy it this weekend? I can't wait. Looking forward to the outfit.

There is a special opening. The start of the dance will be really

cool, I Think. Yeah. I cannot wait to see the beginning of the dance.

It sounds fabulous. Believe! Greg and Natalie.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE. That's all we have time

for tonight, I'm afraid. But don't worry, we're back tomorrow

at 6.30pm when Laura and Giovanni will be here to fill us

in on what happened last week, and I'll also be catching up

with Judge Rinder and Oksana. Plus, Ian Waite is here

for his Wednesday Warm-Up.