Episode 24 Strictly - It Takes Two

Live from London. This is strictly, it takes two. Please welcome your

host. Hello and welcome to It Takes Two,

where like all the shops, we've started Hallowe'en

celebrations early! But there's nothing

frightening about this show, Plus, she's the Queen of Halloween,

it's costumer designer, Vicky Gill! And the moment you've

all been waiting for. We'll be revealing which scary

costume you chose for Ian Waite! Thank you for standing

in Mr Pumpkin. Now, our first couple this evening

can generally be found near the very top of the leaderboard -

even after dancing a Rumba - it's terribly difficult,

don't you know! They made it look easy,

it's Danny Oti! That's what I like. It was a

masculine performance. Those hips have plenty of life into

it, darling! I love, love, love watching you.

Would you believe it. It's Danny and Oti.

I want to introduce you like that. The first male celebrity to tackle

the rumba this series, wow! Was it as difficult as everyone says it is?

It really was. It was terrifying during the week. I had some great

examples from Aljaz... Was it the week we did it? The same week.

Actually watching it back it went smoother than it felt, if I'm

honest. I had no idea how it had gone. From where I was it looked

perfect. Len said strong, mass cue line performance. Did -- masculine

performance. Did you have to bring out your inner beef cake? There is a

fine line. Oti would laugh at me in training. That must help! But, Oti

is such a strong, powerful woman, it is hard no not to cower away. She

made sure I brought it. You did, Oti. It was impressive. 36 weeks...

What? 36 points, the two previous weeks, were you sad to drop a point?

It was only one point? Honestly I didn't expect the scores we got at

all. The previous week we did the quickstep. I had the most fun. If we

got twos I would have been happy. Didn't matter. That went so well. So

this week I was honestly thinking it would be quite low and the rumba's

like famous for that. Even after the comments, they were great and

constructive, but when we ent up and got eight and three nines, it didn't

make sense to me, if I am honest. I'll take it! You're a happy, happy

boy. We did talk about the sliding doors. You know Len loves that step.

It's so good. Honestly I don't know what Len likes and doesn't like. I

know when you do any dance you want to have these basic elements of a

rumba. We had, like you don't know... We had, what did we have? We

had opening... We had a few things. You moved on to this week.

The sliding doors. So we had a few things. It was a good feeling that

he kind of recognised and then loved it. We got told off in week one for

not having enough content. Don't mess with her! Yeah! So much love on

line for you. A lovely message. Oti Mabuse, your choreography

is exceptional. It's great we properly see

what you can do this series. called Danny Mac tweeted: I've seen

so much appreciation An immensely incredible talent

and I truly believe, star And for that Danny Mac,

we got you this Hollow wean this week and a foxtrot

to Take Me To Church. What's the occasion you're going to church?

What is the occasion, Oti? It is like, I say a corpse wedding, it is

a wedding and it turns dark. It is a nice wedding but then turns a bit

dark. You see an evil side to the couple that are attached. It is

good. A great concept. There are a couple of little bits in it which

are quite testing and new. It is a really nice touch if we can make it

work. You're making it sound very, very good indeed. It is a contrast

to the rumba as well. Foxtrot. What are your teaching methods like, Oti?

I use anything and everything I can see, just to get him to understand.

I do try: Because I am so technical in teaching, I try to slow it down

and speak to him so he can understand. Whatever I can find,

bananas, brooms, chairs... Are they prizes or are they props? They are

props, so he can understand the language I'm speaking. It seems to

work. It's definitely working! I told her to hold a chair and do the

entire routine. By yourself. I cannot bear it. I am like, no, no,

no. Can I just... ? She's like no and she stands there like a teacher.

No, go and get the chair. I go and get the chair and do it. I hate to

admit it, but it actually works. It works, you can tell on Saturday

night. Keep it up! I tell you. I cannot wait to see you two in the

Church. Danny and Oti!

Now, it's time to check in with some of our hard-working trainees.

Here's how Laura and Giovanni, Judge Rinder and Oksana,

and Ore and Joanne have been preparing for Halloween week.

We are dancing the tango to the Rolling Stones and the Rolling

Stones are one of my favourite bands of all time.

Tango is a quite beautiful dance. Set... Go... My grandma is quicker

and especially dramatic. It is going to be a terrifying

tango. Yes! Beautiful!

The paso doble is strong, powerful and elegant.

One, and two, and three, four... It is very different from other dances

because there are specific shapes we need to create. There is a beautiful

routine this week. I want it to live up to her expectation. You can

expect an incredible butch dance. Five, six, seven, eight...

Oh, the charleston, what are you doing to me? It makes very little

sense. You've got to make sure your feet do

that swifling motion. Mine don't want to do that. He cannot swifle on

his right foot! That is like the basic back foo... Good. Don't kick

yourself! Trying to keep up. Every day just trying to keep up. Please

can I keep up! ? Now it is time for the results of a

momentous poll. You have been waiting in your millions... Sorry,

thousands to decide what Ian Waite should wear for hollow wean. Just to

recap everybody, your options were baller rien that gone bad, Black

Swan T legendary Beetlejuice. Orsome Barbara Streisand and the winner

will be revealed after this short message...

Please welcome, in your winning Hallowe'en costume, what he normally

wears on a Saturday night, Mr Ian Waite.

Oh, darling, you look divine. Thank you very much. I am prima Russian

ballerina. You look glorious. Will you wear this for trick or treat? I

don't want to frighten the kids too much. I hope Sir Matthew Bourne is

watching. In an outfit like that where do you keep your wand? I keep

it here. I didn't have any space in these tights.

Oh, the duck sound! Very funny. Let's look at the couples this week.

Ed and Katya, so much for them, from the public for these guys, never

been in the danceoff. Often bottom of the leaderboard. How can he avoid

being the bottom doing the cha-cha-cha? Yes, he's full of

enthusiasm, which is graesmt got a good energy. I would like to see him

a little bit more aware of his body. He doesn't know where he is with his

body. There are places where, especially in cha-cha-cha, if I stop

it here, where it would be nice if he could get his body over the

standing foot. If you put that heel down, right, he would be able to

straighten that knee and get his body way over there. Do you see what

I mean? If you show us. Over like that. Like that! Here we go. Cha...

He looks like a demented emu! It's not so good this week. So I

give him three pumpkins. Thank you very much! On to Claudia and AJ, a

brilliant samba last week. The judges said it is so, so fast, they

are slowing things down with an American smooth. It is a classic.

How does it look? Beautiful foxtrot in here. To be honest they did a

foxtrot last week. It is very lucky, they have an advantage. It was not

last week. It was the week before. But it has given her a chance to do

the foxtrot already. What I would like to see, as you can see here, I

would like to see her get a little bit more over AJ's right-hand side

and we would see the head a bit more over here and they would be able to

create more of that flower in the vase. It is looking very good. I

will give it two spiders, which is happy spiders. And one pumpkin. Well

done, everyone! Laura and Giovanni hoping to get back on the floor. Are

you looking forward to their tango? She has a good body position. If you

see, she is over the right-hand side. I really like her head

position. She's missing all the heel leads. She's doing all the forward

walks and does one heel lead and the rest are toes. Maybe it is the ankle

situation or the strain. But that needs to be eradicated in time

because obviously tango, you've always got heel leads. You are down

in the knees. Always heel leads. So, for this, darling, I give two

spiders... Oh, no, one spider and two pumpkins. I love how in control

you are of that! Judge and Oksana, a full pelt in their jive. He loved

it, as do we. This week she's being a moth and she's being a butterfly.

What can you tell us about the training? I just love watching him.

He's very strong. He's got a good walk there, as you can see. Good

heel leads, which are fabulous. I would like to see, I mean he's

getting into it. I think he needs a little bit more, he needs more

shaping. I'm liking his costume... Where he's looking, he cannot look

down at the floor. He needs to look across the room. There is a bull

coming at him and he needs to keep that in mind at all times. If he can

keep the elbows out and keep the shaping, it will be fabulous. So, I

will give this... Three happy spiders. Ladies and gentlemen you

can never unsee this... . Bravo. I love it.

Now, last week Head of the Glam Squad, Lisa Armstrong,

gave us some top tips on how to achieve a Hollywood makeover.

Here's her guide to creating a frighteningly good

I do love you. I really do! I'm Lisa Armstrong I'm the hair and makeup

designer for Strictly come dancing. I'm excited about recreating one of

my favourite Hallowe'en looks. It's Killer Doomy. The hair has been

pressed. Loads of pieces, crimp, high top, perfect for a Hallowe'en

look. I will start off with the eyes. In there with the black liner

and create that ghoulish look. Now, I will use a black eye shadow all

the way up to the eyebrow to make sure the line at the end is sharp I

will create the shape with the eye liner brush. I will go underneath to

join the look together. We added glitter over the top so it shines

and has a strictly look. I will apply a base to give it that deathly

Hallowe'en veil. Once you have all your hair backcombed you have pale

vase, black eyes, you don't have to spend a fortune on a costume, you

can put on a red dress, heels and you are a zombie. I will use a

reflex glitter, that will go on the base. She can shine around the dance

floor. The look has to be pretty because we are Strictly. We have to

obviously give a scary background to it and then glitter it up and make

it look glamorous. We come to the gemming, which is obviously very

Strictly. Tweezers, eyelash glue, back of the hand. Pop slightly in,

pop on the face. Done - repeat. Good, hey? ! Now we will do the

lips. We will paint them out with the white. With the eye liner brush

and then this, this, joining that all up. Then we just create the

lines going through. With the tip and the white paint you can go

around and perfect them. It's Hallowe'en, you don't have to be too

precise. You can see how you are dragging the white and black

through. The last bit to this look is putting a nice black line around

the lip. There you go, a perfect Hallowe'en

look. Pop a red dress on the other hand and you're good to go.

Thank you very much, Chloe. Happy birthday to Lisa. The big one, big

4-0. Now from one backstage

hero to another. Strictly's Creative Director

of Choreography, Jason Gilkison, will be joining me on the sofa next

week and we'd love to ask him some You can tweet them using the #It

Takes Two or email your questions Now, it's another big week

for costumes, but it's a walk in the park for this next lady,

it's Vicky Gill. Vicky Gill. How amazing did Ian look

in that getup? Fantastic. We all love a theme you love a theme. It's

a lot of work. Yes. How far in advance do you get prepared for

hall? Not long enough. It's great fun. It's happening. Every week.

Someone is doing something and then - it's changed. They will be this.

For you it must be a nightmare. Cutting things up. We have a sketch

of Jo's dress last week. It worked beautifully. This dress is

simplicity. Two layers to the dress, simple, eight pan e a wide flare. It

works beautifully for the number. Sometimes you don't need to over

cook things. Keep it simple. Ore was gorgeous in the white shirt and

white waist coat. Judge Rinder and Oksana are being a moth and

butterfly. This is unusual? A challenge. The concepts are always a

challenge. We've enjoyed this. We have had this hand painted. A lovely

lady worked hard this week to do this for us. It's wings. We didn't

know how it would work at the beginning of the week. We will see

what the proportion is like on Oksana tomorrow morning. With. We

will continue the painting up into the bodies, that is why it's not

matching right now -- bodice. More of this will happen on the wings. It

will transform tomorrow, as normal. Not coming out? Probably! They are

doing Paso Doble. Daisy and Aljaz doing Paso Doble. This is Daisy's

outfit. It's traditional. When we get to show time on Saturday we will

have coloured flowers around the neck line. The skirt will probably

be longer. She has such long legs, they go on forever. Hold it like

that. Thrills. We have about 100 circular thrills. A circle, 10

centimetres in-depth. That is multiplied and sown around the

bottom. Leigh was working hard on this morning. Aljaz will he wear a

vest or not? It's not going to be Gorka. We love him, he comes in and

makes anything look amazing. He does. Red and black jacket. They

will compliment each other. This week, with Hallowe'en she is dancing

to Bat Out Of Hel Anita with Brendan. We have black, red, black,

red and more black and red. You have to create diversity through the

line-up. They are bats, it had to be black. We put orange and peach and

red through the core of Anita's dress. Anastacia's dress. --

Anastacia. We will create a wing detail through her costume. We hope

it will be fringe. Will wings restrict movement? Sometimes they

get caught. I hate it when that happens. Oti is being the corpse

bride? That is right. Talk us through her frock. The base of Oti's

dress is a standard shape for foxtrot. She has enough flare and

movement. A detailed hemline there is lots of chantilly lace, but to

create the bride feel and that volume to the dress we've twisted

layers of tulee over the bodice. All the things to come with it are her

veil and bouquet. Can't wait to see it come to life. And Vicky Gill's

children get their costumes from the shops where we get our kids. Yes. .

Vicky Gill. Our final couple danced a romantic

Rumba under the glowing lights of the Eiffel Tower on Saturday

night, and we couldn't have loved it # Baby I didn't hold you... #

You are consistently good. Well done. You have wonderful movement.

Beautiful quality and relationship between you. It was one classy

Rumba. Louise and Kevin. Hello, admiring your shoes. That was a

glassy rumba last week. A get away to Paris. Were you pleased with how

it went? I was. I was nervous about doing the rumba, you feel so

exposed. All week Kevin was saying - get into character, you have to live

it. On the night I couldn't have done it better. If you do your best,

regardless of how good anyone else is, that is all you ask for. Sglm

you brought that character nicely. You can have a sexy rumba, it did

feel romantic, like you were... That is what we decided. We didn't want

to... It didn't feel right to writhe all over each other. We wanted to

make it classy... Not that you're not beautiful! Wife, husbands and

kids. We wanted a classic romantic rumba that puts pressure on things.

It's more spoking it's all about technique then. You nailed it. I

hear in rehearsals there were a couple of mistakes? I went rogue in

rehearsal. Did my own thing. Made up my own dance. Kevin put his arm out

and I ran off. She ran off. I didn't know where she was going. When that

happens how much does it make you frightened that the same thing would

happen? I felt bad. The end position Kevin swoops me on to the floor I

went, "I'm so sorry I went rogue on you" I was scared. Does he get

angry? No. He said - did you notice that you did it all wrong? I kind of

did! Yeah, I kind of did. Len said he wanted you to bring the wow

factor. It's a rumba, you can't go, wow, wow. How were you feeling about

comments like that. What do you say Kevin? I hated it. It's good, get it

off your chest. . The obviously, rumba is not a big showy dance.

However, we've just sort of said, if that is how they feel, that is how

they feel. We have taken it upon ourselves this week to crank it up.

This week is a big week for us. We have got to go for it. That's been

the talk in training all week. We have to show them we haven'ted

plateaued. We want to take on the boys above us. Yes. If they turn to

you and go - it's too much, we will all be cross. Darcey said you have

the ability to be at the top of the leaderboard. Is that where you want

to be or are you happy where you are? How do you feel about it? I

want to do my best. We are all different in this competition.s for

me, coming into it... It took me to really build my confidence and get

guts. I want to go out there every Saturday night. I smile my way

through every dance whether I should or shouldn't. Whether the character

requires a smile, I seem to carry on smiling. I'm having a really good

time. I want to do my best. Where I come on the leaderboard... If you're

up the top, it's a bonus. Hopefully, I won't be down the bottom. The

people at home have to love what you are doing. I love your attitude.

It's absolutely right. This week it's Hallowe'en. It's on to

Charleston. You look like you are having so much fun in training.

Louise, it's full on, isn't it? It's so fast! I said to Kevin, you might

have to carry me to the judges, I'm feeling my age this week. The I will

be crawling over. A lot of them are young on this. A mum of two. She

looks very young, you know... It does look absolutely joyious. Are

you happy with how training is going? I loved this week. I am

enjoying the Charleston. I think Louise will be amazing at it.

Putting pressure on you. We are in bits a little bit. Every morning we

have been coming in like we are 94 years old. I love the fact he is as

tired as me at the end of it. Normally I go - give me a moment. He

goes, we will do one more Rumba. After this one be he's like - shall

we have 10 minutes. Your characters are brill yanlt.

Now in keeping with the theme, we'd like to play a little game.

Louise and Kevin, be prepared to put your lives

I'm going to ask you a number of questions and all you have to do

is say whether it's a trick or treat, using these paddles.

Being trapped in a lift with Craig Revel Horwood? He has been nice to

me. Doing a lift with Ed Balls? Judge Rinder judging one of your

dances? I like him. Beating your sister

Joanne Clifton an Saturday night on the leaderboard?

Good luck on Saturday. I cannot wait to see you in that outfit. Louise

and Kevin! Join me here tomorrow at the earlier

time of 6.00pm for an hour-long Where I'll be chatting to Claudia

and AJ, Ore and Joanne Joining me on the Friday panel

will be Lisa Snowdon, Russell Grant and EP herself -

Elaine Paige. Plus, it wouldn't be Hallowe'en

without Strictly's scariest judge,