Episode 27 Strictly - It Takes Two

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

Zoe Ball! CHEERING AND APPLAUSE. If you're missing Halloween already,

we've still got a few tricks up our sleeve,

including an exclusive listen to what our couples will be

dancing to this weekend - And from the Jukebox

to the Booth of Truth, But first, it's time to reveal who's

in our green room tonight. Plus, he's the busiest choreographer

on the planet, it's dance Jason will be answering some

of your questions later in the show! But first, they danced

like it was the Day of the Dead on Saturday and ended

up in the bottom two Luckily, the judges gave them

a lifeline and they and live It is really lovely to see that

dramatic, stronger Daisy now, in really nice rounded performance.

Hit and miss, sometimes full of aggression and attack and another

bit, it would just loosen out a bit. The choreography was great, you

looked fantastic and I adored the dance!

I get really emotional watching that again.

Dramatic paso and you both looked divine. The skulls were beautiful.

The brief was pretty skulls. They did an incredible job. The dress.

The hair and make-up. Just incredible. For everyone, they go

over and above. It is so exciting, the dance itself, did you enjoy it?

I loved that paso, such a passionate dance. It was really difficult

coming to terms with being aggressive and tough like that

because I'm just not like that naturally. Once I got my head around

it, I loved it so much. And I had the best time. When it got the

Saturday night, I felt like I didn't do it as well as I had done in

rehearsals. No! Aljaz, you do not look like you agree. Where then

nerves because you had been in the dance of the week before, was more

nerve wracking? Yes, of course, and wanting to prove I deserve to be

there as well. More than anything, just saying I'm still really

enjoying it and I can do the steps, I promise! Bless you! And you can do

them well! I know, and we really enjoyed it. And bottom two again,

that is heartbreaking, Aljaz? Especially as you had such great

scores. It is always tough. And as soon as we finished, I did know, on

the Saturday, Daisy did an incredible job. Again, yet again, I

was not easy on her with the steps and choreography. There was really

tricky footwork within that routine. And to stay in character and the

make-up was incredible, so the whole thing, I loved the look and the

dance, it was won of my favourite dances I have ever done in Strictly.

See! And a lot of love and support for you online.

Well, you got lots of support online.

Carol Rafferty tweeted: "Daisy Lowe - shocked you were in the dance-off

this week, but so pleased you're through to dance another week.

Yes! Strike -- smiling! Good advice. When Tess said your name, you could

not catch your breath and I was worried. I thought your knees had

gone. What went through your head

when you heard your name called out? I had just turned her Aljaz and

said, I can't do that dance again. Then they called our name and I

thought, well, I'm going to have two! But in honesty, I was really

pleased I got an opportunity to do it better because I felt like I had

not done it as well as I could have and I really went for it in the

dance-off. You really went for it! You could feel the fire! Brendan

said yesterday, nothing like a dance-off to go, right, I'm bringing

it. You must have been like and again, with that make up, I did tell

Daisy whenever in the routine you feel like you want to scream or

shout, do it! There was 1.I looked at Daisy and she shouted and I said,

make up! I got out of character! The judges saved you unanimously again.

They are seeing the great stuff and you want the people at home to

understand that is to vote. Aljaz, what is it people do not see at

home? I don't know. Daisy comes in every single week and we got the

best score this week, which proves she works so hard. And the steps I

throw in, really difficult, every single week. And we just need to

keep doing that. We've got some beautiful dancers left this week. I

love the dance we are doing this week already, I just want her to get

better every week. Which she is doing. And going back to how

difficult the steps were, Len did say he had never seen a girl, I have

to read it, it is so complicated, he'll turn into a twist turn step,

you had worked so hard on it, did you know what he meant? I did

because Aljaz had said to me previously, you have to make sure,

you get the steps right, make sure you do that bit rate because that is

important technical dance work. All right! I said it much more happily!

I really would love you to... I was doing the paso face all day! That is

a really tricky step to do because the timing is hard and paso is very

fast, and to do a little he'll turn, yes, I loved it. I love it when he

is happy and smiling, we do not see training Aljaz! That is not true!

Now, viewers of a more sensitive disposition - or those

eating their tea - may want to look away now.

Daisy, here you are having a few moments of relief

Oh, yes! One, two... Know, straight leg. I didn't want to bet in your

face! # She's a lady!

BURPING. Is that to put me in the right mood for a paso?

Yes, yes! I love that! And when I got back in hold, I said, thank God

I'm to the left! On his shoulder! Less onions! My grandmother will be

modified! No, you are a lady! I really do burp! We all do that and

we get wind from various places! We all do that and we get wind

from various places! You're dancing the

Viennese Waltz next. Back in the hold. Back in the hold,

it is so comforting! It feels like being in the womb! All right! We

haven't been able to be in hold the four weeks since our Quickstep and

it does feel really good. I also forgot how painful it is to keep

your arms up like this. All the time, and the head. And you are

saying today that in the Viennese waltz, it needs to be even further

backwards. Yes, every week, it needs to be further back. Goodness me! And

a lovely smile. And I get the smile, yes! We love your smile, it is great

to see that again. If we think back to your waltz...

Your Week One Waltz to Unforgettable was -

Will we see something like that again? I think so, the waltz was

beautiful and the Quickstep, I loved the Mary Poppins Quickstep. And I

could not wait to get back to ballroom because I know that's Daisy

loves it. Yes, it is a song that is very self-explanatory. Eating

everybody is going to love it. But I always love a Viennese waltz on the

show, a beautiful feeling of a ball in Vienna and doing it on Strictly

is always special. I'm excited to dress up like a Princess! We can't

wait and keep the faith, we love you!

Now, like us, the pro dancers enjoy a good old gossip,

so we built them a photo-booth of truth especially!

Which professional is always late? Well, I have noticed Anton has been

late quite a few times. Anton. Well, it's not me, it's definitely not me.

The lovely Anton du Beke does waltz in whenever he likes. The other pros

get in early. Some people might say it is me, Pasha. Always ten, 20.

Half an hour late. I have never seen him on time, ever. We are waiting

for you, Pasha. They think I'm late. They are early, I'm on time, it is

just. Early. Who is the clumsiest professional? That is easily

Brendan, he is always doing tricks and flipping around and jumping of

tables and he falls. I'm very clumsy, I do a lot of stupid things.

100% Brendan Cole. I often fall and I trip. Brendan, he is just really

fearless and he just jumps off things and does a roly-poly.

Stumble, break. Any time you hear something falling, you don't have to

even ask, it is Brendan. Yes, it is one way of dancing.

Clumsy Brendan! We love an excuse to get our groove

on in the It Takes Two studio. And you may have noticed

we regularly do it on a Tuesday. Yep, you guessed it,

it's time for Tunes on Tuesday! With just nine couples

left in the competition, Let's find out what's

on the jukebox tonight. # I don't tell you what to say...

It's the 2015 hit You Don't Own Me, by Australian singer Grace.

The song was produced by the legendary Quincy Jones,

who also produced the Lesley Gore version way back in 1963.

Both singers were just 17 years old when they recorded this

You may also recognise it from a famous Christmas ad.

That's right, folks, Halloween is so yesterday!

Let's find out who'll be hoping to "own" their

They'll be performing a Viennese Waltz to this!

Right, what's next on the Jukebox tonight?

It's 'Long Tall Sally', by Little Richard!

This 1957 hit's been covered by Elvis Presley,

By the way, nice dress, Daisy, lovely! And you don't look so bad,

And you don't look so bad, Ore!

In fact, Little Richard was such a big influence on The Beatles that

Let's find out who's going to be wooing along to this

It's 'Bamboleo' by the brilliant Flamenco band Gipsy Kings!

Believe it or not, this iconic song never made it into the UK charts,

but it certainly stood the test of time as - 28 years later -

Trust me, you'll be Bamboleo-ing for the rest of the night!

Ever wondered what 'Bamboleo' actually means?

After a quick online translation, we can tell

# Porque mi vida, yo la prefiero vivir asi #.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE. Ole!!

"Roll, roll, because I prefer to live my life this way".

I think I prefer to live my life this way too!

Let's find out who'll be rolling along to this song on Saturday.

They will be going the Samba. If you want to find out... Thank you. If

you want to find out what songs are couples are dancing to this weekend,

head to the website. Talking of this weekend,

it's time to take an exclusive look at how rehearsals are coming along

for the next big group number. And this time, our pros

are bringing Cuba to Elstree. This week we are taking the ballroom

to South America. This time it is to Fiesta Strictly style. It is from

Cuba, it is energetic. OT is playing this character the men want and it

is them competing for her attention. Bits of Salsa, bits of Samba in it.

The girls are sexy and the men are looking match show. I love this

dance. I am at the front for half of it until Anton du Beke comes along

and pushes me out of it again. I am the Lothario, the one who ends up

with the girl. The others are all fighting over the girl and she

catches one side of me and that basically does it. This dance, we

are using loads of props, hats on, all we can put in. Love it. Imagine

you are on the streets of Cuba, everyone having fun. Lots of hips

going on, it will get the audience going. The end of the number is

going to be fantastic. Going to have a bit of a surprise in store with

special effects, so I am looking forward to that. That is all you can

see by now, June in this weekend to join the party. You are all invited.

It looks wild. It's time now to meet

the Dance Mastermind behind so many of the group numbers

you see on Strictly. Please welcome Choreography god

and all-round lovely We just got a flash of the weekend

group dance is coming up, Cuban Fiesta with choreographer Matt

Flint. He is so lovely. That looks fantastic. It is one of the fastest

routines we have done so far. Halloween weekend, both group dance

is where epic. Ghost train, brilliant opening and then the

results show, Clock Strikes 12? Yes, that does Halloween firs every year,

but this was phenomenal. The storytelling, in that short space of

time to tell this incredible story, it is great. Brendan possibly played

the best evil character we have ever had. One of our viewers has asked,

how do you choose which pro has two lead the different group dance is?

It is easy because every pro dance gets featured. By the end of the

season we have seen every single pro take the lead in a number. Some of

the choreographers like Beth Honan, she knew what she wanted for her

routine this time. For my routine, I pretty much featured all of them.

For my second, I wanted to feature some of the new ones who have been

in this show this year because nobody has got to know the new one

yet. So I used Gorka and Oksana. That was Romeo and Juliet. Yes, and

I got to know them really well with just working with them. It was a

lovely experience. Was this the first group Argentine Tango? I

couldn't work out why we hadn't used an Argentine Tango is a group number

before. At week one, when everybody did the Waltz to What The World

Needs Now. It was beautiful. Not just in the room, the rehearsal room

was a beautiful experience. Bringing all these people from all over the

country together, the kids were from all over London. The other people

that joined us, the social dances were from up north. They had never

seen each other, they had been rehearsing separately all over the

country. So they only get to rehearse together on the day? Yes,

it was like having 5000 people on the floor at once. We have more

questions Angela would like to know who are your heroes in the dance

world? I am a bit old school so I like Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers,

Gene Kelly, Anton du Beke. The biggest of the dance world. I love

old movies from the 30s and 40s and I get a lot of my inspiration from

them. We have seen some beautiful influences this year with Ore doing

singing in the rain. What are the top three elements that make a good

dance? You have to have a simple concept, a good, technical base, but

then the most important thing is a great performance because then that

will hit it home. If you don't have that performance, you will not

connect with anybody watching. As much as you can work on technique

over and over again, if you don't work to the performance, it can flat

line. Performance above everything. I love the group numbers, there are

so many different dances you want to watch.

Now Halloween is out of the way, Blackpool is almost here. We have

done a Waltz so far, we have done a Tango and this group number, I think

the F would be nice to open the show. I love getting the celebrities

excited to open the show. So we will do something special for the

celebrities this year. Our final couple of the night turned

the Strictly Ballroom into their very own sweet shop and -

apart from the mess they made - You don't get tired at all, you make

everything look easy, so well done. You're right but never swivels, so

it is not a Charleston. Overall, I thought it was great. But the lift

was a bit dodgy. Ore and Joanne. I was hoping you would keep the beard.

I wanted him to keep the wart. You couldn't see it on TV, but they

stuck eyelashes on the wart, so it was hairy. This is the detail they

go to, so good. When you saw it in the mirror, what? ! What did we look

like, silly. I felt like I was channelling Tom Hanks in castaway. A

bit of Ron Burgundy on a bad day. We have Craig giving you a six and then

getting nines. But your lower score since the second week, but 32 is

still great. How are your feelings? You cannot complain having 32, it is

an amazing score. For me, it was the first time we'd had a six since week

too, so it felt like we had gone back a bit. But it was so nice and

the judges around the table realised there were some good bits and we did

do some of the Charleston well. He did a lot of it well. What happened

with the lift, Joanne because you could see something had gone

Askwith. It was definitely squiffy. We didn't time it right together. It

wasn't Ore's faults, it was us as a team, together. We were supposed to

do... Back, replace, jump, bend and go over at exactly the same time.

Watching it back it was the back, replace and it was the turn we

didn't get in sync. I am with you now. It had a knock-on effect

because we didn't have the next steps in time. I know how terrifying

it is. Your brain starts to race. My brain went blank. It is the first

time. It is quite scary because we are at the part in the competition

where the pressure is rising. Every step that goes wrong, it can affect

how you get on in the competition. It was scary because it had never

happened before and I had never not done that lived right. You are very

sweet because he felt like I was falling and the reason he was behind

and not in sync afterwards, he was making sure I did not fall over. He

helped me up and then missed the beat. The things you have to do for

a lady. It is quite exciting, it means there is a reshuffle at the

top of the leaderboard. It is so competitive. Are you feeling that

competitiveness, the change amongst everyone? I don't know, we are

trying not to think about it as a competition. When we go back to

training on Monday it is nice to get into the safety tree of the

training room and learn the routine. From being at the top of the

leaderboard twice, which is incredible, I said last week there

was only one way to go. We were prepared for the fact we would not

be up there again, but it is about how you bounce back. Motivation,

work hard. Exactly. Let's talk about the swivel issues, and I know you

had worked hard. I had worked hard, she had been banging on about swivel

all week. I thought there was some swivel and I was really trying. You

know what it is like when you are trying so hard every day of the week

and one of the judges picks up on the things you have been trying to

do and says he didn't do it, it is a bit of a hammer blow. You did do it.

When you were looking at your lollipop like that, you were

swivelling. Craig's eyes would have been on that. It is a strange dance.

I love doing the Charleston, but it is bizarre, it is like patting your

head and rubbing your stomach at the same time. Just don't drop your

partner. That is always a good thing. Let's move the Salsa for you

two. You like this. Back to the Latin. What are you thinking, how

has it gone so far in training? Very well. It has been all right. You

look surprised! I have a different feeling from last week. You already

love the Salsa, kind of way of dancing and you picked up the

routine within the first two hours. We had done the whole routine. You

have such low expectations. There is a boat... Still have lifts. We have

to time them right. Let's not dwell on that. What is the important thing

about the Salsa? We haven't got onto the lips, so that will come. It will

be their hip action and it is going to be about light on your feet and

not taking two larger steps. We have a list. Let me get my notepad. Most

important thing, keep moving, don't stop. You make it look so easy.

Don't do this... That is my idea of a Salsa. I think I will come to your

salsa class. Good luck this weekend, we thing you are brilliant. Keep it

up! But fear not, we're back tomorrow

at 6.30 when I'll be joined Plus, we last saw him

dressed as Black Swan, Ian Waite is back for

a Wednesday Warm-Up!