Episode 28 Strictly - It Takes Two

Now, if you're suffering from a mid-week slump,

don't fret because we have a Strictly brilliant line-up

Fresh from receiving their highest scores of the series,

APPLAUSE Hello, beauties.

My former dance partner-in-crime and the only man I trust to analyse

the week's training footage, it's Ian Waite!

Plus, where has she been all my life?

The gorgeous Karen Clifton is here to give me,

and you lot at home, a master class in the art

APPLAUSE I can't wait.

So clear some space in your living room and get your dancing

But first up, it's taken 14 series and over 1,500

dances but on Saturday night, one man did the unthinkable,

Toxic! Addictive! Horribly fabulous! That bottom of yours was moving

spasmodically. I did not know where it was going next. Halloween is

about the supernatural. It wasn't super and it wasn't all that

natural. But, your best dance. APPLAUSE

Spreading so much joy. Everybody across the nation beaming with

smiles after that. It was a dance of wonder. Congratulations for not

being on the bottom! APPLAUSE My goodness me. Was it a joy to

dance, you look like you are having so much fun? It was so unexpected

because at the beginning of the season I thought Latin I would find

impossible, the cha-cha-cha was the dance I was most afraid. It was my

favourite one, we loved it. We loved it from the day we started. Much

more intuitive. Really funny that even this week, we kept singing it

and dancing it, sometimes we would break out from the quickstep start

dancing it. I know, we will never ever forget that. LAUGHTER

That would make such a good gif. You gave Katya a potion to help her

dance better on Saturday, do you think she's starting

to pull her weight She thinks I need a double dose!

LAUGHTER It is not county that needs the

potion. It was amazing. The funniest thing, she had to be a bad dancer,

drink the potion and then become good. Catty's bans dancing was so

much better than anything I could do.

Everything is good. Just your bass dancing is not bad. Not bad enough.

-- bad dancing. It must be that you can't dance badly. What an amazing

score. Were you surprised with

just how well it went? It was amazing to get it from Bruno.

He did say it might be the first and the last one but it did not matter.

We worked so hard and every week we try so hard. We are doing so well,

we love it, we want to deliver the joy. It was also the first dance

where, on the night, we did it the best we've ever done it. We've never

done it that well. Some of your little... Some of your Vettel moves!

Which we will come to in a moment. My God! That was a shock to all of

us. Do you think he has warned to you? Very premature to say that. He

was trying to keep his face very stiff and he talked about my

spasmodic hip movements and then I gave him one. You could see him try

not to burst... Craig is a tough critic and I'm listening to what he

says. You will take it on board? There is one move that I feel we

will all like to see again. Here it comes and there he goes. We

needed it. I was supposed to be Michael Jackson

and suddenly it became Beyonce. LAUGHTER

It was so spontaneous. The natural dancer coming out. Afterwards I

said, what was I doing? How did it happen? He was so in the moment and

so in control of it. That little run I did, that was supposed to be

Katya... Anyway... It was still in time. It fitted in so perfectly. We

would never know you hadn't choreograph that for him.

Improvisation. Your bottom also got a lot

of attention on Saturday. You had a rough two weeks

with the Paso Doble enjoyed it although the judges had a

hard time. You enjoyed doing it, you've got

great scores, how did you enjoy it? We could play safe, be a bit dull

and just do the dance steps and that would be bad for us, we need to take

risks and we took a risk in the American Smooth and it did not take

off. We did not go backwards, we would try to do better with the

cha-cha-cha, more risks and it worked. There is a formula we have

got. Katya is so brilliant at the choreography, makes such a

difference. The way she can get the music and the movement. The balance.

And get me into it, it is amazing. The choreography was so superb. Well

done. So good. We don't normally read out mean

Tweets on this show, but there was one particular

exchange we couldn't help Lord Sugar said and I quote,

"Ed Balls dances with the grace of a drunk giraffe,

give it up mate!" Bone! Lord Shobha! But the thing I

love about it, you didn't take this lying down, you are in fact

challenged him, didn't you? If launch of the things he can teach me

to do it better, that's fine. Any night he wants to come on It Takes

Two I would challenge an -- if Lord sugar thinks he can. We could do a

New York a charleston spin. If you can do better than me I will back

down. Until then, but you money where your mouth is! Show us the

colour of your money, sir. We could make dreams come true.

Moving on to this Saturday, you're dancing a quick step

to Help by the Beatles, how much help does Ed actually need?

You are pulling a face. It is quick. The clue is in the title. It is

really good. He's good at timing. He's got the rhythm. Everything that

is fast pace suits you. I was really surprised how quickly you picked up

the whole choreography. Lots of quick feet. The hard thing is

keeping the frame. You go in and out of the steps, you do a fast spin and

then we are trying to make sure we have some fun and acting in the

middle but then you need to come back into frame. Getting back in is

fine. But the danger is you start to droop. Don't droop! You have got to

keep it firm. I know that because Katya says "Don't troop!" I know.

You really don't want someone shouting that at you, do you? The

nation waits with bated breath. How far did you think you are going to

get when you started? I did not want to go out the first week. You are

former a former politician and you have lost an election, you do not

want to lose a vote -- if you are a former politician. We are almost

halfway. Blackpool! Two weeks to blackball. Final, can you imagine?

Katya has won lots of championships in blackball, to be able to go back

there and dance with me would be amazing. -- Blackpool. Only a couple

of weeks. Good luck with training,

Ed and Katya everyone! We know what you've been up

to in the training room this week and I've got a man here ready

to give those routines APPLAUSE

Did you have a happy Halloween? I did after I got that make up off

after last week in my tutu. I kept the title. Still wearing them today.

That is quite like a Star Trek top. Beam me up Scotty. Who's surprised

you out of our dancers? I loved it. Ed was brilliant, entertainment

value all the way, I enjoyed it so much. Lots of good dancers. So many

good dancers. Right, it's time to start looking

at this week's routines. How is our Olympian doing with a

Viennese Waltz? He has some really nice movement across the floor. Very

good rotation. With a Viennese there is always a struggle to get round

your partner but he is doing a good job. Nice Contra Check. As you can

see, he is likely over the top of her. He needs to maybe get his chest

forward and look over the top of her head and he will be able to show

those shoulder blades down. Roll those shoulders back. He needs to

push, slightly more with his hips. I love it when he does this. Look at

him go! Ever beautiful thing. He has his hips tucked under com he have a

lovely bottom but he needs to use it to drive. -- tucked under, he has.

Drive from the hips. I have played this next bit. I have done it in

slow motion. He does a lovely flat, with lovely footwork. Cross at the

front? And then six steps, turnout, side cross in front, behind and

twists. Simple as that! That wasn't even rehearsed! Lovely little flag.

Only been doing it for 45 years! Sorry, 40! Get me!

I will get you back, you are older than me. How is it going with Laura

and Giovanni's samba? A bit fast and frantic at the moment. Samba is a

difficult dance. If it is quite fast, you have got to make sure that

those lines and everything are finished off. Do you see what I

mean? If it is too fast you don't finish. Lines won't be finished. For

instance, as you can see, she is bending into... That is the wrong

way. She is bending but if she can bend more, she can stretch her back

foot more. Promenade run. She can get on the board of her foot and

stretch that leg. The trackball of her foot. She needs to bring her

arms forward. It is not easy. This week they are doing a jive and

it looks pretty good to me. Really good drunken sailors. As you can

see. Sometimes he picks his feet off the floor a bit too much. He needs

to stay on the balls off his feet. A lovely chicken walk step. He is

doing a lot of these sort of swing stuff in there, actually, Zoe. What

he needs to do is lean back into the swing stuff. To create more speed.

Shall I show you? Goodness me. There is this like a ride on the waltz?

Back, replace and lean back. Create more speed. Got me on my knee. I

need to get off the ride! Thank you! APPLAUSE

It's not easy with slippery shoes on. Not easy. That was a thrill.

Ore and Joanne next, who are dancing a salsa on Saturday.

So many different dances. Look at this partnering. Brilliant

partnering. Lovely backdrop. Turn over and under. Doing some sort of

list which they haven't attempted just yet. I slowed this bit down.

I wanted to show off his armography. Change of hands behind the back,

double turn under the arm and then a crossover handhold into a turn. And

Ben lovely hip action. Hip roll, nice. -- and Ben lovely. So many

intricate moves and he has them fluids. Everything else like that.

Very good. What I would like to see is show himself off as well as Joe.

He is doing a good job with partnering. But he needs to shine.

-- as well with Jo. You have had in incident with your puppy. -- with

your poppy. We should do this again, what are

you up to this time tomorrow? Until then, give it up

for Ian Waite, everyone! Time now for a dance

lesson with a difference. Last week, Pasha taught us

the basics of the paso doble. Tonight, it's the turn

of Hot Lips Clifton, who's here to show

us the-all important moves from her favourite dance,

the Charleston. Please welcome Karen Clifton! You

could have won something lovely that you look amazing in! We have really

missed you around here, what have you been doing? Sleeping! Actually,

I have been doing rehearsals for Children In Need and I have been

rehearsing with Lutalo Mohammad. He does tae kwon do, has he taught you

any? No, he is afraid I might use it on Kevin. Kevin is wincing at the

idea. You have chosen to teachers charleston, why is it one of your

favourite dances? It is so character driven, I love the fact that you can

make faces and the swivel action in the dance, the lifts and I love the

flappers, I get to watch acrylate where stuff like this. It is

amazing. -- I get to where stuff like this. Where does it come from?

Sums it originates from ancient African tribes, which is quite cool,

but in the 1920s is when it became popular, in the ragtime jazz era.

And the thing is it was kind of racy, people looked upon it as, that

is quite... It was actually banned from a lot of holes because it was

so it's you brand and scandalous. Two of my favourite words. -- it was

so exuberant and scandalous. The charleston didn't appear on the show

until 2009, first performed by eventual champions Chris Hollins and

Ola Jordan, still considered to be one of the most iconic featured ever

on the show and he got a perfect score for his charleston in the

final when he went on to win. It wasn't on the show when I did it,

would you fancy teaching me a few moves? Yes, but before that, I

wanted you to wear this. Don't tell me I look like eem you. Clear the

furniture at home. You can do this at home. Relax your knees, go on the

Balls of your feet and I want you to bring your heels in and out. This is

the all-important, what are they call it...? Swivel! Keep the knees

nice and soft, a little bounce. A bit quicker.

# Dorothy wants to go home # Dorothy wants to go home... Now we

are going to go into the actual basics Savic, which is just forward

and back and forward and back. And making sure that you keep that

swivel going. I can sort of do one swivel and the other leg doesn't

swivel. It is the sparkly shoes. Always blame the shoes. We have the

swivel, imagine I have mastered it. What do we do next? Now the arms. It

is all about the up position and keeping the swivel going. I am

having a lovely time. Now the charleston is all about the comedy,

so what do we want to do with the face? Look at me and smiled. Do I

love demented? And may a parrot? -- may be pout. I am shattered. And the

bird, it is one of Craig's favourite moves. Flappy bird, flappy bird,

step, step. Step, step. Flappy bird, flappy bird. This is actually quite

tricky. Stop it, you do it. OK, well, that's lovely. I think I am

doing that marvellously. What are you laughing at, you lot? In the

charleston, you do lots of lips. To lift me, I think we probably need

some equipment, so let's not bother, so shall we show something? I have

someone. Kevin! Super Kev. I'll show you what we do at home before we eat

dinner. A quick little flip you will see in the charleston. My go, Kevin!

No, you have got to dance and Argentine tango this weekend. Kevin,

everyone. So we want to put all that together. So we have one, two,

three. And the faces. I love it. Flappy bird, flappy bird. Karen

Clifton! I love it. I love you, Hot Lips. That is pretty tough going, I

hope you enjoy that at home. Now let's have a look at Daisy and Aljaz

and Judge Rinder and Sanaa getting on in training. Can we do that every

week? -- Oksana. I love the Viennese waltz because it conjures up imagery

of all these Balls in Vienna and women dressed up like princesses. It

is going to be most important to keep the shape, to keep the timing

going and make it look easy and effortless. The first time being

back in hold for four weeks. And it is quite tough on the old shoulders.

Nice. The quick is fast-paced and really

furious. It is the quickest of the dances, so you have to be super

light on your feet. It is very easy for it to go from the quickstep into

something quickly horrible. Judge Rinder can get frustrated when

things are not working out but it is a good thing, because he just cares

so much. It doesn't make sense. I don't get frustrated, it is more

volcanic. I am quite optimistic about this week, I think we are

going to do a good job. Hello, baby! Looking good, Judge Rinder. I'm

still recovering from the flappy birds. You probably saw a lot of

Harley Quins and jokers roaming the streets in Halloween this week, but

one pair put them all to shame, swivelling their way to the best

marks this series. It is the nicest villains in town, Louise and Kevin.

# Your love Scotney looking so crazy right now... It was a charleston as

pop art. The details and carefree but you have pulled out all the

stops and it paid off. I thought the routine was dandy, you were a marble

and it was more fun than the Beano. It was absolutely spot on. You

marvellous capers, so brilliant. A cracking charleston at the weekend,

loved your heath ledger joker and loved you as Harley Quin. Did you

feel like a different person out there? It was nice playing a

character and all week, Kevin had been saying you need to not be you

and pull faces at the judges and I thought I would not be able to do

it, I just felt so embarrassed. But when you are in all the get up, does

that help? It definitely helped being in a clothes and make-up, I

didn't feel like me, so it definitely helped on the night and

without that, I was struggling to pull faces at the judges. You are

doing all of that as well. And when you can't breathe! Did you enjoy the

dance, it was so brilliant? I loved it and to be part of the Halloween

show on Strictly, it is the one I always watch and think it must be

amazing to be involved in that, to play it and be Harley Quin and Kevin

as the Joker and do the charleston, it was perfect. That was your goal,

wasn't it, to make Halloween? You have achieved that. What did your

boys make of the outfit, mum in the hair and that? I have been the

coolest man this week, a lot of the other weeks, they don't say anything

and this week, "Where are your pigtails? Where is the outfit?" I

was the coolest mum and I have the coolest dance partner. It is so

true. And your highest scores of the series, Kevin. That is amazing, 39s

and and eight. How proud where you Louise? It is difficult to tell when

you are as the Joker. I was so proud to so many different reasons, the

judges had said the week before that we were worried -- they were worried

we had plateaued and wouldn't be able to make that next step up to

the ones above us. We said we cannot get the same score this week, we

have got to go harder and obviously, the routine was jam-packed full of

stuff and having to pull of the character as well. But Louise just

went for it all week, going for it and going through it and so I was so

pleased when we did get past our highest score. Really proud of her.

Your fitness levels must be unbelievable right now. It doesn't

feel it right now! We will learn more about that in a minute. Craig

said it was a bit controlled. I'm like, hang on? It is too controlled?

How hard is it really let go, you are putting your all in and out

there. I was cautious all week and Kevin had said throw yourself at

this, give it everything and I really tried hard with the faces but

then at the same time, I was really aware I was doing the charleston and

if I didn't have the swivel, that thing, I needed to have that and no

matter what I'm doing, I like to technically do the best I can, so it

was a little bit of fighting with my trying to go crazy and do the steps.

But I did my best and Craig still gave me a halfway decent score. She

growled at me halfway through! Totally in character. And you had to

perform facing the judges, you are so cruel, Kevin. They can't see you

any more clearly at that point. And Kevin said I wanted to face the

judges and go... And, really, must I? I am a woman, you know? A mother

of two! And then on the night, I did do it and Len Goodman just looked at

me and went... He was taken aback. There have been some quite funny

faces. In the training room, that is.

# Express yourself # Express yourself don't frown at

me! # It's not what you look like

# When you're doing what you're doing...

That position there, did you just make your face? You look so cute! I

love that phase. Clearly not worrying about what I look like when

the cameras are there. Just what you need when you are training and

sweaty, the cameras capturing every moment. So this week is the

Argentine tango, how is it going in training? I am so excited. This far

back Fleet week has been the most intense week of training we have

had. -- this week has been. We are really aware that is is the first

chance for Louise to show the fierceness and fire because all of

the dances so far have been sweet and romantic or fun. So we haven't

had this opportunity yet to show this Bierce, fiery side of Louise

and bring this character out. -- fears. I have to say, in the

training, that looks so good. This is a dance of flicks and kicks and

ganchos and gauchos, I'm not sure which is which. I know in the past

you have trodden on Kevin's feed. Any instances in training? Oh, yes,

I have maybe ruined it for Kevin and Karen for live! Today, Kevin said to

me, really be aggressive. So I was like, I'm going to be really

aggressive. Maybe slightly too aggressive. I took a kick boxing

combination to an area I would rather not mention! I thought you

were speaking in quite a high voice when you came in. When he rolled

across the floor, I thought, maybe I might have hurt him. You are the

first ones to do this dance, it is a fan's favourite. It must be good to

do it before anyone else has done it, do you think? It is a good

opportunity to be the first ones in the to do it but it does bring a lot

of pressure with that, obviously, because I think people expect with

the Argentina tango, a lot of drama and passion, so we have to bring it,

we have no option but to bring it on Saturday night. Louise, are you

ready to bring it? Yes, I am finding my in a -- my inner... Who am I?

Valentino. And I am Santiago. Enjoy it, I think it will be a great

dancer U2. Louise and Kevin! That is all we have time for tonight. If you

remove the fan, you can catch me later on BBC One at 11:15pm for Film

2016 with Danny Lee. I will be back here tomorrow with Danny and Oti,

Ian Wade is back with another warm up and Vicky Gill looks at this

weekend's costumes. Good night. -- Ian Waite.