:00:51. > :00:53.Live from London, this is Strictly It Takes Two. Please welcome Zoe
:00:54. > :00:57.Ball. Well our Blackpool Big Weekender
:00:58. > :01:02.certainly lived up to the hype. We had cheerleaders,
:01:03. > :01:04.carnival floats, a flying piano and our first perfect 40
:01:05. > :01:08.of the series! But the bright lights of Blackpool
:01:09. > :01:14.soon faded for Greg and Natalie when they were eliminated
:01:15. > :01:19.from the competition. But fear not they're here to light
:01:20. > :01:26.up the sofa for one last time! Greg and Natalie! APPLAUSE
:01:27. > :01:30.Don't make them cry. And I really don't think you're
:01:31. > :01:33.ready for this jelly. Joining them, the bootylicious
:01:34. > :01:42.Judge Rinder and Oksana! APPLAUSE
:01:43. > :01:44.Look at that! Thank you for that delicious treat!
:01:45. > :01:48.Plus, Aljaz is here to answer your questions in Ask the Pros.
:01:49. > :01:55.But first - from day one this couple have a had a spring in their step
:01:56. > :02:01.But before we say goodbye - here's Greg and Natalie's last dance.
:02:02. > :02:47.How are you feeling? I think it could be an emotional one today. I
:02:48. > :02:51.don't really know what to do now. It's bizarre. You prep every
:02:52. > :02:58.Saturday night into Sunday to get ready for your Monday training
:02:59. > :03:02.again. And today, I don't have to train. We spend all our time
:03:03. > :03:07.together, we've been hanging out for three months and then I texted heard
:03:08. > :03:11.this morning saying, what do I do? I said to Daisy and Aljaz a couple of
:03:12. > :03:17.weeks ago that you need a weaning process. What a way to go. If you're
:03:18. > :03:27.going to go out, go at Blackpool. It was spectacular. Did you absolutely
:03:28. > :03:30.love this one? I've been saying I don't think I'm very good but I
:03:31. > :03:35.watched this dance and I think we did a really good job. I loved doing
:03:36. > :03:43.it. APPLAUSE Didn't they do well! Everybody sees
:03:44. > :03:47.the show and use the dance and everything else but we lock
:03:48. > :03:53.ourselves away everyday to get to that level. I'd start the week not
:03:54. > :03:58.knowing single thing! And due to this incredible lady's amazing
:03:59. > :04:05.patients, we get to that point. It was never going to be that I was a
:04:06. > :04:10.world champion dancer. But the fact is, I saw a video the other day off
:04:11. > :04:18.where I started! LAUGHTER It's purely down to Nat, she is wonderful
:04:19. > :04:23.and I'm lucky to know her. We love you so much. It was such a
:04:24. > :04:28.spectacular show on Saturday night, everyone was incredible. How much
:04:29. > :04:33.were you thinking it could be a dance of situation? I was just
:04:34. > :04:39.thinking about how amazing you were, the venue, the audience. It was so
:04:40. > :04:42.electric and magical. You did better than I expected and you did
:04:43. > :04:48.everything I asked for during the week. It was such an amazing
:04:49. > :04:52.experience. I wasn't even thinking about the bottom two until we heard
:04:53. > :04:58.our name. I didn't want anything to retract from how wonderful it was.
:04:59. > :05:02.We heard our name and it was like, Icahn be happening again. I was so
:05:03. > :05:08.devastated because I knew we had so much more amazing things to come.
:05:09. > :05:12.I've had so much fun in rehearsals every day, starting from scratch,
:05:13. > :05:17.seeing the beginning and end of every week and being so emotionally
:05:18. > :05:23.and overwhelmingly proud of you and the social media and everyone's
:05:24. > :05:31.support. You've had so much support. If you're not emotional already you
:05:32. > :05:36.will be at the end of this. Here is your Strictly story.
:05:37. > :05:42.Natalie, I'm really excited about working with her, she'll be the one
:05:43. > :05:46.person who can take me on. If Greg thinks training for the Olympics is
:05:47. > :05:53.hard he hasn't experienced anything yet! So far we've been working on
:05:54. > :05:56.the jive. It's scary, I was thinking I would be the worst dancer ever on
:05:57. > :06:05.Strictly and actually I think I might be average to poor, not just
:06:06. > :06:12.poor. You were like a blue frog jumping! Gray could go all the way
:06:13. > :06:19.my darling! Tango is all about movement, power and posture. It's
:06:20. > :06:24.coming together now. What I loved about that dance is the intent and
:06:25. > :06:29.amount of aggression you had in there. The dance this week is the
:06:30. > :06:36.American smooth. A part of me has fully fallen in love with dancing.
:06:37. > :06:46.Greg, it was a bull's-eye, well done. Eight from Craig, what? The
:06:47. > :06:55.salsa, it's outside my comfort zone and I'm going to work all week to
:06:56. > :07:02.get it right. Hurricane Greg, it's the salsa, he shakes it for all it's
:07:03. > :07:12.worth! We are doing the cha-cha, I've got to get it right and Naylor
:07:13. > :07:16.at. -- nail it. This dance I'm afraid really did expose all the
:07:17. > :07:23.stuff that you really can't do, sadly. Don't get down on this, come
:07:24. > :07:27.back stronger. The rumba is notoriously difficult but I'm really
:07:28. > :07:33.coming into it hoping I can catch it better than I did the cha-cha. It
:07:34. > :07:46.was passionate, you had plenty of drama. It wasn't anything I think to
:07:47. > :07:51.do with rumba. Don't make me cry! This week we've got the Viennese
:07:52. > :07:55.waltz. One of the dances of been looking forward to. We've been in
:07:56. > :08:03.the bottom of the table in the last few weeks, I'm desperate to not be
:08:04. > :08:06.there any more. The choreography I have to say was exceptional, and
:08:07. > :08:13.beautifully acted by both of you. Well done! We are dancing the pasta
:08:14. > :08:18.dough grey. It's a difficult dance. I was hoping I could take to it
:08:19. > :08:25.quickly but I'm finding it difficult. -- Passa doble. There was
:08:26. > :08:31.plenty of aggression, plenty of attack. It just lost a little
:08:32. > :08:36.finesse. I put everything into that final performance and went for it
:08:37. > :08:43.like no tomorrow. Thankfully that was enough to keep us in. We are
:08:44. > :08:47.doing the quickstep. It's going to be fast, furious, exciting and I
:08:48. > :08:52.know he is going to love it. There is no limit and no number you can
:08:53. > :09:00.put onto the amount that Natalie has helped me. She's done everything to
:09:01. > :09:06.put me where I am now. So bubbly, so bouncy, like a Springbok on the run!
:09:07. > :09:16.As long the anything you really mucked up was the leap. The couple
:09:17. > :09:24.I'd like to save... Claudia and AJ. Claudia and AJ. Claudia and AJ. I've
:09:25. > :09:27.done some amazing things but this truly is one of the best things I've
:09:28. > :09:43.done. I've made such a good friend here. APPLAUSE
:09:44. > :09:48.Watching all those dances, so many highlights, Greg what is your
:09:49. > :09:52.favourite out of all of them? So difficult because there's been three
:09:53. > :10:00.dances, four that I love more than the rest. Starting off with the
:10:01. > :10:04.American smooth in week three. The rumba was fantastic, and then the
:10:05. > :10:10.Viennese and then the weekend as well. When he lifted you into the
:10:11. > :10:17.air... Coming out of the jive as well was spectacular. Can I say
:10:18. > :10:22.something. I just want to say thank you so much to our partners for
:10:23. > :10:30.making this experience so special. Susie is a dream come true and this
:10:31. > :10:33.experience would not have been so amazing if we didn't have such
:10:34. > :10:38.fantastic support from our partners. We've become the best friends and
:10:39. > :10:42.that's the best part of Strictly. I found you and your family, you're
:10:43. > :10:48.now in my life for ever. It's the most amazing thing. To see you grow
:10:49. > :10:54.from zero to hero, I love you. Total hero. You were a hero before... On
:10:55. > :10:59.the dance floor I mean! Who would you like to win and who would you
:11:00. > :11:07.like to see in the final? Everyone is so good. Probably my best mate
:11:08. > :11:14.out of all of them is Judge Rinder. This is a bit of a plead to some
:11:15. > :11:18.people, people need to get off of Ed's case. People have to understand
:11:19. > :11:24.that he's not as young as some of the other people. He's not in as
:11:25. > :11:28.great shape some of the others. He tried so incredibly hard. He has a
:11:29. > :11:32.zero dance experience. But I've noticed since the weekend is a lot
:11:33. > :11:36.of people get on his case. That's not fair because he works as hard as
:11:37. > :11:42.anybody else. He's improving as well. Surely that is what the show
:11:43. > :11:50.is about as well. There's also the likes of Danny and Louise Hunt. They
:11:51. > :11:52.are incredible. We've loved having you on the show, Greg and Natalie!
:11:53. > :11:55.CHEERING Now Strictly may have headed off
:11:56. > :11:58.for a little holiday at the weekend, but that doesn't mean it was jolly
:11:59. > :12:01.for everyone - here's a behind the scenes look at how the ambitious
:12:02. > :12:19.seaside special became a reality. Dancing in Blackpool on Strictly
:12:20. > :12:27.means everything. As the dance capital of the world. What does
:12:28. > :12:39.Blackpool mean to me? Glamour, glitter. Glory. Blackpool is
:12:40. > :12:43.everything. Extravagant. Fish and chips, friendly people, ballroom
:12:44. > :12:51.dancing history. The legends of dance. Whether competition heats up.
:12:52. > :13:01.The home of ballroom. Let's do this, Blackpool. Its Blackpool week so
:13:02. > :13:10.everything has got to be bigger and better. First time you come out on
:13:11. > :13:15.this amazing floor, began spacious and sparkly and grand. It's really
:13:16. > :13:18.hard to forget about all that and concentrate on your steps. Such a
:13:19. > :13:23.busy day. It's a bit like my body was a million times behind my brain.
:13:24. > :13:27.It still feels a bit like that now. There's so much going on in the
:13:28. > :13:33.dance, we've changed some stuff. It's fine, I'm not going to let
:13:34. > :13:40.myself get stressed about it. I'm having gems sewn into my here. I'm
:13:41. > :13:50.going to look ten years younger any minute! I've had this amazing
:13:51. > :13:53.rhinestone eyebrows. Nothing is too much for Strictly but sometimes
:13:54. > :14:02.apparently it is! I'm going to a cool. I didn't know my head could do
:14:03. > :14:06.this! I'm going to show you Janette's point of view. This is
:14:07. > :14:13.wardrobe. If I take you through there's lots of machines and fabric,
:14:14. > :14:21.lots of sparkles. There is the key, hi Vickey! It is pretty crazy. This
:14:22. > :14:26.week in Blackpool we've got extra dancers, we've got 121 costumes in
:14:27. > :14:39.total. It is organised chaos but everyone is doing great. So this
:14:40. > :14:40.week it is Greg and Ore's birthday. We've brought some gifts. We hope
:14:41. > :15:01.they like them! Happy birthday!
:15:02. > :15:06.I feel sick. We are alive in one minute.
:15:07. > :15:10.Good luck, everybody. Tonight is going to be amazing. We are always
:15:11. > :15:29.ready. Are you ready? Live from Blackpool. The home of
:15:30. > :15:34.ballroom. This is Strictly Come Dancing.
:15:35. > :15:36.What a spectacle that was. Now our next couple left the judges
:15:37. > :15:38.in shock at the weekend, with Bruno saying their Salsa
:15:39. > :16:03.was spicier and hotter I had never seen a guy able to shake
:16:04. > :16:05.their cheeks as well as that. You got overexcited and you got lost for
:16:06. > :16:14.timing. Incredibly impressive. It's the hip-tastic
:16:15. > :16:28.Judge and Oksana! It was a long wait on Saturday night
:16:29. > :16:33.for you but to close the show at Blackpool, it really was something
:16:34. > :16:40.else. It was an honour when they said that we were going to close the
:16:41. > :16:45.show. We to have a party feeling and the whole place was so full of
:16:46. > :16:55.goodwill. The choice from everyone in the audience permeated into the
:16:56. > :17:00.dance. And nothing gets past Len, I got so overexcited that I did forget
:17:01. > :17:09.the steps a bit. It was just so much fun. For me that is all it is about,
:17:10. > :17:15.just expressing yourself. And how could you not get carried away with
:17:16. > :17:22.that atmosphere? And you had two weeks of being well-behaved in the
:17:23. > :17:35.ballroom. You needed to unleash those hips! How much did you have to
:17:36. > :17:39.bring him out of his shell? Not at all!
:17:40. > :17:41.There was loads of love for you online, Alan Carr said...
:17:42. > :17:44."Loved Judge Rinder ? why not make your entrance through a massive
:17:45. > :18:01.It was very floral. I think it needed to be and you can get away
:18:02. > :18:11.with that. I carried it off. We must talk about that lift. I just lifted
:18:12. > :18:18.Oksana off-camera just to see how like she is. It was a dead left? It
:18:19. > :18:24.was not that difficult, she is very light. She is a human woman! Did you
:18:25. > :18:31.have to put in extra time at the gym Razma this is the best exercise
:18:32. > :18:36.ever. Before I came into this I did take exercise quite seriously. But
:18:37. > :18:43.if you have someone that can make themselves might, it helps. And I
:18:44. > :18:53.had my spinach! You all have such incredible core strength. There was
:18:54. > :19:03.a moment in the dance, please do not drop her! You have been fifth on the
:19:04. > :19:10.leader board for some time. It is always 33, what do you need to do to
:19:11. > :19:14.get those scores higher or are you not worried? I am not really worried
:19:15. > :19:20.as long as we do not drop down. The challenge is just to get it right on
:19:21. > :19:24.the night because rehearsals usually go really well and then there are
:19:25. > :19:29.these little imperfections. Not a big deal because we still enjoy
:19:30. > :19:35.ourselves and I'm so proud of him. But to improve the school. We need
:19:36. > :19:42.to start bribing the judges! I know what they all like, have a word with
:19:43. > :19:49.me afterwards! 33 is a good school. The thing I am proud of, hopefully
:19:50. > :19:53.we have not breached a plateau, we have not gone down. We just want to
:19:54. > :20:02.get a little better each week. Well this week you're going to get
:20:03. > :20:08.essential with the rumba. How do you feel about the dance, do you like
:20:09. > :20:14.it, not so sure? This was apparent that I was nervous about. When you
:20:15. > :20:20.look at Oksana and I doing salsa, you do not immediately clutch for
:20:21. > :20:26.the word smoulder and sexuality! But I have to say, without naming the
:20:27. > :20:32.song yet, the choreography is brilliant. And as soon as Oksana
:20:33. > :20:39.played the song for the first time... Did you get central? I fell
:20:40. > :20:45.in love with the story that she wants us to tell. I really have
:20:46. > :20:50.fallen in love with this idea in a way that I'm surprised by. I'm more
:20:51. > :20:56.excited about telling this story of the dance than I ever have been
:20:57. > :21:03.about the previous choreography. They all have got to choreograph
:21:04. > :21:09.these numbers. Every week. And to your style and capabilities as well.
:21:10. > :21:15.I love the story here, I feel really moved by it. I am excited now. And
:21:16. > :21:24.men tend to do the rumba really well.
:21:25. > :21:26.In past series we've had a Waltz-athon and a Quickstep-athon,
:21:27. > :21:29.but this weekend our couples will be taking part in Strictly first
:21:30. > :21:34.All the couples are going to take to the dance floor at the same time
:21:35. > :21:36.to try to pick up extra points from the judges.
:21:37. > :21:40.The Cha Cha Cha was your first dance.
:21:41. > :21:46.Could this be where you get the extra points? For sure because that
:21:47. > :21:51.was the first week and he has come a long way from there. If all else
:21:52. > :21:54.fails I will just take my top of! Good luck with training this week -
:21:55. > :22:00.Judge and Oksana everyone! Now, our pro dancers can
:22:01. > :22:02.tell wonderful stories with nothing but their limbs,
:22:03. > :22:43.but stick them in a photobooth Which broke eats the most?
:22:44. > :22:49.Definitely Caulker. -- Gorka. Gorka is always eating. That has got to be
:22:50. > :22:57.Gorka because he wants to keep his body in shape, so he eats healthy.
:22:58. > :23:07.Which eats the most? Karen Clifton. She constantly has food. She always
:23:08. > :23:12.has snacks. And we all carry snacks around as well just in case. She
:23:13. > :23:23.never stops eating and it makes me sick because she has really good
:23:24. > :23:41.abs. Who is the Boss list? I think it is between me and Oti. I would've
:23:42. > :23:51.said me. I would have to say my wife Katya. It is Katya. She will tell
:23:52. > :23:53.you right away if you're doing something wrong.
:23:54. > :23:57.Last time we found out Joanne Clifton likes to eat bangers
:23:58. > :24:03.But what fascinating titbits will be revealed this time?
:24:04. > :24:13.Please welcome back our pros Natalie, Oksana
:24:14. > :24:22.and Slovenia's finest export - Aljaz!
:24:23. > :24:24.Once again our lovely viewers have been tweeting
:24:25. > :24:34.First up we've got a question from Edward.
:24:35. > :24:40.This is my sixth year watching Strictly, almost half my life.
:24:41. > :24:47.What is your favourite dance and why?
:24:48. > :24:56.I love Strictly so much and so does my best friend, Abbey. I love any
:24:57. > :25:03.dance that if the music is what moves me, then any dance because it
:25:04. > :25:10.is that story within the dance that I love, not necessarily the dance.
:25:11. > :25:15.The storytelling. Absolutely, the right song and character and any
:25:16. > :25:24.dance can come to life. I love ballroom and Latin. They're all so
:25:25. > :25:25.amazing. The walls, they are all inspirational.
:25:26. > :25:43.How long do the pro dancers have to train for their group routines?
:25:44. > :25:53.Gorges children! Aljaz? It varies every week. We get pushed a lot
:25:54. > :25:57.doing different styles on Strictly. We do a refresher of the routines
:25:58. > :26:02.that we learn in August on the Monday of that week. So most times
:26:03. > :26:07.you do not really know what is happening! You go on the dance floor
:26:08. > :26:13.and try to look at someone in front of you! It is always really nice to
:26:14. > :26:17.be dancing with incredible talent every time. Wherever you look
:26:18. > :26:22.everyone is just so amazingly good. It just pushes you even more. I
:26:23. > :26:25.think we all love doing the group dances. There have been some
:26:26. > :26:28.incredible once this year. Time for another question, and this
:26:29. > :26:45.one is from 14-year-old Billy. Oksana, where and when? I was six
:26:46. > :26:48.years old in the Ukraine and my School offered a dance class once a
:26:49. > :26:55.week and that is when I started. It was always my mother is my dream to
:26:56. > :27:01.become a dancer so I became a dancer as soon as possible! And I loved it.
:27:02. > :27:06.She must be so proud. Aljaz? I was three and a half in preschool and
:27:07. > :27:14.all my friends went to play football and all the girls went dancing. So I
:27:15. > :27:21.was like, wherever you go! Then I started to seriously compete when I
:27:22. > :27:27.was five. Any videos, we need to get hold of them. Natalie? My next-door
:27:28. > :27:33.neighbours introduced me to ballroom dancing 83. I used to watch my
:27:34. > :27:38.brother and sister going to the prices and could not wait to do it.
:27:39. > :27:43.So at five years old I was in Sydney and went to the local veterans club,
:27:44. > :27:47.like a Rotary Club. Just this old school, ballroom classes and I fell
:27:48. > :27:51.in love with it straightaway. If you weren't dancing -
:27:52. > :28:09.what career would you choose? Because I started dancing really
:28:10. > :28:13.young, I could not imagine doing anything else because I just love it
:28:14. > :28:23.with all my heart. But if I had to I love animals so a veterinary nurse.
:28:24. > :28:30.For a second in high school I loved running and I would probably maybe
:28:31. > :28:39.do some athletics. I loved athletics. I had a bit of a weird
:28:40. > :28:43.running style. We will continue this on the bus home! Thank you to anyone
:28:44. > :28:46.who sent in a question. Join us tomorrow at 6.30 where we'll
:28:47. > :28:52.chatting to dance off survivors Karen Hardy is back to break
:28:53. > :28:55.down our couples choreography and we'll be boogying on down
:28:56. > :28:58.in another Tunes on Tuesday. And stay tuned now on BBC2
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