Episode 42 Strictly - It Takes Two

Coming up, Melvin and Janette will be giving us another

cha-cha-chart rundown, and this time it's a faceography

special, so you can expect trout pouts galore!

Plus, we'll be playing the hits when we reveal this weekend's music

But first, let's meet tonight's guests.

They survived their first dance off, it's Claudia and AJ!

And they're joined by the grand dame of dance, Karen Hardy!

But don't get too comfortable, get yourself over here because first

up tonight, it's Choreography Corner!

Karen Hardy, everyone! CHEERING You are the Queen! What an

incredible weekend in the Tower Ballroom. Didn't they do us proud? I

loved it! It is like coming round the last bend of the 800 metres and

you can see the finishing line and I felt the professionals running

towards it with great choreography, enthusiasm and teamwork. The

celebrities keeping up. Everything they asked, they kept up with them

and I absolutely loved the show. I loved the opening number, it got

better and better and made me cry Axel we will start with Claudia

. They were in the dance off and got nines across the board, there was

one little mistake. Nothing gets past you! I know. Something like a

jive is fast and flaky and maybe people at home did not see it but we

must point it out because as we go through the competition... Amazing

bit of work, she opened the show, a lot of pressure on. She overturns

and misses the step and cat is the wrong hand. It goes on. This is what

I love, she pulls it back. She brings it back to life. When she got

in that dance off, there was that Olympic great. I've got to do it! I

could feel all of her train is saying to her to deliver. Musically

she has got to be careful. She lost her rhythm, but still a little

whippersnapper and a lot of talent. Well done to her. Louise and Kevin,

Kevin always impressive with the paso. But Louise, she was

phenomenal. Craig was loving the flamenco stuff. She had to bring it

with this. It was everything I have wanted. I could pick up on the

flamenco part. The music is building, the relationship with the

dancers in the background, her energy, still a little smile but she

is using her skirt. And the conviction of what she's doing. The

layering we are seeing. I talk about this, it is like painting a Monet,

how can it be difficult? Field and flowers and bridge! It is the skill

behind it and be hidden messages and the layering in that was incredible.

And compared to a Monet! Ore and Joanne, great showmanship, he just

owned the floor. And the longest lasting fleckerl ever seen! How long

is too long with a fleckerl or can they not be long enough? This is a

competition and I love it! If we are in an open competition and you go

into the centre and your rival comes in with you, you are going around

and you don't want to go out before they do so you hold that fleckerl.

It was the same gamble, telling us it is a competition, not my normal

amount, we are going to stay longer and longer. What we see now, it was

a gamble, we have slowed it down and at the expense of the hold, the

body, the neck, everything. However, to take the gamble is now is what

this is all about. You don't want to be the nice guys sitting at home. It

gives enthusiasm and energy and that rush to get to the finishing line. I

loved it and thought it was brilliant. Well done to them. Judge

Rinder and Oxon and their spicy salsa! The term booty was branded by

the judges! -- Oksana. Where does it rank on the booty chart? It has to

be ten! I picked up on it. So much to pick up on this number will stop

that the freedom and flexibility, I have seen celebrities in the past,

look at that! This is our serious Judge them and he is out there

shaking his booty. From that foxtrot that was disciplined last week, when

he does a Latin dance I worry he lets his discipline go out of the

window, there were a couple of little errors. I think he had

another next week, he has to controlled the technique with his

freedom of body movement and he will do well. Perfect. Next up, the great

Balls of fire! Ed and Katya, the Bruno's surprised he said most of it

look like a jive but I thought it was for a nominal. He brought

entertainment to the Tower Ballroom, he is on a mission, so committed.

Week after week. What I spotted this week, I'm not sure if he is getting

tired or if Katya is upping the choreography. He has that energy,

the eyes have gone down and he looks a little bit nervous. What is

happening? But this is our Ed Balls! I'm back! This is what we know and

love this guy for, he brings us entertainment. Be careful, keep your

energy up all the way through the competition. I need to lie down even

watching! And Danny and Oti, the first 40 of the series, they have

had it coming. A round of applause. Len said it was almost choreography

overload there was so much in it. Have you ever seen so much in a

Strictly Thorsten? And in such a positive way, it was incredible. --

in a Strictly Charleston. I would say that when Danny came into the

competition his technical level was already quite high will stop you

could argue it is in -- if his improvement was as big as the others

but look at this. He does not stop, they have said, we are going to lift

it again. He is equal to the other dancers on the floor, keeping up

with the choreography, sing debating his actions and using his arms.

Emotion and energy in what he is doing, absolutely incredible and

worthy of the tens. Well done indeed. We have not had a demo? I

will tell you what we will do... I was getting carried away! What we're

seeing now is what I'm talking about which is the layering effect. It is

the secret 11 is going on behind. You need to move the rubbish bin in

the kitchen -- the secret elements. It is tapped, step, tap, step. If we

lay it and go tapped, low, tap, middle, tap, high and then we add

the arms! APPLAUSE It is all about the layering and the

secret messages. Fantastic! Somebody has taken something out in the

kitchen! Karen Hardy, everybody! APPLAUSE

Now, you'll have heard the term 'Faceography' bandied around a lot

this series but it's been part of the Strictly make-up for years.

Here to give us a rundown of the greatest facial choreography

ever seen on the box, it's Strictly FM's leading DJs,

Good evening listeners, we're coming to you live from the archives and we

are here with the Katich up show. Today we are counting down our top

five faceography. That kick things off. Before we start, what is

faceography? It is when you use your face to really tell the story, of

the what makes a dance go from success to show stopper. At number

five is Mark in series 11. It was his salsa which first brought his

facial capabilities to the attention of the judges. You make me feel

good! It was the chapter chart in week

four that earned him his place -- cha-cha-cha.

In fourth place is Matt Bacon who brought the swinging 60s with his

Maestro Austin Powers. But only did he kick off with a backflip but he

gave us one of the most memorable faces completely with dog

impression. He is the only dancer in strictly macro history to receive a

dog bark! Let's move on. At number three is

everyone's favourite chef Ainsley in series 13. His face, more

specifically his eyebrow, came to our attention in his salsa. It was

not just the hips, it was the face. Look who it is at number two just

missing out on the top spot, it is Jake Wood. And his dance partner...

Jake and me! OES! Jake totally smashed it in the salsa

in series 12. It was not just his face but his hip action with next

level. The get faceography, it was all about hipography. That hip

action could crack coconuts! So many happy memories. He is definitely my

favourite partner. Calls Jake, of course. And at number one, it is

Susanna Reid and her partner Kevin Clifton. First there was her jive.

And then came the Charleston. You use your face without question and

it is fantastic. However it was her salsa in week 12 that cemented her

position as the Queen of expression. Susanna and Kevin may have been

runners up but they are number one in our faceography chart. I think we

know which is the bigger achievement! That is all we have

time for. Keep dancing! I love them, I think they need their

own spin off spin off. Put it in your diaries,

darling, because... Yes, if you've a question

for Strictly's answer to Scrooge, then email it

to [email protected] or tweet Only the best questions

will make the grade! But now, if you want to know

what the kids are listening to these days, you've come

to the wrong place! Now, we are going to be

revealing a whopping 50% And that's because there

are only six couples left. So, what's first on

the playlist tonight. MUSIC: Cry Me A River

by Justin Timberlake. It's Justin Timberlake's 2003

hit, Cry Me A River. Arguably one of the greatest

break-up songs of all time, it was inspired by JT's own split

with childhood sweetheart Britney And just how many teardrops would it

take to cry a river? Well, according to our "very

loose" calculations, to fill the River Thames -

it would take four hunderd and five thousand, eight hundred

and ten billion teardrops! Or what Ore calls "just your

average Saturday night." So who will be dancing

to this watery tune? They'll be dancing

an Argentine Tango to this. I cannot wait it see what they think

about that later on in the show. Let's see what is next.

Hello, darling, shall I lean on you? Originally made famous by Bill

Withers, who didn't record his first song until he was 32. A late

bloomer. This is really making me feel nice. A cuddle from, Aunty

Karen. Eye' sleeping. You have a nap, you have so many children.

He wrote this song when he moved to LA from Slab Fork, West Virginia

and found himself missing the tightknit community

Nothing like an old friend is there, Karen?

Less of the old, obviously. Sorry, love, sorry. I'm older than you.

But who will be hoping for plenty of support when they dance

They'll be dancing the Rumba to this.

MUSIC: I Can't Get No Satisfaction by the Rolling Stones.

It's the song that shot the Rolling Stones to fame,

Once branded "the group that parents love to hate",

the rockers have outlasted all their 1960s' contemporaries -

in fact, the combined age of the current members is 289!

That's very good. Claudia is like - who is Mick Jagger.

But who will be aiming to satisfy us with their moves

Ed Balls and the Rolling Stones: sure to be a match made in heaven.

They will be dancing a tango. Gather, gather, let's stand together

and cuddle. Are you all right down there, love?

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

dancing to this weekend, you can head to the Strictly

What do you mean we look ridiculous. It's me, it's me, isn't it? .

Now, I'd love to tell you I woke up looking like

been getting top tips from the Glam Squad for years.

Here's Lisa Armstrong's guide to mastering the art of make up.

I love you, my little Jaggers. I'm the hair and make-up designer for

Strictly Come Dancing. Today I will share with you some of the secrets

I've gained in the past nine years of me working on the show. My first

top tip when creating a Strictly Come Dancing make-up. Is always

start with the eyes. Basically make sure that none of the droppers from

the eye make-up falls on to the skin and ruins a perfect base. We use an

eye primer, to set the eye shadow and make sure it doesn't move

anywhere. So, an essential staple product for a Strictly Come Dancing

make-up look is the eye liner. You take a thin brush, start in the

middle of the eye and lightly stroke the brush along the lash line. See

you can elongate that tip and make a sharp end. A top tip is make a

cuetip, wrap it into a make-up wipe and perfect the flick. Let's face

it, you cannot be on Strictly Come Dancing without wearing a false

eyelash. I'm going to show you may to make sure it fits properly. We

take the eyelash and lay it across the lash line of the eye. It is not

glued on but we can see we have a nice shape running through the eye

and into that beautiful eyeliner. A top tip also is to make sure the

glue is a bit tacky before applying. Take the lash on a downward angle

and just pop in the middle of the eye, bang. Make sure you are right

in the lashline and make sure it is nicely fitted all the way along.

Give it a couple of seconds and then you open the eye and - the perfect

lash. One question I get asked frequently is how to confor and what

is conforing. -- contour. . We use a dark shade and go underneath the

cheekbone to give you a beautiful structure. You can go below the

jawline to create more of a sharp jawline affect. You don't need to do

this, you have a great jawline. You take the highlighter with a soft

brush and go on the top of the cheekbone. Over the top and we can

do this down the T-zone to brighten up the face. A little bit here.

Nicely blended, and a bit here. Then you would use your blusher and that

sits here to make a really beautiful cheek. So my last top tip is to show

you how to create the perfect Bullet-proof red lip. To make sure

your lip pencil is nice and sharpened, and do nice thick strokes

your lip pencil is nice and sharpened, and do nice thick strokes

along the line. Making sure you go into the inner corner of the mouth

and making sure you never, ever go over the line. Then you take your

lipstick and then blend along into the lip line.

And there you go. Thank you to the ever gorgeous,

Chloe and Lisa. Hmm, this could take a while -

you get the idea... # Oh Mickey what a pithy you don't

understand... ...# Full on, brisk, sharp. The kicks and

flicks were time. I really and truly loved it. It showed off all your

strengths. It was dynamic throughout. One tiny mistake, but

still a spectacular performance. Claudia and AJ are here everyone.

Well done to the two of you. I have to say when Strictly comes to down

in Blackpool, it is like the biggest night of the year and you had to go

out there, first for everybody. Was it scary? It was really scary. I

said to mayself - go out there, enjoy it, get the party started. We

did that. It is such an energetic song, I really enjoyed it. You were

absolutely splendid. It was ridiculous. I had to say, the jive

really did blow the judges' minds. So much so Craig said he would have

given it a 10, had it not been for the mistake.

So much so Craig said he would have given it a 10, had it not been for

the mistake. That's more cruel to hear that. What was the mistake? It

was after we do this... That bit. What is it called? Just a Shaab say.

-- a shashsay. Beforehand I nailed it every time.

And it was weird when I wept out there for some reason I blanked out

and I was like - oh, no, what is going on, and because the start was

knees up and jumpy, I started jumping up a and down, I thought -

that will do. You were a true professional. You continued. Nobody

would have noticed at home. Once you see t you suddenly see you getting

it back. What do you do when something happens, it must happens

to pros? It happens to the best of us. Happened to me in the past. Go

with the flow as Claudia said, a couple of kicks, bounce a couple of

times, flick it back up and nobody noticed. Bruno was saying how you

took the lead with all the other pro dancers up there with you. How was

it to dance with others, not just AJ? It was mazing, it wasn't just us

two alone. They worked so hard, we only had an hour with them. We

literally chucked them in, they learned it so quickly. It was so

cool. I had my poscy with me, come on girls, let's go -- posse. They

were amazing. The thing is you ended up in the middle of the leaderboard

and we have seen, it was a dangerous place to be. Were you worried? I was

scared. It was in the middle. Anybody could go and being in the

middle people think they were safe. Four nines, any normal week you

would be top but the standard was so hard. For us, we were a bit scared.

We practised it a lot afterwards. That mistake was not going to happen

again if we were in the dance-off and finding out we were in the

dance-off we were a bit gutted. When Tess said, my little girl Nellie who

loves you said "Great we get to see it again." We loved T it must be

quite nice to be able to do it again, without a mistake, I know it

is a tricky situation but it is a blessing? I secretly wanted to do it

again because I did make that mistake, I really wanted to just

nail T everyone was so happy after their performance because they did

the best they could. I still felt I was missing something because I

didn't do that step right. I thought if I got to do it again I was going

to go out and try my best. I did nail T I was so happy. Well done.

Everyone was there with you. It was a tough situation, and it is never

easy but to go up against another Olympian. It must have been quite

fierce out there. Well, he's very competitive. I'm very competitive

but before I wept out I gave him a hug. I almost like cried because

going against him, it was really, really hard. Obviously I was never

in that situation before, it was the first time being in the dance-off.

Either of us was going to go home. I was looking at him like - I don't

want you to go home. It was horrible because we are so close but I have

more of a friendship with him. He is such a lovely person and it really

did break my heart. Oh, but you got to stay. I tell you what broke my

heart was seeing your mum and dad in the audience. Your mum was crying.

All mums and dads - I think I would feel like that about my girl. Were

they OK. They must have been so relieved and so proud? Yes, they are

so proud and they said to me that I'm so much more happy and they

said, "You always have a smile on your face going into training ""I'm

in my element. I don't want to go home because I'm loving every moment

in here. AJ your first dance-off. Were you scared? Before we went into

dance-off went into full-on competition mode. We knew we were in

there and were going to do it a million times and we got on it. I

think it was the best you did T I know you were devastated, you felt

you let us down which was not tru, you were amazing but to dance it

again and nail it was amazing. Atmosphere was amazing. Now you get

to dance again and like Karen said, keep the confidence. You are doing

the Argentine tango to Cry Me A River. Can't wait. What can you tell

me so far? The lifts are insane. I have to have a really strong core.

Good for you, you are a gymnast. . And legs aKim bow, everything goes

everywhere Some things are slow and some fast at win point I have my

legs in the air and I have to do a slow motion, so I go fast and slow.

It is really trying to nail everything. AJ is like - you need to

focus and do really well in this dance. I absolutely love it. It is

not easy. And also it is quite moody, quite a dance. Oh, I can do

that. Go on, give us moody. That's my game face on, that's what

happens. That was her dance-off face. One of the pros said to me, it

was a smiley dance and I was stood there and had a game-face on and as

soon as the music went on I was like... So definitely that will have

worked. Also you have the cha-cha-challenge 24 year. All of

you out on the floor at the same time. You are used to competitions

when you are out on the floor. Love it. How do you get the judges to see

you do something amazing and not watch another couple. We have to be

confident. We have to practise hundreds of times and be awesome.

Forget about everybody else on the floor. It is our floor, we will own

it, forget about them. It is important what Karen said don't let

being in the dance-off bring your confidence down. If anything we will

work harder, doing everything in training to make sure it is the best

dance we have done. I have never done an Argentine tango before, I'm

so excited. So exciting. Have a lots of fun. Claudia and AJ.

I'll be back here tomorrow at 6.30, joined by Paso

Plus, Ian Waite returns for a warm-up.

Give yourself a huge round of applause.

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