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Live from London, this is Strictly, It Takes Two. Welcome your host, Zoe

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Ball. And there'll be more

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from the amazing Strictly But I wonder if things

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are as harmonious in It's the pitch perfect

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Danny and Oti! It's our next pro challenge

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contender - Gorka the Corka - Speaking of which -

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stop fooling around, CHEERING

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The crowd roars his students! So it's a double whammy warm up

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tonight, as we know our couples So get your wand out, Mr,

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and let's get to it! Look at this, it is not just a ball

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ball in my trousers. Look! A little. All Christmassy, be careful where

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you put it! First up, Claudia and AJ who finally

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joined the ten club last week. They're dancing the quickstep -

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looking worthy of top marks to you? It is very intricate step patterns,

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as you can see. But with those difficult choreography Yes, it is

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more difficult to keep everything else in check. There are lots of

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gaps going on. Mind the Gap. Amber leg month, AJ has quite a longer

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legs than Claudia, sometimes the gap will occur. She needs to make

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contact higher up, further up the top of the rib cage, then she will

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have more legroom to go back. Look at the length. Not that many people

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have that length of limb! Danny and Oti are dancing

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the American smooth, last weekend both Craig and Len said

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Danny needed to work on his heel leads, is his footwork

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looking up to scratch here? With the tango, it is very important

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that those he leads are seen. It is an American Smooth Viennese waltz,

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this is unusual. With those Viennese waltz is, the ones always had to be

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a heel lead. The footwork is very good. I would like to see on the

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pivot, a little bit more rotation in the body, he leads his left side

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little bit too open when he pivots around. Watch him go. He needs to

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get the left side around. Look at that at the top of the hat! -- drop

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of a hat. Next up, Louise and Kevin

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who are doing the samba. We know she can do grace and poise -

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but how are her hips looking? I think this could be a big

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challenge for heard this week. I think she will struggle more with

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this dance. We have not seen it from her before, she normally breezes

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through, but this is more technical, the samba, the females seem to

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struggle with it. I think she will need to work on the details. If she

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can get a little bit more into the knee on the promenade runs, she

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would be able to stretch the back leg. The thing with her Richey

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always has impeccable arms, look at the finishing of. -- the thing with

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her is she always has. She is so graceful.

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Ore and Joanne will be dancing the quickstep -

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do you think this will keep them out of the dance off this week?

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They are dancing to Argue Gooner Be My Girl by Jet.

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-- Are You Gonna Be My Girl. The arms are dropped, it is more like a

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practice run through than doing it properly. That is difficult. I will

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say that he is upon the balls of his feet, it is very light and frothy.

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That is what you want, it needs to be kept in light and smooth, just

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like articles across the dance floor. Dancing across hot goals! --

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like hot cold across the dance floor.

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Let's look at everyone's second dances.

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Claudia and AJ's rumba, we know they can do high energy -

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how do you think they'll do with this?

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She is doing some really nice straight legs, which is a must in

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the tango... Weight, in the rumba. It has been a long few weeks! She

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needs to settle into those heads a little bit more. You can look stiff

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if you are just straightening the like. Settle into the hip, squeeze

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the sides. Back, settle, squeeze. Do I look like I have had some kind of

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Ministry Of Funny Walks? It is very tricky.

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Danny and Oti are doing a salsa - how's it looking?

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This could be exciting! For Danny, this does not look as comfortable as

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we have seen before. When we saw him do the samba, the tribal samba,

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wasn't it amazing? How could we forget? This has a similar vibe but

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a totally different technique, I think he is struggling. Who knows if

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he can pull it out of the bag by Saturday. There is a little bit of

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choreography that went a bit wrong, but I see that Oti has taken the

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blame for it. The professionals can go wrong! We are normally perfect.

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Back to Louise and Kevin - they'll also be taking on the tango.

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Do you think this will see Kevin reach the final

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I really hope so. It is looking tight and compact, just like my

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bottom. Here, here! Lots of very staccato moves. I love her head

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position. She has a lovely head position. The thing is, when she

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pivots, she brings her head in so she does not get the full range and

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movement of the pivot. If she took the head out a bit as she went

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round, she would use that the weight of the head to get her round. Spin

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her around. She would go faster. Science, ladies and gentlemen.

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Last week, Darcey was impressed with Ore's control.

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Does his Argentine tango with Joanne look under control to you, too?

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Will be good? For me, it is looking sultry, sensual, seductive. Just

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like me! It looks great. I love what he is doing with partnering, he

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seems to be holding her, shaping her. Look at that lovely line. I

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thought we could try that. It is a little bit like a throwaway. Throw

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that leg away, now this arm comes around my head, like that. And this

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caresses my arm like that. Then just/ me. Just/ you?! On the elbow?!

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That is sexy! It should looked just like that! That is how it is done.

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That is our penultimate Waite's Warm Up, there is only one more, we can

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spare it. Isn't he gorgeous?! Right, time now to make our Strictly

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pros sweat in TV's toughest dance The Strictly Pro Challenge is back,

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bigger than ever. The professionals will attempt to set a Guinness world

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record for the most jibe kicks and flicks in 30 seconds. We will be

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looking for strong pointed cakes and then the feed return in to the floor

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after the flick. If they don't bring the foot back to the resting

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position than the step will be disqualified. There can only be one

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champion, so they need to make every step counts. This is the Strictly

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Pro Challenge 2016. He's 26, brings a packed lunch

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into work every day and has a rucksack with eight compartments

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including one with Jive kicking and flicking

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for his place in the competition - Hello, darling! We have missed you

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on this show! So, first year on Strictly

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and your first Pro Challenge. Yes. I am and I was. And you were

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and you are! That is a good order. We hated losing you and to Mika in

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week two macro, can you do better? Bat hated losing you and Tameka in

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week two. Oksana Janette are top

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of the leader board ? do you feel I didn't expect them to be the first

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ones. We are still missing some of the other professionals that I

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thought would be first on the Leader Board. So I'm quite impressed with

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them. It is interesting. This competition is a huge deal -

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how many years have you been Did you do lots of practice? I have

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been 26 years practising for this. This is what we like to hear. Let's

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see how you got on. This is my first experience on the

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Pro Challenge, I hope my cakes and flicks are good enough. Hello, how

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are you? You are one of the new professionals, this is the first

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time that you have ever turned a Pro Challenge. Can you take on the rest

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of the professionals? I am super excited, I will do my best to

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impress everyone and to make all the other pros be scared. Gorka, good

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luck. Three, two, one, go. Stop! Yes! That feel? Very good. Is

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your heart pumping? Good god it is all right. It is good to see the

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fit, young, fresh ones. I thought he did very well, it was almost like a

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performance, the quality was there. Maybe there were some dodgy ones,

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but you did very well very well. Well done. I hope I did enough to be

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in the highest position I can, I think I did quite well.

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APPLAUSE Nice work.

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Lots of stomping there - how do you think you did?

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I was doing flamenco. Even flamenco with your kicks and flicks. The

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footage was watched back by adjudicators in slow motion to

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verify every single step and make sure they were accurate.

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Choreographer to the stars Richard Marcel Sabitzer lot of quality, do

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you think you made any mistakes? The last 15 seconds where the hardest,

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you get tired and your legs do not go properly high. Maybe of them.

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Well, interesting you should say that, because I can reveal you had.

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So things are looking good - are you ready to hear your fate?

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Gorka Marquez, I can reveal that in treinta segundos you completed...

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53 jive cakes and flicks! Which puts you third on the Leader Board.

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So close, yet so far - are you happy with that score?

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Oh, Gorka! Everyone rushes to give him a cuddle.

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Well it was a solid effort indeed - give it up for Gorka, everyone!

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Lovely to see you! Give my love to Tameka.

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Well, Gorka may have fallen slightly behind in the Pro Challenge -

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but can the same be said for our celebs?

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Let's see if Cloudia and Louise have been keeping up in training.

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I am loving the quickstep. It is so cool. It is a bit of ballroom and

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jumping out of the same time. I don't know if that is technical

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dancing words. It is not exactly like that. I like the energy. Lots

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of pivots. My quickstep has to be really good. I really want to get to

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the final. Sorry. Don't say sorry. Just don't get it wrong. I want to

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keep that energy and keep smiling. Very good. I've been a bit nervous

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of the samba. I find the wiggling hip action difficult. Everything is

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moving. Nothing ever stops moving. I don't like the sound of that! She's

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got to be sexy and full of body action. I think she's a little bit

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nervous. I'm trying to be positive and move everything as much as I can

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and see what happens. Now, the music on Strictly this year

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has been pretty amazing. We've had everything

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from Whitney to Gangham, all of which have been delivered

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flawlessly by my next guests. Please welcome Hayley,

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Lance, Andrea and Tommy - It's so lovely to see your faces in

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front of me. The first time we have had you altogether. Tommy, as the

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series been enjoyable so far? It's been the best one so far. What has

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been the best one? The dancers more than anything. We have enjoyed doing

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a lot of the music. It is a joy to go in every Friday and Saturday. You

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have had some incredible songs to cover. What has been your favourite

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to cover? I think I'll be seeing you, for Basil and Madge, the

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Remembrance. We were all in tears. I think unforgettable for Daisy. We

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must talk about Gangham style. That was quite a moment. Lance, I'm

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assuming you do not speak fluent Korean. I do know! What do you do

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when you get a song like that? It was a little bit of both. I had some

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lyrics written phonetically. And the original lyrics. And then listening

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to it. It was hard. Would you give us a little blast now.

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--? It is a group effort! Gangham style!

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How long do you get to rehearse the numbers? I started learning the

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songs on Monday. About four days. And then on Friday we have the

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evening rehearsals. Not very long. You do them a couple of times on

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Saturday before the show. How is it when you have got Whitney to do? It

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is a big number. It's very scary for me because Whitney is my idol. No

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one sings like Whitney Houston. So yeah, I'm always a bit petrified

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when I get a Whitney song. You do it good, girl. You always get really

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emotional the bigger it gets. You have been singing on the show since

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it started, Tommy. I have, since the pilot. You haven't aged at all. I

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was five when I started! What is the most difficult part of your job? I

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think the languages. Spanish is not so bad. We get nervous when the

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language once come up. But on the whole it's not really a chore, is

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it? Well, from a... I always think you get the best view, you four. We

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saw a great film this week about the mistakes. Have you had any mistakes

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during the shows? I don't find mind that funny. We do! Tommy and Angela

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-- Andrea did Ghostbusters once and left Andrea by herself. They left me

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hanging. Buttercup was one of my favourite moments. I came in on my

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own a bar early on the introduction. We are going to dig that out! You

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are so busy doing the show. But lovely and from Barnes would like to

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know what you do when Strictly is not on-air? Just wait for a

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Strictly! Just do lots of different gigs, writing music, sessions.

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Arranging harmonies. So give me a call! Studio and session work, and

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touring as well. With Strictly stop. The same. Backing vocals for

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different bands and artists. Studio work. Adverts. You know me! Tommy?

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I'd like to do nothing when we finish. Perfect. Lance, Hadi got any

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advice from somebody who would like to send? I think it is important if

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you have a passion for singing to go for it and make sure that you learn

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your craft as you go. If you believe in something, go for it. Do not be

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knocked back. And phone David Archer! That is so lovely to see

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you. We couldn't have you on the show without asking you to sing a

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little something. Would you do the honours? This is my friend, Susie.

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# Sleigh bells ring, are you listening.

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# A beautiful site, we're happy tonight.

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# Walking in a winter wonderland. # We can build a snowman.

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# And pretend that he is passed around.

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# He'll say, are you married? We'll say, no man.

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# You can do the job when you're in town.

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# Later on, hit the spire, as we dream by the fire.

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# The plans that we made, walking in a winter wonderland.

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# Walking in a winter wonderland. That has made me cry. If that

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doesn't get you in the Christmas spirit, nothing well. Good luck with

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the rest of the series. Give my love to all the band. Hayley, Lance,

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Andrea and Tommy. Right, time now

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for our final guests. # And I've been telling you how to

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go. In fact, they did very well

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with their tango this week. Hayley, nice one! I loved it. It was

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dynamic. You were leading. You are an incredible, incredible dancer.

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The focus in those eyes. It was outstanding. Every moment of their

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stance was under your control. You were the star of the show. -- of

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this dance. What a pair of dream boats. Danny and Oti, everyone. Just

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a lovely little moment they're. Oti said she hasn't watched it back. Why

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not? Because she still thinks I'm going to go wrong! Fourth week, top

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of the leaderboard on the trots. Amazing. What is the view like at

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the top? We didn't even know! You just scared us. You just take it one

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week at a time. I simply hope to get all the steps right and not mess it

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up. Oti, how does it look? You can't even look! You did say you were not

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expecting tens from this dance. What were you most worried about? It was

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the footwork. If I'm honest, I was terrified. I get so nervous

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anywhere. I was really worried about this one. I had a horrible feeling

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that I didn't even tell Oti about. I thought it might be the foxtrot all

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over again. Even when we got through, and as soon as you very

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negative comments from the judges, you straightaway go, it's not going

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to be a ten. I was really surprised. Amazing. Oti, you were rocking the

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disco diva look. You sounded so excited when it ended as well. It

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was a huge relief. Did it go better than you expected it to? It did. I

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also had the same feeling but I also didn't tell him. I also thought, I'm

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going to mess it up but I didn't tell him. I didn't want to do it so

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late in the competition. And then he did it with no mistakes. And I could

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not stop. I was so happy. I thought, probably you shouldn't do this on TV

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right now, but I couldn't hold myself! I love seeing you like that.

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I love the group Tango moment. Everybody has been trying that at

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home. Was that your idea? It was, actually. Having extra dances is

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such a nice thing. You want to make it look like a formation. I think

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they are all incredible. We all need to say how amazing the extra dancers

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are. To have them dance with us, it is an honour for me to have them. I

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just thought, let's use their talents. There was quite a nice

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moment in rehearsals. The pros came in for an hour. It takes the four

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days to do that. They came in for an hour. It was lovely to see her

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choreography come to life with a bunch of people. I was emotional. It

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is semifinals week. Things have just got serious. Two dances. American

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smooth for you. How difficult is this? The American smooth is such a

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beautiful song. It is Oti's choreography. It's lovely to do. The

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only thing that helps with this is that we have done the Viennese waltz

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before. That is a bit of the stress taken out. We don't have to worry so

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much. It's not a brand-new style but we do have the lifts. This is quite

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exciting. You are doing a salsa as well. We know he likes to shake his

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tush. Oti, the verdict so far and training? It's different. We just

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started it. We just finished the Viennese waltz. Now we are starting

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on the samba. It is completely different. It is getting the lifts.

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We have new lifts in both dances. You are the only couple with lifts

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in both your dances. Are you feeling strong? Hardly! I'm tired. We always

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try to do something different. In both dances, they are difficult

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lifts. But we will get it. She says! Has she gone into overdrive? It's

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actually funny this week. Oti is such a stickler for technique and

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precision. But this week, because there are to dances, she almost had

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to be slightly more lenient because there is so much choreography to

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learn. You have to hold back on how much time we spend. Every week, Oti

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spends so much time with me, taking the time to get the technique right.

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We don't have the time this week. You train 11 hours in the day. When

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you have two dances, how those days? They feel short. I have got used to

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taking every waking hour to learn one. There are no extra hours.

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Unless we do it in our sleep. I'm trying to suppress the panic.

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Whenever a we're under pressure, I get really relaxed. I chill. It is

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really disconcerting. I ask him, why are you panicking? He says, because

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you calm. What are you going to do?! There is only room for three in the

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final. How are things between you pros? Kevin Na 's been there three

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times before. He has not won yet. AJ is the young guys. -- die. Is it

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getting tough? No, it's not. I know from Joanne, and I am the biggest

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Joanne fan, she is a really good friend of mine. I look up to Kevin.

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I think everything he does is amazing. Everyone wants to take care

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of him. There is love. They are all amazing. They really are. It's a

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good group. I love all of them. You stay calm, you don't panic. It will

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be fine. I cannot wait to see the to lot of lifts. Danny and Oti!

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That's all we've got time for tonight -

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Join me tomorrow, where I'll be chatting to those cheeky little lion

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Vicky Gill is here with more glorious Strictly costumes,

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plus husband and wife Neil and Katya go head to head

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MUSIC: Beyond The Sea by Bobby Darin

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# Beyond the sea... # Hi!

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Watch your little ones discover CBeebies Playtime Island -

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