Episode 27 Strictly - It Takes Two

From London, this is Strictly It

Takes Two. Please welcome your host,

Zoe Ball.

Hello and welcome to It Takes Two.

Believe it or not, it's

actually Halloween!

But, don't worry, there's no

nasty tricks in store -

only bonafide treats.

So, let's head straight

to the green room to see

who's joining us tonight.

My spidey senses are telling me

Joe and Katya are here!

Yes, they are. It was splendid on

Saturday.

Joining them, it's

the spellbinding Ruth and Anton!

What a quickstep!

But, before we chat to them,

it's time for round two

of Choreography Corner

with Darren and Lilia.

Darren and Lilia!

Can I just say, everyone is loving

having you back on the show. Darren,

let's talk about Aston and Janette's

said to you. Craig was saying that

Paso doble should not contain pop

and lock and hip-hop and street and

body ripples.

Was it worth the risk?

We watched it back several times.

The speed of music gave the energy

they had in the dance. Jeannette

choreographed and amazing routine.

Great shaping he uses his body in

such a way. It could be misconstrued

as a bit of hip-hop. I just thought

it was probably the dance of the

night.

It was for me as well. Well

done to both of them. Let's talk

about Pirate Johnnie and Oti next.

Shelley said it lacked body action

and some of the movements were not

co-ordinated.

I have to agree. It

was disappointing. He has been doing

so well up till now. He was a bit

stiff and square. His body was so

far forward that his weight was

going forward. At this point we are

going to see a clip. As he is doing

it you can see how square he is. We

will pause it there.

It is demoed time.

Off we go.

It is demoed time.

Off we go.

He

opens up as a piece. He has

shoulders, hips and knees. It is all

square. His hand is here. Craig

would say it is a spatula hand. I

would like him to isolate his body.

As he steps through, he isolates the

hand and then rotates.

It is those

subtle differences. Let's talk about

Alexandra and Gorka and the zombie

tango. Darcey Bussell said it was

terrifyingly good. Surely when

spouse and said it was dead good for

them she did not give it four marks

because there were eight couple of

mistakes.

One of the errors was

right down the camera lens. From

promenade position they go to a fall

away. She loses her 13th and all of

a sudden Gorka has to do what we

call in the trade, the grip and rip.

You have to go solid, grit your

partner and rip them into the next

position. Even the girls have to do

that.

position. Even the girls have to do

that. Lilia had to do that for a

whole series would you can only do

that if you have a partner who has a

core and a centre and you can move

them where they need to go. If it is

all lose you cannot create that

movement. The great routine but just

a couple of mistakes.

Moving on to

Susan and Kevin, the mother of all

the dragons for the Shelley said the

foxtrot is the Rolls-Royce of

dancers but they lacked grace and

elegance and gave them quite a hard

time what do you think?

I have to

agree. Susan gives it 100% and

commits herself. Kevin is loving it

but he is having such a great time.

You can see she skips and hops a

bit. Not so much guiding and smooth

as a foxtrot should be thought that

they had such an amazing time.

I

love watching her. I have convinced

Lilia now to watch Game of Thrones

after watching that.

Things that you

see full stop we are making couples

happy all over. It is not quite like

that. Last but by no means least,

Gemma and Aljaz. Craig said it was a

little bit lumpy.

Another one of

those technical terms, lumpy. For

me, what makes a stand out giant is

backs. Whilst the knees and the legs

are in the right position, they

don't actually pulse and move will

stop on the standing leg, it is bent

to stop it bounces up and down and

is continuous all the way through.

To demonstrate that, it is demoed

time.

For this, you are going to have to

join me, Zoe.

I am nervous.

We

actually demonstrate this to

children, so you will be fine. What

I wanted to do first of all, it is

all about having the body weight in

the right place. March on the spot.

Bring the knees up and we march.

That is what I want you to do. Bring

the body weight forward for a jive

position for that you can feel the

legs getting heavier. We work into

the floor. That means we start to

get bone and action as we move. The

body weight is forward. We have to

make sure we hop on the standing leg

and bone has to work.

It has all

gone wrong now. It is just me doing

this, is it? What a treat it has

been. Good luck with Dancing With

The Stars in Ireland.

Time now to welcome my next guests.

They weaved their way

across the dancefloor

at the weekend and managed to catch

us all in a web with their

sensational Foxtrot.

It's Joe and Katya!

I really loved the energy and drive

you provided.

A wonderful moments

when you sped up on the pivots. All

the translation from the character

and dance were very well executed.

Joe and Katya are here for that she

has brought her spider friends. She

will never give that up. Can I just

say, Joe, that was epic. You were

amazing. We all absolutely loved it.

How good was it for you? It was

good, being Halloween and all. A

fantastic concept. They are not all

good. I feel like I am in really

safe hands. It went much better than

it had been in rehearsals, didn't

it?

You did not love the dance but

you did a good job.

Ballroom is

difficult because you are stuck

together. If you're fit goes wrong

it is very obvious because you are

meant to be mirroring each other.

I

keep doing this step. If you keep

stepping on me it is wrong.

You are

going through the knees or round the

knees. That is the thing. I loved

some of the stuff you did like when

you are twisting. It did not look

easy.

It was not too difficult.

It

was allocating the jobs. I said when

your job will be to turn and I will

be pulling. On Wednesday was a

little bit Pawnee. I had no energy.

-- poorly. It is good you have a

partnership like that. That is what

it is. I reckon someone is trying

move on the kitchen floor right now.

How much fun to June have putting

this together?

It is Halloween. It

is brilliant. We lose a little bit

the feeling of, we got to do it

properly and gracefully you can go a

little more ugly in a way. It is

spider. Coming down the main Black

widow is brilliant.

All the

costuming and make up, a fantastic

job.

This is putting together the

thing is, what would spider do? That

is what I wanted to keep coming back

to it. That was off-screen that

happens.

It is fun. You did break

the roller coasters curse.

AIDS

across the board. We have had a

couple of weeks where it has gone

well and hopefully it will continue

because it was up and down and I

thought that was the way it would be

foot of it is not a nice feeling

when it went did the week before and

then it does not.

This week you have

a dream dance. You have the

charleston. I love it, do you?

You

can throw yourself into it and it is

full of character. There are a lot

of steps and that has been my

downfall in the past, remembering

the steps.

And it is vast. Normally

the trouble is not enough time for

Joe to think ahead if the track is

fast. I cannot think what is next.

That will be the challenge which we

hope...

To rise to. I am finishing

your sentences. We spend 900 hours a

week together. It is like being

married.

Almost. Richard Road got

really looking forward to your

charleston. Note Tanya will have a

killer routine and that you will

thrill for England and Scotland. Who

is Tanya? I think he means Katya. My

mum is Tanya. Obviously you're

cramming as because you have your

day job. Do you have a little

practice?

We have been dancing

around. They are all like to teach

us some moves. Now I have some

skills, a little bit.

That is lovely

but you are passing it on. I am

paying it forward. Shall we have a

look?

Yes.

It is nice on this floor.

Don't do it out of hours. We are not

sure you're covered with insurance.

Joe does great when he is in

character.

We are playing wooden

soldiers that come out of the cuckoo

clock. Very stiff but we break out

of it immediately. Hopefully.

Coming

out of the cuckoo clock, it cannot

get any more bonkers.

We even tried

the costumes. It has been very

interesting.

Will it be the famous

charleston move, the flappy bird?

We

don't actually have that. We can do

it for you now, if you want.

Is it

demonstration time?

I don't actually

know how to do it.

Look at that!

That is the flappy bird. It is

getting good. You did mention at

some point there might be kilt

wearing.

I would love there to be

kilt wearing. We got baby steps.

Maybe you could wear a kilt here for

us. Now? There is the kilt. I would

love to sort that out. Maybe not in

the charleston.

I am a true

Scotsman. On that note, good luck

with the charleston on Saturday. Joe

and Katya.

Now, last weekend we saw our

couples thrashing it out

on the dance floor to Tom Jones,

Kylie and Queen...

But what bangers will they be

strutting their stuff to

this week?

Let's find out -

it's time for Tunes on

Tuesday!

MUSIC: "Music" by Madonna

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Load's of amazing tunes

this week, let's see

what's up first.

It it!

MUSIC: "I Got The Music In Me"

by Marcia Hines

It's I Got the Music

in Me by Marcia Hines...

You may never have heard of her...

She is the best! Katya!

This disco stomper

was originally released

by the Kiki Dee band

back in 1974, since

then the track has

been covered by some

of the world's biggest

divas including...

Tina Turner, Cher, Jlo,

Aretha Franklin and

Celine Dion.

Well, it it's good

enough for Celine, it's

good enough for me!

But who'll be shaking

their tush to this at

the weekend?

CHEERING

It's Alexandra &

Gorka, and they'll be

dancing the Cha Cha Cha!

Right, what's next?

MUSIC: "The Shady Dame From Seville"

Oh!

Excuse me!

Have you quite finished yet?

This flamenco inspired song

is called The Shady Dame of Seville

and is taken from the oscar

nominated musical Viktor Victoria

starring Julie Andrews.

Geography fans might be interested

to know that Seville is the city

with most orange trees

in the world...

Fascinating stuff.

But who will be

hoping to impress the

judges with this...?

Regarde!

CHEERING

It's Ruth & Anton!

What a treat! What a treat!

Ole!

Ole!

APPLAUSE

We've got time for one more song...

I'm loving tonight, you can tell

it's Halloween.

MUSIC: " I Got a Feeling"

by The Black Eyed Peas

Yes!

Time to party it's -

I've Got a Feeling by

the Black Eyed Peas.

Someone's gone crazy with the glow

sticks.

This song became the

first single to sell

more than one million

downloads in the

UK - not bad for a song

that supposedly

only took one hour to write!

But who will be dancing

to this, I hear you cry!

Who's going to be dancing to this!

It's Debbie & Giovanni -

I've got a feeling

that this is going to be a goody!

Carry on people, carry on.

To find out the rest

of the songs, head to

the Strictly website.

Now Here at It Takes

Two we never need

an excuse to get all

glammed up - so we

sent our cameras straight

to Strictly's glam

squad, to find out

how you can do too!

I'm Lisa Armstrong, make up designer

on Strictly.

And I'm Lisa, the head supervisor.

Today we're really excited to

recreate one of our favourite looks,

the glitter look.

It emerges curls,

and glitter. Perfect for a night

out.

We start with the eyes, people

always ask me how do you keep the

glitter in place? What you need to

do is use a cream eye shadow

underneath. Just blend it across the

eye, nice and soft, working into the

socket line.

Any colour?

Yes, any

colour. Some people like to use nude

so the glitter shines through but

because we are going for gold

glitter I think it works well with

the soft brown underneath. Just a

little bit of highlighter, which

opens up the eye. Now it's time for

the glitter. Just hold that popped

for me please. Top tip, get a clean

piece of case you, pray sit

underneath the eye, pop your finger

into the glitter, shake it off and

then tap it. Onto the eye. You can

see how that is just sticking to the

eye shadow. Now with a clean

brush...

Gorgeous.

You can blend

that end, making sure you have no

harsh edges. Now we are going to add

the eyelash to make it a full on

Strictly glittery look. Take the

lash and place the blue. Wait a few

seconds, give it a little waft and

in a diagonal motion downwards,

attached to the eye. You have to get

right into the base of the lash

line.

Now over to the hair.

For Amy's hair today, to match the

glitter look, we're going to go big

and glamorous, like a salsa look you

to see on strictly. Give the hair a

bit of a spray because it will:

better. We're going to take the

wonder and take small sections and

wrap it around in different

directions, to create a wilder look.

Follow this all the way round in

sections.

It's going to take a

while.

You might want to get someone

to help you with this. As you can

see, we've made some progress. We

are going to use clip in hair for

volume. We have clips that easily go

into the woods. Make a parting, a

little backcomb at the roots, making

the pieces easier to stay. Pop the

clip in. Then just softly break the

hair up, just gently open up the

curls. To get some root lift, Matt

fine powder. Just sprinkle it in

like that and give it a little

backcomb. You can see instantly you

have a little more volume. That

powder will help them volume to

stay, so your hair won't drop.

Finish it with a little bit of

glitter. Just sprinkle some glitter

into your hair.

That looks so nice!

To help it stay in, finish with a

tiny bit of hairspray and that will

keep the glitter where it needs to

be.

There we go, are glitter look is

complete, along with glitter in the

hair and eyes, with ready to party!

Huge thanks to the Lisas!

They are great!

Time now to welcome my final guests.

Their quickstep certainly

put a spell on us

at the weekend - it's

the 'bewitching' Ruth

and Anton.

It lacked any style. I thought it

was too heavy and too sloppy.

You

went on the wrong foot but managed

to recover and you completed the

dance.

You have made a wonderful

improvement, so be proud.

CHEERING

AND APPLAUSE

Oooh hello gorgeous!

What a cheeky little quickstep!

You looks like you are having so

much fun, did you enjoy it?

It was

wonderful, being Samantha from this

series that I loved as a kid and I

enjoyed it. I know I made mistakes

and I'm still nervous, but I'm not

terrorised any more. I actually

think, I'm quite enjoying this now,

which I never thought I'd hear

myself say.

It just shows it gets

into the heart of you. I think I was

watching, we like you enjoying it is

glorious.

When you watch someone

enjoying it, you don't feel

uncomfortable. When you watch

someone like I was in the waltz week

on, not so much.

Everyone is upset

with your hair!

Every week I have

good hair!

Amanda wrote online, "I'm bewitched

by Anton's rabbit bum!!"

It was very cute.

Are you enjoying

the attention?

I enjoyed enormously.

I had to get down behind the table

for the trick, and up we come.

Billy, from wardrobe, popped my tail

on it. A couple of poppers, he

popped it on. As I lent down, I

brushed it against the sideboard.

As

you do stop by if you are a rabbit!

So I knocked it off. As I'm dancing

round it was just one proper and I

could feel it bouncing around. It

was sort of disconcerting after a

while. I wasn't sure what was going

on! I enjoyed it enormously and I

thought that Ruth did a great job. I

think she moves beautifully.

APPLAUSE

Yes, come on! Going be shy, enjoy

yourself! I just thought the way

Ruth moves across the floor in the

quick step, and the tango before,

her coverage is tremendous. I'm

really impressed by that. It's about

moving and sweeping across the

floor. From that perspective I

thought Ruth was tremendous. I've

been meaning to tell you all day!

What was it like being lowered

in on the broom at the start?

A little scary. Anton asked if I was

OK with heights and I said why? He

said, and think you're flying you

in. I went to Elstree on Friday and

they took me up and it's a lot

higher than I thought and quite a

small platform you are holding onto.

I thought, no, it's all right, I can

do this. Did it three or four times

in rehearsals, but then because the

studio audience come in and use the

everyone. Hadn't told Jack and amen

I was doing it. As I started to go

up, the whole audience went oooh.

Which made me nervous. I couldn't

look at anybody. You're kind of

level with the balcony at that

point, I thought, don't look, just

keep calm. It feels like a long

time. It wasn't, 30 seconds or

something. But it looked great and I

flew on Halloween week.

Amazing. The

great thing with you two is we can

always count on you to have fun in

the training room.

1234... Two,

three, four, four.

I can't do your

stupid counting!

Ruth is an

intelligent woman but the counting

seems to be foxing her somewhat. 7,

8... No, no.

I don't know what I'm

doing!

LAUGHTER

What I doing at the end?

I don't

know.

One, two, three, four and

then... Two, one, two...

LAUGHTER

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Ridiculous

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Ridiculous. Counting is the most of

the thing I've ever heard in my

life. One week it's two, three, four

and then five, 7, 8.

The only thing

we've established as there is no 9.

At least we know that! Lovely to

have so much support. Denise, Stacey

and your TV son Rylan. Lovely to

have then they're better that make

you more scared?

No, especially not

Denise, she has done strictly macro,

so she has given me loads of tips.

She knows what it's like. There is a

brilliant thing on Twitter of the

three of them when the judges were

giving their marks and they're all

going "No! To!"

. We really want

Rylan to come on the show. Have a

word!

I will order him.

Tell him.

This week, paso doble. I think this

is going to be a goodie for you two.

I'm looking forward to seeing you

give it all be show stuff.

And

another bit of that and one of them

down there. We're not doing any of

that cape malarkey. It gets on my

nerves. You are the cape! We don't

need a double cape. You want to

slosh about a bit. Then I'm going to

do... What you do with their cape,

I'm going to chuck you and you will

slam.

I might break a hip!

Not

height, just slide across the floor.

The

chuck and slide! We can't wait.

Good luck for Saturday,

Ruth and Anton everyone!

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

That's all we have time for tonight!

Join me tomorrow at 6:30pm

when I'll be chatting to

Davood & Nadiya and Aston & Janette.

Plus, Ian Waite is back

for another Warm-Up and we'll

be joined by Mr meany himself -

Craig Revel Horwood.

Goodnight.