Episode 50 Strictly - It Takes Two

# I'm singing in the rain

# Just singing in the rain

# What a glorious feelin'

# I'm happy again

# I'm laughing at clouds

# So dark up above

# The sun's in my heart

# And I'm ready for love

# Let the stormy clouds chase

# Everyone from the place

# Come on with the rain

# I've a smile on my face

# I walk down the lane

# With a happy refrain

# Just singin'

# Singin' in the rain #

Thanks a LOTT, Pixie Lott!

Live from London, this is Strictly

his it takes two. Please welcome

your host, Zoe Ball.

# There's no business like show

business

# Like no business I know. #

AJ and Joe. Welcome people.

Welcome people.

Hello, and welcome to

It Takes two the Musical!

A big thank you to the

wonderful Katya and AJ -

and the gorgeous Pixie Lott

for being my voice double.

There'll be more from her beautiful

voice later in the show.

Also coming up tonight,

Dick & Dom and Mel Giedroyc bring

some showbiz panache to the Friday

Panel.

Dianne takes centre stage

for the Strictly Pro Challenge.

And judging supremo Darcey Bussell

answers your questions.

But first, Strictly will be heading

to the Musicals in just

But first, Strictly will be heading

to the Musicals in just...

And as ever, our leading man

Gethin Jones has been drawn

in by the bright lights of Elstree

and the promise of backstage gossip.

Welcome back, the stage is being set

for the greatest show on earth,

since Blackpool any way, rehearsing

are Davood and Nadiya. They are

doing an Argentine tango to the

Phantom of the Opera. Let's take a

look behind the mask.

That looks good. Smouldering stuff.

As our leading men and ladies

prepare for musical night I will be

behind the curtain in the wings

ready to bring you the latest for

the quarterfinal. I will see you a

bit later.

I will see you a bit later.

Bravo Gethin!

He'll reprise his role

as 'Man Backstage at

Strictly' later in the show.

Time now to welcome my first

guests of the evening.

Last Saturday, they scaled

a New York skyscraper

to top the leader board

for the very first time.

Some people will go to any lengths.

It's Joe & Katya!

Everything was absolutely spot on. I

love that hopping round step you

did. ? When you took your hand and

butt them behind your back it was

superb.

It was clean, it was light.

In fact, stupendous darling.

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Wow. Look, there is no stopping them

people. Keep that cane. It suits

you. Katya, outfit so much amazing.

We like to make an effort. What a

quickstep, construction work has

never looked so good, I have to say.

How was your foray into manual

labour.

My family are builders so it

must be in the DNA, that is why it

went so well.

Congratulationses in

the tens club again, for the first

time this series top of the

leaderboard for Joe. How was the

view from up there?

It's a lovely

position. Yes, it was a great

position to be in but I said to

Katya, I know I can only enjoy it

for one day because on Monday

morning you are back to grindstone.

It don't mean a thing. Thing.

If it

ain't got that swing.

You are only

as good as your last dance.

They

expect so much.

You are looking more

handsome today, is it the tan?

It is

tan Friday.

I like it. Your harshest

critics loved it. Craig said

stupendous, Shirley said

unbelievable and Bruno wants you to

build his extension, I imagine these

from kind of remark yours dreaming

of.

I am happen you you clarified.

When I heard Craig says stupendous,

I thought it was something to do

with stupid. I went really quiet.

It

was a good thing.

Great!

I can see

where that mistake would come.

Shirley praised the mix of steps you

put in. She said how clever you

were, how impressed are you with Joe

for picking this up now?

I must say,

you know, we both know how hard the

first few weeks were, and mainly, on

picking up the step, you know, we

had to drill over and over and over

again and you were get stressed,

but, he is a improved so much on

that subject we are able now to

learn so much quirk and we can get

in more detail and technique on

Tuesday, Wednesday, his brain has

gone so quick.

We watched some of

the old dances back the other day

and I thought what are my feet

doing? They are like flippers

literally. Hopefully they have got

slightly better but it doesn't get

easier, the more they know the more

they expect.

You did say one of your

fittest parts is the brain.

I am

going to keep dancing for the brain.

It is really God for your head. I...

Also we all know that practise makes

gross.

That is correct.

You had an

interesting technique for teaching

Joe the steps last week.

I like fish

and chip, kick it out

I like fish

and chips.

I like fish and chips

kick. See, fish and chips much

quicker.

OK.

You see.

I preferred

chicken and chips.

If you said

chicken and chips the beat would be

completely off. Any more interesting

surprise methods?

Not really, just,

you say it now and I vaguely know

what you mean, a lot of the time

If

I say left we know it is left.

It

has only taken ten weeks. There are

bow a foe goes this week.

Before you

get to that I must read out a lovely

message, Fay, wrote online musicals,

I would like to see Joe in, list,

Guys and Dolls cabaret, The

producer, Chicago, pyjama game, I

could go on. That is a big list.

She

should be my agent.

She should be.

Care to put Fay out of her misery.

I

would love do cabaret, and we are

this week.

How handy, here is your

music.

# Money make the worlds go round

# The world go round

# Money makes the world go round. #

It is such a complex brilliant

character, but he is manipulative

and dark. Thank you for that.

Learning something day.

Any of those

would be amazing to do.

You have

stepped into a bit of musical

theatre.

I have done bits of sing

manager the past.

Have you managed

to teach Katya.

Little bits. The

narrative... There is so much going

on in that song, it is about

surviving and back then in Berlin

that the time, if you didn't have

money it wasn't a good story.

I kept

asking, what do you think that mean,

what face? We worked on it.

I taught

her how to overact.

Here you are in

training. How, extra dancer, is it

going to be a show stopper?

I hope

it won't stop our show, think it is.

It, the character is suits him

Points Westly, that is what musicals

is about. We have to sell that

character, -- perfectly.

People

might say it is strange doing samba

to that song. It is no. Once we done

it...

The bow a foe goes are doing

well. The

The samba is is a strange

one.

You have to go forward, back,

side to side. I love it.

If it goes

well it is great.

A great number as

well.

Fab. More than happy.

You look

gorgeous with that tan. Tomorrow,

Joe and Katya.

APPLAUSE

Time now for an exclusive preview

of this weekend's group number -

which will see the Strictly Pros

turning into a right load of Divas.

Take a look at this.

I had a dream I was sing #234g a

group dance this week.

That sound

more like a nightmare to me.

Cheeky!

We all know you have a voice like an

angel. It's musicals week.

So this week we are doing a number

from Dreamgirls, so we are going

back to the mid 70s to disco so it

will have a bit of a Studio 54 feel

to it as well.

# Do the hustle

# Do the hustle #

There is everything. Fast disco,

lots of spin, lift, there is a big

celebration of disco from that era.

There is is a mixture of Hustle,

some lovely lovely ballroom steps,

Gorka and Janette are doing a her

alpiece, there will be something for

everyone.

Singing, dancing, accusing

at the same time. I'm in! In! I

would say the most challenging part

is it is full on, it is intense,

high energy, we do not stop from

start to finish.

My favourite part when we all come

together and we are doing a move

like this. Everyone is there, the

energy is so high, I love it.

I hope you have enjoyed this

exclusive group at our Dreamgirls

dance, if you want to see more make

sure you tune in at the weekend.

I like it a lot.

I like it a lot.

Now, it wouldn't be Friday night

here at It Takes two without a panel

of Strictly super fans to talk

Sequins, Fake Tan and all that jazz.

Ladies and gentlemen.

Please give tonight's Friday Panel

a huge standing ovation -

it's Mel Giedroyc, Dick & Dom,

& Pixie Lott!

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Look at you all. Welcome, welcome,

nerve stop dancing, never stop

dancing. MLA, and my conductor ex

extraordinaire, you have a

self-confessed Strictly fanatic,

what have you thought of the series

and how excited are you for musicals

week?

Do you remember when you were

a kid and it was Christmas Eve, and

you, and you almost felt like you

wanted to throw up with excitement?

It is musicals week, it is a

special, I love a Strictly special.

I feel full of adrenaline.

We are

all feeling it now.

I feel

emotional.

I could cry at any

moment, or laugh like a lunatic.

Dick and Dom welcome boys. Wanted to

throw up with excitement? It is

musicals week, it is a special, I

love a Strictly special. I feel full

of adrenaline. We are all feeling it

now.

I feel emotional.

I could cry

at any moment, or laugh like a

lunatic. Dick and Dom welcome boys.

I want wanted to throw up with

excitement? It is musicals week, it

is a special, I love a Strictly

special. I feel full of adrenaline.

We are all feeling it now.

I feel

emotional.

I could cry at any

moment, or laugh like a lunatic.

Dick and Dom welcome boys. I want

wanted to throw up with excitement?

It is musicals week, it is a

special, I love a Strictly special.

I feel full of adrenaline. We are

all feeling it now.

I feel

emotional.

I could cry at any

moment, or laugh like a lunatic.

Dick and Dom welcome boys. I want to

show "Bogies" when I see you. Have

you been tempted to don the dancing

shoes.

There is a strange story,

back in 2004 when Strictly started,

series one, we were asked to go on

series one, but the way it was sold

this is come dancing with celebrity,

we thought that will never work. So

we said no.

Does that mean you are

off the Christmas card list. . Think

we are blacklisted. This is as close

as we are going to get to being on

the main show. While you are here,

you your alter egos Diddy Dick and

Diddy Dom met a man called Craig for

your new series Diddy TVH this is

crick as you have never seen him

before.

We are joined from Strictly

Come Dancing, he is one of the

judges, Craig Revel Horwood.

Hello darlings.

He called us

darlings.

Some people think you are

horrible but we like you.

Look at me

darlings, I am fabulous. He

He said

the catch phrase.

It is the best

thing I have seen. Pixie Lott is

here. Pixie, you got to this point

in the competition, three yearses a,

how through the celebrities be

feeling now?

This is the last point I got too so

I am not an expert on how to get any

further...

She was robbed!

I think

it's just every week is

nerve-racking and tough, you just

want it to be the best you have ever

performed and you have worked so

hard but each week is as hard as the

next. But the closer you get the

more you think you are nearly there.

Lets work in the training room and

see how they are doing, Gemma and

Aljaz are doing a quick step two

hello Dolly, is it looking swell?

It

certainly is, she really is, she is

very nippy on her feet now isn't

she? She likes, I am only a viewer,

what do I know but she is very good

on the faster ones isn't she?

Wouldn't you say?

Do we agree? Yes.

I think she will nail this.

I think

she will win. I think she is the

epitome of the programme, doing

better each week as the judges keep

telling her, listening to everything

they say, I think she will do it.

Led stock about Joe and Katya who

will do a samba, look at this, he

has been called a dark horse and a

unicorn, what would you call him?

Dancing to cabaret?

He is so good,

each week getting better and better.

I would say that because he is stood

over there!

He might be holding a

stick. Onto Alexandra and Gorka,

look at this, dancing and Mary

Poppins leaned charleston, how is

the energy?

It is all about the

energy, Craig always talks about the

swivel. That is all it is, the

swivel and the energy and getting

the character and it was one of my

favourite dances, one of the most

fun so enjoying it and getting into

it.

Is Gorka doing it as Dick Van

Dijk?

He has got the accent and

everything! It is uncanny. If we are

lucky this lot will be back later in

the programme but for now the Friday

panel! CHEERING

APPLAUSE

It's time now for another trip down

the yellow brick road to Elstree -

where earlier today,

my understudy Gethin

was playing to sold-out crowds

and critical acclaim.

I am here with two of your favourite

diva dancers, Debbie McGee and

Gemma, looking nice in the pyjamas

and dressing down. Matching the

whole ensemble. Tomorrow night

American Smooth, how are you feeling

about it?

Meow.

Very good answer.

It

feels good. I have not watched it

myself. But it feels good. It is a

beautiful bands, it is not flashy. I

have to be slow and controlled so I

must not get the giggles but so far

I am loving doing it.

Both of you,

how are your partners feeling, they

are not here, how have they been, it

feels like you have been looking

after them?

Aljaz is choreographing

so hard, he's so passionate about it

he will do it all day Sunday and

Monday in rehearsal if something is

not breaking changes it again and I

love that but sometimes I say to

him, relax but it is just because he

cares so much. This week as always

we have laughed so much, a lovely

dance with extra dancers.

I always

wonder how that feels, the quick

step of course?

It is good, a bit

less pressure because you feel like

it is a group dance, you are a bit

less exposed.

Semifinal around the

corner, is that pregnant

awe-inspiring?

Do not think about

it, just another week.

Just week 11.

Genuinely. You don't want to put

pressure on yourself.

The pressure

is building, but best of luck to

both of you. Thank you for talking

to us.

Right now, it's time for a short

interval from Musical shenanigans.

Yes, there's one part of this show

that we like to keep pure

and that is the Strictly Pro

Challenge.

Just in case you've been

living under a rock,

here's a reminder of the toughest

dancing contest on TV.

Not the time, Reddo.

Honestly.

This year is Strictly broad

challenges heading back in time to

the roaring 20s where are pros will

attempt to set a Guinness world

record title for the most charleston

swivel steps in 30 seconds. In order

for the step to qualify the pros

have two complete one forward and

one backward step. If there is no

swivel in the feet and ankles are

the step will be disqualified. This

year 's challenge will be pros have

ever faced. But only one person can

claim the title. It's the Strictly

pro challenge 2017.

Time to welcome our

next contender....

Born into a family of apple-picking

champions, she grew up on an apple

farm and spent the best days

of her childhood picking -

you guessed it - apples...

Let's hope she doesn't

'crumble' under the pressure

of her first Pro Challenge -

it's Dianne Buswell!

CHEERING

APPLAUSE

Hello Lady!

Hello!

We have missed

you.

I miss him dearly.

Good evening

Richard if you are watching, I think

he will be. It is your first series

of Strictly but most importantly

your first pro challenge, everyone

will be talking about this back in

Australia?

My mum and dad have lost

sleep over it, I am calling them

every day. Tonight I will be able to

tell them.

Some pros dream their

whole lives of taking part in this

challenge, did you train hard?

I

did, I will not lie. I was doing my

shopping, swivelling, showering and

swivelling, so I did kind of take it

a bit seriously.

You all do. Let's

look at the leaderboard and remind

ourselves of the State of play,

Katya has been on top all week, you

might be able to hear her in the

background, do you have what it

takes to topple Mrs Jones?

I really

hope so. I am watching you!

Let's

see how you got on, good luck.

Thank

you. The other professionals are

told me so much about the challenge

and it sounds competitive so it's

not like I have been practising

every day for a few hours at all!

Hello.

Hello Dianne. Welcome to your

first Strictly pro challenge. How

are you feeling?

Slightly nervous

but super excited, not competitive

at all I just really want to win.

There is a lot at stake.

No

pressure!

None at all! Please take

your position on the dance floor.

Thank you very much.

Your official

attempt starting in three, two, one,

go.

15 seconds.

Keep it up, command.

That is good.

Five, four, three,

two, one, stop.

Well done.

Well

done.

Well done.

I'm all right,

feeling OK.

It looked good from

where I was sitting.

Great, one

fluff at the end but it was really

good. You really did keep the action

going. Very good. Very good.

Thank

you, thank you, fingers crossed.

Really well done.

It was so much fun

and I got some really good feedback

from the judges saw the other pros

watch your back because I am coming.

APPLAUSE

They seemed to be very encouraging,

they do not normally give a lot

away, do you like the look of your

swivels?

Wasn't too bad, at the end

I got a bit tired but we will see.

Tell me.

This is the legal bit,

after each of the professionals made

the attempt the footage was watched

back by adjudicators in slow motion

to verify every single swivel to

make sure they were all accurate. 19

is the score to beat. Everybody

brief, Dianne, in 30 seconds you

completed...

21! CHEERING

However are...

Did not say however!

Not all of them were legal, Dianne,

your score is going down under, you

had three disqualified giving you a

score of 18! This is brilliant! She

will never speak to you again.

Second on the leaderboard, how do

you feel?

I am actually gutted.

Gutted. I cannot go home now!

CHEERING

APPLAUSE

Katya may need starting tonight.

Next up, it's time to celebrate

the career of one of our

cast's brightest stars.

She has been lighting up

the Ballroom since 2012

and is now our longest

serving female pro.

This is Karen Clifton's Strictly CV.

Welcome to our new dancer, Karen.

I

joined in 2012. I was coming from

New York and I was pretty much

thrown into a world full of glitter

and magic and Spray Tan. It was very

scary. Nicky from West life will

always hold a special place in my

heart.

Your Uptown girl will be...

He was my first partner. We hit it

off from the beginning, he was a

good performer so I just had to

teach in the steps. My first week

dancing with him we did the waltz.

Being the first time on that dance

floor I really wanted to impress the

judges. Craig picked up on a small

left.

I am not happy Karen, there

are no lifts in the waltz. I wish

you would stick to the rules.

Maybe

I was trying too hard and Craig made

sure I realised that. I was

devastated so I knew I had to learn

and I learned very, very quickly.

Week three we did the quickstepped

and I think that is when we really

came out of our shells. I felt like

I had choreographed something I was

proud of.

You are starting to win me

over.

It helped me and my

confidence. On series 11 eyes with

David Healy biker.

I am chuffed as

nuts.

He was not a natural dancer

but he was the most fun and

entertaining partner I have ever

had. One of my most memorable dances

with him was doing the salsa to

Cuban Pete. It was insane on the

dance floor. We were always going to

get low scores but they did not

matter, what mattered was the joy

because at the end of the day all he

wanted to do was learn to dance. On

series 12 I danced with Mark Bright.

What I love about him was he was a

perfectionist. In the semifinal we

were in the dance off. Being in the

dance off is one of the scariest

things. We took a risk on the Rum

bar. It was completely different,

something had not seen on Strictly.

Who are you going to save?

I am

going to save mark and Karen.

It was

going from low too high in Milly

second, I think we cried. I was

really proud I was able to get my

celebrity all the way to the final.

On series 13 I danced with Jeremy

Vine. The professor of the dance

world. He would bring in his

notebook and interview me, he had

notes on his hands, it was a dancing

dictionary. He really had the heart

of the dancer. It was great to see

the enthusiasm and the joy in him.

Last year I was paired with Will

Young and unfortunately our time on

the programme was cut short. It was

such a shame because he had so much

potential but sometimes things don't

work out the way you want them to. I

have been very lucky to dance with

so many different celebrities but

for me to be dancing with my husband

is always a pleasure. Kevin and I

have had some great performances on

Strictly, it's time for us to really

show our chemistry and our

connection. I love being part of

Strictly, it's a show that brings

families together and it really

brings a smile to everybody's face.

I feel really lucky to be part of

something so amazing.

I ahazing to see that.

I ahazing to see that.

My next guests braved a storm

to Quickstep their way to their best

scores of the series.

Very impressive. Nice and clean and

crisp. Keep that energy level right

to the end.

You did rolling pivots

that went round, that is one of the

most difficult steps to do.

You have

improved so much. Keep going, that

is the way to get to the final of

this competition.

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Gorgeous. Gorgeous.

Bring it all with you. Goodness me.

What lovely colour you both are?

Should address this now.

That is why

we brought the prop.

In case you

need to. It is like Violet

Baueregard. You are getting browner

every minute.

Your teeth are very

white.

I love it.

It is hilarious.

It is like Ross in Friends.

It is

like ain't half hot mum. You are

watching -- washing it off. It is

the dedication. I don't normally

condone the opening of umbrella

indoors but I have to say it was so

impressive last weekend. What a

beautiful quickstep, how much did

you enjoy it?

I loved that radio

teerntion I loved it. It felt like

we were just flying across the dance

floor. It was amazing and the dress,

and, it was amazing, such a good

night. I won't forget that night. It

was magical.

You were incredible the

two of you. I know this dance is

your favourite AJ, when did you get

a feeling this could be Mollie's

best dance?

Not

Not until on day.

Didn't make it easy, it was so hard

and fast, we slowed the music down

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday Thursday,

when it got the Friday, we got it

back up to full speed.

He never

tells me.

You are only going to worry

yourself. Shirley said... Said you

have made humongous strides with

your frame, hurrah for you.

Oh yes!

APPLAUSE

How does it feel?

It was amazing,

hearing it from Shirley, I just, I

love the judge, they are just like

my hero, when they say something

nice it feels amairkz it was great

they have actually noticed I have

improved on things at the start of

the series, they said I need to work

on.

You take it onboard. Monday

morning Mollie goes they have said

this, and that, we want to take it

onboard. In the best scenario they

say it is is a positive.

Craig was

saying so much progress, he said

somebody has gone a bit whoopsy.

I

don't know what he is talking about.

I definitely do.

Oh no, Mollie. I

I

tell you what it was, my body just

gave in. I was so tired. I was meant

to slide along the floor, I was

meant to go on my heels.

Shall we do

it now?

Don't injure yourself.

It

was suppose to be a little jump and

a slide. Mollie got tired and went

walk, walk walk.

You walked as a

dancer, I like knowing these things,

quarterfinal you are in the final

six, does that feel terrific?

I

can't believe it. I can't believe we

are here. It is amazing, we want to

say thank you for voting us through,

often we are near the bottom of the

leader board, the fact people are

voting for us it means so much.

It

is overwhelming.

Everyone gets

hysterical about musics week, AJ,

you too. Look at AJ in the studio

this week.

Yoo ho. He can sing now.

That was good. Yoo-hoo.

Take your

own part in life.

Yoo-hoo.

No more.

They need some work.

AJ this week, rumba, Grease, tell me

about it... Stud. I couldn't help

myself.

You did throw me a bit. It

is going fantastic. We have all the

technique, all the basic steps, the

judges, Shirley will appreciate the

first steps. Mollie is on her own,

doing a perfect rumba walk and it is

pretty perfect. Just saying.

Let us hear the music to get her in

the mood.

# I'm out of my head

# Hopelessly devoted to you. #

You had to get up close and personal

in training.

We have. It is...

Stop

it you lot.

It is, it is embarring

to think our family and friends,

because you have to try and be

intimate haven't you, and your

parents are watching, so it is a bit

like...

Just pretend they are not

there. There. All the millions who

are watching. Have you practised

your Danny in the mirror.

It is a

standard thing, isn't it. It.

Enjoy

it so much.

Thank you.

Wait to see

the colour of AJ's face. It is what

you do with your dancing shoe, it

doesn't matter what you do. Break a

leg.

APPLAUSE

APPLAUSE

A little girl called Annie once

told me, "Tomorrow, tomorrow,

I love you tomorrow,

it's only a day away."

And that's also when our celebs

make their Strictly Musical debuts.

Let's see how Gemma &

Alexandra are getting on.

I find it difficult to be light on

my feet. I'm 11 stone, I'm not

light. When I am doing it I feel

like a gazelle, but not one that is

gracefully running through a field,

one that has been chased by a lion

and it is is a bit wobbly and trying

to get away from hit.

We are going

to work hard, I am not going to tell

her how hard because she will get

scared. I will lie to her the whole

week.

It is musicals week. I am super

excited and I am doing a Charleston.

I have been waiting so long to do a

Charleston.

It is energetic and people know what

I am like, it is going to be a hard

dance.

The Charleston involves lift, a lot

of the swivels with your ankles.

We

need to keep working the way we have

been doing for the past ten weeks.

This is the one dance where I am

gone Riley want to do this. Here we

are doing the Charleston.

Seven,

eight. Yes! Boom.

Everyone is looking so good.

Tomorrow the studio will be alive

with the sound of music once more,

earlier Gethin met the man

responsible for making it all

happen.

I have wandered into sound with

Tony. Do I have to turn you on?

Testing, testing.

Sounding great.

Sound supervisor what does that

enTain tail?

It's the head of the

sound department. I have to plan and

book the equipment for the shows and

people, and then on the night I am

sat at the desk waggling fader.

There are many to waggle on a

Saturday night. So many elms to

think about.

Yes, every element you

hear is captured on his own

microphone and mixed in with

everything else.

It is mad in here

on Saturday night?

We try to keep it

calm.

How many do you have?

About

160 in the studio.

All mixed in

here.

Yes. About 50 are radio

microphone, the rest are on the

band, hanging round the audience and

collect the atmosphere.

What is

incredible, with everybody we have

talked to is the planning that goes

in it to. What is like for you.

Fairly hectic, you don't stop

planning, knowing you thinking of

ways and things to improve it. It is

ongoing all the way through to

Christmas.

I know you are good for a

fact because you have won a lifetime

achievement award with the Royal

Television Society, what a moment?

Amazing, fantastic. I was

overwhelmed. It was a great evening

and a great accolade.

So much so you

have had enough. Are you hanging up

your microphone?

Yes, they call it

retirement.

How many have you done

I

did the first one, then I started

again in 2010. ? Congratulationses,

good luck tomorrow night and the

rest of the series. Thank you very

much indeed.

Tony, a legend.

Tony, a legend.

Right now, I am thrilled to say

we have one of Strictly's leading

ladies in the house.

Please go wild for the one

and only Darcey Bussell!

, good luck tomorrow night and

Jump suit. Look at her. Hello

gorgeous lady. How are you darling.

Shoes! Look at the legs, incredible.

We have missed you. How excited are

you to have your front row ticket

for musicals week?

I have to say I

don't know what the musicals are

yet, so I am excited. I should have

been watching.

You have not been

watching the show.

I apologise. It

is really good. If they are iconic,

that is great because it a test for

them, because the audience know the

stories so well, so it is for them

to bring them to life, through the

dancing and it has to be true to the

narrative, which is exciting.

I

can't wait. We are down to the final

six Guys and Dolls. How impressed

are you with all of them?

Every week

it has been impressive. Each week

they have put the notch up. It could

be down to technique, content, they

have just really tested themselves

but being daring and taking risks

which we appreciate because it makes

it more exciting. That shows their

level, they are improving every

week, for us as judges it is the

best thing to watch. We never get

bored.

They there were gasps last

week. Why has it been unpredictable

this year?

I don't know, I sup pose

because they are taking risk and so

suddenly you expect so much and you

are like, hang on, what's happened?

But the level still has grown, even

though they might have had shows

where it hasn't been to their best

dance, and you have seen so many

better ones, early on in the show.

It is fairly difficult for the

public when somebody is in the

middle of a score board to vote them

as well. They forget. We vote for

the top or the bottom and that is

when you suddenly get surprises.

There has been a lot of surprises

We

have had Debbie as well.

It is time,

very exciting, for viewer questions

in a ground-breaking new segment we

are calling... Darcey's top lines.

Are you ready to answer the great

British public? Here we go, this

first question comes from Emma. If

you were competing on the show,

which pro-would you want to be

partnered with. She says hashtag

difficult decisions.

Not that

difficult I did have Ian Waite.

You

did, I know.

I have to say it very

kind of do you share him. And I got

do a jive with him, and a rumba, and

it was a joy, because we couldn't be

perfectly, like you, I am tall,

needed somebody to complement the

long limbs and things like that. To

have, you know Ian was divine and I

have got, I had such awe great time.

If it was somebody on the show at

the present moment it would be

Aljaz, because...

Seen him in ballroom is just a

dream.

George says hello, I and

seven years old and I love Strictly,

he asks if you have a look at

Craig's number panels before they

hold it up?

I try so hard that he

always has been tucked away.

Sometimes I get a sneaky peek and

it's difficult to compose myself

because I am in such a shock! But

often I don't. It's horrible.

I like

how you almost go to hit him.

I

cannot help but react before I

remember I am on live TV.

Another

asking, if you were to add one more

style of dance to the programme

which would you choose?

Can I answer

this? It is difficult, there are so

many brilliant genres out there and

we are spoilt to have a great

collection. I think something which

is quite similar, probably the Lindy

Hop.

Nice!

I like the idea of all

the girls in plimsolls, trainers,

what you call them, flats because

it's difficult to dancing heels and

we all know that when you go

nightclubbing, how difficult it is

to dance in heels for a long time.

You think about the amount of

training but it's also nice and

springy, some nice flips, it is

physical and athletic so it would

really test them.

I am just thinking

of Darcey going nightclubbing now!

Not in the East!

This one from Mark,

my son loves watching the programme

with his mum, asking if you ever

wish you were dancing instead of

judging?

Always, I cannot sit still

for two seconds. Have to get up and

try the moves myself. I am really

envious. I hate sitting down and

watching, I want to join in. I am

really a sad, retired dancer.

There

is nothing sad about it! That is all

the time we have, thank you everyone

for sending in your questions, we

could have done that all-night!

Darcey Bussell! CHEERING

APPLAUSE

Right now, it's the time of the week

when we all get a bit emotional

about our professional partners.

I don't know about you

but I've got chills -

and they're multiplying.

Take a look.

This experience has definitely

changed me.

Dancing is like therapy.

Expressing yourself and having fun.

Strictly for me has been one big

joy, we have not stopped having fun

from the first day of rehearsals.

I

would say Strictly has changed me in

the way I have wanted to work harder

for what I want in life. It's been

the first time where I have gone

that it makes me happy I do not want

it to end.

When she goes into the

dance floor she becomes something

else. I am the proudest man I could

be for a dancing with her.

What I

will take away from this experience

is the hard work and dedication

Mollie Pitts in, she's always

willing to do more.

I never knew I

would fall in love with dancing like

I have it's amazing.

The idea of

dancing for me does not fill me with

dread any more, it fills me with

joy, it is making me smile and feel

happy.

It is such a journey for him

and it's so nice to see how Danskin

change a person.

It has taught me to

be braver, it's OK to be frightened,

terrified, feel the fear and do it

anyway is the big lesson I have

learned.

They are relying on you,

you have to be there for them no

matter what and have the belief that

we can go all the way.

I will take

away from this experience a friend.

She really is an inspiration for

everybody.

The biggest thing I will

take away from this series is the

love and warmth. Having had two very

sad years where I really felt I had

lost my sparkle, Strictly has

brought my sparkle back.

That got me

right there.

Right now, back for a revival

of their hit four-person review

show, it's the Friday Panel.

They have not stopped gossiping

about everybody. Mel Giedroyc...

They have not stopped gossiping

about everybody. Mel

I am doing a

surely, look at the top frame.

Did

you see her dancing with Will

Ferrell? It was hilarious. Davood

and Nadiya, Argentine tango, Phantom

Of The Opera, will this be

frighteningly good?

I hope for the

chandelier, look at that, she is

being the cloak in some way, he has

got the mask on! And there should be

flames. Hopefully he will descend on

the chandelier. I hope a lot.

I hope

they can live up to your

expectations!

Maintaining the frame!

The judges praised this peer's

sizzling chemistry, are you excited?

Maintain the frame. Very excited, I

think Davood is fantastic. His

height does help.

What are you

trying to say about little people?

They are a fantastic couple, they

get on well, the sparks fly.

Davood

is stealth. Absolutely stealth.

Is

his chest real?

Yes, definitely I

have checked it. Mollie and AJ,

Rumba, here they are, what do you

think?

What a crowd pleaser this

will be, everybody loves Greece and

everybody loves them. And we have

just seen them and they actually

hate each other! No, they love each

other and it's all about couplings.

You know when couples really get on

the star to look like each other,

they look very similar!

Like people

can look like their dogs! LAUGHTER

It's notoriously difficult, the

Rumba, we hear it all the time, any

tips?

Let me go back three years...

With gorgeous Trent.

I loved doing

it, Trent was amazing, he taught me

so much and was really specific on

the technique and our Rumba told a

story. It's about getting into

character and telling a story and

what I love about watching it, I

don't know if I did it but it's when

they use every single count right to

the last and keep going, it keeps

going!

You missed it when you don't

get to do it again. Debbie McGee and

Giovanni, Memory from Cats, American

Smooth, what are you doing?

I have

been a monumental fan of this couple

since the very beginning. Look, they

just melt together, it's

extraordinary. She is everything she

does she is good at. And she is

clearly a very gracious and

lovely,...

clearly a very gracious and

I think she is separate from her

legs.

Maybe that is doing all the

days of getting cut in half? Do you

know each other from the magic

circle?

Yes, I have been round her

and Paul's ice for a cup of tea. She

came along with a balanced on the

tree, to go with a cloth and it was

still there.

Quickly, who will we be

saying farewell to?

I feel in my

waters that, maintain the frame,

that it's going to be a shocker.

We

think the person to go will be Craig

Revel Horwood!

It is always a tough

one, you never know, nobody is safe,

you have to vote for your

favourite... I don't know, I am

voting for Mollie and I love

Debbie...

Real delay diplomatic!

For the final time tonight,

let's check in with a man

who would do anything,

and I mean anything,

for backstage gossip.

It's Gethin 'The Artful

Dodger' Jones.

I am here with the principal cast

members who have iconic roles, how

is it looking?

I love Mary Poppins

and I am really interested in the

Hat, I don't know how big it will

be, it's not getting here until

tomorrow and my shoes are being made

as we speak. I don't know what I am

wearing, but the dress looks

fabulous.

Gawker was asking me how

to do a Cockney accent.

Can he pull

off

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious?

No, but he is trying and you have to

give him props for that.

You were

praised last week, Phantom Of The

Opera opera, how are you feeling?

It's hard to dance with a mass gone

so if you see me doing this it's

because I cannot see what I am doing

on.

I will guide you where you need

to be and you can guide me.

Do you

talk to each other about this and

that?

We definitely do.

Sometimes we

rehearse in the same studio so we

talk it through, the Argentine

tango, swivels of the charleston.

Charleston is the one you have been

looking forward to.

I have seen

everyone else doing it and I am so

excited, I am bouncing around the

stage, so excited.

Neither of you

have had ten from Craig yet, what do

you have to do?

Fingers crossed and

hope for the best!

Maybe this will

get you it? I still cannot do it!

Thanks Gethin!

I'm afraid that's all

we have time for tonight!

A huge thanks to my guests and make

sure you join Tess and Claud

for the Strictly Musical special

tomorrow night at 7:05pm on BBC1.

I'll be back on Monday

with the next couple

to leave the competition,

but right now, singing us

out with her new single

'Won't Forget You' -

it's Pixie Lott featuring Stylo G!

# You've been on my mind

# We used to be so crazy

# A few years turned to five

# I haven't called you lately

# We left it behind us

# But one touch, reminds us

# And I know

# One touch, reminds us

# Remember the sleepless nights?

# They could have last forever

# Remember the midnight drives?

# The feeling of now or never

# The good times, the bad times

# Tell me do you remember?

# All day, all night

# I won't forget you

# I won't forget you

# Did too much, too young

# We used up all nine lives

# We never thought of home

# And I'm still holding on

# Whatcha want boy?

# Tell me whatcha want

# Shoulda thought, got to get

that look in your eyes

# Driving slow, turning left

to the passenger side

# And ask me when I...

# Remember the sleepless nights?

# They could have last forever

# Remember the midnight drives?

# The feeling of now or never

# The good times, the bad times

# Tell me do you remember?

# All day, all night

# I won't forget you

# The good times, the bad times

# Tell me do you remember?

# All day, all night

# You could have never forget,

you girl, you played a part

# You're right for me

right from the start

# Good times and bad

times, we've been through

# Look, you are the

girl I'm still into

# I'm falling for you

# Girl, give me the mic

and let me sing too

# My body is calling

for you

# So I'm telling them

that I won't forget you

# I won't forget you

# The good times, the bad times

# Tell me do you remember?

# All day, all night

# I won't forget you #