Episode 16 Strictly - It Takes Two

It's Monday and what a weekend it was! Coming Uptonite - Rory and

Erin were let down by their Latin and became the third couple to

leave the competition. They're here live. Blonde bombshells Robbie and

Ola will be popping in for some jive talking. Craig Revel Horwood

rounds up Saturday's performances and Dr Pamela Stephenson examines

the training room dynamics of the female celebrities and their

partners. This is zans, It Takes Two. -- this is Strictly Come

Live from Television Centre, this is Strictly, It Takes Two. Please

welcome your host. It's Zoe Ball. Hello! And welcome. I shouldn't get

carried away, it's only Monday. Welcome, it was the weekend where

Chelsee and Pasha soared to the top of the Strictly leaderboard. Yes,

yes, you can cheer. Harry and Aliona got the first ten of the

series and Rory and Erin were knocked out. Aw. They'll join me in

a moment, but first, if you myed out on the weekend's events, here

is a quick reminder. Pasha, you checked in, and I'll

tell you this, Chelsee, tomorrow night you're not going to be

checking out. I don't think you looked comfortable doing this

particular dance. Full of beans, full of energy, good job. You have

your own little style. That was exquisite. 10. You tried to make a

big meal out of this paso and you got indigestion. The couple leaving

Please give it up for Rory and Erin!

Aw! I didn't want to see you here today. We didn't want to be here.

Bless you both. We are all shocked that you've gone. How surprised

were you to be in the bottom two on Saturday? I knew I hadn't danced

very well and I had a feeling about it. I was really sad because we had

more to do, I think, lots more, we didn't plan to go out this early.

We have more life to live, more love to give and we'll survive!

confident did you feel going into Saturday's show about your cha-cha?

I knew it wasn't my stronger dance. I thought I had to give it all I

had and it's a different dance. We've talked about this lots of

times before and I had to go for it. I took a wrong turn because I went

for it too much with the adrenaline coming through. Erin would say to

me, calm down, but I think my idea of a good dance is finish it

quicker than anyone else, rather than dance it better. But I loved

it and I'll miss it hugely. Sometimes you are just so eager to

get through it and know that you've got to the end. Lots of the judges

and the pro dancers have been talking about choreography this

year. That's the big word. Would you have changed it in hindsight?

don't think so. The professionals work with the celebrities closely

and know what's best for the person they're dancing with so give them

the routine that hopefully brings out the best in them. She has to

work to my limitations because I'm about as Latin as the Duke of

Edinburgh. No, he's Greek isn't he! No, I wouldn't change anything, no.

So many fans and they're very upset that you've gone. Lucy said she was

impressed with your dance on Saturday and thought the judges

were too harsh on you. Erin, would you agree? Yes, I would. Whole

heartedly. Come on... You've had a phone call, this lovely message.

Listen to this. I just wanted to say that Rory should not have been

voted out of the competition and we were really upset. We absolutely

loved the quickstep. Thank you. bless your heart. Thank you so much.

Thank you for that. That was so lovely. Huge fans and so many more

messages like that and everybody's quite upset. You've caught the

Strictly bug. What do you think you will miss the most? Everything.

I'll miss my partner, she's been just brilliant. It's been just a

joy. And everything, the training, the discipline and all my friend.

That was why I had the real lump in my throat because it's so sudden.

One minute you are on this amazing coach journey, it stops and they

say get off and you are standing at the side of the road with your bags

and you look up at Tess's room and the friends are there and it

becomes a whirl and you know that it's over. That's a good analogy.

was really sad. I was going to say that I left with dignity but I

looked at the shirt and the fake tan and said that's not quite right

is it. You did have dignity. Here with what we consider to be the

best bits. The dance you will be hoping to make a good impression

with... Erin Boag. -- the dancer. Try to impress Revel Horwood lapse

I think he's quite tough on himself. We're almost there. Oh. I thought

for the first week, that was fantastic. Thank you, Len. I think

she'll be a dancer yet. One, two, three, five, six, seven. This week

we are dancing the salsa. You've got to be sexy. I'm not naturally

very sexy. The salsa has to have the hips. It's the first time ever

on Strictly they've done a Broadway week. This is my week, if I can get

it right, but I have to get it right first. Quickstep is your

dance. This week, Matthew, we will be dancing the cha-cha-cha. I think

it could be a bit of a cha-cha challenge. Erin's mission to

transform me into a sex God... Sally ride... Every week you think,

I can't do this at tt start of the week, and then by the end, you

think, I can and it's satisfying. You are like the Government, a lot

is going on and it's not all good. The couple leaving tonight is...

Rory and Erin. I really wanted to dance with Rory

from the very beginning of the show. It's just too early. It's a shame

we've gone now and I'm going to miss you completely and utterly.

You've been wonderful. Erin, I want to thank you for all the faith and

confidence you had in me. It's just been such a fantastic experience.

Hay, we'll always have our quickstep and thank you for that.

Mwah. We've all gone here, look. Stop it! Don't be too nice! Anybody

else want one?! Who gets your vote, Rory? Who are you backing? Which

one of youfr chums would you like to see lift the glitterball -- your

chums? It could be any one of the six of them. I love them all, it

would be wrong to pick out one name. You you have been such a true

gentleman and so many people think you're very sexy indeed. Erin and

Rory, thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. In a moment, Craig will

be here to recover from giving his first nine of the searrys, it's

taken it out of him! Before that, here is what you sad to say about

the weekend ch weekend. Russell did a fantastic job of the content. He

was grossly undermarked by the judges. Well done, Russell. I just

wanted to say that tonight's show has been the best of the series.

Everybody seemed to be having such fun and I love the way all the

dancers cheer each other on. They're just like one big happy

family. Congratulations to Chelsee and Pasha, brilliant routine,

superb quickstep. If I was writing on Chelsee's Strictly school report

this week, I would say five gold stars, well done. Rory, I think

you're a brilliant dancer and I think Erin was an excellent teacher

and you made a great couple. Really sad to see you leave.

Thank you all for all of your messages. If you want to have your

say on the weekend's events, pick up the phone and right now the

Now, he is the man who tells it as he sees it. It's the rather divine

Craig Revel Horwood! Come on, darling. Look at you in your

fabulous belt. I imagine that is an F for fabulous. A big old dirty F,

darling. Thank you for that. Love it! What a show it was on Saturday,

a spat with Len, back chat from James, what drama? All a bit out of

control, I thought, actually. you enjoy it? No, I never enjoy

those spats, to be honest. I like to just do the judging and then get

on with it, you know, and score. Let's do that now and talk about

the performances. Harry and Aliona. Alesha gave a ten, the first ten of

the series. This is where the dispute started with you and Len,

over the whispered sweet nothings on the stairway? As a director and

choreographer, I encourage people to tell stories when they dance,

you know, so we are interested, and I thought this was rather sweet and

nice. The only reason I didn't give it possibly a nine was after that

moment because she left him a little bit on his own. Then that

revealed some flaws. When you say flaws, what in particular? Arm-

ography. I didn't like his arms. What did they do that you didn't

like? Too closed and not as open and gorgeous a long a line as they

should be. But encouraged by his performance? I loved it. Exciting?

Yes, every week he's getting better and better and we are seeing a lot

more personality, so I was really upset that Len decided to mention

the kiss stuff because actually why not, they were out of hold for ten

seconds. You are allowed ten seconds, aren't you, it's in the

rules. Alex and James did the rumba. Now, this led to a little bit of

back chat from James. You agreed with Len that quite a lot of time

was spent on the floor and you said to Alex that it was cold? Yes.

I actually said sexless and cold. didn't want to bring that up but

you mentioned it? I mean by the tansing and the way you can make it

sexy is through hip action -- dancing. It was quite apparent that

there was relatively nothing going on in the hip department. Now, if

you can get a long, juicy, delicious line with the hips, as

you know, you will then appear sexy. Of course, it's nothing to do with,

you know, her personally. We only ever judge the dancing for the

dance sake, you know and any time I yuz those analogies, it's as a

director choreographer -- use. People sometimes need to think

about being a lion or tiger, you know. Some people need to be

panthers. I say! I don't usually get personal and if anyone thinks

that, they're completely wrong. when you say sexless, you mean you

are talking about the dancing and you want more hips? Yes. Nancy and

Anton and their Paso Doble. You said Oklahoma without skipping but

there were positives in what you had to say which is exciting?

the exciting part, I think of this performance, is the fact that Nancy

goes for it. She takes an idea and she resolves it, you know, by

landing herself on Anton. And I think that is great and

encouragable and that's why I love her courage, to be honest. Yes, it

needs a bit of work technically, of course it does. I would like to see

a bit more dancing between them. I feel lick they're fighting the

dance and Anton can help that, maybe by just, if someone makes a

mistake, he can try and cover it up, that would help the situation.

There is some talent in there. There are moments of threes and

fours, you know, I think that's wonderful. It's good, twos up all

the time. I loved it when she did that cape move. She's so brave?

bold. If she had have made any mistakes, when she threw herself

back into lift, darling, I mean her head was mill metres from the floor.

Ouch! Chelsee and Pasha, incredible performance, I was standing on my

sofa at the end of this routine. You said first-class, were you

tempted to give a ten? No. Not a tiny bit? No. Why not, what is

missing? Just wasn't good enough. But still good to get a nine?

loved it, really and truly. But it didn't have the polish that a ten

needs. It had dynamic, it was brilliant, had a million steps, it

was going for it. It's only week three was it on Saturday? You have

to understand that some dancers suit some people, you know. You

have to be unlucky to get the wrong dance at the wrong time. That's

when people like Rory get to go home. Exactly. Jason and Kristina.

Jason finally knocked off the leaderboard. Where did he go wrong?

Well, it was a bit kangaroo-ish, if you like, I suppose. He was

skipping around, galloping, you know, the up and down movements,

loses strength and a positive nature to it. You have to be - it's

a demanding dance, shape-wise - that's why I thought he'd be better

than he was. I was quite shocked actually, you know. I think people

at home think Jason can actually dance because he's done Priscilla

and all that sort of stuff but actually he's not a dancer, he's a

great actor and singer and he's not a dancer and I know that he takes

hours and hours and hours of concentrated stud tkwroi achieve

what he's achieving. I think that showed him his weaknesses -- study

to achieve what he's achieving. Gorgeous as always, we'll see you

next week. By the way, Halloween special lrbgs you be dressing up,

Craig? I hope so, if they'll allow me, darling. Mind you, you don't

need to dress up, you are scary enough. Just kidding! Craig Revel

Horwood! Robbie and Ola, here is how they tackled the jive.

Your energy was on a different level tonight. It was great to see

you having such a good time. Brilliant entertainment. Never seen

anybody working the golden locks like Jerry Hall. Kicks and flicks

were sloppy. Listen, you loved it, the people loved it, I loved it.

I thought I would get 27 points four weeks in, I would be delighted.

Very proud of you. Thank you. Please welcome our blonde

bombshells, Robbie and Ola. Hello. How are you both? Another standing

ovation for you Mr Robbie Savage, well done to both of you. Peter has

been in touch online and said well done Goldilocks, keep it up, not

bad for an ex-footie player. How was it for you on Saturday? Yes,

going back to Craig's remarks, I think it was fair because

technically it wasn't good but I gave it my best shot. You really

did. You got so carried away. Look at your nose. You've got a proper

scar on your conk from head banging the camera? Yes, on my conk, yes.

What happened then, too keen? Supposed to stop by the camera, too

much enthusiasm, too close and I can't breathe properly. The crew

have asked if I can pass this bill on to you for damages, they said

the cheque is fine. A couple of lenses broken. Craig said he loved

Rob eye's characterisation but stompy and plody he said? I agree,

the technique would have been better. When I heard we were doing

a jive at the beginning of the week, I thought oh dear, what are we

going to do, I didn't think it would suit Robbie, but you know

what, he sold the dance with his personality. I think if he wouldn't

have done that, he probably wouldn't be as good, but he really

went for it 100% and he sold it and he was brilliant and we loved it.

Until the end of the dance you don't know how it's going to end up

and what we are going to get, but he was brilliant. How important is

it, Robbie, for you to be happy with your hair for you to give a

good performance on a Saturday night? On Saturday night I was like

Wurzel Gummidge at times. Yeah, I like my hair. Alesha pointed out

that if you don't get a hair commercial by the end of the series,

she'll eat her hat. We made one up for you anyway.

Feels so good. # You lying here next to me.

# Oh, what a groove. # Do you want to impress the ladies.

Your hair. # Just washed it. It's good, I like it. Nice. # Do you

want to be the envy of all your friends. Who's blonder? Robbie's

blonder. # Who's got the best hair? Robbie's got the best hair, hasn't

he? # In your answer is yes, you need Strictly Savage. This product

will improve your life. My hair's better, my teeth's better, my eyes

are better, my Bodelwyddany's better. Cos I'm worth it -- my

body's better. Cos I'm worth it! Next week it's a Halloween special.

You are doing the Paso Doble and we are excited about that? It's a

masculine dance. After seeing that, I probably look like a girl so it's

difficult to look like a man. always look like a man out on that

floor Not always! You told him skhrat how does this feel. Three

more weekends, if you can make it clu three more weekends, you get to

play Wembley -- make it through to well pli. How would you feel?

Wembley? To get Wembley, the added bonus is that Robbie might come as

well. Oh, yes, your friend Robbie Williams. We can do it! Please stay

in, we want to see Robbie. Ooh yes. Look at you switching Robbies. Good

luck this week and what tricks have you got up your sleeves? Quite a

bit, but we can't tell you, shh. It would ruin it. Looking forward to

it. Robbie and Ola. As the drama unfolded, on screen on

Saturday night, we were behind-the- scenes seeing what was really going

Good morning. Morn pg. Time to get smooth. Week four. We are all very

excited. It's freezing. The competition is hotting up. Wish me

luck. Doing a tango. Called sweet dreams and it's actually a

nightmare and that's what I'm having during the tango. My partner

never stops practising, look. Took a lot of oil to get that going.

Samba. She's a tough one. But Lulu and I are... Sorry. Sorry, mate.

had a blackout then. In the rumba, because it's a slow dance, when you

wobble, it's obvious. No wobbling here. I'm filming this to make sure

he's happy with the shots and he'll do the same for me. I got booted

out of the competition last weekend. But the good news for you guys, I

got the cam and I'm going to get all the backstage gossip straight

from me to you. Let's go find someone. Hello! Hi. Do you have any

gossip for me? No, none at all and I wouldn't tell you anyway. Excuse

me. Do we come in the girls' changing room when you're getting

changed?! Oh yeah, we do. gossip? Do you know that I'm not

going to be dog this show in two weeks' time. Jennifer Gray is

taking my place. This is a full exclusive. I hope pore browny

points. There are 11 different dances and in some ways I like that.

A bit like watching me get my lovely make-up on by lovely Briney.

Eye candy for the over '80s! picture of my bum! Now your face so

she knows it's you. This is the time when the nerves are starting

to kick in. He's sweating. 14 minutes left. Everyone's going with

the last-minute hair spray. The rat look is back, but an extremely

good-looking rat. Every time I get sown into my outfit, I need to go

to the toilet. I absolutely love my dress. Focus, focus, focus. It's

show time. Hope you enjoy the show. I'm going in! Woo-hoo. Good luck!

Now time for some in-depth analysis and we've booked another

appointment with Dr Pamela Stephenson. Welcome back Dr Pamela.

The competition is really hotting up. What are our couples feeling

and going through at this stage? I've been looking a the females

this week and they are really feeling the pressure. There's

anxiety, sleep deprivation and, as we saw from Rory, they really don't

want to leave. It's really tough and getting much harder. It's gone

up a step hasn't it? You can really feel that. We are going to look at

the ladies in training. First of all, your ex and his new partner

Alex in the training room. This is from their training last week.

Again. What? Do the roll until it's ingrained in your head, you do it

again and again and again. It is ingrained. It's ingrained. Go on

then and if it's not perfect, you do it again. Only because you're

Again. How is Alex getting on with James and how is she coping with

it? It's coming back to me, I'm having flashbacks. James's way is

very authoritarian and it's my way or the highway. It can work as long

as you keep something light. Fortunately, these two are having

fun as well, helping to reduce the anxiety. Authoritarian styles can

increase the anxiety, but as long as they keep teasing each other and

having fun, they'll be fine. Nancy and Anton. Here they are in

training last week. Here, there, push. It's not clear. Because you

don't do it clear. We have to change it because of you, not

because of me. Don't get all aggressive, I'm just telling you

the truth. You don't like it, I can't help it. That's life, I'm

afraid. I'm glad that you believe so. Do it again. Come over here and

do it with me immediately. Don't hurt me!

I thought he was going to get him there. She's fascinating, isn't

she? I may not be qualifyed to speak about her, she may defy

psychological analysis, she's a one-off and I love her. I think

Anton's brulyant because you notice that he had a very tough message

for Nancy -- brilliant. He shows you that you can say something

tough to somebody but as long as you have the right tone and have a

smile, you are going the tease and help make it palatable. That's what

he does and it's working. He's going to be heard. Excellent. Lulu

and Brendan. We are seeing a whole new side to Brendan in this series

and we like it a lot. This is a clip of them training from last

Better. Better? Yes. Total Lulu language shum-shum-shar? She learns

in a different way, yes, she responds to beats, rather than

counting. Normally a prodancer would count, as you know. He's not

going to to that, he's going to speak her language and help her

learn in the style that's familiar. Brilliant. We like it. Chelsee and

Pasha, glorious on Saturday? Fantastic. Two clips of Chelsee and

Pasha. Here is the first. I usually say the end, but this is not the

end yet Chelsee. Chels come on, give me a break with your phone

won't you, please. Yes, I know. I was just getting the scene for

tomorrow. Right. It's always the same story with them, her phone.

really helps to see how pressured everything is becoming and poor

Chelsee has two jobs so there's very little time and Pasha gets

frustrated. Right there, he was being stern and parental and

Chelsee's much younger so it's easy to be a parent to her. A bit later

he tries a different tack. Let's have a look.

Ou! Immediately. Works every time. He's getting to her level and

immediately getting results, he got her attention. Brilliant. Thank you

very much. Fascinating stuff. Give it up, please, for Pamela

Stephenson. That is it for tonight and thanks to all my guests. Make

sure you join me tomorrow at 6.30 when I'll be chatting to Nancy and