Episode 19 Strictly - It Takes Two

It's Thursday. Coming up - Harry and alLeona waltz their way to the

first ten of the series, but can they keep it up? They're here live.

Russell and Flavia had sweet dreams. They'll pop in for a chat. I'll be

joined by the samba-loving Lulu and Brendan. Plus, we get to looks at

the costume department for Hallowe'en. This is T Takes Two. --

Live from Television Centre, this is Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes

Two. Please, welcome, your host, Zoe Ball.

APPLAUSE Hello. It's me. Welcome to the

programme. It's countdown to fright night. Our celebrities will come

out to haunt the dancefloor for the Hallowe'en special. We can't wait.

Yes, indeed. In one moment I'll find out what Harry and alLeona are

cooking up, but -- Aliona are cooking up for us, but first the

boys and how they're doing in training. I'm dancing the jive.

High energy and jumping all around and you have to remember the dance

moves. A tough one! This week Audley has had to go back to the

States, so we've missed two-and-a- half days of training, so we are

going to do extra hours and work extra harder. We haven't got time

to mess around. All Latin dances suits the man with the rhythm and

shaky hips. When he mucks around you just think damn, where did that

come from? I have the potential to look good in it. I also have the

potential to look bad. It's a minute-and-a-half of mayhem and you

cannot afford to miss one step. I have to do it. There's no yes, I

can, it's actually yes, I must. No excuses. Get it done. It's

Hallowe'en week and this week we are dancing the quickstep.

going to have a magic stick and I will be a witch and I'm going to

move him around the floor and he's going to be under my spell. It's a

mathematical equation dance. He has to count. In order to understand

really how the choreography works with the music. Four, five, six,

seven. It's exactly what you have to do. What is not working? I don't

know. I do overthink a lot of the routine. You know, I'm a hard

worker. I think Jason is overanalysing everything. I know

what I'm looking at and it's pretty much great. He just has to let

himself go and do it without thinking about it too much. I think

it will be great. The samba! I love it! Russell is the samba. His body

has a natural bounce action, which most people find really difficult.

It's something that he really finds very natural. I love it! I think in

a past life I must have been Brazilian. This is me, I am the

samba. I have spent my whole life sambaing without knowing it. When I

go to the loo, I samba in and out. It's just one of those things. I

have always done this kind of move. Where I just love it. You want to

vote me out, after this week, OK, I've done the samba! Wow! Cool!

think the paso will suit my style, even though I tend to look like a

girl. I would like to think I am quite a masculine dancer. We'll see.

It's very masculine dance and I'm sure Robbie will get into it again.

One, two, three, four. I don't think it will be trouble getting

the aggression out. I've seen him on the pitch. There is a risk

factor. There's a lot that can go wrong in this routine. One, two,

three, four. It's going to look awful. It's not going to look awful.

It could be a ten or it could be a two. No, it couldn't be a ten,

could it? This week we are dancing a tango. The characterisation for

both of us is we are going to try to kill each other, so it's very

important for us to really get into the character of being psych owe --

psycho killers. I'm enjoying being the vampire. He portrays this dark

side really well. A bit too well! She seems to think I've got this

dark side, but I just can't see where she has got that idea from.

If we get this perfect the audience will definitely be in for a proper

fright night. Aarrrhhhh!! Please, welcome, Harry and don't make her

angry, Aliona! APPLAUSE

Welcome to the show -- to the show. Harry, before last weekend, you

were worried about the waltz, but you only went and brought home the

first ten of the series. Well done. Has that been a massive boost for

your confidence this week? It was, because like you said, I found it

really hard. It was my hardest week. I was being a nightmare last week.

Was he? Giving you a hard time. stamped my foot, I was that cross.

I found it so hard, so obviously to get a ten was a shock, but amazing.

Were you at all worried about the little spat between the judges? The

little fallout about the whispering on the stairs? Did that worry you

at all? No, I quite enjoyed standing there and listening to

them talking about it. It was quite amusing, but everyone is obviously

entitled to their own opinion and it would be boring if everyone was

the same, so I totally respected Len's view and it was positive,

because he enjoyed our thing in hold. What did you think about the

whole thing? I think it really depends on what you are looking

forward in a dance, so everyone has their different opinions, but the

last thing you expect, after listening to the judges, is a ten.

I think both of us were so shocked. Yeah. Doh! What did you whisper to

her, by the way? The fans are asking. Just the lyric, - That's

not what you whispered, it was psh, psh. I remember being so nervous.

It was come away with me and kiss on a mountain top. Of course!

That's what she says. I thought the stairs were the mountain. Now,

another thing that you have constantly been is the top of the

training leadership. I didn't know there was a thing. 195 hours. We

keep a tally all time. Psycho. it because she's a task master, or

Harry pushing for the hours? I say 50% of the hours are us sitting

around talking and bickering and eating food, just chatting, so we

need long days, so we can actually - Some takes a lot of breaks.

that is something we have noticed actually. There is an awful lot of

eating going on in your training room. Have a look at this. I need a

snack. What flavour is that? which step? Let's do it, break, do

it, nuts. Are you not hungry yet? Triple step and turn and turn.

BURPS Want to try something. I went

believe you showed me burping. I know. Beef jerky. I would love some.

You are doing the tango. How has it been? Better than last week. Really

good. I wouldn't go that far.. I've really enjoyed it. I was nervous

about Monday, because you have the high on Saturday and after the show

you are happy and go into training on Monday and you are like, bring

it on and then it starts from scratch. It's a dance you've never

done before and you just hope for something better. This is what you

are dancing to. Can I call that a duet. I dueted with Harry to

Talking Heads. It's a Hallowe'en special. You have Psycho Killer. Is

there a theme? There is a major theme. It is very, very theatrical.

It's complete opposite character- wise from our romantic waltz, so

there is a major kind of thing that happens in the end that people

wouldn't expect. I have heard some talk of vampires. Yes. I love it.

Will you have fangs and everything? He will. Not the first time you

have been a vampire. No. Because, in the video for Party Girl, so

check out the pecs. Sorry! There you are. Look. Take it away. Move

it. Rory, he went on Saturday and a lot of people shocked and surprised

and saddened. There is always the fear that you might go. How worried

are you about an early exit? There is always that worry. There is no

guarantee and Rory has been great and it was really sad to see him go,

because I think maybe out of anyone he has had the most fun and it is

going to be weird without him, definitely, but that's why I'm

putting in the hard work, because there is that fear of going out.

Keep it up. Good luck on Saturday. Harry and Aliona. Fangs a lot!

APPLAUSE Sorry. Earlier, I managed to grab a

few minutes with Vicky to see what she has got planned for the

weekend's Hallowe'en special. Here in the costume department, with

Vicky, our head designer. What a week this week. You are preparing

for the Hallowe'en special. I imagine that is a lot of work, plus

make-up as well, because that is as important this week too? Yeah. We

have worked really hard and together this week. We don't often

meet weekly, but we needed to come together to make sure all the looks

really take on the Hallowe'en theme. And that they work. Who will be the

scariest? Although I'm sure she is going to look very beautiful, I

feel that Anita may look the most menacing. I know she is dancing to

Cliff Richard Devil Woman. What will she wear? It's a drop-waist

dress. The crystals are a dark red, so you can see the colours here.

love all this draping off her arm. Who has taken the most work and man

hours this week? I think Holly's has probably taken the most time.

She has been the most troublesome in the nicest possible way. What is

the theme? She is doing the American smooth, but it has a black

swan vibe. Like Natalie Portman in the movie? Yeah. Hence the feathers.

This was a skrech at the beginning of the week -- sketch at the

beginning of the week. It has changed. The wings will come on to

the arm and we have glued thousands of feathers on her wings. Probably

a day's worth. What about Nancy? What is she wearing this week?

would have loved a catsuit but we couldn't allow her to follow Alex's

lead. It's apparently at the cleaners'. Wow, look at this.

have a leotard base, which is very short on the right side and then it

runs down into a long-line dress on left, which is caught with a

crystal ankle detail. It's like a one-legged catsuit? Yes. We have

created it. I've heard she is making quite an entrance on the

show. I'm not going to say any more than that. I think Lady Gaga. Very

good. We'll talk about the boys. What is Harry up to? He looks very

dramatic. It's opulent, sexy and it's a masquerade ball feel to it.

I think he's going to look amazing. We have brought the mask. That's

all we have. A lot of people would be happy if he just danced in a

mask. Under the cloth you always have a mystery dress. We have to

guess who this belongs to. Drum roll! Look at that. Emerald green.

That is beautiful. Can you give us any includes? -- clues?

Professional girl and this young lady loves 50's styling. Good luck.

You are doing a great job. I know you've got so many more. I'll leave

you to stick all the crystals on. Good luck. Thank you. Back to me in

the studio. Thank you me and thank you to Vicky. Please, welcome,

Flavia and Russell. Thoroughly enjoyed your dream sequence on

Saturday. Or was it a nightmare, because you had a really bad injury

and you were dancing through pain? Can you not see the face. Look at

the agony. I thought you were in character. No, you are right, I was

being sort of getting the acting in. Don't you just love this?

absolutely do. Because the thing was, I just did that. It wasn't

choreographed. I felt like doing it. Great. I thought I'll have a bit of

a twirl. I did it in the afternoon and she said, "I like that." I

meant to wander back. It has become you. Tell us about your knee,

because you have really hurt it? I've had an MRI scan and apparently

I have got a funny old thing, miniscus. Brendan knows, he's had

one. Will you be all right? going straight off to an

orthopaedic person who will look at it. Go like that. If it goes up,

I'm in! Perfect! I've heard that before. I'm not leaving the show

until I've done a samba, so even if I do it on one leg, I'm doing it.

I'm doing it. Have you had to recore graph bearing the trouble in

mind? Not really. It's nice and gentle, the rut teen. It is very

doable. No lifts. No knee spins or anything crazy like that, so we

should be all right. We are quite happy. Fabulous. Wonderful. This

woman is the most brilliant. She is quite gorgeous. She has given me

the whole of Brazil on a plate! You can say nuts to that if you like.

If I was quick enough, I would. It's Hallowe'en week and there have

been some paranormal activities going on in your training room.

Yeah. We saw that four weeks ago. I heard my name being called and I

turned to the crew. They didn't call me. There we were yesterday,

and then what did you hear? I heard a baby scream, like as if I had my

ears were covered and I heard a noise and the crew heard it too.

Quite freaked out. I looked up into the dress circle and I saw this

figure flit past. The curtains were just waving. True. True. Apparently

they've seen something on the filming. We had to call in the

experts. They are called Ghostbusters, would you believe

it?! No, they have come to analyse the footage. Observe, if you will.

As you do something to the right. Russell, Russell. Did someone speak

then? Normally I hear a woman calling my name. Russell. This is

so weird. This time it was a man. Russell? Yes. Did you want me? It

was definitely a male voice. Yeah. Russell. I swear to you, my

name was called. Russell Grant. Arh! We are being looked after.

are being looked after. It's OK. You are doing the samba this

weekend. I love it. To this music. Better the Devil You Know. Kylie. I

love it. How scary are you going to be in the special? You can't be

scary to Kylie. Isn't that the best? If you vote me out, I have to

do it first. You are clearly loving it. Apparently you said, "I love

samba." It was said 58 times. You also said, "I am samba." That was

my friend saying that. It is so wonderful. Do you want to see my

moves. Come on! APPLAUSE

Russell, Flavia, good luck for the weekend. Have fun on the Chris

Evans' breakfast show tomorrow morning. We're doing that tomorrow

morning. APPLAUSE

I am samba! Time, now, to see how our ladies are shaping up with this

week's dances. It's Hallowe'en and we are dancing the paso doble. Last

week we had a knock, so the confidence isn't quite there to

carry it, so James' job is quite a lot harder this week. This will be

the end of me. Don't say that. It's a very aggressive and powerful

dance and you need to channel a lot of anger and aggression and I'm

going to get her to think about one person. And Craig Revel Horwood,

because she doesn't have an aggressive bone in her body. I need

more stern. Feel creepy as you do it. We have been working on looking

angry. Let it come out. Aaarrrhhhh! This has got a bit of stamping of

feet and who knows, I might accidently stamp on Craig's foot?

This week is Hallowe'en and we are dancing the terrifying tango. It's

aggressive, so a completely different dance. This is

frightening. You ain't seen nothing yet. It's so fast and you have to

be very quick to execute them. Three, four. Oh, I felt that! I'm -

You felt it!! I have to get her to go in a completely different

direction. I need to see the devil inside. The best villains are good

fun and nice people, because somehow they can throw themselves

to the opposite end of the scale. This tango is a nightmare. You're a

nightmare! This week I'm doing the American smooth. I'm going to be

Black Swam this week for Hallowe'en. What is going on? I didn't feel you

there. I think Artem will take every opportunity to push me really

hard. Turn, turn, turn. This week I think she will find it extremely

difficult because it is physical. It is really physical. We have a

lot of turns and it's tricky to come out and not want to throw up.

She has the quality of being an amazing dancer, but we are not

using it. Not getting that. It could be completely disastrous or

it could be nice. I'm not sure what it's going to be yet. Swan Lake and

ballerina, not quite, but I'm working on it. We are doing the

rumba, the dance of love. It's one of her favourites. It's supposed to

be very sexy, a lot of body involvement. I want a kiss. I don't

want a kiss. I'm trying to temper her enthusiasm a little. Long, long,

straight, not fast. It's the timing we are struggling with. We are

going to count out loud so we can all hear you. One small problem,

she doesn't always do as I tell her. You have to count. I'm not going to

count. It's the most difficult thing, which is to get the right

step in the right timing, especially on the live show and my

mind goes blank. If she can get over that, I think we'll see a good

dance. This week is the tango. The biggest challenge would be going

into character of this dance and really nailing it and making this

dance look passionate. You should be very precise, but seductive in a

way too. I'm not known for being seductive. It's not sweet and

lovely. I'm a little out of my comfort zone. I want to create the

step where we almost kiss each other. Oh, no, I'm not into that! I

don't reckon Pasha will bring the passion out in me! This week it's

the paso doble and Brendan has got the most fabulous ideas for it.

worried it might be a lot of content, however the excitement of

what we are producing is going to pro -- blow the show away. Point

the feet. All the way around. Off you go. Where am I running? I don't

like to be left too much on my own to do my Lulu thing. I like to be

as close to Brendan as possible. If I'm on my own doing all this by

myself I'm not Kristina. I watch Kristina last week and I was

mesmerised by the way she moved her skirt. If I can get a little of

that I will be thrilled. You should cross my legs. I don't feel like

Kristina! Welcome Lulu and Brendan. APPLAUSE

Congratulations, because Lulu, you broke Brendan's curse of the samba!

APPLAUSE You are still here. How excited

were you to be back in the training room and stay in the competition?

When we got through, I thought we were going to be out and I think

you could see my mouth doing that. To be back in the room on Monday

was just - Did you really think that was it? Very easy, because the

numbers were very close. I thought it. There were three couples all

tied and one under and normally the one underneath gets saved and then

we are in a very difficult situation. Third up is never a good

place to be. The judges thought the samba really suited you. Well, I

took what Craig said and I just took it. Thank you Craig. Julien

Macdonald OBE was in earlier this week and he said you were fabulous.

The judges did pick you up on the whole stairs scenario, as they did

others. How difficult is it for you to core graph for the judges, but

also for the public? It always makes me laugh a little bit, the

fact someone can comment on something they know nothing about.

Only we as the professional dancers know for our partner how much

content and what to do and unless they've come in and worked with

Lulu and seen what she is capable of, they can't really comment on

that. I was happy. I was happy to go up and party with the people. We

had a lot of content and they say it's a lack. You think, hang on,

look at it back. To me it's them not doing their job properly.

also said that Alex wasn't sexy. I didn't agree at all. I thought she

was sexy. She is a very, very sexy lady. Don't be nervous. We'll tell

her that. You are doing another Latin dance. A very different one.

The paso doble. How is it going? are pushing the boat out this week.

We are. We have got so many different variables that could

potentially ruin the dance for us. But it's Hallowe'en special. Last

year I loved it. I thought we all really enjoyed it and I want to do

something. We are doing something that has never been done before on

Strictly. We have a costume that we have never done before and I came

up with the idea and I said is it possible? They have said yes and we

are doing it. You are going to rehearse the special thing after

you have been here. It is very tricky, but we are hoping it will

be a treat. Is it roller skates? You've ruined it. This is what you

are dancing to. Highway To Hell. It's the first time anyone has

danced to ACDC. I got on the Tube after training yesterday and there

was a dude standing head to toe in ACDC gear. It's a sign. Is it a

good sign? I hope so. We are so looking forward to how special your

performance is going to be and you've had an awful lot of support

from the fans. They've been texting in and calling in. Have a little

listen to this special message. This is Bob. I'm just ringing to

say that I think Brendan is a fantastic dancer and a wonderful

choreographer and he's getting better looking every day. Much more

han so many than James Jordan fella. -- handsome than that James Jordan

fella. Love you all. Goodbye. a lovely message. What a nice man.

It's amazing for the support. Anyone think that man sounded

familiar? We called Bob back and this is what happened. PHONE RINGS

I'm sorry, but brend dand Cole is not -- Brendan Cole is not

available. Good luck on Saturday with the big show. We can't wait.

Lulu and Brendan. APPLAUSE