Episode 20 Strictly - It Takes Two

It's frequenty Friday, coming up on tonight - freaky Friday, coming up

on the show we have what's in store for the Hallowe'en special. I drop

into the spooky Strictly studio, plus the gorgeous Alesha Dixon is

on the Friday panel. And East Ender, John Partridge. This will be a

Apology for the loss of subtitles for 42 seconds

Hello, and welcome to Friday It Takes Two. We have been gearing up

to the Friday special all week, and now it is only this much until the

witching hour is spon us. This weekend, 11 will become ten,

with the standard of the competition so high, we can't even

begin to guess who will be leaving. In just a moment I will be talking

terrifying Tangos to Chelsee and Pasha. First, here is a reminder of

how they Qickstepped their way to success on Saturday. Chelsee, the

pocket rocket is off! Higher than you can possibly reach. Pasha you

checked in, Chelsee, tomorrow night you will not be checking out.

did fans particular routine, the only criticism is it ended too soon.

Wow. It's our best score so far. The best score, I'm over the moon.

For the first time I actually really loved being out there.

Please welcome Chelsee and Pasha. That was almost the beginnings of a

Dirty Dancing lift at the end. Well done on Saturday, it was so good

your quickstep, I was on the sofa, my little girl Nelly was going,

come on! How was it to be top of the leaderboard, Chelsee? It was

amazing, I was absolutely made up. I was over the moon. And I didn't

expect it. You really didn't expect it, did you? No. The other amazing

thing, you only had, I think it was just under 12 hours of training

last week, because of Waterloo Road, that is all the time you had. She

must be a really fast learner? I'm not. She is, but I think it is

a lot to do with the stress. When you are in situation you have to

perform, Chelsee is going for it. When I know the pressure on, that

is when I think you have to knuckle down. You work better with pressure.

I don't like it. She works better. Have you had any more training time

this week? Not really. That is maybe a good thing? If anything, I

think we have had less. You can't wait to see it then? No. If that's

what you do after so little training. You are doing the Tango

this week, a lot of passion in the Tango, loving watching your

training, have you perfected your almost kiss yet? Pasha's loving it,

I keep having to ease him off. off Pasha! She got it wrong, she

keeps pulling me towards her. can't help myself. Your dancing -

you are dance to go this: # Love position number nine

See, desperate to kiss you. Alesha was talking about your chemistry,

is that music going to help stir the chemistry up, give us a great

performance on Saturday night? music definitely helps. I think

chemistry starts building during the rehearsals. Every time we are

together we kind of do it. bounce off each other. You are a

little bit. Bopbg, bopbg. Don't ever do that again, P a s h.

have noticed you are a bit like an old married couple.

Can you change those papbts, I'm not keen on them. What's wrong?

like you in jeans more, you look more manly. How nice for you.

have changed your papbts. No I didn't. I have only just noticed. I

have only just clocked on to that. It is not about the look, this

thing didn't hold. Whatever! Whatever! You are quite embarrassed

Pasha, aren't you. The all- important question, is what are you

wearing tomorrow night for Hallowe'en? He's definitely not

wearing them pants anywhere. I know what you mean about those

pants. What are you going to be wearing? I have a lovely dress and

I'm excited to wear it. Hallowe'en clorbgs and it has a big heart on -

colours, and it has a big heart on it. What are you wearing, we will

make her fall in love with you. What will you wearing? Matching

stuff. I'm going to be a mad scientist. But stylish mad

scientist. You can have bubbleing bottles and all that. You have set

the bar for yourselves very, very high. How are you going to maintain

that top spot tomorrow? To be honest, we are not looking at it

like that, we are not saying we are going to stay at the top, we will

go and try our best, hopefully put our all into it, and hopefully it

will be good scores. We are looking forward to the almost kiss, Chelsee

and Pasha. Thank you.

I'm loving the way you say "manly"! Our professional dancers like to

get dress up, can you guess which Who is the dancer in disguise? Find

out later in the show. I will never forget that routine,

elephants never forget. Earlier on today, I hopped on my broomstick to

visit the Strictly studio to find out how the preparations were

coming along, here is what happened. Look Holbrooke's frock, she's not

in it, sadly, for you. Just being fixed. Jason Donovan is in there.

If you come into the Strictly studio, you can see a complete

makeover, we have spooky tree, gravestones, cobwebs, all ready for

the Hallowe'en show. I have come down early to have a chat with this

lady. Hello Alex, hello James. How are you both. How is the atmosphere

in the studio today? Creepy, scary, spooky. Is that just hanging out

with him! He does that to people. You are doing the paso doble this

week, got a bit of a confidence knocking last weekend, have you

picked yourself up how are you feeling? We have picked ourselves

up, dusted ourselves out, and we are going to give it a bit of welly

this week. That is what we like. Doing the paso doble, Alex is such

a lovely girl, you have to be quite aggressive, how are you bringing

the aggression out of her? Generally annoying me. That will do

it every time. Joking. Are you finished. That's a scary look.

is my scary face. She doesn't have a mean bone in her body, it has

been really difficult, but we have been thinking about Craig a lot.

And that's been helping a little bit. Where you are stamping the

foot, we call it a Craig- 2- 3- 4. Any scary spooky moves on the

floor? They are not in there, although they may appear on the

night, I'm only joking. You can't wind him up this week? I'm in

character for Hallowe'en. You two are such a brilliant partnership,

we have noticed, once more, in the training room, there is often more

It looks like a chicken wing. lots of impression of Alex, and I

show her what she looks like. look like a goldfish. Very good

without the donkey legs, step that way and that way and step. Me o w!

You look like a crab, you are like a horse, troting! What can you say.

It is like Doctor Doolittle. Did you know you could do an impression

of so many animals? I thought we were in dance studio not Noah's Ark.

We have managed to sneakly grab the judges paddles, they have

Hallowe'en paddles, give us a glimpse of what you will score this

weekend. It was a tough one, but I hope, fingers crossed, a six.

on, you have to go higher than that. I'm more positive, I'm hoping.

Because we haven't had a nine yet. You want a nine, even a ten. Will

you do us all a favour? I'm not greedy, a nine would be fine. Don't

be greedy. Will you give us a sneaky little look. OK. A little

section of it. Oh the dance! Here you are, It Takes Two, this is

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Alex and James, and the pass dough Come on Alex, get him.

We do like the illegal kick of the butt. I can't wait to see the whole

routine tomorrow. Last Saturday Len described my next couple's Viennese

Waltz as lovely / light and fluffy. Welcome Holly and Artem. Welcome

you gorgeous twosome. Not sure if you were a fan of the Viennese

Waltz before Saturday, how did it go? It was a tough week, it was not

as, I wasn't into it as much. I wasn't into the song. I struggled a

little bit. On the night I really actually enjoyed myself. And

looking back now I think it was quite lovely. I'm glad you finally

fell for it. Artem, you were tied fifth, fifth tied, however you say

it, you went up to fourth last week, are you happy? It is a step up, so

yes, I'm happy. Never satisfied enough, surely. Never. It is not

going to happen. He wants more. We also saw on The One Show, that they

sent you for lady training. And we wanted to know if it had actually

worked. We have inspected your training footage this week to see

This makes me want to v o m. I don't have lunch in my teeth do I.

This b o g g e r came out of my nose. I just snoted on it. It's OK.

Good morning. At a party, at home. At a party, at

home. You are having a giraffe. doesn't make any sense. Cockney. I

don't you don't want to go f u f f y people rainian. I'm lady, I do

ladies' things! We love that so much. I'm really

emparsed. Can you explain I don't want to go It was too razle dazzle.

I'm going to pretend I understand. Is there anything that Artem could

improve on it, with everything telling you about being ladylike?

No, he's perfect in every way. No the only thing I'm better at,

vaguely, is speaking English, even then I think he will be better at

it than me at some point. Occasionally she corrects me.

Sometimes. How does that go down? Really well, he loves it. You are

going the American Smooth this week, and you are dancing to this music.

So exciting. It is Swan Lake, American Smooth, Hollywood glamour,

how are you bringing the Hallowe'en theme into that dance this weekend?

Because we are doing the whole black swan theme. Like the movie,

like Natalie Portman. Psychological thriller on the dance floor. She's

the black swan and I'm the white swan. Please tell me you are in

tights? He requested the tights, I thought the viewers would enjoy

them. But he's not having it. can do lifts in the American Smooth,

how are they going? They are really fun. At the start of the week, it

was. Up she goes, down she goes, looking particularly ladylike in

this shot. We're dragging it all up this week. When that happened, I

begged the camera crew to lose the tape. I said this is going to be on

YouTube for the rest of my life. is. And now, has he been any more

scary in training this week? he's been a joy, we have had so

much fun, I really love this dance. I really like the dramaticness, and

the balletic stuff. You have some amazing lines. I think I might do

some ballet classes after this. Look what we have done for you. You

have scored 30 for the last three weeks can you break this week, can

you go above the 30 mark? We shall wait and see. We're going to have a

go. It is driving my O C D nuts, we have to go somewhere. Let's look at

the clock. Holly you don't even flich, is there anything that

scares you? Rats. Totally random, I love it. Holly and Artem.

She is very strong Ozzy stock sfrpbt she. In a few moments -

isn't she. In a few moments we will discuss our weekend with our panel.

We have mentioned once or twice that tomorrow it is a Hallowe'en

special. No expense spared, to get you into the mood of it, we have

asked our couples what scares them most about Strictly. I think the

biggest scare about strictly is the live show. It is the lead up that

really is tough. I always get so nervous before the show, and

absolutely I am petrified. You are ready to go and the voiceover says

"dancing the Cha Cha Cha", that split second before it goes boom,

wow. It is the Saturday night show, it is all scary. It is not

predictable, anything can happen. The thing that scares me most is

makeing a fool of myself, letting Robin down, and not coming up with

the goods. The part where Artem lifts me up and twirls me round, is

fairly frightening, where I have to land neatly and have my balance.

What scares me most about Strictly is Craig. When Craig gives

criticism, he does it with such a straight face, and he looks so

unimpressed. He just says it as if, it's like. Sexless, cold and stiff.

The aim is to not appeal scared of him, even though I will probably be

quakeing in my boots. What scares me most would be to go out there on

Saturday night, and to hear, judges score, one. To stand there, to wait

for the result is just frightening, you know that one of you is going

to go, that is always very sad. What scares me about Strictly is I

know one week I will be out. Clammy palms for all of them. It is now

time to hear from three people, who between them, know how to conup the

perfect performance, it is our Friday - conjure up the perfect

performance, it is Alesha Dixon, Daniel O'Donnell and John Partridge.

Welcome, welcome, you three beauties. First of all, Alesha,

Hallowe'en special, last year it was fantastic, are you looking

forward to it? Last year's show was incredible. It was so much better

than I thought it would be. Everything about it worked. This

year, what I have heard it will be better. There are amazing surprises

in store. Daniel, who stood out for you in the competition so far?

know there is so many, every week you think you have your favourite,

and then the next week somebody else comes up. I think Jason is

doing a great job, I love Russell. How can you not. He brings a smile

to my face. They are all fantastic. I was sorry to see Rory go. There

were tears, a lot of tears from him last week. A lot of tears. We know

you are a massive fan? An uber fan. You are oozing it. How much are you

the Hallowe'en props and costumes going to bring to the couples'

performances? They are great, you can hide behind them, a long cape

can cover up the foot workment they are a hindrance, because you have

something else to think about, other than your steps. I wish they

had props when they were doing it. I know, out there on your own. We

are going to talk about Russell first. News just in, Russell's knee,

he has hurt his knee, but it has been to see a specialist, he's fine

to dance tomorrow, everybody, don't panic. He's going for a minor

procedure on Sunday, no, no, no, it will all be fine. He will be right

as rain for next week's show. Thank goodness. I will sleep tonight.

is dance to go Kylie Minogue tonight, have a little listen.

Better The Devil You Know. Come on. He is doing the samba. He really

knows how to work a crowd, doesn't he. What about that shirt! The very

minute you see him you smile, he just has that something, and he

takes off as he knows where he's going, what he's doing, he just

oozes that appeal, whatever it is that people need he has it. Can he

bring it out on the samba? He can, he's just fantastic, that is what

the samba is, it is a feel- good dance, he wants you to get up there

with him. An neat at that and Robin dancing the Tango, dance - Antia

dancing the Tango with Robin to Devil Woman? Are you a personal

friend with cliff? I am, I think it is a fantastic song and she will be

great. It is far from Antia's responsibility, how will she bring

out that devilishness? Did you see her behind the Queen Vic, she can

be devilish. From week to week, she is an actress, she adopts a

character, whether hair spray, or the Waltz, she will come to it as

an actress. What are you thinking of the training, any points for

her? Technically I think Antia is very, very strong. The thing is, so

far we have only seen the lovely side of her, come on, what we saw

in EastEnders, if she can channel that spirit and put it into what

she has mastered technique- wise, this could be a strong week.

has improved week by week. Nancy and Anton, N a n t o n, as I like

to call them. They are dancing the Rumba, the dance of love to Spooky

by Dusty Springfield. There seems to be a wooden box in the

background! Who is coming out, or who is ending up in it at the end.

Craig says she has hidden talents are you a fan? I think she has,

even last week when you saw her draped at the beginning, she make

as really good line. When she does leg extensions, she points her toe

and knees are pulled up. Ant toe has to stop dragging her round. -

Anton has to stop dragging her round. What should he do? Let her

dance. He might think's pulling A n n. That looks OK. Surprisingly good.

Got tomorrow of the leaderboard, can they come out. Maybe so. It has

to get better. It does. Robbie and Ola are doing

the paso doble, to this music. (Bad, Michael Jackson) This should

be a good week for him? Bravado, strength, he looks like good upper

body strength, he has really improved. We saw him with the shirt

off as we were walking through costume, I had to have a lie down.

You have described him as one of the front- runners of the

competition, are you liking the paso doble? He's a bit of dark

horse, something endearing about him. The first week I have never

seen him so petrified, since then, he's like a new man. Last week, so

impressive, personality in abundance f he can do it again, he

can go from strength to strength. Audley natly will be doing the Jive

this week - Natalie, will be doing the Jive this week dancing to

Little Shop of Horrors. Lots of chat about his size and weight.

Will the lightness of the Jive be something for him? He's a boxer,

he's used to dancing around the ring, Jive is about elevation, he

has a lot to push him off the floor. A whole chunk of thigh. What about

the track, liking that for Hallowe'en? I do, I think, I

haven't seen him without a smile. He always has a smile. It is

fantastic, he just brings you into what he's doing, every time I have

watched the show, he just comes out with that smile, and he hasn't lost

it. You know, they have always talked about your lovely eyes, now

I know what they mean! Talk of Audley - I'm so fickle - you have

made an impression on you. He talks about you in training. Yes he does.

I can rap as well, Alesha, you know I k maybe we should do a song, me

and you. Magestic on the Mi c, Audley Harrison, how you like,

round and round we go, to the b a s s and the tempo, all the boys and

girls it is time to make some noise, Audley Harrison is on the floor,

it's time to give you more, more, more.

Take his number. I never thought I would see raping on Strictly.

have A C D C, raping, a duet in the pipeline. Who knows. Jason and

Kristina are doing the quickstep this week. They are dancing to a

great old classic, bewitched. - Bewitched. You performed with Jason

in the West End, can he use his showmanship to get back up the

leaderboard. I think so, he's fleet of foot, light on his feet, it is a

constant showman. Go Jason. Come on. Thank you very much, you have been

an excellent Friday panel, gorgeous, John, Daniel and Alesha.

Now in the show we asked which of the professional dancers was

dancing in disguise, here is the It was our Brendan, looking

gorgeous in an elephant suit. Did you recognise him, could you tell

it was him? Coy tell, yeah. John, what do you reckon to predictions,

who do you think will go? Harry. They are all fantastic. But I think

Jason is really, really good. can't ask you Alesha, you must