Episode 28 Strictly - It Takes Two

Tonight on It Takes Two: Breaking news on Holly and Artem. They're

here live with an update on Artem's injury. Plus Jason and Kristina

will pop in for a chat and Ian Waite will be here with the latest

news from training. This is Live from Television Centre, this

is strictly It Takes Two. Please welcome your host, Zoe Ball!

APPLAUSE Hello! Welcome to It Takes Two. Now

it was a very emotional weekend for Holly and Artem. As you know, Artem

suffered a back injury, but bravely battled on and danced through the

pain to get great points. They're here straight from the training

room to tell us the latest news. First, here's their Saturday story.

I absolutely loved that concept. I thought it was brilliant. It was

not a traditional jive. You took a lot of chance was it. It really

paid off. Great choreography. creative, very, very different.

Very, very cool. The girl's on top. You looked exhausted, it was full

of energy. I have to commend you on that. Artem I know you're suffering

as well. Artem had an injury this afternoon.

He's limping. I don't know how you do it, the show must go on. Please

welcome Holly and Artem! APPLAUSE

Quite a roller coaster of a weekend for you. First of all, Artem, when

did you first hurt your back, what happened? Well I think it happened

on Friday when we did camera blocking. You know, have you so

much adrenaline. Your mind is spinning all the time. I didn't

really give a chance to realise it was quite painful. I came home and

sat on the sofa and I couldn't get up. Was there a moment when it made

a crunch or squelch or was it a gradual build up of pain? It was a

gradual build up of pain. It's horrible. What went through your

mind at this point? Were you thinking "Oh, dear, I'm not going

to make tonight's show? "It quite dramatic moment really,

because this whole week we've been training so hard to dot jive. It

was quite difficult... choreographed the most amazing

routine. At what point due realise you were going to be in trouble?

really was quite late on Saturday. I went to dot dress rehearsal aind

noticed someone was missing. tried to keep everything quiet

until we know what exactly is going to happen. We didn't want to upset

anyone. I was looking around, you know when is he? Someone said he's

sore and they're going to pt hospital to make sure everything's

OK. We went through the dress run. It got to my turn... You had to

dance loan. I went, I don't want to do nothing. I thought I'd better go

on. Then they can Time Out the show how it's going to look and camera

guys can see my shots. I thought I'd get on with. It lucky I did

have a go. Dancing with, it must be so strange, but you weren't on your

own for long because Sir Bruce stepped in. We have footage. There

you are, minding your own business. Look at him go. He's good. He is

good. He could have done it for you on Saturday night. At what point

then, how down to the wire was it on Saturday that you decided that

you could dance and you could get through the routine? Well, after

going to the hospital and then the hospital doctor pretty much saying

that your spine is fractured and you cannot dance. I was sitting

there and thinking, well I have already danced twice in the camera

blocking, so what worse can actually happen. So I asked him

"What the worse thing that can happen to me?" He said I could get

paralysed. At that point, I would have been out of there. Taxi! But

you had to change the choreography. You mentioned to Tess thaw changed

a bit. What did you take out? part when I actually injured myself.

It's just the jumping over Holly and rolling on the floor. I'm quite

glad you didn't do that. You might not have gotten up again. What have

the doctors said to you? What are the men in the coats saying? What's

the official line on your back? I cannot remember all this specific

terms, but explaining in my simple words. It's soft tissue damage.

It's between two bones. There's a nerve running between them and it

just got jammed and inflamed. not happy. It's just, any turn or

rotation or bending any way is... Not good. Quite painful. He's so

macho. If he's saying he's in pain, I don't even know what he's going

through. There's a lot of speculation online and in the

papers. What is the official line then from you. Are you dancing on

Saturday? No, I'm not dancing. no. Really? OK. But it's Strictly

under doctors orders. Are you out for the series? Or just Saturday?

Don't say those words! Sorry. hoping to be out for a week and

come back next week for Wembley. You have to rest up. In the

meantime you have another knight in shining armour who has kindly

stepped in to help out. You've been practising with Brendan. I have.

Doing the rumba with Brendan Cole, something you weren't expecting to

happen. How is it going and how is it for you, Artem, having to let

another man dance with your woman? Well, to be honest with you, kind

of weird seeing Holly dancing with someone else, I'm not going to lie.

Look at my face. Did you get jealous. It's all grumpy and

jealous. I think the hardest thing I'm finding is not being able to

move. I'm choreographing this week still, is just keep not being able

to feel if it feels right or wrong for Holly what she does. It's like

a big gamble for what I put in. It's hard to gauge what the move is

if he hasn't had a go. Then you do this, but you can't move.

Ironically, this is what you're dancing to.

# I think I better leave right now... #

No, no, let it not be a sign! He couldn't have foreseen the future.

Maybe Russell could have done. One thing we must mention as well,

Craig loved your energy on Saturday. He really did. Are you very

determined to go out there and give it serious welly for Artem as well

as yourself on Saturday? Yeah, obviously I don't want to let him

down. He's choreographing very much, a part of this week. It's difficult

because I've just started to learn dancing with him. Just started to

get his language and the way you move together. You learn someone's

body and then all of a sudden I'm with Brendan who does things very

differently and also very well, but completely different. They feel

different to dance with. I now, I'm sort of back to square one a little

bit. I'm at a slight disadvantage in that. But I don't have a lengthy

partnership as everyone else still has right now. You're not going to

let me down. You better not let him down? Look how nice he is. The pain

killers. Will you be watching in the wings? Absolutely I will be

there on Saturday supporting Holly and Brendan. Maybe lying down.

I request a sign. I will be signing. We will keep you all updated. We

have a special present for you, which actually you won't be able to

lift because it's so heavy. It's a basket of fruit and a get well card.

That's so sweet. So soft tissue damage. He won't be dancing on

Saturday, but he will be there, fingers crossed for Wembley. Holly

good luck with Brendan. Thank you so much for coming in!

APPLAUSE My goodness. It's all going on. It

didn't take much encouragement to get another one of our pro dancers

to dress up and give us a twirl. Who is the dancer in disguise? Find

out later in the show. It's Wednesday, which means it's

time to get technical with our very own dance analyst. It's Waite's

Wednesday Warm Up. Ian Waite's here!

APPLAUSE Hello handsome. Hello gorgeous.

would like to thank Jess in Glasgow. She has made an Ian and Zoe,

knitted them. That's amazing. incredible. Look at that. She's got

your hair line and everything. And I'm in grey. Look. Thank you

very much. Anybody else who would like to immortalise us in clay or

wood, feel free. Thank you Jess. Very exciting week. We've had

dramas. You've seen Artem there. We have the first Argentine tango.

Let's look at Holly, now dancing with Brendan, choreographed by

with Brendan, choreographed by Artem. How is it looking? Isn't it

fantastic that Brendan has taken over and is taking -- helping out.

It's great. I did the same for Brendan and to be honest, I think

it may be an advantage for her. She has two professional males, helping

her. As you can see, Artem is choreographing the piece. He's

telling Brendan what it do, which is quite interesting. I'd love to

be in the room. No doubt Brendan will have his own take on things.

That's fantastic. I think this dance will suit Holly. She's long,

lovely long legs. The rumba is perfect for that. I think it's

going to be a great dance for them. We look forward to this on Saturday.

Fingers crossed Artem gets well quick. Anita and Robin are doing

the Argentine tango. How is our lass looking in the training room?

I was a bit worried because I don't think the legs and feet or Anita

are her strong point. In Argentine tango itess especially emphasises

the leg and feet. There's lots of decoration, flicks and kicks. What

I wanted to do is circle this here, because she's doing a wonderful leg

wrap around there. I'm pleasantly surprised because she's using her

legs and feet and she's putting them in the right place. They look

strong. So she really has surprised me this week. Keep it up! By the

way, bobby, thank you so much. He's wearing a sweaty Bobby T-shirt.

Full marks to him. Robbie and Ola are dancing the American smooth

this week, more ballroom from our ballroom boy. He looks good in

ballroom. He's very upright. He's strait and pulled up. Craig

mentioned the top line. Which is a good thing. My concern is that when

he goes into lines like he's going to dance this promenade run now, he

needs to dance through to the end of his arms. If we stop it here,

of his arms. If we stop it here, what I'd like him to do is take the

arm higher. Then it would match Ola's. Every time he takes a step,

to take it out and finish it off. One, two, three. We could make you

do that all night. I mean it's more about the expression through the

body, through to the hand and through to the arms. Because

sometimes he can look a little bit mechanical and clinical. I want him

to show expression. Just because it's ballroom doesn't mean you

can't use expression. More expression. Good. Alex and James

with a great quickstep last week. This week it's fast as well, the

jive. This is looking really good. It's very bouncy. There's lots of

great kicks. Lots of great arms punching. I've slowed this down

because I wanted you to see the bounce that Alex is getting.

Amazing bounce and she maintains that throughout. I'm assuming

that's all good. Really good. I think that because they did

quickstep last week, I think it's kind of an accumulation from last

week. She's continuing doing the same, very similar technique in the

jive. So I think it's quite an advantage to go from jive onto

quickstep. Looking very good. sounds very promising. Chelsee and

Pasha are doing the foxtrot. Top of the leaderboard last week. They're

probably on a high this week. How are they looking? I have nothing

but great things to say about Chelsee, although... Hawk-Eye Ian

has seen... That's a catchy name. In the mirror because most of this

foot ath is just the top half. In the mirror I can see - we do that a

lot, looking at the foot work in the mirror. She's not wearing her

shoes again. Naughty Chelsee. You have told her before. I'm slightly

disappointed because I believe in rehearsals you should be training

in your shoes. Also when they get in hold, you'll notice that she's a

bit small for him. I think she'll be in a different place, about

three inches higher and in the right place for him. If we carry on

with this. I don't know whether we can, they do some, a lot of

ballroom hold and stuff like that. It's quite intricate the dancing

they do. Now that she's improved so much, she's coping with it

brilliantly, and I think that again she's going to produce a fantastic

dance. Very exciting. It's a foxtrot, not an American smooth.

is it, thank you. Someone's paying attention! Audley and Natalie are

doing the cha-cha-cha this week. His knee's in a brace, is that a

worry? I'm slightly worried because his left knee is giving him a bit a

problem. And he's dancing cha-cha. One of the dances that is quite

hard on the knee sz a cha-cha-cha because you have to straighten the

leg so quick. He's not really straightening his legs properly.

It's a bit bent. He's half straightening them. I would say

it's because of the knee problem, but he's doing it on the right knee

as well! I think he's got to straighten that knee and cha-cha

straight, cha-cha straight. APPLAUSE

Just like that. Where were we? Russell and Flavia. Oh, just on

Audley, he's been in the bomb -- bottom two three times K he get

higher up the leaderboard this week? He's very musical. He never

really goes wrong very often. So if somebody goes wrong on the night

and has a bad night, which he hasn't had really, although he's

been at the bottom of the table, he's quite consistent in his own

way. He could sail on through again. Who knows. Russell and Flavia are

doing the American smooth this week. Here they are in training. How is

our Russell doing. I feel I haven't seen him for weeks. Quickstep

American smooth. The only time we have seen that, I think is Alesha.

Normally American smooth is more of a foxtrot. We danced a waltz.

we did. We got four nines. Did we? What did we get? Four nines. I

remember it well. I just want to emphasise that. Oh, what have you

done. Your machine's gone bonkers. OK, correct that. That was the

machine. What I would like to see, he's got dropped elbows. He's

lifting up his shoulders. Drop the shoulders back, lift the arms up. I

especially love the mannerisms from Russell. This little pinkie. Not to

be outdone, he always has his little aquairn mannerism. He didn't

be marked down for that? I wouldn't mark him down. That's a little

personality. Harry and Aliona are doing the Argentine tango. It's a

bit more, a bit easier for a man in Argentine tango. Really? Anita,

more difficult for her, because the lady has to do all the decorations

and leg things and all the lines. It's all about the lady. Yes. He's

basically just doing the leading. But, as he did tango two weeks

ago... Hallowe'en week. Yes, he will follow on with the character

of the dance. I think it will be good for him. It will continue on

from that. He knows the character now. He'll just dot same. Can he

get to the top of the leaderboard. He gets great marks. This could be

his week. Let's talk about jauson and Christine ya. They are doing

the -- Kristina. They are doing the Viennese waltz. It's looking very

good. He's got a natural flow. His arms are in the correct place. He's

even trying to sway. For a male celebrity that's very difficult. So

Kristina is chal edging -- challenging him. He goes into a

fleckerl. Yes, you should gasp. It's a tricky move! What should do

you? It's turn out, side, cross in front, side behind and twist.

So if Jason can do that, Len is going to love him. He is! He's

doing all the correct foot work, fantastic. Glad you said that. He's

in the studio and will get you otherwise. We love you. Let's hear

it for the boy, Ian Waite! APPLAUSE

Ian's not the only one with eagle eyes. Here are some more of your

points of view. I really like the way that Alesha's

sparkly pen always matches her outfit. I'm so delighted that

Russell had so much fun when he got put through. It really made Robbie

laugh. He needed a laugh after being mauled by Craig. Thank you.

Bye. Hello, Jason, we appreciate how much training you do and your

dances are mesmerising. We hope you help Kristina to win the

glitterball. I thought Jennifer grey was brilliant on Saturday. I

did miss Len. He tells it like it is. But with great humour. Good on

you Len. Thank you for all your messages and

specially you Beverley. Len is back on Saturday. You can call us any

on Saturday. You can call us any After a run of leaderboard topping

dances, Jason and Kristina found themselves falling to seventh place

last weekend. They're near a moment. First, here's how they got on with

the rumba. You just killed me softly with that

rumba. You need to dig deeper and connect more to your sexy,

beautiful partner. I got a little bored throughout it. I just wanted

to feel that genuine romance and sparkle and chemistry. It was

lacking a little bit. Usually your performances are so focused and

correct. Tonight you went for too much. You tried to place the leg

and the hip didn't work. Just a bit too serious and earnest. Kristina

is not very happy, I can tell. disagree. Show me another male

celebrity who can dot same rumba walk. It could have been more

intense between the two of us. That's valid. That quaz quite --

was quite fun. I feel good about. Give it up for Jason and Kristina!

APPLAUSE Hello, how are you? How

disappointed were you after your performance with the judges'

reactions? Well, I mean... Deep breath Kristina. No-one likes

negative comments. I don't care how good or bad dancer or how much

effort you put in. We put 100% into our training. I think the dance was

fantastic. It had a particular pocket with me in terms of the walk

and the placement of the foot work. The only thing about the comments

was that they didn't focus on positive things. It was just

negative across-the-board. I looked at that dance back, you know, and I

was happy with it. I can understand judges have to do what they do. I

take those comments and there were certainly aspects of what they were

saying which was spot on. A few positive things as well. Wouldn't

go a miss, would it? I have something positive though. Ian

online says the judges were too harsh, very undermarked. Kristina

was right to look annoyed. You were quite annoyed. I was annoyed. I

don't often look like that on Strictly. I was annoyed. What did

you make of the comments? We worked really hard. My point about rumba

was to show good technique, show a lot of basics, which usually judges

asking always not enough content in dances. So I put all the basic

steps, rumba walk, sliding doors, the basics which are supposed to be

in the rumba. Obviously nobody even mentioned anything about that. I

think it's a very cliche about rumba that it has to be raunchy and

sexy and they felt there was no emotions. It was a different

emotion. The song was saying something romantic and

sophisticated. That's what we wanted to do. We've done all the

raunchy and sexy thing in foxtrot week two. We're trying to do every

week something different. I must say, five pro boys said to me the

same thing, Brendan, James, Artem, saying it's probably the best male

celebrity rumba we've seen. APPLAUSE

Hooray. I trust them. Seventh on the leaderboard. That's the lowest

you've been, sorry to keep dragging it up. On Sunday's show you were

the last couple to get through. How worried were you that you were in

the bottom two at that point? is always worried. It's a public

vote. Each week is a different journey. You don't know how people

will take what you do. The whole package of the show as well. But

you know, I honestly can say I put, as I've said a number of times, I

put 100% into the show each week. I try to have a good time and a

journey along the way, if we were to go out, if we go out this week

or the week after or the week after that, it's not for a want of not

trying. I feel good about myself. We want 120%! I don't know how much

deeper I can dig. We know it's luck tkwroi have public support. A lot

of them love you. We had Christopher Biggins in last week.

He said he was surprised - big up Biggins. He was surprised and

really impressed how much you're putting in in training. We have

noticed you are very studious indeed. Here we go.

What I learnt was that it's a mathematical equation dance. One,

two, one and as well. One, two, three, four. I can't count. I was

never a mathetisionist. Francisco Kristina, do you want some tapas

# Kristina, ole! # Do you believe in life after love

It's just the geography I need to reshape. I'm so confused. Where am

I? OK, I've mapped it. Pass the test? Yeah, passed.

There you go. I love that. That's your report. That's funny. Don't

worry, he's mapped it. The Viennese waltz, are you a fan? It's a lot

more difficult than I thought. I mean, there's obviously the

simplicity in the one, two, three, the rise and fall. But there's a

lot more layers to it. We have a great song this week. Let's have a

listen. # And I don't want the world to see

me." Goo Goo Dolls. From that film. I love it. That is where the theme

has come from. We try to look for characters and stories. That's what

we're drawing from. You have always been successful in dance was a

character. Yes and a theme. What is your character this week?

Separation, angels, spirits. film is all about two people who

can't be together because one is an angel. Don't ruin it. It's so sad

and sweet. I want to cry. I look forward to the dance. And the

judges want more oomph, can you give it? That's an interesting one.

I think... We'll try, I suppose. Last week I take on board what they

were saying. It was a difficult balance with the rumba to find the

happiness and passion. This week is soft and gentle and you know...

can't wait. It's going to be good. Believe, brilliant. Good luck this

weekend. Jason and Kristina! APPLAUSE

Time now to reveal our dancer in Ola! It was of course, Ola. I'm

back tomorrow at 6.30pm with Russell and Flavia and Harry and

Aliona. We have a sneak preview of the weekend's outfits an the latest