Episode 32 Strictly - It Takes Two

It is Tuesday night. On tonight's show at the weekend the Queen of

drama was cast in the bottom two. Thankfully Anita and Robin were

saved. They are here to tell all. Alex and James have got their

breath back and will be here for a chat. Karen Hardy will be running

her eye over Saturday's performances in Choreography Corner

and I will be looking at this weekend's outfits with Melissa

Obadash. This is Strictly Come Please welcome your host, it's Zoe

Ball. Welcome to names to Strictly Come

Dancing: It Takes Two. It was an eventful weekend full of of of of

swabling judges. The big shock of the weekend was Anita and Robin

being in the bottom two. I will be chatting to them after this

Ah, sexy mamma, queen of drama, you can tango.

You drew me into the story. But overall, I loved the drama.

I didn't think you were respond to go Robin's lead and that's what

needs to happen. You smouldered. For me that's what

Argentine tango is about. It is about cre creating a mood.

I love the Argentine tango and I would like to stay a sexy mamma

forever. I am a proud teacher.

Two nines was fantastic. Fingers crossed for next week at

Wembley. Phew. Please welcome Anita and

Robin. On Sunday, your highest score of

the series, but you found yourselves in the bottom two. Did

your heart sink when you found that news out after such a great score,

Anita? I went from yeah, up there, two nines, our best ever to what

happened? It was like somebody said, "Anita Dobson you are not in in

Kansas anymore.". I was upset for Audley. Suddenly, you realed it is

you or somebody else. You feel dreadful that the other person has

to go. It is an awful situation to be in really.

Why do you think that happened? How come you ended up in the bottom two,

happened there? It is to do with where you are in the leaderboard. A

lot of people thought, "They are safe. They don't need to be voted

for." You need to vote for your favourite. It is down that. People

think you are safe and didn't vote. As a performance on Saturday night,

did you love it? Did you enjoy it? It was incredible. I loved

everything about it. I loved the music which Robin found. I loved my

outfit. I loved the choreography. I loved the fact that it was just

about the two of us and not so much about the two of us and not so much

about selling it out there. As soon as we started and the shoes and as

soon as I started, I was just in it. I forgot everything else. It was

fab. Bruno, said he was stunned, shocked

and appalled that you were in the bottom two. Our viewers online

agree. Adrian posted, "What were the great British public thinking

putting Anita in the bottom two? I was ready to spit feathers." What

did the other celebrities make of it? When they said it was us,

everybody, all our team-mates went, "What?" You could hear a gasp.

They came over to us and put their arms around us. It was really quite

moving. If I had been more able to appreciate it at the time and not

in shock. Len gave you a higher mark than he gave to Harry. That

must have boosted your confidence? I was thrilled he was our champion

that night. I really felt that we kind of instilled the feeling of

the dance dance. So yeah, I was thrilled.

Another thing the fans were commenting on. Someone posted,

"Hasn't Anita Dobson got a cracking set of legs on her? She really

worked the tango.". David wrote, "Anita might be 62, but she dances

like a 16-year-old." Did you have any idea that you were a sexy pin-

up? I had no idea and I accept that role readily.

. Robin is gutted he lost that title. There is chemistry between

the two of you which goes to prove that the Dobbin dialect is working

wonders. We have had many, many different,

weird and wonderful words for It is really oozy.

Lumpy, lumpy, lumpy. I'm missing it.

You know how I use big words, sexy, sexy.

I thought you had swallowed a dictionary page!

I just said it! LAUGHTER

My favourite is goy, goy. You are doing the samba. A lot of

people dread that because it can be tricky. Robin, why? It is probably

one of the most most challenging dances for the male and female

celebrities. There is the timings so you have got everything mixed to

go. There is so many timing variations and I'm I'm trying to

put all in the routine. We had a great week this week.

He plans all the technical things and you can cope with it Anita and

it is brilliant to see? It is it is challenging and he is pushing me

and that's why I'm here to learn and I will only learn if I do my

best. What is your goal this week? What

can you do to keep yourselves out of the bottom two? It is Wembley.

Instead of perform to go a few people in the studio, we are going

to make it as big and as huge for all 6,500. It is Brazilian. It is

the carnival so you have got to get the crowd behind you. Your man,

Brian, has played at Wembley a lot and now it is your turn Anita

Dobson. How do you feel, Anita Dobson? If I get to Wembley, I will

wear this jacket. What are you going to do at Wembley

in. I want to have as much fun as I can and let everybody know I'm so

happy. I'm still here. Still dancing with this boy, wasn't he

amazing on Saturday? I'm just blessed. I have got another week

and I'm going to share that with the whole of Wembley, the world!

I'm so glad you stayed in, Anita and Robin.

Here at Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two we aim to find out every

detail about our professional dancers. We encourage them to dish

the dirt on each other, but who are they discussing here?

Can you guess the dancer from these clues? This dancer has a Spanish

mother and Hungarian father. This dancer used to work in a

bakery for a leading supermarket chain.

This dancer loves golf and he even played a round with Sir Bruce.

We look up to him as the father father figure and some might even

say grandfather. This dancer's biggest fear is to be

paired up with someone who doesn't think he is the greatest dancer in

the world. He is the modern day day Fred stair.

I have a small suspicion. On Saturday, there was talk of

freckles and passes. If you didn't understand hat judges mp talking

about, don't panic, Karen Hardy is here to explain all in Choreography

Please welcome Karen Hardy. Hello Hardy!

Our celebrities were desperate to get through the weekend so they

could go to Wembley. Has the choreography stepped up a level?

The choreography always improves every week. If you imagine Picasso

when he does the pencil pencil outlines of what he wants to create,

well that's the choreography, what we saw this week was great

colouring, great textures, I loved it. It was up with everything.

We're doing the colouring in. We're going to start with our boy who is

top of the leaderboard after this weekend, Harry and Aliona and their

weekend, Harry and Aliona and their tango.

Len said it was a very clever routine, but he caused a gasp when

he said it lacked passion. For the record I thought it was

fantastic. I thought it was amazing. I got sucked up into the whole

performance of it, the razzmatazz, the show. It was incredible. But

I'm going to explain more in detail where I think Len is coming from.

This dance has the character of sen sueality, sensality. What Len is

coming from here, every competition, you have a selection of judges and

each judge has a different thing that they are looking for, a

different element, but every dance must have two simple levels.

Character and technique. Did he have both of those? He had

fantastic technique, but it was the character that Len is talk being.

It needed to be more real. However, I am going to say it one more time,

I thought it was amaze. OK, we got the -- amazing. OK, we

got the point. Holly and Brendan. There were advantages and

disadvantages. The advantages are imagine Stephen Spielberg

overviewing the movie. Artem was able to look back at his

choreography, but the gamble was, would Holly connect with Brendan?

Would she be able to get close? As we have seen, she did. It worked

brilliantly. OK. They will be on the show tomorrow so we will fin

out if Artem is going to dance at Wembley or if Brendan will be

standing this again. Watch this space.

Jason and Kristina. Bruno said Jason used intricate choreography

to his advantage. What did he mean? This is normally a simple dance.

Look what we got, under arm turns, shadowing positions, he is going

under, she is going under, lots of foot patterns at the same time.

There was attention to detail in a very simple dance. Now, the only

thing for me, it got to a point where I thought, it is starting to

look a little bit overchoreographed. I I didn't know there was a thing.

It just needs to be simple sometimes. Simple is enough, but

big points because he attempted the fleckle.

How was it? First of all, he had a go at it. It creates a momentous

movement. We would place ourselves in the middle of the floor and go

round and round and do a check, it means change direction and it means

we fly around in the opposite direction. Now we got half a

fleckle here which is good. To be honest, no one really had a go at

it. They should be given big points anyway just for attempting it

because it is a difficult step. Maybe he is working up to a whole

fleckle in a couple of weeks. Chelsee and Pasha, our girl did

good. Craig said it almost ticked all his boxes. Did it tick your

botionz? -- boxes? Chelsee always does well for me. It was very

complex and difficult, but just one thing, I don't know why they did

that. The whoosh under the legs? Where did she go? What did she do

that for? I got poured into this emotional dance, the starting on

the piano, it was beautiful. Don't laugh, but a foxtrot should be like

a monkey swinging through the trees. It was lovely and then it is like

she swung through the trees and landed somewhere, I don't know. But

it just goes to show that through Pasha trying to get them to Wembley,

they have got to take care that even the slightest thing could

disrupt the performance and that for me, as much as it was clever,

probably needed it in a jive or something like that and more

romantic and emotional. I know where you're coming from.

Good. Robbie and Ola. Bruno said he loved

Ola's choreography. What effect does the mixture of of steps have

on the whole performance? We talk in the American smooth the Fred

stair and Ginger Rogers. This is very Latin and then we have got the

three lifts. This is what I love from Robbie, look at that. It is

all about recovery in this dance because one minute, you are out

doing a line to the side. Then she is up in the air. You have got to

recover to that ballroom line because that's the pure essence of

this dance. You have heard Len say before, "I would have liked more in

hold." Well, it is no good going into hold if it collapses or you

are worrying about the lift. This was a great performance because his

personality was back. Welcome back, Robbie. Don't do that to us again.

He was back. But at the same time, the American smooth is quite a

difficult dance and I think they handled it fabulously.

Well done, Robbie. Karen you have retained your title

as Queen of choreography for another week. Karen Hardy.

Alex and James will be here, but let's see their jumping jive.

It was so full of verve and gust toe, I thought it was terrific.

The performance was extremely confident. There is no real

accuracy or precision in the steps. Your confidence is growing. You

just need to refine some of your steps.

You had the enthusiasm of a leader. Come on!

Tough dance, the jive. You went went for it 100%.

It is good they give us constructive criticism because next

week we can go away and work on those things. There was no playing

it safe, baby. There was three of Give me an A, give me an L, give me

an E, give me an X! Wendy said it was, "Fun, frisky and

fabulous.". Thank you, Wendy. Alesha said your confidence is

growing. Were you any less nervous than you have been in the past?

Does it get easier? I think it does just because I now realise that

even if you got right to the end and there is more chance of hell

freezing over, you know, I think we have to understand now there are

only so many weeks left in the competition and we are never going

to be able to do this again. So the best tact I think is to enjoy every

Saturday night. Brilliant. You are doing that.

We enjoy watching. The judges were in agreement that it was lively,

but Craig said that there was no real accuracy or precision on the

steps. James Jordan, discuss. I mean, he spoke about the kicks

and flicks about pointing the toes which is actually incorrect. I

won't go into too much detail. But obviously if Craig wants a jive-off

on kicks and and flicks and sees if his are better than mine, I'm up

for that, but you shouldn't point your toes in the kicks and flicks.

On the night I just nodded because I didn't want to argue again

because otherwise it would affect Alex's score.

You hadn't mentioned the point of the toe all week.

No No, because you were doing them correctly. Don't try and change

something that you weren't doing wrong.

If he said, "Your chassis were skippy." I knew they were, but we

worked on them and they were still skippy, but the kicks were lovely

so he is wrong. I'm not going to mess with him!

Good luck this week! I am in one of those moods.

I am too actually. Everything is wrong, I am always

right, isn't it? It is, James, yes. Just agree with him.

It is easier. You did some acting. Is Is Strictly bringing out the

thespian in you, Alex? I find it ease easier when the dance has

character to it. There is me being all weird with the doll, the Manic

Cheerleader. Going back to the paso doble, I found it easier when we

had a story. I find it easier when I know what I'm doing in the dance.

That coupled with the fact that I'm enjoining myself more brings out

the actor. Did you love the cheerleader's outfit. It was really

comfy. We were loving mini Jordan. Our

viewers noticed that he carried on his role throughout the show on

Saturday night. He was clapping along to Jason. Here we go. There

he is. Clapping along, having a lovely time. He got friendly with

Russell Grant! He got extremely excited when the

phonelines opened. Yes, some of the viewers didn't see

the resemblance in Saturday's show. One viewer posted, "Is Alex Jones

dancing with a Boris Johnson dolly?"

Well, I mean, he has got a point. Boris Johnson? You can see. He is

back. Is it difficult dancing two James

Jordans, Alex? At least this one doesn't talk as much.

This one is less argumentative. He has the potential, I was going to

say, to be a better dancer. No, I'm only joking.

Yeah, see new training tomorrow morning.

You are doing the tango this week. I'm so excited. James, what is

going to be the hardest technique to master? Technique? The hardest

thing in ballroom is the posture as you would know. Once you have mass

terd the pos -- mastered the posture, the steps are easier

because it is a walking dance. As long as you have the right

character and everything, tension in the legs, flexing to the knees

more, it is an easy dance. Is it an easy dance, Alex? No. I

mean, you know, we have done some work on the tango and the quickstep

and jive were manic and they were hard work. Harder work for some

than others, but the tango, I suppose, it is a different ballpark

now because we have to be serious and quite sexy.

Yes. Why do you look at me as if I can't

do sexy? That looked good. Keep that up.

Yes. You are going to have no trouble. How are you feeling about

performing at Wembley Arena. 6,000 people are going to be there. Is

that going to be terrifying? Yes. I mean, it will and it won't be

because I think it will be different to to being in the studio.

It will be bigger and I think we'll have to be a little bit more

animated, but sometimes having a crowd there is a good thing because

it cheers you up a bit. Imagine those people that get to

see me in the flesh, 6,000 of them. Honestly.

My peachy bottom. I will be dancing with mini James

in a minute. The hard thing is because it is so much bigger than

the rehearsal space, it is an unknown quantity. Will our dance

work on the stage? We are training training in a studio which is small

and we go to Wembley and the studio is 40 meters by 40 meet ertion and

-- meters and I'm choreographing it thinking, "I don't know if it is

going to work.". Alex and James. Earlier, we asked if you could

guess who our professional dancers were talking. It is time to find

out if you were right. Did you guess? Well, did you guess?

It is only me. It is only me! It was only Anton du Beke. Did you

guess? Of course. How could you not get it right?

Strictly Costume Department had a few surprises. Here a reminder of

Please welcome fashion design designer, Melissa Obadash and Una

O'Hagan. Thank you very much. Melisa, not

only do you design swim wear, but dresses. There is similarity

between the swim wear and Strictly costumes? Yes, I designed Alexandra

Burke's tour. It took me a month sewing the things on to the frocks.

I have done things for Cheryl Cole. People have to appreciate it does

take a lot of work. They are one off pieces and you know, you have

to also look at how much Chrisals and bling goes into one piece.

Let's start with Chelsee. She was doing the the foxtrot. It was a

different look for her. Melisa, what did you think? I think she is

adorable. Because she is pretty, we have done

less fabric on the bottom half. Her body could be turned into a

swim suit if you cut off the skirt. If it had little snaps and we could

snap it off. For her body type, I would have done less fabric on the

bottom half. It is dripping in Chrisals. What --

crystals, what can you tell us? Actually, it is 800 crystals. The

crystals were delicate. They were packaged up separately so they

didn't scratch. They are very delicate. The metallic champagne

colour and reminded me of bands and strips and the way it contoured her

body as well. I always wondered how to say it and

now you said it and I will have to remember. What makes it perfect for

the foxtrot? Is it the layers? you are dancing, you want movement

because it adds more to the whole show. So I think, you know,

connected to her wrists or hands, the gloves, it is all about flowing

and elegant. They are very soft because they are

chiffon and then you go into the skirt, a big circular skirt,

pleated and underneath you have the wired hems so that doesn't get

stuck on her leg. You can see it here. So one spin is going to look

really huge. It is stunning when you see it in action.

Seven metered square of fabric. Let's talk about Holly. She was

doing the rumba and Vicky showed us little sketches and how it does

turn out. Melisa, that is effectively swim wear, isn't it?

know a lot of people that would wear that as a swim suit. I would

take off, I'm not a pink person, but she looks great. I would

probably take off the pink part and continue the Bank of England

continue the bling. You can get inspirations from any of these. I

can look at this and say, "That would be a great one off piece for

Beyonce on stage.". Just to drop that name.

I will go to Lady Gaga if we have Quite a lot of contrast between the

two materials. Yeah, absolutely. Again so much work gone into it.

This is cut on the bias. It suits Holly very well. Her body shape.

She is athletic and they would have sewn it by hand under the bust.

They felt it was more flattering to her body type.

She can get away with anything. Some people are lucky and they can

get get away with anything. Let's talk about Russell? He was my

favourite. What a number. We have got his suit

in the studio. We wanted to try it on and they

they wouldn't let let us. Enough bling? The colour, the bling, the

sequins must be over the floor in the studio. It suits his character.

He couldn't come out in like a nice black suit, it doesn't suit him.

That suits his personality. That suit is Russell. Will we see

this look on the catwalk? I am sure Tom Ford has been watching and he

has his sketchpad in front of him and he will get inspiration and do

a version. It might be black and not gold.

love the idea of Russell Grant influencing Tom Ford. Thank you

very much. A huge thank you to all my guests