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00:00Music
00:16Please welcome your host, Jeanette Munrara
00:19Music
00:28Alright, welcome to It Takes Two
00:30We're live on BBC Two and iPlayer
00:33It's Thursday, which means we're over the peak of the week
00:36And a musical special is on the horizon
00:39But no need to be sheepish
00:44Because our five remaining celebs
00:46Are heating up in their battle to be the GOAT
00:49As in the greatest of all time
00:51Or at least the greatest of this series
00:53So, let's see my bai-reliant line up tonight
00:58On Saturday, they became the first ever winners of Instant Dance
01:03With a hop, skip and a jump
01:05We'll be finding out how Lewis and Katya
01:07Are faring with their West Side Story theme salsa
01:10Tonight, tonight
01:11Speaking of Katya, she'll be here alongside Amy Dowden
01:14As they attempt a Guinness World Record
01:17For the most samba whisks in 30 seconds in the Pro Challenge
01:21And, as well as all that jazz
01:24We've got an exclusive look behind the scenes
01:26Ahead of this week's Chicago-inspired group number
01:29And it looks absolutely incredible
01:31Plus, Vicky Gill will be rating the performance
01:34Of her new wardrobe assistant
01:36And she's looking ahead to this weekend's outfits
01:40For our musical extravaganza
01:42And putting on the glitz
01:43And, I have some exciting news
01:48As well as performing their own routines on Saturday
01:51Our couples will be taking part
01:53In a show-stopping relay dance group number
01:57Choreographed by the incredible Matt Flint
02:00This will feature a highlight from each couple
02:02To showcase just how far they've come in the competition
02:05And this one's just for fun
02:07There's no extra marks from the judges
02:09So you will not want to miss it
02:12So, with that in mind
02:14Let's have a sneak peek behind the curtain
02:17And see if the stage is set
02:19For all five of our couples
02:20Ahead of musicals
02:22We cheers with you
02:23The hip rotation and actions
02:27Is the key of the samba
02:29I don't think I've got any hips
02:32Which doesn't really help
02:34And then I'm stiff as a board
02:36So this isn't great
02:37Chica ya, chica ya, chica ya, chica ya
02:39My favourite step in this routine is bachukada
02:43Bachukada, bachukada, ya, chica ya, chica
02:45Keep going, chica ya, chica
02:46Very good
02:47I'll give it everything
02:48I will try and shake my hips as much as possible
02:52We are not there yet
02:53But I believe that we will get there
02:55Ha, ha, ha
02:57Very good
03:00The Viennese waltz is tricky
03:02I'm not quite getting
03:04Pivot, step, step
03:05Natural and pivot combination
03:07Natural, natural
03:09Which is the main step that travels us around the room
03:13We're getting a little bit stuck
03:15In terms of the rotation of the steps
03:17And trying to make it flow really nicely
03:19Give it step, step one
03:21It's soft, it's gentle
03:23But it's got moments of power and strength
03:25I want to get it right
03:26I really want to do it justice
03:27One, two, go!
03:31Again, I'll go again
03:35I am absolutely loving the salsa
03:37It's super upbeat
03:38There's a lot of energy needed
03:40Da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da,
03:42Da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da
03:42It's a lot of graphics
03:43One, two, three, four
03:44Five, six, seven
03:45But I'm here for it
03:46One, two, three
03:48It is an action packed routine
03:50All the levels need to be covered
03:53From the rhythms
03:55To the lead
03:56To the essence of the dance
03:59I need to get my head around all of that
04:02And hopefully we can make our way through it
04:06the argentine tango is very intricate we have ganchos ochos and we're moving around tangled
04:18the argentine tango is a cruel mistress it's a very powerful dance but it's got like a controlled
04:28power to it so i feel that's what i'm struggling with it's crucial for george to lead in the
04:33dance i feel like he is such a strong leader and i really want to have him lead me through the whole
04:39way charleston is a little bit more complex than i anticipated brown but i am absolutely loving it
04:53it's a very upbeat colorful number and you have to contain it it's precise it's snappy it's sharp
05:03a swivel is a little bit like this so you have to really concentrate on which foot's going in which
05:10foot's going out and you have to keep your knees together i'm just gonna go for it
05:14before we carry on with the show i'd just like to shout out two members of the team who turn up
05:25every week do their job brilliantly and never complain the mannequins
05:31they really are model employees it's time for putting on the glitz
05:38it's vicky gill everybody vicky let's quickly talk about instant dance yes how many outfits did you
05:57your team have to prepare for saturday and were they all fitted or just about the right size for
06:01everyone far too many because it was the first time we didn't really know what we were doing
06:05and and so we set them into blocks because alexis uh katya we're like a few of the girls would fit
06:12into one size few of the girls fit into the gentleman similar sizes so we had this little
06:16process going right but yeah it was a bit of a brain tease and claudia she did well i thought she did very
06:21she did very well let's go to sketch number one shall we okay we're all ambers charleston yes okay
06:27so she's doing guys and dolls it's a mission style uniform that she's got going on tell me about the
06:33the movement of the dress and how it's going to work well when we start the process of the week we
06:37don't really know what choreographers and what the performers have got in store so we're thinking
06:41about how much movement they're going to need charleston we're going to have nick a shot so we're
06:45thinking of all of these things but we still want to keep it within the period and the hemline of the
06:50of the musical um so yes a bit tricky and we've got a rip-off moment this week here there's a reveal
06:55with it as well so we'll have to wait and see where the reveal comes whether it's the jacket
07:00whether it's the skirt you don't know where there's the whole thing what about fabrics what kind of
07:04fabrics have we got for it i'm only going to show you a color okay um because this will be the the
07:09whole thing top to bottom but we'll have soft flowing fabrics in the skirt and then more structured
07:12tail running through the jacket nice and then let's see if there's an underneath okay well let's see
07:16what we've got now for sketch number two then this is bal's viennese waltz dress this is looking
07:22beautiful greatest showman talk to me about the outfit in the dress um i think when we do musicals
07:27week it's we tend to move back to the movie because that's where our mindset is in terms of creative
07:32yeah but musically we're thinking about the song choices and the music style of the dance there's a
07:37lot to think about so there's a lot to think about so this is what so we've tried to create
07:40a good strong base from the bottom so this is where we've customized so it's a garment that's been
07:45purchased and we've broken down the underneath and then built up the skirt that's over the top
07:49so hopefully we're going to go for our green overlay over the cream dress and then we'll
07:55build in pearls and embellishments so she's gonna look stunning and what about fabric on this one
07:59fabric on that one not a lot to show in that one because it's creams and then like i say we've got
08:03this layer of green which i love because it's not too bright and it tones in nicely so nice we'll see
08:09how it goes she looks stunning anyway we're lucky because we got three sketches tonight everybody
08:14let's see sketch number three it was tricky so this is karen she's doing a samba as a sweet charity
08:20yeah i am loving this is like two-sided vibe going on talk to me about it i'll be perfectly honest we
08:25had about five minutes to sketch him and so you've got half a shirt so there's got this whole hippie chic
08:32feel going on about it uh what kind of style have you gone for well this one again it'll be where we're
08:38fitting tomorrow so we want to keep the flared um leg line and we're hoping that we'll build up
08:43all of the colors from the shirt print on the hem and then we'll have a knotted fringe detail all of
08:49this to be confirmed with kaz in the morning but if we do use this shirt and we do use this print
08:54we'll build all of the fringe around fringe in this fabric yeah it's gonna look very cool definitely
08:59chic hippie i'm feeling shall we go to hippie hippie number one i'm in the mood you know okay ready
09:08oh she's gonna look amazing now this is alexis argentine tango how are you balancing between
09:15what the musical needs and what the argentine tango actually needs yes well i think again for alexis
09:22she's she's a great um clothes horse for us because she can fit into anything but this particular shape
09:29we tried this on her at lunchtime today and it's fitting fantastic what we want to do is build up
09:34tomorrow so she would like the frill detail which then links to the musical and we're getting the
09:39vibe of the character yes but we have to be really careful with the skirt hem because especially with
09:44the fine lace we will definitely get a heel we can easily get caught in that yeah so you need lots of
09:48splits i guess so alexis would like it up here yeah but we're gonna leave it now but we're gonna have
09:53an angle let's go to mannequin number two and see we've got mannequin number two are we ready
10:00katya is great you can hear katya anywhere in the world this is katya's dress for her salsa for
10:06west side story yeah sounds like she likes it uh talk me through it that's all right i don't even mind
10:13what it is because um she likes it all good okay fitting done no we um spoke to katya or text speak to
10:20katya in the week and we decided for a low hip point to attach the skirt but we still want lots
10:26of um fullness if we've seen any of katya's director's tape she's really going for it with
10:30her skirt so we've got lots of red on the skirt yeah so we'll see a lot of this on set finer details
10:35are that we've roll hemmed in lilac we've rolled hemmed in purple see that's the kind of stuff that people
10:41don't realize look at the detail in that you're good you may catch it you're good yeah she's gonna be
10:46amazing and as are everybody else because she's just brilliant it's vicky gill everybody thank you
10:51she's good next up tonight it's the pro challenge so far shirley has cast her judgment over seven of
10:59our pros and their attempts at the samba whisk but did you know she also made sure the platform was stable
11:05secured all the lights and cleared any trip hazards she did it was part of her whisk assessment
11:13never mind the strictly pro challenge is back our professional dancers are attempting to set
11:24a world record for the most samba whisks performed in 30 seconds the whisk must step to the side cross
11:35behind and replace no mistakes sneak past me it's never too early for a disqualification from shirley
11:51only one pro can be victorious welcome to the strictly pro challenge 2025
11:59tonight it's the turn of a former strictly champion and a former pro challenge champion it's katya jones and amy dowden
12:19and amy firsty how are you nice to see you thank you i'm feeling really well actually four weeks ago
12:47today i had my surgery and recovery is all going down beautiful that's a little she does and uh you
12:54already have a world record in the bag for the back charleston kick steps well done wow how good does it
12:59feel to be back doing a pro challenge yes so the last time i did it i won you did but i'm not feeling
13:04too confident because let's face it since then in 2022 since then the last two years luck has not been on
13:11my side in all matters of life so i'm not told my point it might be this time let's have a look at
13:18the leaderboard now so at the top we've got nancy with 28 points yeah it was a really good attempt
13:24actually where do you both think you might end up well you did it properly didn't you and i just went
13:29for speed so i went for quality so we literally the two opposite sides of this okay katya you went for
13:35quality so shall we see how you did first yes please let's have a look here we go let's go
13:41i have been whisking for about 30 years it's not gonna help me at all every year i've got the plan
13:50and it goes down the drain
13:55hello judges hello katya how are you doing today i am very excited i'm very excited to see you as a
14:01former world champion i'm very optimistic for you in this samba whisk but you've never won a pro
14:06challenge before i was surprised at that no have you practiced a little bit at all actually have
14:12i have this and i realized i really like the samba whisk we must get the technique right so i think i'm
14:18gonna go for quality oh she says i'm very excited to see you do this katya please take center stage okay
14:26this is an official attempt oh in three two one go
14:41oh you're doing good i see that focus and that concentration
14:45maybe this practicing is going to be paying off maybe 15 seconds well it's your pulse it's getting
15:00there five four three two one stop and she was in time with you by the way yeah weren't you
15:14yeah that was a good metronome thank you for that that was great did you enjoy that i actually really
15:20did how do your legs feel a little bit tight but it was worth it well let's hope that practice pays off
15:26thank you thank you thank you judges good luck me
15:32the rhythm was going through my body could this be my year maybe i'm living with happy feet and
15:40that's all i can do fingers crossed
15:46all right katya did the plan go down the drain
15:48no no all right thing oh it looked good it really did i am very happy i went for quality
15:56you could recognize a samba whisk which i can't say about some of the other
16:03that's the competitor in katya but right amy it's now to see you i'm not saying anything but yours was
16:11filmed before your operation just so everybody at home knows all right so let's have a look let's see how you
16:14did
16:18i am so excited to be back the last time i did the pro challenge i won so actually i'm still undefeated
16:26right hopefully i'm gonna do it again
16:31hello hello amy how are you i'm good thank you and how are you feeling about doing the samba whisk
16:38this year i love a samba it's trying to take out all the body rhythms and everything and just try
16:43and focus on it's getting as many as i possibly can with the correct footwork as i know that's what
16:48you're going to be looking for so if you'd like to take center stage we're going to have a little look
16:51at your whisk thank you this is an official attempt in three two one go
17:04that come on you're doing good wow that's fast those legs will be feeling it right now 15 seconds halfway
17:18amy wow halfway there we go keep going almost there four three two one stop
17:32wow well done you how are those legs feeling after that amy do you know what they're burning my heart
17:37is racing is it yeah i think i was quite nervous actually well let's hope it's rewarding thank you
17:43i enjoyed that i know you enjoy everything about dancing thanks guys
17:50i've never done a samba whisk quite like that in my life and i don't think i'll ever do one like
17:55that again but i just went as fast as i possibly could come on amy all right amy watching the back
18:06any reason to have been nervous um i just think it's because you know when you've been away for a little
18:11while you feel a bit rusty don't you yeah but that was fast quick precise shorts but before i reveal
18:17how you both scored here is a quick reminder that after each of the professionals made their attempt
18:22the footage was watched back by adjudicators in slow motion to verify every single step to make sure
18:29they were accurate katya you're up first okay i can reveal that in 30 seconds you completed
18:41just give it to me 28 steps
18:50but did you have any steps disqualify surely not no i can reveal that you had
18:57you didn't get any don't want to sleep yeah come on jeanette five steps disqualify
19:08oh which leaves you with 23 put you third on the leaderboard okay top three top three i'm very
19:17proud of the way i left it i will look back and be proud right but let's see can amy do better who knows
19:23let's see let's see that it's time for your results and amy in your 30 seconds you achieved
19:3735. 48 steps
19:43like all of them just have any of your steps been disqualified well i can reveal that you had
19:53none
19:5815 steps which is really good so the pro challenge leaderboard now looks like this
20:07you have to be a good challenger for the 33 at the top i'm saying neil this year why neil
20:28well we'll have to wait and find out there's still plenty
20:30more to go but for now let's hear it for katya and amy
20:36neil love you for that one all right our focus now turns back to musicals week and this weekend's
20:41chicago inspired group number and katya you have been a busy woman because here you are telling us all
20:46about it let's go let's go prepare to be razzle dazzled by this week's chicago inspired group dance
20:54i build a home and wait for someone to tear it down cell block tango is about six merry widows
21:02who have all murdered their husbands and they all individually tell their story
21:08this is a complete musical theater number with a lot of storytelling a lot of acting all the female
21:13dancers are just going in and you feel it in every part of your body i've got no roots for my home was
21:22never on the ground the set looks incredible the lighting is absolutely mesmerizing this is going
21:29to be one of those memorable routines are strictly i like standing still but that's just a wishful plan
21:37we have pushed the boundaries further than ever before i like digging holes hiding things inside them
21:45you're gonna have to tune in to see it i won't forget to find them
21:54oh hello sorry i've been on my feet all day and i just fancied a little lie down
22:00all right next up tonight it's lewis and katya who delivered a beautiful rumba on saturday night
22:07which ended up with katya mysteriously disappearing off the floor tess wondered where she'd gone
22:11and no one has been able to figure out who it was that actually you
22:19the energy you've got is so unique you just love the way you present yourself the way you treat dancing
22:25and the way you both are such a strong couple it just needed a little bit more hair of fluidity but i
22:32love the chemistry i love the narrative so for me i would say this is one of the very good rumba
22:36the composition of that dance was fantastic and full of emotion i loved it
22:49give it up for lewis and katya cut your firstly so who was that pulling you off the floor there
22:54it was our beautiful arduino
22:59grabs the foot drags you away look at oh where'd she go i said i'm going to make sure you do a rumba
23:06walks warm up and you know he was there okay so a round of applause for arduino great job great
23:15dragging all right guys with the combined scores over the last two weeks you finished top of the
23:19leaderboard really yes and it was a joint highest scoring rumba of the series wow yes and lewis what
23:26did it feel like to perform it in front of the live audience it was lovely you know it was um i said after
23:31i was just like you know what that was really really lovely wasn't it it's not something that
23:35we've done before well not something that i've done before but i think we've not even had that sort
23:39of feel of a dance yeah so um it was very different and you know i had to kind of unlock different
23:44things for it but you know i really enjoyed it good and can't get you said one of your instagrams
23:49posts this about last monday monday after blackpool 7 a.m train from hartlepool i need choreo i have
23:57nothing how did we go from that to five days later getting comments from the judges about great
24:03choreography literally we went from blackpool straight to hartlepool and they filmed all there
24:08and then there was 7am train you feel me because i was just sat there staring out the window going
24:14what am i going to do yeah but so what i do just listen to music and i visualized it you know and
24:20we are so good at telling stories and i needed to give them that strong narrative and i thought i need
24:26a top and tail and you know beautiful storytelling that will sort of bring us back to um the beginning
24:32of the story and it was honestly incredible i loved all of it lewis you have spoken a little bit this
24:38week about how hard it can sometimes be for men to be vulnerable and feel things and feel emotions
24:45tell us why you think that's such an important message well i just think like we do tend to try and
24:51you know protect ourselves and not be vulnerable and not kind of open ourselves to those emotions so
24:57i think you know i had to kind of dig deep for the dance to kind of be vulnerable and kind of
25:03you know just kind of deal with the emotions as they came and stuff and i think it's good to kind
25:08of talk about emotions and usually they're never as bad as they feel once you get them out but also for
25:13movement because all week you were like it feels really uncomfortable to do that sort of movement and
25:18you really had to come to terms and that's okay to express yourself in that way as well i wasn't
25:23really used to moving my hips that way it was exposing in a couple of ways they had emotions of
25:28their own going on okay well we need to talk about instant dance you are the first ever winners of
25:36what were your tactics when you approached it what were you guys going for we just i mean obviously we
25:41knew it was going to be a style that we'd done before yeah so we just kind of we used it as our
25:46warm-ups during the week just trying to do as much as we could during the week the styles literally
25:50would do the foxtrot we'll do the cha-cha we'll do the jive the paso because we didn't know what
25:55we're going to get but that's all we could do prepared we're trying to do it to different pieces
25:59of music just so we could kind of react but we did have the same end ending prepared yeah for every dance
26:05i did if you see the leg go up if you see the loop go through it exactly uh well you are through to
26:13musicals week and on saturday you're going to be doing a salsa to this
26:22dance at the gym west side story are you kidding me this is magic uh you've continued going to the gym
26:29though louis alongside training so surely doing a dance at the gym must be quite comfortable now
26:35well it's no different to every saturday morning really every saturday morning when i'm at the
26:40hotel in the gym i'm going through the dance for that for the night this is you yesterday this is great
26:45guys it's fun it's so fun yeah i've been speaking spanish all week today have you yeah to any
26:52question go soon okay anything else you want to share in spanish um see wow how excited are you
27:02though to reach yet again another milestone at strictly oh it's just amazing i like it's like the gift that
27:07keeps giving this show like every single day is just mint i love it it's kind of i never take any day for
27:12granted so just kind of enjoying every day really oh good and what characters are you guys going to
27:18be playing from what we are actually playing not maria and tony we're playing bernardo and anita
27:24anita's a strong woman she's fiery she's nice a bit of a stretch for you then isn't it
27:34well speaking of which bernardo is he's the leader of the show right okay i said you've got to be in
27:41charge you know they're there to claim their territory right so you had to also find that
27:47who needs to lead the dance yeah and you do nice sometimes but we like nice louis right uh right so
27:54louis another week of hip action from the rumba and now into the salsa how are your hips feeling
28:00they're all right actually to be honest i think i got um warmed up last week so now i'm just trying to
28:04bend it it's it's similar but just bending the knees right sauce is a lot about bending the knees
28:08i'm just bending the knees yeah and you know just trying to keep trying to keep them moving
28:13look like you're not from hartlepool and katia you become accustomed to the delicacies of hartlepool
28:20so what what's better chips and salsa or chicken palmo well choose your next words very carefully
28:26the good thing about palmo is on top you can put anything you like so i'll have chicken palmo with salsa
28:34yes in katia's words more is more well good luck to the two of you it's louis and katya
28:43well that's it for tonight thanks to all of my
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