It Takes Two – Friday 19th October
Friday’s show featured Kimberley & Pasha and Lisa & Robin, the Friday panel consisting of Dionne Warwick, Nancy Dell’Olio and Rufus Hound along with a sneak peek at Colin & Kristina’s Argentine Tango.
Kimberley Walsh & Pasha Kovalev
Kimberley has apparently had a virus this week, but has soldiered on and is feeling better.
Zoe: “You were a little bit sad [with a score of 26]”
Kimberley: “I wasn’t sad about the score, I thought it was a really good mark…it’s just that I messed up a few things…didn’t feel like I did my best”
Zoe: “Did [Len’s comments] hurt?
Kimberley: “I can’t really remember really taking the comments on at the time…all I was thinking is I can’t believe I missed the steps”
Zoe: “How did your girl do, on the night”
Pasha: “She did great, but she’s so self-critical…she keeps drilling herself”
Zoe: “It’s a girl thing…how do you pull her out of that?”
Kimberley: “He’s good at doing that, he just makes me laugh all the time…chocolate helps”
Zoe: “Craig did mention your jaw”
Pasha: “I was inspecting that issue from all the different sides and I couldn’t see anything wrong”
Kimberley: “I really don’t need to start having chin obsessions about my jaw…I was really nervous and I think I was just clenched”
A VT of Kimberley’s various facial expressions during training: Smiley, confused, pouty and intense.
Their song is Judy Garland’s “Get Happy” and they’ll be dancing the Quickstep at Hollywood week tonight.
Zoe: “It’s a Quickstep, how quick is it?”
Kimberley: “Pretty quick”
Pasha: “It’s not THAT quick…the dance is Quickstep but the song is slow”
Kimberley: “I just want to enjoy the dance this week”
Lisa Riley & Robin Windsor
Zoe: “Did you enjoy playing a princess last week?”
Lisa: “I loved it, who wouldn’t…I had to be very ladylike, which I tried my hardest”
When asked about her ‘leading’ on Saturday night Lisa replied that when she get’s nervous she tenses up, her arms go solid and she completely locks up.
Zoe: “Your Cha Cha choreography…how are you going to top that?”
Robin: “My brain’s been working on overtime at the moment…I think tomorrow might actually go one further”
A clip of Lisa as ‘Batman’ with Robin, various sound effects and classic 60s Batman on-screen graphics ensue.
It appears they’re dancing to “Hanky Panky” from Dick Tracy, not Hairspray as I suspected, but that certainly gives them some cheeky choreography opportunities. The training clip in the background looks even faster than the one I saw earlier in the week and could be very promising.
Robin: “If one of us misses ONE step it’s all over”
Zoe: “We saw from Denise that [the Jive] is quite dangerous, have you had any injuries?”
Lisa: “It’s a sore subject, but I’ve got three corns…Robin gets annoyed when I start wingeing”
Jimmy the Meerkat
He failed the test last week, when Sid & Ola failed to finish top of the table, but what will his prediction be for this week?
Kimberley & Pasha are his pick for week 3.
Friday Panel
Dionne Warwick, Rufus Hound and Nancy Dell’Olio are this week’s Friday panel.
Dionne has a commerative album out, might have to check it out; Rufus is taking over from James Cordan in ‘One Man, Two Guvnors’; is Nancy promoting a panto Zoe asks?!
Let’s get their views on the training so far.
Louis & Flavia’s Salsa
Nancy: “I met Louis on TV [Unzipped, we saw a repeat last night] a few days ago…I think they definitely will [do well]”
Rufus: “The question is, are they going to do the [Dirty Dancing ending] lift?”
Zoe: “Yes they are!”
Zoe: “Do you think anyone can recreate the magic of Swayze & Jennifer Grey”
Dionne: “No”
Richard & Erin’s Quickstep
Dolly Parton’s ‘9 to 5’ is going to be their song for the Quickstep, a bit slow I think but maybe the band will do a quicker version.
Zoe: “Do you think he’ll be able to stay out of the bottom two this week?”
Rufus: “I think this dance certainly suits him a lot more than the Jive [I think you meant Cha Cha, Rufus]…so long as they don’t dress him in his Nan’s curtains this week”
Fern & Artem’s Charleston
Artem left the competition last year on a Charleston so let’s hope he can do better this year.
Nancy: “I think she’s definitely looking good…I’m sure they will do very good…Artem is a great teacher”
Their song is ‘Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious’ from Mary Poppins which I think will suit the Charleston.
Victoria & Brendan’s Rumba
Nancy left on a Rumba, how does she rate Victoria’s chances? No answer!
Rufus feels that her performance last week was more like a wounded bird, but thinks if she can actual perform this week it’ll be quite good.
Jerry & Anton’s Quickstep
Their music is ‘Mrs Robinson’, quite apt really though would work better if Anton were younger!
Zoe: “Do you think she’ll be able to bring out the best in this dance?”
Dionne: “Well she certainly has the legs for it”
Rufus: “I think Anton’s the only dancer who is older than Mrs Robinson”
Sid & Ola’s Tango
They’re dancing to Whitesnake’s ‘Here I Go Again’, great song but not sure it’s a tango…
Zoe: “Sid got into trouble with his timing last week, do you think this looks any better?”
Rufus: “If you’ve got that music, and you’ve got Ola, it could be electric…it’s on him…he’s actually really impressive…he’s 40 years old”
Colin & Kristina’s Argentine Tango
Dionne: “He’s hot”
Zoe: “I’ll tell him you said that”
Dionne: “I’m tell him too!”
Nicky & Karen’s Quickstep
Zoe: “He’s had two dodgy weeks, can he bring it back Rufus?”
Rufus: “If he comes out, does the steps, Len’ll praise him”
Rufus has apparently watched the show from the beginning. They have a very quick Quickstep, which concerns me as I think Nicky’s technique is going to really suffer.
Colin Salmon & Kristina Rihanoff
Zoe: “How much did you enjoy your Viennese Waltz?”
Colin: “I really had a great time…one of the reasons I wanted to do the show was to learn how to do Ballroom”
Zoe: “Kristina the judges awarded 6’s, you were a little disappointed”
Kristina: “Yes I thought he deserved higher scores…hopefully they’re going to warm up to us a little bit more”
Zoe: “Have you developed a preference for either [Ballroom or Latin]?”
Colin: “I like Latin…I like the darkness of it…but the Ballroom is romantic”
Kristina: “I’m sorry I can’t grow another 4 inches”
Zoe: “You’re performing consistently well…would you like to see yourself pushed up the leader board?”
Colin: “Yeah I’m competitive so I want to go up…working hard”
Zoe: “Hollywood week…surely as an actor it’s your time to shine?”
Colin: “As an actor I’m sure it is…but Argentine Tango is definitely new territory”
Zoe: “Is it going to be 00-heaven”
Colin: “I hope so”
Colin was recording 8am-11pm Monday to Wednesday, Robin came in later in the week to help them with the lifts.
A quick teaser of their dance: Some nice intensity, though I’m not sure about Colin’s trailing foot during the turns, he also looks like he almost drops her during one of the lines so hopefully they can iron that one out!
You can look for the blog to be updated on Monday morning with my thoughts on the weekend’s action, and for those interested in giving dancing a go we’ve got a Beginner Cha Cha Cha workshop on Sunday afternoon in Eton Wick!
