but I thought that was your best dance so far," says Carrie Ann. The silhouetted staging at the end is quite cute though, so an extra half-point to them for that (hey, if the judges can give out half-points, so can I). There are some nice parts to this dance - the little leap where they cross the floor is superb - and it's a good routine, but, like Kelly's salsa, hesitant in parts. There are tears in camera rehearsals on Sunday afternoon, as a clearly tired Kirstie sits on the stairs at the side of the stage and says that she desperately wants to do better. "It's pretty hard to be a seductress when you can't even walk," Kirstie sighs. I told you that you could set your watch by this show. Maks is being a hard taskmaster, as per usual. Kirstie is struggling to remember the technical nuances of the quickstep during training, but she does remember that she hates "going into frame" from last time. "Kirstie's guilty pleasure is 'Mrs Robinson', and I'm the boy toy," quips Maks. They start with a summit meeting in her kitchen, where there's an impressive fruit bowl atop a beautiful wooden table that proves distracting through a lot of the first part of their VT. Anyway, onto more pertinent matters - Kirstie and Maks have vowed that they won't be in the bottom two this week. Bruno then drapes himself across the desk for the same treatment from Gilles, who obliges with a polite peck on the cheek.Įr, Simon and Garfunkel are a guilty pleasure? What kind of a world are we living in? The soundtrack to The Graduate is a classic. I bet she just wanted a hug and a smooch from Gilles, who gallantly heads over along with Tom to scoop her up. "Let the baby-making begin!" shrieks Carrie Ann, who promptly falls off her chair with a loud scream of excitement. "It was really one of the best performances I've seen." "That was not a dance, that was masterclass theatre! You were expressing every movement as if it were words," he gushes. Personally, I preferred their Bollywood routine last week, but each to their own, eh? It feels like Peta is leading Gilles through later parts of the routine at times, but the crowd loves it anyway. The timing is really, really good throughout. The routine is high on drama, particularly so when Peta slides across the dancefloor like a particularly elegant, sparkly steam cleaner. "I'm going to give the world the best rumba they've ever seen," Gilles claims. The words "orgasmic" and "exciting" are used during rehearsal. So, he explains that when he first heard the song, he was 15 years old and it's synonymous with first time he had "great times with a lady". Peta asks Gilles why on earth he's picked The Bodyguard (and Whitney's) most seminal moment for his guilty pleasure track. Gilles Marini and Peta Murgatroyd - Rumba to 'I Will Always Love You' by Whitney Houston "It wasn't your best, but I think you gave it a good try," she says.
Bruno explains that he thinks Kelly's attempt at the salsa bounce looked a little forced at times, although he does acknowledge that it's a tricky technique to master.Ĭarrie Ann Inaba thinks that Kelly was uncertain throughout the dance. He looks like he's going to get up from his seat in that over-excited way that he frequently does when he really, really likes something, but stops himself. "You're a titillating tasty tease, and I like that part a lot," Bruno Tonioli declares with his characteristic enthusiasm for alliteration. He liked the running promenades and the technical elements, but says in terms of style, it was a "tad on the raunchy side" while making fun of his image as "a kind of conservative, English guy". Len Goodman reminds us all that he's an "enemy of the unnecessary" ( Strictly Come Dancing viewers in the UK need no reminder), and thinks that their routine took a while to get going. It's a shame that all this week's individual dances are so short - they're over before they've barely begun. Who wouldn't want to dance with Val forever given the chance? Aww, look, he's even come to see Kelly at the General Hospital set for this week's VT as she returns to work! Their routine is quite good, if on the short side and a bit stop-start. "I want to dance with you forever," says Kelly to Val.