Nikita Kuzmin was left asking if he had just been "cancelled" during an appearance on It Takes Two, after host Ellie Taylor pulled him up on a comment about dancing with Dani Dyer.
Returning on Thursday, November 5, Ellie Taylor looked ahead to the weekend's live show and caught up with Dani Dyer and professional dancer Nikita Kuzmin.
Comment on Ballroom Dancing
During their chat, Ellie told Dani she was evenly matched in Latin and ballroom dances and asked if she had a favourite. Turning to Nikita, Dani said: "I love them both really. You always say I'm good at ballroom."
Nikita replied: "It's so comfy to dance ballroom with you. It's so comfy when the partner just sits in her pocket. You can just drive and move..."
A surprised Ellie interjected: "You can't say that about women these days Nikita!" As Nikita looked on open-mouthed, she added: "I'm joking, I'm joking." Nikita then looked into the camera and asked: "Did I just get cancelled?"
Light-hearted Exchange
Ellie continued: "In the context of ballroom dancing you're absolutely fine!" Nikita joked: "Ballroom dance pocket, not whatever pocket you're talking about!"
"So she really knows how to hold her frame?" Ellie added as she attempted to move the chat on, to which Nikita replied: "She does!"
It is the second year that Dani and Nikita have been paired together, after she was forced to leave Strictly before the first live shows last year due to injury. After finding themselves in the bottom two following the judges' scores in Icons Week, when they received 25 points, they were saved from the dance-off when the viewers' scores were added.
Recent Performances
Last weekend's Halloween show saw them achieve their highest score yet - 32 out of 40 - impressing the judges with their Viennese Waltz to My Favourite Things from The Sound of Music.
It was Emmerdale star Lawrence Robb and pro partner Jowita Przystał who were eliminated in a three-way dance-off after failing to impress with their Ghostbusters-themed tango. Lawrence joined Bethany Antonia and Jaime Winstone as the three celebrities in the dance-off, which saw the judges voting to eliminate rather than save someone.
Speaking on It Takes Two last Monday, Ellie said: "Lawrence, I can see you getting emotional now. What has meant the most to you?"
Looking at Jowita, he said: "I think number one is meeting an incredible person, and this girl here. The sense of family, the love and the joy that it brings every week, the people, and the journey.
"The idea of not knowing how to do any ballroom and Latin dancing at all, and then learning it in, what, three and a half days, and then performing it to millions of people is just, it's just wild.
"And also, I think that this should apply to any of the couples still in it, and past couples as well. That doing Strictly is… Well, you've already won. You've got the achievement of doing Strictly. You've been on Strictly, and then anything on top of that is, you know, icing cherry on top of the cake."
Strictly Come Dancing is on BBC One and BBC iPlayer.
