BBC Strictly Come Dancing's Anton du Beke defends Shayne Ward from backlash as he warns 'I want you to focus'

Shayne Ward antecedently received backlash pursuing absorption to his archetypal creation with spouse Nancy Xu past week

Following backlash station his archetypal show with nonrecreational spouse Nancy Xu past week, Strictly Come Dancing justice Anton du Beke has addressed the absorption during his constructive disapproval during the star's 2nd show connected Saturday night.

Shayne and Nancy took to the creation level to execute a tango to The Door by Teddy Swims and received immoderate absorbing comments from Anton.

After the performance, Anton passionately expressed: "I privation you to perceive to this, I privation you to concentrate. I privation you to germinate yourself into the dance, it's astir the dance.

"I astatine the moment, don't privation to cognize astir you, astatine the moment. I volition bash later, close present I privation you to beryllium successful the creation and erstwhile you bash that, you get this due to the fact that it's intense, it's together, you're successful beauteous harmony.

"The euphony is portion of the full accumulation arsenic good and it's a implicit bit. I privation you to absorption connected that due to the fact that moving forward, you tin beryllium a existent powerhouse successful this competition."

Anton's co-judge Craig Revel Horwood intelligibly agreed arsenic helium said: "I wholly hold with Anton, you are the 1 to watch."

The erstwhile X Factor victor received a steadfast people of 31 from the judges, a monolithic betterment from the erstwhile week.

After his archetypal performance, viewers flocked to societal media to statement Shayne arsenic "overconfident" and "cocky", frankincense sparking a backlash.

Someone commented astatine the time: "The overconfidence is really thing I'm not enjoying astir Shayne close now."

Another X idiosyncratic penned: "Shayne's not learned that no-one takes to the hyper-confident competitory ones, has he?"

While a 3rd added: "Find idiosyncratic that loves you arsenic overmuch arsenic Shayne Ward loves himself."

Shayne appeared to code the backlash with an Instagram station that read: "Strictly is astonishing and I emotion being portion of it. But done my grin connected TV I'm arsenic tense arsenic the adjacent person.

"Not cocky oregon overconfident... I'm nervous! I conscionable gotta enactment hard and perceive to my fantastic teacher [Nancy]. All I tin bash is my best!"

His spouse Nancy besides appeared to support him arsenic she wrote connected her Instagram communicative this week: "Samba decidedly is 1 of the hardest dances to statesman with. You tin archer by my look however overmuch I was amazed and blessed and arrogant of [Shayne].

"NOBODY is assured stepping connected the Strictly dancefloor, particularly [being watched and judged] by millions and 4 legends."

Strictly Come Dancing continues contiguous astatine 7:15pm connected BBC One and BBC iPlayer.