BBC Strictly Come Dancing star JB Gill reveals biggest 'challenge' of working with Lauren Oakley

JB Gill and Lauren Oakley spoke astir their Strictly Come Dancing travel truthful acold connected Good Morning Britain today, arsenic helium opened up connected the biggest challenge

Strictly Come Dancing prima JB Gill has opened up astir his biggest "challenge" connected the show.

JLS prima JB has faced rather the Strictly travel truthful far, aft his spouse Amy Dowden pulled retired of the amusement owed to injury. As a result, Lauren Oakley stepped successful - initially to screen for 1 week - earlier taking her spot permanently.

Amy and JB were partnered unneurotic from the get go, arsenic the Strictly prima made her large instrumentality to the amusement afloat clip pursuing her crab treatment. However, an injured ft meant she had to propulsion retired of the amusement and Lauren took her place.

Speaking connected Good Morning Britain today, JB revealed: "It's going truly really well. It's a monolithic alteration and a monolithic shift, particularly erstwhile you're moving with 1 idiosyncratic continuously and you enactment things retired and past you've got a strategy successful place. So to alteration that was a challenge. But it's been amazing. It's a antithetic benignant of learning and moving together."

Host Ed Balls past asked which 1 of his partners was the toughest teacher - and it mightiness astonishment you.

"They're some beauteous pugnacious - but it's me," JB shared, arsenic Lauren added: "He says I privation to bash it again. Sometimes it's the different mode around, I'm similar again?" JB added: "Both of them were precise bully to accidental springiness it 5 minutes, fto it settee and past we tin spell again."

Despite Amy not being connected the amusement anymore for this series, JB and her are inactive large friends.

He told The Mirror: "She messaged this greeting conscionable to find retired however things are going. We’ve been successful interaction beauteous overmuch each time for the past mates of weeks, conscionable talking astir the routine, and offering proposal wherever she can. Amy’s played a monolithic relation successful my improvement arsenic a dancer and my knowing and cognition erstwhile it comes to ballroom dancing. The transition’s not been easy, but the amusement indispensable spell on. The main happening truly is for her to remainder and get better."

Last week, JB and Lauren's Viennese waltz to Let’s Go Fly A Kite from Mary Poppins got them apical of the leaderboard, arsenic they impressed with a people of 39 retired of 40 points. Judge Anton du Beke told them they were: "practically cleanable successful each imaginable way" arsenic helium described their regular arsenic "the champion creation of the night".

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