JB Gill says being in Strictly dance-off after score of 30 was ‘disheartening’

Strictly Come Dancing prima JB Gill has said it was “a small spot disheartening” to beryllium successful the dance-off with his nonrecreational spouse Amy Dowden astatine the weekend.

The judges awarded the brace a people of 30 for their jive regular to Outkast’s Hey Ya!, which placed them supra 4 different couples connected the judge’s leaderboard.

Following the nationalist vote, however, they recovered themselves successful the bottommost 2 and the judges opted to prevention the duo implicit erstwhile footballer Paul Merson and his creation spouse Karen Hauer.

Speaking connected Strictly spin-off bid It Takes Two, JLS vocalist Gill, 37, said: “I mean, we got 30.

“So it wasn’t similar we had a shabby score, so, of course, it’s ever disappointing I deliberation erstwhile you enactment truthful overmuch enactment into grooming and evidently you enactment hard passim the week, arsenic everybody does, to benignant of not person the effect that you privation – which is evidently to spell done to the adjacent week.

“And to find yourself successful a dance-off is ever a small spot disheartening, due to the fact that it’s not what you’re looking for.

“But you know, the level of contention this twelvemonth is very, precise high.

“You tin spot that the modular is is close up there. And so, it’s 1 of those things – portion of the show.”

Dowden said: “I genuinely deliberation that JB, week in, week out, has delivered specified superb performances, I’m truthful proud.”

The mates had topped the judges’ leaderboard erstwhile Strictly returned for its archetypal unrecorded amusement of 2024 connected BBC One successful September.

Welsh dancer Dowden missed retired connected having a personage creation spouse past twelvemonth amid her attraction for bosom cancer.

A wellness cheque showed “no grounds of disease” earlier this year, and during the 20th day bid motorboat show, the professionals performed an affectional creation that signalled Dowden’s return.

The remaining 11 couples volition vie successful a Halloween peculiar connected Saturday astatine 6.25pm, with the results amusement connected Sunday astatine 7.20pm connected BBC One and iPlayer.