Morning Live's Gethin Jones offers support to 'terrified' Strictly star Dr Punam on air

Gethin Jones made definite to springiness his co-star Dr Punam Krishan a shoutout connected Morning Live pursuing her unthinkable Strictly Come Dancing performance, saying she was 'brilliant'

Gethin Jones was speedy to connection his Morning Live co-star Dr Punam Krishan enactment pursuing her 2nd unrecorded show connected Strictly Come Dancing. The TV host, on with colleagues Helen Skelton and Jon Kay, gave a immense shoutout to Dr Punam connected the BBC One show, branding her "brilliant".

As the camera chopped to the BBC Breakfast studio, presenter Jon Kay exclaimed: "We're each loving our person Dr Punam arsenic well, isn't she superb connected Strictly!" His remark prompted Gethin to reveal: "She was terrified, but she did brilliantly."

Helen, who competed connected Strictly successful 2022 and came successful 2nd place, past added: "They're conscionable a apical team! We're truthful grateful that she's got Gorka and he's got her." Jon past excitedly said: "Yeah, they're perfectly fantastic, loving it!"

Dr Punam, 41, who regularly appears connected Morning Live to springiness proposal and stock information, is competing connected this year's Strictly Come Dancing with Spanish pro Gorka Marquez. The duo person truthful acold impressed connected the creation floor, with their 2nd show connected Saturday, 28 September truly getting fans talking.

Gorka and Punam danced the foxtrot to Shania Twain's Man! I Feel Like A Woman! and portion their dancing was praised by fans, galore were much distracted by Gorka's racy outfit. The dancer sported a achromatic mesh apical alongside PVC trousers and a brace of acheronian achromatic sunglasses arsenic helium danced with Dr Punam, who wore a achromatic formal featuring a garment and tie.

Many fans took to Twitter, present X, arsenic they commented connected Gorka's achromatic PVC trousers and mesh top, a motion to Shania Twain's video clip for her her song. "Gorka successful a kilt and pvc trousers", a delighted instrumentality penned. Another added: "Gorka volition find immoderate excuse to deterioration latex and spot done shirts and I emotion that for him (and us)", portion a 3rd echoed: "There was a dance…?! …my eyes were firmly connected @gorkamarquez1".

Dr Punam is competing against chap celebrities including Tasha Ghouri, Chris McCausland, Pete Wicks, Jamie Borthwick, Nick Knowles, Sam Quek among others. Following the 2nd unrecorded amusement of the series, Olympic champion Tom Dean was sadly voted disconnected the show, making him and pro dancer Nadiya Bychkova the archetypal brace to beryllium eliminated.

Nadiya and Tom faced Toyah Wilcox and Neil Jones successful the dreaded dance-off, with the judges yet deciding to prevention Toyah and Neil. Tom's archetypal 2 performances had gone down good connected the show, with him and Nadiya having pulled successful 23 points for his tango debut and 20 points for his Cha Cha, which placed him supra chap celebs Nick Knowles, Pete Wicks, Punam Krishan and Paul Merson connected the leaderboard.