Strictly couple break silence as they hit back at Craig Revel Horwood’s calls for them to be AXED

STRICTLY creation duos person been making large headlines this season, and present 1 brace successful peculiar person deed back.

Towie's Pete Wicks and his creation spouse Jowita Przystał person fought backmost aft comments by 1 justice successful peculiar past play called for them to beryllium axed from the show.

The mates had performed a romantic rumba to Oasis classical 'Don't Look Back successful Anger.'

However, their moves caused contention and choler with 1 judge, arsenic Craig Revel Horwood criticised immoderate "illegal" moves successful their routine, which led to them receiving a little score.

Following the creation debacle, Pete and Jowita headed to It Takes Two past nighttime to archer their broadside of their dancing story.

The behind-the-scenes show, that airs Monday to Friday during the tally of Strictly Come Dancing, saw the mates sermon their prime to see the 'illegal' lifts, which were the taxable of Craig's comments.

Pete said: "I don't deliberation we should get immoderate blasted for that."

"As acold arsenic I'm concerned, that's the creation truthful acold that I've enjoyed the most, surprising. I felt similar I was conscionable dancing arsenic maine alternatively than trying to retrieve steps, that's the archetypal clip I've done that."

He added, "I was conscionable going with it and felt similar I wasn't trying to conscionable creation without reasoning astir it. That's wherefore we did it, it felt right."

Jowita said she believed the creation was beauteous with the brace choosing to absorption connected the storyline, alternatively than the technicalities.

When big Janette Manrara asked Pete his favourite portion of the show helium said it was the ending: "The full thing, I recovered truly really hard. It's specified an unnatural mode of moving for idiosyncratic who isn't a dancer. The full happening is conscionable unnatural for me. I cognize it was amerciable but I truly enjoyed that genu spin."

He added, "Originally, we weren't expected to bash that, it was thing Jowita had seen and we expanded it. Originally it was a 180 crook and we made it a 360."

He besides told viewers helium was a rebel astatine heart: "I've ne'er been 1 to travel the rules! Do I look similar the benignant of geezer who plays by the rules?"

Last week justice Craig Revel Horwood shocked fans of the duo aft taking a swipe astatine the pair.

He demanded they were "disqualified" implicit their amerciable lift.

According to Craig, the rules authorities that, successful a rumba, 1 ft indispensable stay connected the crushed astatine each times.

He said: "That is wholly illegal. There were 2 lifts, 1 ft should stay connected the level astatine each times."

"Of course, it's up to the nonrecreational if they privation to suffer marks for that," helium continued.

"And of course, you'll beryllium marked down for that, and I deliberation adjacent a disqualification darling."