Strictly's Craig Revel Horwood defends his low scores for Chris McCausland after emotional admission

Strictly Come Dancing's Craig Revel Horwood appeared connected Friday's occurrence of It Takes Two, wherever helium gave his thoughts connected each personage truthful acold successful the competition

Strictly Come Dancing's Craig Revel Horwood gave his thoughts connected each personage truthful acold successful the contention connected Friday's occurrence of It Takes Two.

Over the weekend, Chris McCausland, 47, and Dianne Buswell, 35, performed a Tango acceptable to KISS' Rock and Roll All Nite. However, contempt the awesome performance, the duo recovered themselves astir astatine the bottommost of the leaderboard with 29 points.

Appearing connected Friday's It Takes Two, big Fleur East asked: "On average, you people Chris six points, present for idiosyncratic who is the favourite for the final. Why the debased scores Craig?" to which Craig replied: "Do I?" earlier explaining: "He inactive needs to enactment connected a batch of things! I deliberation radical astatine location are falling successful emotion with him, which is perfectly fine, but technically his framework is not great.

"I mean it has improved, don't get maine wrong, but helium needs to enactment connected that, helium needs to enactment connected his shoulders they support raising, helium needs to inactive enactment connected his posture. There's inactive a batch of enactment to do!"

It comes arsenic Chris and Dianne appeared connected Thursday's It Takes Two, wherever big Janette Manrara didn't clasp backmost arsenic she pointed out: "Chris, contempt being some a ballroom instrumentality and a KISS instrumentality you ended up associated 2nd from the bottommost of the leaderboard!"

To which comedian Chris, who is the archetypal ever unsighted contestant connected the show, replied: "Alright, casual Janette! That's a bit..." with Janette rapidly explaining: "I was gutted arsenic I was truthful looking guardant to it but the scores didn't bespeak that!"

This prompted Chris to admit: "You cognize what, I've got nary thought whether what I bash is bully oregon not I person to beryllium told, don't I? So we did the Samba the week before, we were bottom, and that was hard, it was technical. The Tango, I deliberation I carried a batch of unit implicit but those archetypal 5 shows we did, determination was a batch of joyousness successful them. There were a batch of moments, wow moments, we amazed people, we amazed ourselves.

"Then we've had 2 truly method weeks. The Tango, you can't adjacent grin successful it, you've got to look similar you'd alternatively beryllium doing thing other but the Tango! Joint 2nd from the bottom? The contention is hard, I'm conscionable a fella who sits connected a stool for a living!"

Chris' creation partner, Dianne, was speedy to marque an affectional admittance astir the comedian arsenic she admitted he's "so pugnacious connected himself".

Strictly Come Dancing continues connected Saturday nighttime astatine 6:35pm connected BBC One and BBC iPlayer.