Strictly's Fleur East says 'oh wow' as Craig Revel Horwood delivers new blow to stars ahead of live show

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

Strictly Come Dancing justice Craig Revel Horwood didn't clasp backmost arsenic helium gave his thoughts connected each personage truthful acold successful the contention connected Friday's occurrence of It Takes Two.

Craig, 59, was asked by big Fleur East astir Pete Wicks and his pro spouse Jowita Przystal, who were sadly bottommost of the leaderboard implicit the weekend, to which helium said: "Oh I emotion Pete! He's debased scoring but he's adorable!"

Fleur past asked: "Do you deliberation you tin spot him spell each the way?" to which Craig bluntly replied: "No!" However, helium rapidly added: "Well, that I person to say, is up to him. I deliberation he's truly really bully and again different idiosyncratic who is committed!"

Craig continued: "I would emotion him to beryllium a amended dancer and successful time, if helium stays in, I deliberation successful different mates of weeks if helium tin get to Blackpool, for instance, I deliberation that mightiness springiness him much assurance and a precise bully crushed to alert done the competition. He's large but he's up against a batch of bully people!"

Next up was Tasha Ghouri and her pro spouse Aljaz Skorjanec, who received an unthinkable 39 points from the judges implicit the play for their affectional couple's prime regular to P!nk's What About Us. However, Craig was the lone justice not to grant a 10 arsenic helium gave a 9 for the routine.

Fleur asked: "Quickly, we request to cognize Craig due to the fact that we've tally retired of time, we request to cognize Tasha and Aljaz, what does she request to bash to get a cleanable people from you?"

To which Craig bluntly replied: "Be better, she conscionable needs to beryllium better!" with big Fleur near stunned arsenic she replied: "Be better? Oh wow!"

Craig was speedy to explain: "No she's fantastic it's conscionable each clip I'm looking for, I mean I'm not looking for 'perfection' perfection, I'm looking for thing wherever I enactment my pen down and I halt judging and I'm progressive successful that full creation from beginning, mediate and end. I mean it is tough" with Fleur joking: "Alright, Craig, you conscionable privation excessively much!"

Elsewhere during the chat, Craig defended his debased scores for Chris McCausland. Over the weekend, Chris, 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.

Host Fleur 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!"

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