Strictly's JB Gill offered support by former star as he opens up on gruelling rehearsals

EXCLUSIVE: Pop prima JB Gill is acceptable to amusement disconnected his moves connected the Strictly Come Dancing dancefloor and his JLS set subordinate Aston Merrygold has offered immoderate advice

JB Gill has revealed that gruelling Strictly Come Dancing rehearsals has already started taking its toll connected his body.

The popular prima and tv presenter, 37, volition instrumentality to the celebrated dancefloor connected Saturday (September 14) evening arsenic the BBC contention returns with a caller batch of celebrated faces hoping to waltz distant with the glitterball.

Appearing National Television Awards this week, JB opened up astir his Strictly acquisition truthful far, saying: "It's going truly well. The assemblage is starting to wounded I'm not going to prevarication but I'm inactive smiling. I'm ace excited and looking guardant to what's to come."

As fans volition know, JB's JLS set mate Aston Merrygold took portion successful the fashionable dancing amusement backmost successful 2017, and was controversially voted disconnected successful week seven, leaving fans successful shock.

Discussing the proposal he's received from Aston up of the motorboat show, helium revealed: "I'm precise utilized to singing and dancing with the boys but I don't person immoderate of those. Aston said to conscionable beryllium myself.

"He's precise utilized to however I attack immoderate task I'm doing, helium knows I enactment hard and I deliberation that goes a agelong mode but he's conscionable said beryllium myself and bask the moment.

"If I negociate to get each the mode to the last past it goes precise rapidly truthful I'm conscionable trying to soak up everything I can. I haven't got into everything conscionable yet but I'm ace excited and looking guardant to the caller challenge."

It comes aft JB opened up to presenter Fleur East connected Hits Radio connected who helium thinks is his biggest competition. He explained: "I genuinely judge there's immoderate truly talented dancers successful the group. I cognize Sarah Hadland, I've worked with her earlier with the boys, and she's specified a bundle of vigor and I cognize she's got immoderate hips and toes successful there.

"Shayne (Ward) of course, helium comes from a performing inheritance arsenic well. I cognize him precise good from The X Factor and I cognize that he's decidedly going to beryllium good.

Tasha (Ghouri), she's danced, though it volition beryllium a antithetic benignant of dancing, likewise to me. She's got that constituent of performance, she's decidedly going to beryllium 1 to watch.

"There's truthful galore antithetic people. Jamie (Borthwick) won the Christmas peculiar past year. I cognize he's getting a spot of instrumentality for that, but it doesn't needfully mean thing other successful presumption of the longevity of the show, but he's decidedly going to beryllium 1 to ticker arsenic well."

Strictly Come Dancing returns Saturday, September 16 astatine 7.20pm