Strictly’s JB Gill responds to dance experience backlash as Amy Dowden admits to feeling the pressure

Strictly’s Amy Dowden feels the pressure amid JB Gill dance experience backlash Strictly - It Takes Two/ BBC

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00:00But this dance though, the cha-cha-cha, is miles apart.

00:03Completely different from boy band moves.

00:06How are you finding the difference?

00:08Well, it's so different to last week.

00:09It's completely different, like you say,

00:11to anything that I've personally done.

00:13And cha-cha's incredibly technical.

00:15You know, it's one of those things,

00:16you know, I keep trying to put my favour into it

00:18and Amy's like, no, just forget all of that,

00:20undo it and just do this.

00:23And it's tough.

00:24It's hard and that song's very, very fast.

00:26But, you know, I love the fact that Amy's pushing me

00:28and challenging me, you know,

00:29because for me, I think that's what this is all about.

00:31You know, I came to learn, to develop as a dancer as well.

00:35And dance has changed, I think, over the last five, ten years.

00:38And so I'm learning new things and that's what it's all about.

00:41And Amy's, I mean, what better hands than Amy?

00:42And I need to ask you though, Amy,

00:44because Craig is putting a little bit of pressure

00:47because he's expecting high hopes from JB

00:50because of his boy band status.

00:52Does that put pressure on you when it comes to choreographing?

00:54Yeah, absolutely.

00:55And especially being top of the leaderboard last week,

00:57there's an expectation to deliver.

00:59But I can remember being in the training room week one

01:01and being like, have you ever had a dance lesson before?

01:04And other than working with the band, he's like,

01:06no, Amy, I promise.

01:07He's just naturally talented.

01:10He's got something you can't teach.

01:12But yes, that does put pressure on me.

01:14So then I do keep giving quite a lot of hard,

01:16fast steps this week.

01:18Yeah.

01:19She's like, it's too easy.

01:20I'm going to have to change it.

01:21Yeah.