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.