Strictly Come Dancing star Tasha Ghouri admitted to Aljaz Skorjanec that she’s struggling.
Strictly Come Dancing star Tasha Ghouri made a frank admission about her struggles with her latest dance with Aljaz just a day before the pair fell into the bottom two and were forced to dance off again.
The hearing impaired Love Island star struggled on Saturday, falling into the dance off with her pro partner Aljaz Skorjanec against Pete Wicks and his pro partner Jowita Przystal.
Tasha and Aljaz performed their waltz to (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman by Aretha Franklin, while Wicks and Przystal performed their Argentine tango to Bitter Sweet Symphony by The Verve.
Tasha Ghouri struggled this week in rehearsals (Image: BBC)
Fortunately for Tasha, the judges chose to give her a ticket to the final, sending Pete and Jowita home at the final hurdle.
After their dances, judges Craig Revel Horwood, Motsi Mabuse and Anton Du Beke all chose to save Tasha and Aljaz who had received a perfect score for their waltz during Saturday night’s show.
But speaking to Fleur East on BBC Strictly companion show Strictly It Takes Two, Tasha admitted that she had found the rehearsals difficult going into the weekend, at one point giving up completely and missing a key rehearsal dance.
Aljaz said the pair had been forced to miss a rehearsal dance entirely, telling Fleur: “It’s not just two dances being so different, but being so difficult, both of them.
“And that salsa couldn’t have had more steps in it. The lifts… when we were running through rehearsals we were literally on the floor hyperventilating for five minutes after every single run.
“And on Friday doing the camera run we were probably the only couple that couldn’t do the three runs.
“Only did two and then we stopped!”
Tasha added: “I remember being on the floor, I looked at him and I went, ‘I don’t think I can do any more. I really don’t think I’ve got it in me.”
The pair are now odds-on for an ‘early exit’, being announced first as the fourth placed couple according to bookies Betfred, with Chris McCausland the favourite to win the competition.
