‘It’s a pressure cooker’ Ashley Roberts details ‘horrendous’ Strictly Come Dancing moment
express.co.ukStrictly Come Dancing experiences in a new episode of the latter’s Private Parts podcast. Jamie, who competed on Strictly in 2020, praised Ashley for her impressive performances that helped her finish in second place in the sixteenth series of the BBC dance show.Despite delivering incredible dances each week, Ashley revealed that behind the scenes she felt pressure to do well given her career as a member of The Pussycat Dolls.She admitted: “Due to having a dance background, I knew people were going to expect that I was going to come out of the gate looking like I knew what I was doing.“I didn’t know the Latin and ballroom stuff.“At the beginning, they were like, ‘What’s your favourite style?’ “And I said the Rumba because somebody told me it was sexy.So, I was like, yeah, coming from The Pussycat Dolls, the Rumba is definitely my favourite.“I had no f***ing clue what I was talking about.”Jamie then chimed in saying that the Rumba is “so hard”, and Ashley echoed that “it is horrendous”.She continued: “It’s the hardest one you can do...
the professionals make it look like it’s oozing sex and I’m up here trying to stand on one leg for eight counts!”Ashley and her partner Pasha Kovalev performed the Rumba in week five and received an impressive score of nine from each judge.Other notable performances from the dancer include her Salsa to Dirty Dancing’s (I’ve Had) The Time Of My Life and Jive to Shake a Tail Feather.Jamie then posed the question of whether Ashley found it scarier performing with The Pussycat Dolls or on Strictly.Ashley answered without hesitation: “Strictly Come Dancing!
It was horrendous. My heart was falling out of my a** every night.”She recalled one particularly terrifying moment when she and Pasha were.
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