FORMER Strictly star Laura Whitmore has laid into the show after being forced to spend long hours training for it. The Love Island presenter - who was partnered with dance professional dancer Giovanni Pernice in 2016 - said she just wanted to dance on the show, not spend 12 hours a day with Giovanni.
Speaking on Private Parts podcast, she said: "What I didn't like was being removed from everybody and having to spend 12 hours a day with this one person. "It did not become about the dancing.
I just wanted to dance. "I did not want to play the game of doing red carets with your dance partner and stuff like that, which a lot of people thought you should be doing.
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