Former Arsenal footballer Paul Merson has admitted he "couldn’t do better" after being voted off Strictly Come Dancing on Sunday night.
The 56-year-old was speaking on the BBC dancing show’s sister programme, It Takes Two, on Monday, where he said he was "very proud" of his performances, after becoming the fourth contestant to be eliminated from the 20th anniversary series.
Merson and professional partner Karen Hauer lost to JLS star JB Gill and Amy Dowden in the dance-off after coming bottom of the leaderboard on Saturday night with their samba to Car Wash by R&B group Rose Royce gaining just 19 points from the judges.
Speaking of his time on the show and his final performance, the former England midfielder said: "I wouldn’t know if that was hard or not.
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