'We fell out plenty of times' Joe Sugg details 'intense' Strictly rehearsals with Dianne

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Strictly Come Dancing makes you see "the best and the worst in someone" due to the "intense" time you spend with your dance partner on the show, as he admitted clashing with partner Dianne Buswell "plenty of times".The 31-year-old Youtube star danced with the professional on the show back in 2018.The dancing duo made it to the final where they missed out on winning the Glitterball trophy to Stacey Dooley and Kevin Clifton.Reflecting on his experience, Joe admitted that despite being all smiles on camera, he and Dianne regularly clashed behind-the-scenes.He revealed: "On that show, I think you see the best in someone and the worst in someone, especially if you get to those later stages, you're spending like 12 hour days.(sic)"It is very intense and you fall out, we fell out plenty of times, I'm sure.Piers Morgan delivers dig to Meghan Markle as kids gain royal titles"Every week we were like, 'Oh, I'm going home'."I always felt like I needed to make her proud, and I'm not a natural dancer, I can't dance, so I had to purely rely on Dianne to teach me."Joe went on to say that the more you stay in the BBC competition, the stressful it gets."I'm sure she saw the worst in me and I saw the worst in her in some of those weeks," he added to Kate Thornton on her White Wine podcast.Despite their clashes, Joe went on to say the positive times outweighed the negatives on the show.His hard work and dedication made him the most successful male contestant of the series competing in an intense final with Stacey and Kevin, Ashley Roberts and Pasha Kovalev and Faye Tozer and Giovanni Pernice.Throughout the series, he and Dianne were at the centre of dating rumours which they brushed aside at the time.