Tess Daly had to apologise after a Strictly Come Dancing star let slip a swear word on the dance floor, in scenes that didn’t make it to the BBC show. Vicky Pattison opened up about her “disastrous” weekend performing the Charleston last week.
She and her professional partner Kai Widdrington received a score of 25 out of 40 from the judges, who felt the performance was lacking in “swivels”. However, the pair were somewhat relieved just to have completed the routine, as their final dress rehearsal had been significantly worse.
Vicky shared the behind-the-scenes drama on her Get A Grip podcast, which she co-hosts with Angela Scanlon, and had invited her dance partner Kai Widdrington as a guest. He prompted her to share the story of their disastrous rehearsal.
Vicky revealed: “Saturday was just like a disaster from start to finish. You know me little headdress thing, obviously I had a wig as well. Yeah. So they put that on. We were dancing the dress rehearsal. And obviously there’s a move where me head goes down and comes up, and the head piece just totally like detached from the wig and fell over me face.
“And I kept trying to shove it up, and it just kept falling back over my eyes. Kai’s going ‘continue carry on’. And, honestly, I was so stressed out and angry, I tried to stop”, reports the Mirror.
“And then when I was finished, that is in the official dress rehearsal, Tess goes goes ‘Oh, you had a bit of stress there with your head piece there’. I says, me f**king wig fell off.”
Vicky then revealed that Tess issued an apology as families with children were in the audience ahead of the official live show that evening.
Luckily, Vicky revealed that for her actual performance, the backstage dressmakers sewed the headpiece onto the wig to prevent a repeat of the mishap.
This week, she and Kai are set to perform the Samba. Speaking on the podcast, Kai shared: “She’s actually good. Yeah, I’m not duping her this week.