Chris McCausland admitted he’s suffered an ’emotional’ few days and is feeling ‘worn down’ as he and his pro partner Dianne Buswell appeared on Strictly It Takes Two this week ahead of the BBC finale.

The comedian, 47, who is the dancing competition’s first blind contestant, is now odds on the favourite to win the series.

But despite his and Dianne’s, 35, strong performance in the hit BBC dance contest, which saw them sail through to the final this week, the pair have revealed that the past few days have been emotional and nearly left them in tears.

Speaking to It Takes Two host Janette Manrara, 41, Chris admitted that he’s still recovering.

He said: ‘Do you know what, I haven’t really truly recovered, it’s been an emotional few days this week and it’s been…I feel worn down.’

‘My resilience has been worn down and I kind of fell apart a bit on Saturday and I haven’t fully recovered.’

Chris McCausland admitted he's suffered an 'emotional' few days and is feeling 'worn down' as he appeared on Strictly It Takes Two this week ahead of the BBC finale
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Chris McCausland admitted he’s suffered an ’emotional’ few days and is feeling ‘worn down’ as he appeared on Strictly It Takes Two this week ahead of the BBC finale

The comedian, 47, who is the dancing competition's first blind contestant, is now odds on the favourite to win the series alongside his pro dance partner Dianne Buswell, 35
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The comedian, 47, who is the dancing competition’s first blind contestant, is now odds on the favourite to win the series alongside his pro dance partner Dianne Buswell, 35

He added: ‘We’ve been, you know, training this week and I’ve had a few wobbles haven’t I?’

Dianne agreed, telling Chris: ‘You have, emotional wobbles’ Chris then added: ‘It’s incredible but I’m still feeling quite emotional.’

Dianne then opened up about how Chris has beaten the odds and turned a ‘weakness’ into a strength.

She told Janette: ‘I had a lot of messages tell me (at the start) that I would have a pretty quick season but we showed people that there’s so much more that is possible than what people actually think and that’s a real nice feeling, isn’t it Chris? to show that we can do more than what they think we can.’

 

She added: ‘And you never know, it might work out, and it certainly did.’

Discussing the comments on their latest dance, Chris told Janette: ‘Craig did say it needed more energy but I would like to say to Craig, that if I gave it any more energy then I would have left in an ambulance before the Viennese Waltz.’

On Saturday the dance partners will be bringing back from week three a Waltz to Liverpool anthem You’ll Never Walk Alone, and Dianne is hoping to improve Chris’ performance this time too.

Confessing his achievement so far this week almost reduced her to tears, she said: ‘His legs are stronger, the rise and fall is just so much more controlled.’

Despite his and Dianne's strong performance in the dance contest which saw them sail through to the final, the pair have revealed that the past few days have been emotional
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Despite his and Dianne’s strong performance in the dance contest which saw them sail through to the final, the pair have revealed that the past few days have been emotional

 

Speaking to host Janette Manrara, Chris said: 'Do you know what, I haven¿t really truly recovered, it¿s been an emotional few days this week and it¿s been¿I feel worn down'
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Speaking to host Janette Manrara, Chris said: ‘Do you know what, I haven’t really truly recovered, it’s been an emotional few days this week and it’s been…I feel worn down’

It comes after Chris and DIanne became emotional after their performance last week
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It comes after Chris and DIanne became emotional after their performance last week

The comedian and his partner Dianne scored a 36 for their Viennese waltz to Metallica track Nothing Else Matters
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The comedian and his partner Dianne scored a 36 for their Viennese waltz to Metallica track Nothing Else Matters

‘I watched it back and I watched the video of what we’ve been able to achieve this week and it almost sent me to tears because it’s improved so much since then, and it’s just incredible to see this improvement honestly.’

Last week, Chris and his partner Dianne scored 36 out of 40 for their Viennese waltz to Metallica track Nothing Else Matters, and the pair became emotional once they got back stage.

With his arm around Dianne, Chris held back tears as he told host Claudia Winkleman: ‘When you start this series, they ask you for a list of songs you like. And I put this song on it and didn’t know anything about dancing.’

‘Underneath it, I wrote “I reckon this might suit one of those spinny whizzy ones” and I was right! But it’s incredible and it felt wonderful to do it with Diane.’

Friends of the CBeebies star had come to support him in the studio audience at the semi-final, and he admitted he was an ’emotional wreck’ with them there.

He warned Claudia: ‘Don’t get me started, I’m an emotional wreck tonight. I’m telling you.’

He added: ‘You know what you’re doing is big when your really close mates don’t take the mickey out of you.’