Strictly Come Dancing star Brendan Cole has admitted the show is “hideous” when dancers and celebrity partners don’t get on well.
The professional ballroom dancer, who appeared on the BBC show until 2017, was speaking about the series on SAS: Who Dares Wins.
“If you don’t get on with your partner then Strictly Come Dancing is the most hideous show,” he said. “You’ve got to spend six, seven, eight, nine, 10 hours with them with this person you really don’t like and they don’t like you.
“I am lucky for the most part, my partners were lovely. I had a great relationship with a lot of them, not all of them but a lot of them.”
In 2016, Cole was forced to deny reports that he was arguing with his then-partner, the singer Anastacia, who later revealed she was still in touch with “pretty much everyone” from Strictly, apart from Cole. “We don’t have that kind of connection. It was just for the show,” she said.
Cole also said another of his partners, Lulu, was “blooming awful”, telling Loose Women: “But she felt the same about me, so it’s alright.”
Cole’s other celebrity partners during his time on the show include Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Kelly Brook and Natasha Kaplinsky, with whom he won the first ever series.
The 2020 series of Strictly Come Dancing has been thrown into doubt amid the coronavirus lockdown, but judge Craig Revel Horwood recently said it could follow in the footsteps of Dancing With The Stars Australia and go ahead without a studio audience.
