Graziano Di Prima has revealed that he and Judi Love only had one day to learn and rehearse their cursed Halloween dance on Strictly.
The Loose Women panelist, 41, caught coronavirus -1>coronavirus almost two weeks ago, meaning that the couple were forced to miss the prior weekend's performance.
However, Judi revealed that she had struggled to get better after contracting the virus, posting a Instagram video just last week of herself still in bed.
Sadly, Graziano and Judi were unable to impress the public enough with their performance to Olivia Newton John's Physical and landed in the bottom two with Adam Peaty and Katya Jones.
All four judges chose to save Adam, meaning that Judi and Graziano were axed from the competition.
Appearing on It Takes Two following their exit, Graziano told host Rylan Clark that he was proud of Judi and that they only had one day to properly learn and practice the routine.
He said: "Mentally, she was stronger than before. Physically, she was obviously affected. Plus, we had 10 days we are not rehearsing, she was sick. We had one day before the show.
"But mentally she was so focused. When she came for the day of rehearsal on Friday, she was focused. She knew she was struggling, but you went there."
Rylan clapped as Judi praised Graziano for being "so patient".
"It was like, dance for two minutes, sit down, catch your breath, dance for two minutes," she said. "He was so patient and I can't believe he taught me that in such a short space of time."
"We spoke, didn't we, on Friday night on the show - we did a quick line test with you, I remember," Rylan recalled. "And you were just so out of breath and you said, 'I'm good, it's just knocked it out of me.'
"And I even said after the show, 'Is Judi alright?' I just can't believe how you got through it on Saturday night."
*Strictly: It Takes Two airs weekdays at 6.30pm on BBC Two
