Strictly Come Dancing professional Aljaz Skorjanec has confessed he’s “shaking” before his upcoming routine with La Voix.
The pair will be performing a Cha Cha Cha on Saturday evening to Hit Me With Your Best Shot, with Chris Dennis – the programme’s inaugural Drag Queen contestant – warning it could prove “dangerous”.
During their stint on It Takes Two with presenter Fleur East, Chris revealed: “There’s moves in this choreography that if they go wrong, one of us could be knocked out.”
The performer continued: “There are drops to the floor, you’re going to see acrobatics.”
When jokingly suggesting that Aljaz should now incorporate those manoeuvres into his routine, the professional dancer responded: “Why would you say that? !”, reports the Mirror.
View 2 Images Chris Dennis and Alijaz Skorjanec on Strictly’s It Takes Two(Image: BBC)
“La Voix’s dance partner can’t do those things,” Aljaz protested.
He continued: “I’m genuinely worried, the dance and the story of the dance, like Chris just said, is very intense. That’s the best way to do it.
“And if you do one move too soon or one move too late it can be seriously dangerous.”
“There’s a lot of jeopardy in this,” Fleur observed, as Aljaz confessed: “I’m shaking, actually.”
View 2 Images La Voix and Alijaz have teased a “dangerous” routine this week(Image: BBC)
This comes after La Voix spoke about Alijaz incorporating her signature humour into their performances, but said she was ready to lean less on humour as a “safety hook”.
She told BBC News: “We’ve got to do this really straight, really sincere, and really beautiful. And that’s hard for me.
“I need to show a journey, that I’m versatile, I can do both. I think it would really be nice for the judges to see that I am taking the dancing seriously.
“I really want to do well in the competition.”
She added: “I just want to do as well as I can in Strictly and to work with a burly bloke like Aljaž is a nice bonus.”