The Apprentice star Thomas Skinner was partnered up with skilled dancer Amy Dowden at Strictly’s launch present.
Whereas the glitz and glamour of Strictly Come Dancing returned to our screens final night time with its sequin stuffed launch present, one contestant is already in scorching water as viewers sense rigidity within the new Strictly partnership.
Nevertheless, The Apprentice star Thomas Skinner has since taken to social media to challenge a promise to his skilled dancing associate forward of the primary dwell present subsequent week, saying he “will not let her down”.
Final night time, September 20, Strictly danced again onto our TVs and partnered up 15 anxious celebrities with their skilled dancers. The episode revealed that Thomas was partnered up with Welsh dancer Amy Dowden, who’s making her Strictly comeback after combating most cancers and an damage final 12 months.
After the pairing was revealed on the present, Amy excitedly took to social media to share with followers her happiness at being paired with the truth star, stories the Mirror.
Together with the official photograph of the pair sporting their glowing dance outfits, Amy wrote on Instagram: “The information is out! @iamtomskinner and I are excited and dealing onerous rrrrrready for the primary dwell present subsequent Saturday! Tom is working so onerous and is loving studying to bop (greater than he ever imagined). We’re laughing heaps too!”
She added: “Truthfully Tom it’s been so pretty attending to know the actually pretty, bubbly, energetic you this week. Thanks for an excellent week and so wanting ahead to our strictly journey forward! Let’s do that.”
Vowing to work onerous for his associate, Thomas replied within the feedback: “Actually actually loved coaching with you this week. You might be truthfully an incredible particular person and every thing you could have been via…. Exhibits how robust and galvanizing you might be.
“I promise I received’t allow you to down. I may not be the most effective dancer. However I promise I’ll be the toughest employee. Thanks for being so form and wonderful to me and I’ve loved your organization a lot. I ain’t stopped laughing with ya.”
He concluded by writing: “Can’t wait to get on that dance flooring with ya subsequent week. Bosh.”
Whereas the pair appear to be excited to be starting their Strictly journey collectively on social media, some followers of the present have been satisfied that they noticed some rigidity between Thomas and Amy through the launch present.
Through the duo’s interview on the episode, Claudia Winkleman requested the Apprentice star what his dream breakfast would include.
He replied: “The perfect breakfast. We’re taking place Deano’s cafe, good and early, earlier than we get began, get spicy Korean noodles, with hen breasts and poached eggs and somewhat little bit of Tabasco sauce. Or, when you do not fancy that, we are able to have the sunshine hen curry with the spherical chips.”
Because the 34-year-old described his excellent brekkie, some viewers observed Amy recoil. She then went on to quip that they might be dancing carefully collectively throughout their time on present and was apprehensive that his breakfast selections could result in unhealthy breath.
Nevertheless, Thomas shortly brushed this off by promising to make use of checking gum to maintain his breath contemporary earlier than they begin dancing.
On prime of those rigidity rumours, Thomas has been experiencing a variety of backlash this week after he admitted to dishonest on his spouse.
Speaking to The Solar, he confessed: “I had a fling. It was nothing greater than that. It was the one time, it was a mistake. I awoke feeling completely horrible about it.
“I felt so responsible. I advised my spouse. I let her down in that transient second of insanity the place I wasn’t considering, the place I didn’t recognize what I had. After I advised my spouse, I absolutely understood if she was to by no means converse to me once more. Nobody else made me do what I’ve completed. Nevertheless it simply exhibits one thing so transient might wreck your life.”
Amy is hoping to get additional within the competitors this season after she was pressured to drag out final 12 months as a result of an damage. This had been a battle for the 35-year-old as she had simply made her return to the competition, through which she was partnered with JB Gill from JLS, after bravely battling breast most cancers the 12 months earlier than.
