BBC's Craig Revel Horwood defends low scores for Strictly star after emotional confession

On the latest episode of BBC's 'It Takes Two', Strictly Come Dancing's judge Craig Revel Horwood shared his honest opinion on the current line-up of celebrities' performances.

During last weekend's show, comedian Chris McCausland, aged 47, along with his dance partner Dianne Buswell delivered a spirited Tango to the tune of KISS' 'Rock and Roll All Nite'. Despite what many saw as a stellar performance, they wound up near the bottom rung of the leader board, receiving only 29 points, reports the Mirror.

Craig was quizzed by host Fleur East on Friday's 'It Takes Two': "On average, you score Chris six points, now for someone who is the favourite for the final. Why the low scores Craig?"

In response, Craig remarked quizzically: "Do I?" He then elaborated: "He still needs to work on a lot of things! I think people at home are falling in love with him, which is absolutely fine, but technically his frame is not great."

Craig continued with constructive criticism: "I mean it has improved, don't get me wrong, but he needs to work on that, he needs to work on his shoulders they keep raising, he needs to still work on his posture. There's still a lot of work to do!"

The conversation followed hot on the heels of Chris and Dianne's appearance on Thursday's 'It Takes Two', where host Janette Manrara did not shy away from pointing out the stark reality. She said: "Chris, despite being both a ballroom fan and a KISS fan you ended up joint second from the bottom of the leaderboard!"

The remark drew a playful reaction from Chris, who is making history as the show's first-ever blind contestant, saying: "Alright, easy Janette! That's a bit..." only for Janette to quickly add: "I was gutted as I was so looking forward to it but the scores didn't reflect that!"

This led Chris to confess: "You know what, I've got no idea whether what I do is good or not I have to be told, don't I? So we did the Samba the week before, we were bottom, and that was hard, it was technical. The Tango, I think I carried a lot of pressure over but those first five shows we did, there was a lot of joy in them. There were a lot of moments, wow moments, we surprised people, we surprised ourselves.

"Then we've had two really technical weeks. The Tango, you can't even smile in it, you've got to look like you'd rather be doing anything else but the Tango! Joint second from the bottom? The competition is hard, I'm just a fella who sits on a stool for a living!"

Meanwhile, Chris' dance partner Dianne revealed her own heartfelt insight into Chris attitude towards his performance, acknowledging that he's "so tough on himself".