Strictly's Vick Hope says judges 'knocked her confidence', while language barrier with Graziano caused problems

Vick Hope got emotional during her exit interview on last night’s Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two, saying that the verdicts of the judges rattled her.

Hope and her dance partner Graziano Di Prima were voted off the show on Sunday night, while controversial couple Seann Walsh and Katya Jones remained following their head-to-head dance off.

“There was some weeks where the judges knocked my confidence but that’s life as well, you pick yourself up and you move onto the next thing and you do it better, there was a level of graft instilled in me,” said the radio presenter.

As for her final dance, she added that she felt there was nothing they would be able to do to make the judges like their dance.

“There was no way they would change their mind about not liking the routine no matter what we did,” she said.

“And that’s really gutting because I just wanted them to enjoy it.”

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She went on to say that the language barrier between her and her Italian trainer Graziano was initially something of an issue.

“Working through that was quite difficult when you’re learning technical things, especially with the cha-cha-cha, and I think I’ve learn’t to become more patient and more confident,” she added.

“You have to remember you got to do this incredible thing, I’m so lucky, especially if it’s someone like me.

“I’m in a job where something like that sort of thing doesn’t come around very often and what an amazing experience, I’m so glad I got to spend it with you Gratz.

“What an amazing platform, it’s an opportunity to connect with an audience I would never have been able to speak to before, it’s amazing to have support from these people.”

Hope said yesterday that she felt head judge Shirley Ballas had it in for her, and didn’t like her from the beginning of the competition.

“I wish I knew, [why]” she said while appearing on Capital Breakfast. “I think I’ve gotta be careful what I say here, because you never know what someone’s thinking. And it was from week one that people were suggesting there was something there, I don’t know.

“It’s been consistent and Saturday night I really felt it was just weird, wasn’t it? I’d never really been spoken to like that. She really relished in it.”

Strictly returns with its Halloween show on Saturday night.

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