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She admitted to ‘struggling’ with the challenges of the show last week, but after a rousing pep talk from dance partner Johannes Radebe, Annabel Croft wowed Strictly viewers with an energetic jive last night.
Dancing to Feel It Still by Portugal The Man, the former tennis ace cast aside her doubts and scored an impressive 29.
Croft wasn’t the only star to have felt the pressure of the competition – Paralympian Jody Cundy revealed he’d had to turn to painkillers after missing two days of training through an infection on his leg.
Asked if he feared that he would have to pull out, he responded: ‘When it was bad and I couldn’t put my leg on, there were worries that I wouldn’t be able to dance.
‘I wasn’t really sure where we went from there. I managed to put my leg back on Friday morning.’