12.12.2024

Strictly Come Dancing’s Brendan Cole defends Charlotte

Strictly Come Dancing’s Brendan Cole has defended his partner, Good Morning Britain host Charlotte Hawkins, over the criticism given to their after their Top Gun-themed Tango Week 3 routine by judge Shirley Ballas.

Brendan, 41, settled down on the Good Morning Britain sofa on Monday to further defend Charlotte, pointing out that unlike some of the other contestants such as Aston Merrygold and Alexandra Burke, Charlotte has no prior dance experience.

Brendan threw shade at the 57-year-old Queen of Latin by saying that Charlotte ‘isn’t one of the people from X Factor’, continuing to protect her after Shirley told her that she ‘needed to stand on her own two feet’ on Saturday night.

Defence: Strictly Come Dancing’s Brendan Cole has defended his partner, Good Morning Britain host Charlotte Hawkins, over the criticism given to their routine by judge Shirley Ballas, pointing out that Charlotte ‘isn’t one of the people from X Factor’

Defence: Strictly Come Dancing's Brendan Cole has defended his partner, Good Morning Britain host Charlotte Hawkins, over the criticism given to their routine by judge Shirley Ballas, pointing out that Charlotte 'isn't one of the people from X Factor'

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Brendan pointed out that Charlotte has no prior dance experience compared to some of the other contestants.

‘What Charlotte did on Saturday was a phenomenal dance compared to what we’d done before and given the fact she’s not one of the people from X Factor.’

The professional dancer is referring to 2008 X Factor winner Alexandra Burke, who has since seen huge success landing leading roles in musical productions The Bodyguard and Sister Act.

Unfair: Brendan, 41, showed off his low-key style in a grey shirt, while he set about defending their Week 3 routine, a Top Gun themed Tango - which saw him biting back to Shirley while the show was aired on Saturday

Unfair: Brendan, 41, showed off his low-key style in a grey shirt, while he set about defending their Week 3 routine, a Top Gun themed Tango – which saw him biting back to Shirley while the show was aired on Saturday

Meanwhile, Aston Merrygold was a runner-up on the same series with his boyband JLS.

Giving Brendan and Charlotte a rather scathing review on Saturday night, Shirley had said of Charlotte: ‘She needs to stand on her own feet and we’ve established that there’s no rise and fall in Tango. So we’ve got to make a concrete decision not to use rise and fall. So no rise and fall.’

Charlotte looked distraught by the critique, appearing to fight back tears, causing Brendan to interrupt and say: ‘I’m really sorry, but there was no rise and fall’.

Advantage: Brendan pointed out that Charlotte has no prior dance experience compared to some of the other contestants, referring to 2008 X Factor winner Alexandra Burke, who has since seen huge success landing leading roles in musical productions The Bodyguard and Sister ActPerformer: Meanwhile, Aston Merrygold was a runner-up on the same series with his boyband JLS

Advantage: Brendan pointed out that Charlotte has no prior dance experience compared to some of the other contestants, referring to 2008 X Factor winner Alexandra Burke and runner-up of the same series Aston Merrygold

Biting back: Shirley had critiqued the routine, saying that there was a 'rise and fall' in the dance where there shouldn't be - causing Brendan to interrupt and say: 'I'm really sorry, but there was no rise and fall'

Biting back: Shirley had critiqued the routine, saying that there was a ‘rise and fall’ in the dance where there shouldn’t be – causing Brendan to interrupt and say: ‘I’m really sorry, but there was no rise and fall’

Shirley then told him to look back over the footage, to which Cole firmly responded: ‘I will, my dear’.

Brendan appeared on the GMB sofa to defend himself once again: ‘I’ve watched the tape back, I’ve seen it – there is no rise and fall in it.’

Referring to former JLS member Aston, who performed a cute Trolls themed cha cha with Janette Manrara, Brendan continued his argument.

‘You could argue with anybody, you could say Aston didn’t do a proper cha cha, but he did an amazing cha cha.’

Brendan appeared on the GMB sofa to defend himself once again: ‘I’ve watched the tape back, I’ve seen it – there is no rise and fall in it’

Critique: Referring to former JLS star Aston Merrygold, Brendan continued his argument. ‘You could argue with anybody, you could say Aston didn’t do a proper cha cha, but he did an amazing cha cha’

Brendan continued that Charlotte had made a ‘massive improvement’ from her Week 2 dance, which saw her scooping just 12 points from the judges – the lowest of the series yet.

Piers Morgan then probed Brendan about what he made of judge Bruno Tonioli’s comment that he needed to be more respectful.

Brendan honestly replied: ‘Well, I think they’re all a bit upset with me because I was a bit mouthy the week before.’

Brendan also defended Charlotte: ‘What Charlotte did on Saturday was a phenomenal dance compared to what we’d done before and given the fact she’s not one of the people from X Factor’

Mouthy: Piers Morgan then probed Brendan about what he made of judge Bruno Tonioli’s comment that he needed to be more respectful. ‘Well, I think they’re all a bit upset with me because I was a bit mouthy the week before’

However, he admitted that he needed to ‘take a step back’ to ‘make it about Charlotte.’

Charlotte commented: ‘I was really touched that, you know, you’d been standing up for me.

‘It is disappointing when you come back fighting, tried really, really hard and you’re doing a dance in training and you think it feels great, (then) you come to do it and the judges don’t recognise that – it is hard.’

Knight in shining armour: However, he admitted that he needed to ‘take a step back’ to ‘make it about Charlotte’

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