Ahead of this weekend’s Strictly Come Dancing show Dani Dyer has been speaking about her struggles and the stress she feels taking part.
Dani Dyer says her Strictly Come dancing partner Nikita Kuzmin is helping her through severe nerves on the show which make feel like she’ll throw up every time she performs.
The 30-year-old admits she is struggling to contain the anxiety in the lead up to each performance. Asked about appearing on the BBC series, Dani said: “I love it. But the nerves, I’ve never felt a nerve like it in my life.
“Like I have never, I’ve never wanted to be sick so much. You know, that feeling like you’re heaving. I just feel like my brain goes into shock when I’m dancing on the live.”
Dani added it was “worse” to go on late in the shows and she prefers being one of the first. She added: “Nikita is amazing, he does all these things like breathing exercises. Because I’m terrible at that sort of stuff.
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“The breathing just before we’re going on the stage, he puts you in a bubble. People were like don’t let Strictly consume you, I’m consumed.”
Appearing on Women’s Health podcast Just As Well, Dani says she is giving it everything she can this year. She is competing after e fracturing her ankle during a quickstep rehearsal saw her pull out of the 2025 show at the last minute.
She said: “I just want to go out there and have the best, because I’m really not a dancer. So you just put your hours in and just really go for it. It’s like a once in a lifetime opportunity, I want to go out there and do my best.”
Mum-of-three Dani added that she was not the most confident person but did not want her children to be the same when they grew up, and was instilling in them self worth.
Dani, who is married to West Ham star Jarrod Bowen, is also trying not to take the judges comments to heart when they are negative. She said: “You work all hours and it is difficult, I think, when you’re being judged because you sort of forget that…and if you’ve worked so hard and they might not agree with it.
“There is so much that goes into it. I was like ‘how do I do it all?’. It is difficult. But I am so in the zone, I don’t remember a thing.”
Dani and Nikita will be back on the Strictly dancefloor on Saturday night in a Halloween episode. They scored 31 for their salsa last weekend and are amongst the bookmakers’ favourites to win.
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