Strictly's Craig Revel Horwood defends his low scores for Chris McCausland after emotional admission

Strictly Come Dancing's Craig Revel Horwood gave his thoughts on each celebrity so far in the competition on Friday's episode of It Takes Two.

Over the weekend, Chris McCausland, 47, and Dianne Buswell, 35, performed a Tango set to KISS' Rock and Roll All Nite. However, despite the impressive performance, the duo found themselves nearly at the bottom of the leaderboard with 29 points.

Appearing on Friday's It Takes Two, host Fleur East asked: "On average, you score Chris six points, now for someone who is the favourite for the final. Why the low scores Craig?" to which Craig replied: "Do I?" before explaining: "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.

"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!"

It comes as Chris and Dianne appeared on Thursday's It Takes Two, where host Janette Manrara didn't hold back as she pointed out: "Chris, despite being both a ballroom fan and a KISS fan you ended up joint second from the bottom of the leaderboard!"

To which comedian Chris, who is the first ever blind contestant on the show, replied: "Alright, easy Janette! That's a bit..." with Janette quickly explaining: "I was gutted as I was so looking forward to it but the scores didn't reflect that!"

This prompted Chris to admit: "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!"

Chris' dance partner, Dianne, was quick to make an emotional admission about the comedian as she admitted he's "so tough on himself".

Strictly Come Dancing continues on Saturday night at 6:35pm on BBC One and BBC iPlayer.