Shirley Ballas admits Pete Wicks' trousers 'caught her off guard'

Strictly Come Dancing head judge Shirley Ballas says Pete Wicks' skin-tight trousers 'sent her into a flutter'.

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I think he got everybody into a bit of, you know, and I was really trying to watch his word.

He gives 100% when he started at the very beginning of the show.

As with most of them, you know, you start, you you don't know where people are gonna go on the journey.

And what I love about him is he embraces anything that's thrown at him, and I think he realised, You know, he's not the best char char char dancer in the world.

So we go for a little bit of a Anne Whitcombe kind of vibe, feel bit of fun going on there, and he takes his work very seriously, but he doesn't take himself seriously, but he did catch us all off guard.

I have to say he has given me at the end of the table.