Strictly Come Dancing star George Clarke reveals his mum has been diagnosed with cancer as he pays tribute to her with 'special' dance but fails to impress judges
A Strictly Come Dancing star has revealed his mum has been diagnosed with cancer.
George Clarke dedicated his performance to his mum on last night’s show (Saturday November 15) after revealing she has recently diagnosed with cancer.
Ahead of his dance on Saturday, Clarke said in a video that his mother had been diagnosed with a brain inflammation condition called encephalitis when he was 16 and added: “Unfortunately, recently, she got diagnosed with cancer, nobody deserves what she’s gone through… there’s not a lot I can do to help so to give her this is special.”
In spite of positive reactions from the audience, Clarke and his dance partner Alexis Warr placed third to bottom on the judges’ leaderboard, scoring 29 points for their rhumba to Lily Allen’s version of Somewhere Only We Know.
Judge Craig Revel Horwood, who was booed by the audience, said: “Actually, it wasn’t a rhumba. So for me, it was difficult to judge… Admittedly, the story was absolutely magnificent. You told that beautifully, so achieved that, so you will win the audience votes with this. But unfortunately, you won’t win my vote. It just technically, was not great.”
Judge Motsi Mabuse said: “As a feeling, and the emotions behind the dance, this was really very, very beautiful.”
Following his dance, Clarke said: “You can tell your family you love them as much as you want, but it’s very rare to be able to have an opportunity to give them something. So that’s kind of what I wanted to do.”
Top of the leaderboard were reality TV star Amber Davies and her dance partner Nikita Kuzmin who wowed the judges with a paso doble to Aerosmith’s Dream On. The couple, who scored 38 points, were told their dance was “perfect” by Mabuse.
Revel Horwood said: “My goodness, you (Davies) are so clean. You’re full of tone. Darling, the drama in that was absolutely magnificent. It was full of fire. You danced with purpose. I thought it was brilliant.”
This weekend the couples danced to secure their place at Blackpool next Saturday (November 22) where they will perform in the famous Tower Ballroom. Strictly Come Dancing: The Results airs at 7.15pm on BBC One tonight, (Sunday November 16). If you don’t want to wait till then to find out who stays and who goes, check out our Strictly spoiler story.