Strictly Come Dancing followers have sensed some ‘stress’ between host Josh Widdicombe and choose Motsi Mabuse.
Because the flagship BBC present returns for a brand new season, we’ve dived headfirst into motion pictures week and seen all types of fictional characters from Elphaba to Jack and Rose come to life on the ballroom ground.
It’s additionally early days for our new internet hosting trio, Emma Willis, Josh Widdicombe and Johannes Radebe, as followers alter to the brand new on-screen dynamic after Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman left final season.
Downstairs, we now have the Final Leg host, 43 and Love Is Blind presenter, 50, teaming as much as work together with the freshly danced-out celebrities and the judges as they bestow their critiques.
Whereas followers have been pleading for Josh to be moved upstairs to interview the duos after their performances, to this point he has remained steadfast, and this week particularly took on a extra distinguished position main the banter with judges.
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Nevertheless, followers have seen that there appears to be an odd power between Josh and choose Motsi. Up to now few weeks, he’s tried making a couple of jokes together with her about his unhealthy try at a Charleston and skipping her feedback.
However they appear to have fallen flat.
‘I’m sensing a little bit of stress from Motsi when Josh talks to her,’ Leljoyce famous on X.
‘Motsi is weirdly impolite to Josh everytime she speaks?’ Drrewrya shared.
BillyElliot1999 went so far as to assert she ‘simply can’t disguise her contempt for Josh’, whereas rjjo85 extra gently requested: ‘Anybody else seen Motsi being a bit harsh to Josh? Did it final week and now this.’
Final week, some seen a jokey interplay between the 2 that maybe hinted at some underlying stress when Josh mentioned he was prepared to listen to from head choose Shirley Ballas, shifting on from Motsi.
The dancer then quipped: ‘Are we going to be pals or enemies? You select now!’
Regardless of some choosing up on potential stress within the studio, exterior the dance ground it appears Motsi is backing Josh all the way in which. After he confronted backlash following his stay debut, Motsi took to Threads to share her personal cryptic two pence.
‘Whereas individuals sort away, tearing aside actual human beings on tv, actual feelings !!!!!!!’ she wrote.
Then continued: ‘AI is getting higher at changing them. Someday we’d not even know the distinction.
‘And perhaps then we’ll miss the times when tv was nonetheless fantastically, imperfectly human.’
Time will inform if the pair settle into a neater chemistry. In the meantime, the trio are nonetheless working to show themselves to sceptical audiences forward of this yr’s first elimination, which shall be revealed tomorrow evening.
Metro has reached out to Motsi Mabuse and Josh Widdicombe’s representatives for remark.
Strictly Come Dancing airs at weekends on BBC One and BBC iPlayer.
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