Amber Davies reduced to tears in Strictly training as she addresses dance experience ‘criticism’

Amber Davies reduced to tears in training as she addresses dancing experience.Credit: This Morning, ITV

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00:00the experience of dancing yes but you're not a ballroom dancer you've never done the samba

00:04before no no no so what how do you how do you learn what you do i also i want to say i think

00:10the ballroom and latin community know that musical theater are worlds apart from each other

00:17so when you get criticism for people saying oh she's a professional dancer she shouldn't be doing

00:21it i i do understand where they come from because yes i can perform yeah you know um but there's a

00:27great example yesterday we were doing our american smooth and even just walking left right left right

00:36right brought me to tears because it's so much more complicated than you imagine hold on

00:43left right left right i reckon i could do that yeah you think you think it was this

00:49it was so you're sort of moving on the three steps three steps listen listen it's hard it's hard it's

00:54really hard you're not allowed to take your foot off the floor you have to you have to drag your heel

00:58well done you have to keep your frame well you have to look out well then what when you think about

01:04your head you forget about your feet when you when you think about your feet i i'm starting isn't it

01:09yeah it's really tricky and you have to engage every single muscle in your body and it's exhausting

01:16it's exhausting but i'm trying