Matt Goss admits Strictly dancing experience was ‘a lot’ for him

Strictly: Matt Goss opens up about his exit

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Matt Goss, 54, took part in the latest series of Strictly Come Dancing but was voted off in Week Four alongside his dancing partner Nadiya Bychkova. The Bros singer has since admitted to Express.co.uk that he found the Strictly experience “a lot” and very “consuming” as he reflects on the BBC dancing show.

I felt very uncomfortable in the beginning!

Matt Goss

After a jive to All Shook Up by Paul McCartney, Matt and Nadiya found themselves in the bottom two against Kym Marsh and Graziano Di Prima.

Matt was the third contestant to be voted off Strictly, with the singer being overcome with emotion when he heard the judge’s result.

Express.co.uk asked Matt how he found the Strictly Come Dancing experience and if wished he was in the competition longer.

He said: “It’s completely consuming, it consumes your whole life.

“I felt very uncomfortable in the beginning in the dancing environment, not for any particular reason. Of course, I would have loved to continue on the show but I’m also proud of how I and Nadia went out.

“I think I was at the point, I felt like I had come home from America and I think that it was my time.

“I wanted to be on Strictly and make my mum and my family and myself proud.”

Matt then reiterated that you “cannot change” the outcome of life events, as he also hinted about the judges’ criticisms.

He said: “You cannot change the outcome of things. I’m happy that we made it to the fourth week, I got everything I needed out of it by then.

“I felt that I was starting to come out of my shell, but it’s an all-consuming environment. It was a lot for me.

“I think that we should all be allowed to unravel ourselves at our own place.”

Shirley Ballas, Craig Revel Horwood, Motsi Mabuse and Anton Du Beke make up this year’s Strictly judging panel but the group have been met with criticism due to their scoring this year.

Express.co.uk asked Matt what he thought of the judge’s score, with him admitting: “I think if I’m improving maybe the scores should reflect that.

“But I don’t want to be that guy who moans about my scores. My life is an immediate fluidity to me the day after so I don’t really know if I’m honest. I haven’t given my scores much thought.”

Nadiya has also since lept to her partner’s defence about his dancing skills, telling BBC viewers that there is more to the experience.

She said to Rylan Clark on It Takes Two: “It’s not only about the dancing and the scores, there’s so much more to Strictly.

“It’s about what you learn along the way and I think Matt learned so many things.

“The way he felt shy and not comfortable doing something he’d never done before on that floor.

“And in four weeks, I saw so much improvement in him and I think he’ll learn how to get through that shyness and go on, that floor and shine, dancing.

“For me as a teacher and as his partner, that was the best thing to see and I’m glad that people at home got to see it.”

Matt recorded his Christmas single The Beautiful Unknown with RPO at Fairfield Halls in Croydon last month. For more information please visit his website.

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