Inside Graziano’s ‘fantastic’ relationship with Kym Marsh

Strictly: Kym Marsh discusses 'meltdown' ahead of live dance

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Kym Marsh and her professional dance partner Graziano di Prima are set for Strictly Come Dancing glory according to a body language expert. The pair have grown together, and their dance-off battle has only cemented that bond.

On behalf of Betfair, Darren Stanton explained why he feels the duo can handle any setback now.

He revealed: “Kym is an incredibly competitive person. She is very focused and prepared to work incredibly hard to reach her goals.

“She has her sights well and truly set on the Glitterball trophy and despite Kym and Graziano suffering from a few knockbacks in the last few weeks, they’ve taken the negative feedback in their stride.

“Being in the dance-off was a wake-up call for Kym and prompted her to really up her game.”

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The expert continued: “Her expressions this week were of strict focus and sheer determination.

“She and Graziano have a fantastic relationship and enjoy a great rapport, with Graziano playing a supportive role to reassure Kym when the judges’ comments don’t go their way.

“Faced with some relatively hard feedback this week, Kym’s confidence was knocked a little.

“We also saw her flash an expression of confusion, as she clearly felt in her heart she had given her performance 110 percent.”

Kym and Graziano danced the Quickstep to Ballroom Blitz by Sweet on week five of the dance competition.

The pair scored a respectable 27 points from the judges and the Morning Live presenter looked emotional when she heard their name announced on the results show on Sunday.

The former Coronation Street star told her Morning Live colleague how she was actually left in “tears of pain” after she heard the good news.

She told Gethin Jones: “My eyes came out of my head and rolled across the dance floor for a minute.

“What you see there, when he picks me up, is that I’ve got a really bad back at the moment.

“So when he picked me up and I was already emotional, as he put me down they were actually tears of pain.”

The presenter added: “I thought ‘Argh my head’s going to pop off.’”

Kym is filming for her new role on Waterloo Road and opened up about the struggles of balancing the two jobs.

She explained: “It’s quite tricky. We train as much as we can. We put in as many hours as we can.

“There are some days when it becomes impossible when my schedule at Waterloo Road becomes too manic like we lost Tuesday.

“I was in every single scene, all day at Waterloo Road. It is difficult.

“I have two other jobs and I have a family. They have to be a priority as well.”

Strictly Come Dancing airs at 6.50pm on BBC One and BBC iPlayer

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