Mark and Hayley’s Paso Doble session starts with the swimmer jokingly remarking that his revealing top on Saturday night’s show might have saved him from the dance-off. “If that’s what people want” I understand I’m not the strongest dancer, so what we lack in skill, we’ll have to make up in entertainment!” He adds that if people want to see him dance just in his swimming trunks then they’ll have to keep him in until the final…
Hayley, meanwhile, is trying to concentrate on getting big softie Mark to act like a Bullfighter, remarking, “I’m hopefully going to get the aggressive man out of Mark, because if I don’t – it’s not going to work.” Mark jokes that remembering Arlene’s Saturday night comments might help him to channel the aggressiveness needed for the dance, but then he ruins any facade of a hard man image by laughingly adding that he’d like to have a cape so that he can hide behind it.
But Hayley’s not about to give up on finding her partner’s inner caveman; on top of teaching Mark the choreography, she feeds him with acting instructions in order to get him into his new role, “You re angry, violent, powerful, brave! I want to be scared when I look into your eyes!” This week, Mark’s most definitely not allowed to be soft, self-conscious or nice…
Source: BBC