Neil Jones would not want to be a judge on 'Strictly Come Dancing'.
Neil Jones does not want to be a judge on Strictly Come Dancing
The 41-year-old star has served as a professional on the BBC Latin and Ballroom competition on and off since 2016 but is not likely to join the likes of Shirley Ballas, Craig Revel Horwood, Motsi Mabuse, or fellow former professional Anton DuBeke because he prefers to "critique" his partners rather than judge them.
He told The Daily Star newspaper: "I’m one of these - I love to create and I love that side of it. I used to judge normal competitive competitions, so I've done that for quite a while but it’s not my [favourite]. It’s one of these things that as an artist, I don't like to judge. I love the art of it, I love the performance of it but I appreciate everything so each week I can appreciate every single couple in their level and what they’ve gone through. I applaud them every week and I used to say, ‘If I get a partner or I have a partner I would say it’s a critique, you’re gonna get that."
The dance champion- who has competed with former 'EastEnders' actress Nina Wadia and sports presenter Alex Scott on 'Strictly' - went on to add that all the professionals have also spent their lives undergoing criticism and he has found it "hard" to know what to take from the judges into the next week of the competition.
He added: And we as competitors, we’ve gone through that all of our lives so we know what that’s like, we take in some we don’t take in others, we see where we are on the scale and then we see what’s important.
"Every time the judges are right but sometimes you have to pick and choose what bit you’re going to actually take and what’s important for the next week and that’s hard.”
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