Anton Du Beke

Anton Du Beke has detailed how he read up on the female psyche to avoid 'full-on tears', while critiquing his celebrity Strictly Come Dancing partners.

"I could just see her starting to well up and then I'd say to her, 'But the arms - wow. The 56-year-old admitted that he "laughs at" tearful partners to ease the tension and is sure to praise one aspect of their technique if he's criticising another. The judge chuckled: "I giveth and then I taketh away, or I taketh and then I give it back!" He also revealed on the podcast that he hugely admired Lesley Joseph, now 77, for her ability to work "16 hours a day" and rush from filming Birds Of A Feather straight into the studio, despite being in her eighth decade of life. We need to get those steps right, because it's not working.' Gabby Logan, who hosts The Mid Point, suggested that Anton had danced with a "lot of mid-lifers" and "probably knows more than most men in the country about them" - and the judge agreed.