STRICTLY finalist Sarah Hadland has become so familiar with the dance show’s routines, her pro partner has to remind her how to walk normally.
The Miranda actress, 53, said Vito Coppola looks shocked when she scuttles and scurries away during their training sessions.
She said: “We’ll get into some really basic steps and then I do a weird thing where I almost have to be taught how to walk again. I’m like, ‘What do you mean?’.
“He’s like, ‘just walk how you normally walk’. I do a scuttle. You know when you’re busy and you want to get somewhere.
“I scurry. And he just looked horrified and said ‘What is this? You’re like some beetle’.”
Sarah and Vito, 32, have waltzed through to tomorrow’s final of the BBC One show with a string of complex moves and have dodged the dance-offs thanks to high scores from the judges and plenty of support from the voters at home.
But Sarah’s mum, Jill, is among her fiercest critics.
Sarah said: “My mum texts me and is like, ‘why can’t you two just stand still? Everybody else is standing beautifully. They’re calm. They’re looking at the camera. They’re not fidgeting. And then I get to you two and Sarah, your legs are going, Vito’s changing position’.
“But I have had moments when I think, ‘I can’t do this, I’m knackered’. And certainly at the beginning I would say, ‘I can’t carry on, I need to go home now’.”
During tomorrow night’s final Sarah and Vito will perform a showdance to Cabaret and repeat their American smooth to Heather Small’s Proud and Cha Cha to Like A Prayer by Madonna.
Sarah added: “I feel like I’m living in Technicolor and, then, when it’s over, I’m going to be living in black and white. I’m really conscious of that.”
Chris McCausland and Dianne Buswell, Tasha Ghouri and Aljaz Skorjanec, and JB Gill and Lauren Oakley are the other finalists competing for the Glitterball Trophy.
