The pair scored an incredible result
19:55, 08 Nov 2025
Amber Davies performed the salsa on Strictly this week(Image: PA)
This week Strictly stars Amber Davies and her partner Nikita Kuzmin were dancing the Salsa as their Strictly Come Dancing journey continues and this week, their incredible score was helped along with a little bit of Welsh.
In the video before their dance was shown to the nation, she said she had struggled to get into the groove for the salsa because her body was so “straight”. Amber, 29, admitted she had to “let go” and to help her relax, she turned Welsh tutor for her Ukrainian partner.
The Welsh star, from Denbighshire, was asked by Nikita. “What’s the Welsh word for forward?” and she replied “ymlaen”.
She continued: “I am so proud to be Welsh so I thought I would teach Nikita some of my native language”.
She then counted the beat – to four – telling him “un, dau, tri, pedwar” as she went.
Nikita replied: “Amber taught me the words in Welsh for arms and legs and I’ve never been happier”.
Then she said: “Jellyfish in Welsh has now become Nikita’s favourite word”.
He was captured on film telling her, in Welsh, how to hone her technique for her arms and legs. “Somewhere between the pysgod wibli wobli [a term for jellyfish] and pen gwyn [penguin] when you’re doing your breichiau and coesau [arms and legs],” he said.
She admitted the dance is “all about getting down and feeling your body and I’ve found that very difficult”.
Then, with subtitles, she told viewers: “Ond mae’n amser dawnsio a gobeithio ‘dan ni’n gwneud Cymru yn falch.”
That translates as: “It’s time to dance and I hope to make Wales proud”. For the latest TV and showbiz gossip sign up to our newsletter
The pair scored a whopping 38 for their routine with Craig and Shirley awarding nines and Motsi and Anton scoring the highest mark possible.
Amber jumped into Nikita’s arms when Craig told her the dance was “a-maz-ing”.
Motsi said there was “nothing to say, it was absolutely spectacular”.
