One contestant has spoken about their off-screen blunder
Catherine Shuttleworth and Mark Jefferies
14:58, 16 Oct 2025
One Strictly contestant swore in an unaired scene after ‘stress and anger’
A Strictly Come Dancing contestant has revealed that they swore on the dance floor in scenes not aired on the BBC show.
Vicky Pattison has now revealed how her weekend was a “disaster” doing the Charleston last week.
She and pro partner Kai Widdrington got 25 out of 40 from judges who said the performance lacked any “swivels”.
But the pair were in some ways relieved just to get through after their final dress rehearsal performance went much worse.
Vicky invited Kai onto her podcast Get A Grip, which she records with Angela Scanlon, in which Kai said “you should tell her about the rehearsal” and Vicky then explained her disaster last weekend.
Vicky said: “Saturday was just like a disaster from start to finish. You know me little headdress thing, obviously I had a wig as well.
“Yeah. So they put that on. We were dancing the dress rehearsal. And obviously there’s a move where me head goes down and comes up, and the head piece just totally like detached from the wig and fell over me face.
“And I kept trying to shove it up, and it just kept falling back over my eyes. Kai’s going ‘continue carry on’. And, honestly, I was so stressed out and angry, I tried to stop.
“And then when I was finished, that is in the official dress rehearsal, Tess goes goes ‘Oh, you had a bit of stress there with your head piece there’. I says, ‘me f**king wig fell off.'”
Thankfully, Vicky explained that dressmakers behind the scenes sewed the headpiece onto the wig to avoid it happening during her actual performance, reports the Mirror.
This week she and Kai are dancing the Samba. Kai told the podcast: “She’s actually good. Yeah, I’m not duping her this week.
“She said to me today, after we did the routine, she was like, I actually like this one, which I never thought I’d hear. She seems to be, like, growing in confidence.”
