Strictly Come Dancing spoilers follow.
Strictly Come Dancing's latest eliminated star Judi Love and her professional partner Graziano Di Prima have revealed that she really only had "one day" to learn their final dance.
The Loose Women co-host and Graziano took their final bow in Sunday's Strictly results show when they lost the dance-off to Olympian Adam Peaty and his pro Katya Jones.
Judi's exit ended a whirlwind two-week period for the comedian, after she was forced to sit out last weekend's show after testing positive with COVID-19 and then missing two full days of prep this past week.
During an appearance on Strictly: It Takes Two with Rylan on Monday (November 1), Graziano insisted Judi definitely had her head in the game even though their rehearsal time was limited.
"Mentally, she was stronger than before," Graziano explained. "Physically, she was obviously affected. She was [COVID] positive. Plus, we had ten days [down] with the rehearsing. We had one day before the show!
"Mentally, she was so focused. The day of rehearsal on Friday, she was focused and she knew she was struggling, but [she] went there and [she] danced!"
Judi went into more detail about how her limited rehearsal time played out, revealing she could only actually dance for mere minutes at a time.
"It was like dance for two minutes, sit down, catch a breath," she recalled. "He was so patient, and I can't believe he taught me that in such a short span of time."
Judi later added: "Sometimes that inner-strength, which is something Graz has been teaching me throughout this period, times where I didn't know if I could do more, he's like, 'Oh, there's something else.'
"I think it was, knowing how much of a partnership we have, I just wanted to do it the full way, no matter what the results were going to be. I just wanted to do it like that."
Heading into this past weekend, Judi was honest about facing different odds than some of her fellow competitors after having been benched with COVID for a week.
The TV presenter explained that she had been forced to fully sit out of last Monday and Tuesday's training sessions due to "exhaustion", but felt she was handling COVID and its aftermath "much better" because she has been physically active on Strictly.
Strictly Come Dancing 2021 airs on Saturday nights on BBC One, with results shows every Sunday. Strictly: It Takes Two airs on weeknights at 6.30pm on BBC Two.
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