Tasha Ghouri reveals hidden ‘advantage’ ahead of BBC Strictly Blackpool performance: ‘Don’t have much time’
Strictly Come Dancing star Tasha Ghouri has admitted that her cochlear implant will give her an “advantage” when performing in Blackpool this weekend.
On Saturday night, the eight remaining couples will take to the Blackpool ballroom for the huge milestone of the competition.
Ghouri and partner Aljaž Škorjanec will be performing the Paso Doble to Torn by Nathan Lanier this weekend.
The couple joined It Takes Two host Fleur East to discuss their upcoming performance, where Ghouri made the admission.
East asked: “The atmosphere in the Blackpool audience is unmatched, and there will be so many people.
“Will the added noise impact where you are going to hear the music through your implant?”
The Love Island star revealed: “Definitely, in the studio it’s soundproof. It’s so intimate, it’s small, intact. In the Tower Ballroom, it is going to be a whole different sound.
“It is going to be echoey, so it is definitely going to be something that I need to get used to. I don’t have much time to get used to it either.
“So it is definitely going to be a situation where on the day, in rehearsals, I will see how it goes but it is going to be more echoey.
“But the advantage of that is that I will feel it more in my body because it is much more vibrations, more of that runs through my body so if anything, it can actually be more of an advantage.”
Škorjanec exclaimed: “I didn’t know that, get in!”.
He went on to discuss what is in store for the audience on Saturday when they watch the performance and teased: “Where to begin?
“I started Strictly in 2013, I have tried to do a Blackpool Paso Doble for… you can do the math. Even when I was home not doing Strictly I was thinking about doing Paso in Blackpool.
“So, I have put everything that exists in that Paso Doble, into that routine. We have extra dancers, which is so cool, for the first time in this series.
“And we had them come into rehearsal to practice with us and I am ecstatic. All I can say is olé!”
Ghouri and Škorjanec opened the show for the first time on Saturday night with a quickstep routine to Mariah Carey’s song Fantasy.
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Head judge Shirley Ballas said: “Tasha and Aljaz offered everything we needed to see in a quick step.”
The judges were so clearly impressed with their dance, they warded them a total of 37 points out of a possible 40, placing them at the top of the leaderboard, tied with JB Gill and Lauren Oakley.
