Tess Daly at all times has a “contingency card” in case issues go flawed on Strictly Come Dancing.
The 56-year-old presenter – who co-hosts the BBC Latin and ballroom contest with Claudia Winkleman – revealed there are plans in place for each potential drawback that might hit the reside present when the {couples} are dancing.
Chatting with Fearne Cotton on her Pleased Place podcast, she stated: “It is actual, we don’t contrive actuality. You are watching it in actual time. If somebody falls being introduced down from the ceiling on a wire right into a Paso Doble…I am on standby with a contingency card, each single routine, simply in case one thing goes flawed.
“In case the music goes flawed and the band has to begin once more, in case somebody will get caught coming down on a wire, in case somebody jumps into somebody’s arms and does not fairly make it and falls. There’s at all times a contingency.”
Tess finds it significantly annoying when the present relocates to the long-lasting Blackpool Tower Ballroom for one week as a result of the set is extra “elaborate and impressive”.
Requested if internet hosting the present is annoying, she stated: “Yeah, particularly in Blackpool as a result of it is an enormous venue and the units are much more elaborate and impressive, and much more may go flawed. I am loads additional away from the ground, so I’ve to canter in these heels at velocity, poised with a contingency card simply in case one thing occurs or the props aren’t prepared.”
And whereas props groups are normally primed to show across the units in 90 seconds, Tess is on stand-by simply in case they overrun.
She stated: “I am poised in case they do not fairly make it and I have to go and query the judges.”
The blonde magnificence feels “actually privileged” to be a part of the present.
She stated: “It is at all times felt like having a seat at one of the best present on the town, I’ve at all times felt actually privileged to be a part of one thing that folks actually get pleasure from.
“To be a part of folks’s viewing habits and one thing that brings them collectively is actually particular. You by no means take it with no consideration that individuals are going to return again and watch.”