BBC Strictly Come Dancing's Chris McCausland details what happens in 'relentless' training with Dianne Buswell

Chris McCausland has joked his a 'broken man' as he spoke about how training for Strictly Come Dancing really works with Dianne Buswell. The pair are currently in training for week three of the BBC One dance contest.

Chris, who is Strictly's first blind contestant, and Dianne received a standing ovation from the live audience for their foxtrot on Saturday night (September 28) to Be Young, Be Foolish, Be Happy by The Tams, picking up an impressive 29 points.

It was then revealed during the first results show of the series on Sunday (September 29) that the pair had survived the first public vote and would be among the 14 couples taking part in the first special episode of the 2024 series - Movie Week - and it has since been revealed they'll be doing a jive to the Wayne's World Theme.

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But in a break from training, Chris and Dianne appeared on This Morning on Thursday (October 3) to chat to hosts Cat Deeley and Ben Shephard about their experience so far and what really happens in the training room.

After branding them the "dream team", Cat turned to professional dancer Dianne and asked if she knew what she was going to do to teach Chris, recognising that a lot of learning how to dance is "mirroring" and "copying" the teacher.

She replied: "I'd say probably 80% of teaching I'd show, that's the easiest way is to show someone what I'm trying to tell them but I can't do that with Chris. I had no idea how it was going to work, I didn't know that I was going to be paired with Chris until I was paired with Chris.

"I obviously looked him up and was a big fan of all his work and so was hoping to be paired with Chris, but we've made it work together. It's trial and error, isn't it? Some things work, some things don't but that's how we have to go through each week and each dance is going to be different for Chris."

Chris went on: "This is the funny thing. She didn't know who she was going to be paired with but just before she came through the door when we met, they must have said to her, 'Listen, you don't know who you're paired with but when you walk through that door make sure you say who you are!'"

Ben then asked the comedian how he's found learning how to dance through physical touch and suggested it must be mentally tough as well as physically. Chris, 47, admitted: "It's mentally draining. There's a lot of description, sometimes I have to get on my hands and knees and feel what her feet are doing.

"She's got muscles in the lower part of them legs I didn't even know existed! Sometimes, when all else fails, she gets on her hands and knees and just picks my leg up and puts it where she wants it like I'm one of them bendy Spiderman figures. There's a lot of that but there's so many things to concentrate on. I find it difficult to tell my arms what to do when I'm telling my legs what to do..."

Dianne interjected: "But we're getting there, aren't we?" to which Chris laughed and said: "Every week we start from scratch," before sharing details about their upcoming jive, which Dianne says will have more choreography than any other of their routines so far, is fast and involves props.

Chris shared: "It's relentless. There is no let up in it whatsoever. At the minute, I can't feel my legs and all I can feel is my legs at the same time. I feel like I've been riding a horse for a month, it is killing me. I spent about a third of the time trying to jive and two thirds of the time lying on the floor trying to breathe," before he added: "I'm a broken man, Ben. I'm a broken man!"