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Strictly's Fleur East accidentally headbutts pro partner

Right in the schnozz!

strictly pair fleur east and vito coppola
BBC

Strictly Come Dancing's Vito Coppola was left nursing a sore nose during tonight's (November 26) episode.

Partnered up with a particularly "worried" Fleur East this week, the pair's Rumba to Sugababes banger 'Too Lost in You' resulted in an overall judges' score of 35, but they got a little carried away in their celebrations.

Moving in for a big squeeze, Fleur turned her head into Vito's shoulder, but he didn't react quickly enough and managed to smash his face into her cheek.

Noticing the watery-eyed dancer holding his nose, co-presenter Claudia Winkleman commented: "Celebrate with a headbutt! Everything OK?"

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Ever the professional, Vito soldiered on and the pair shared a few laughs over it in front of the cameras.

This came after former X Factor contestant Fleur referenced the innate difficulties of performing a Rumba, as she told Claudia: "[We worked] so hard, almost too hard!

"I was like, 'This dance has so many rules!' and coming from our Couples Choice where it was just like, free. This was so hard, but I felt like tonight we could actually enjoy it and I really enjoyed doing that."

strictly's fleur and vito
Guy LevyBBC

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In the same section of this evening's show, her Italian choreographer raised a few eyebrows with his passion for human nails.

"Nails is alive," said Vito. "When you dance, everything from the nail of the toe to the nail of the finger, you have to stretch and feel it, you know? You have to feel the nails."

A slightly perplexed Claudia replied: "Well, I mean, you're new! So we'll go gentle on you, but that makes little sense!"

Strictly Come Dancing airs on Saturdays and Sundays on BBC One, while spin-off show Strictly: It Takes Two airs on weeknights on BBC Two. Both shows also stream on BBC iPlayer.

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