When you’re sitting on the sofa watching Strictly Come Dancing on Saturday evening, remember this: Gleb Savchenko likes to train his dance partner Anita Rani like ‘a Russian bear’.
Countryfile presenter Anita revealed the odd training technique when she joined Alan Carr on his sofa for Channel 4 chat show Chatty Man along with her fellow contestants.
‘Are you a bit like dressage horses?’ Alan asked the fivesome, which included Jay McGuiness and Kellie Bright. ‘Do they hit you with sticks?’