Caring Tess

Tess Daly has given an interview to The Guardian, but there were only a couple of Strictly snippets.

She told that she cares about the participants after spending so much time with them on-set: "I do genuinely give a damn about how the contestants do. Without sounding twee, I do care about them because I see them petrified in the morning, sitting in make-up, mute and waiting to get it over with. They've slogged their guts out most of the time. You get to know them and their families and you see pictures of their kids and they meet your kids. Yeah, you end up rooting for them."

She also says that life is easlier for everyone if all the cast get along: "Well, there have been a few egos," she concedes, "a few door-slammings in the producers' faces and that just doesn't work – it upsets the balance, because at the end of the day the more the group of celebrities get along, the better time they have of it. A lot of them make friendships that endure years later."