Strictly Come Dancing contestant Zara McDermott reveals all about how the show and her dance partner Graziano Di Prima have helped her confidence grow. The pair also make eachother laugh with their hilarious impressions of eachother. Report by Bangurak. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00 last week felt so surreal because I think our performance really came together last
00:05 week. It was our best one.
00:07 It was a big step forward, yeah.
00:09 Yeah, it was. It's so weird because sometimes with other things and you're on TV, you kind
00:13 of cringe watching yourself at certain things I've filmed in the past. I definitely couldn't
00:20 watch myself on other programmes that I've done. But on something like this, you actually
00:24 really want to watch yourself because it was so much fun and such...
00:28 Yeah, I see. After a week, she's the hardest... She pushes herself so hard. She's the best,
00:37 best student I ever had. You judge yourself so much, which is good in a way.
00:43 I think I have a bit more work to do. I'm not a dancer. I've literally never danced
00:50 in my life. I didn't even dance.
00:53 I was really the most malcoordinated individual.
00:57 Your growth, your transition. Let's talk about that. Your confidence has grown so much. Do
01:03 you feel like that? Do you feel like you've grown?
01:06 Literally so much. I look back at myself five years ago. I've never been the loudest person
01:15 in the room, the most confident person. That goes back a long way. It's what I talked about
01:19 in my documentary, especially my first documentary, Revenge Porn. People can kind of see probably
01:23 why I've never been the most confident person because of things that I've been through in
01:27 my life.
01:28 One of the things I've never been able to do and never felt confident in is dancing.
01:32 Even if it's literally just out with my friends, having a drink and dancing, I literally would
01:39 be like, "Hey!" like, "Seize up in the corner," because I just felt so not confident in my
01:46 own body and how it moves. I've watched this show since I was seven years old. I am probably
01:53 one of the biggest Strictly fans ever. My For You page, honestly, is always just Strictly
01:59 performances. It's always been a dream of mine to be on the show. I didn't actually
02:05 ever think it was possible. The fact that I'm here now, I can't give enough credit to
02:12 this man here because he has literally changed my life. He's not only teaching me to dance,
02:18 he's teaching me confidence in myself and to be able to express myself through my body,
02:23 which is something that I've literally never been able to do before and probably never
02:26 would have been able to do if it wasn't for Strictly and him.
02:30 What about an impression of each other? Can you do one for me?
02:33 Beautiful! Beautiful! That's what he does.
02:37 Mozzarella?
02:38 Your arms, mozzarella! Because sometimes I don't keep them stiff enough. He says, "Your
02:46 arms are like mozzarella." In the middle of the performance, he'll be like, "Mozzarella!"
02:49 And I'll be like, "Yep, sorry, yep, got it!"
02:53 Maybe when we need to leave, he'll be like, "Can we do one more? One more, please? Just
02:57 to make sure my brain... You know, my brain works like that!"
02:59 I do say that! My brain, my brain!
03:01 (laughing)