Mikey Graham finished last week in second place, scoring a personal best of 20.5 and putting him amongst the frontrunners of the competition.
During training, he said: “I never imagined I would ever get that high on the scores but that said, we put that there and we concentrate on this week, the next mountain to climb.”
And what a mountain they faced. Challenging the singer to the limits, Chris and Jayne gave Mikey and partner Melanie a technical difficult gospel-feel routine.
Mikey said: “It is a tricky little routine, it really is, there is a lot of foot work involved in it and a lot of concentration so yeah, I have my work cut out for me.”
Chris explained: “When you get new routines, it is like starting all over again and you put some much energy in, it is like swimming against the tide."
However it seemed like it was one step forwards, two steps back this week for the Boyzone star as his skating aches and pains started to take a toll,
“I am sick and tired of falling, I am in so much pain,” he said.
And it seems his 70's week breakthrough turned into a bit of breakdown in the space of a week with the popstar only scoring 15 out of 30 for his routine to River Of Dreams by Billy Joel, his lowest score yet.
After the performance, Mikey said: “You can’t get it spot on every single time, every single week so I am very happy with those scores.”
Robin critiqued the performance, saying: “If you’re going to do the work with the feet it has to be correct. There’s a lot, of not faking it, but not quite crossing over. The feet aren’t together. It’s not dissimilar to how Danny was but you were not close to being as good as Danny was.”
Co-host Holly Willoughby then quizzed Robin about marking down contestants who were trying more challenging routines than others would make them opt to stay in safe place to which he replied: “No. You can be consistent. Challenging and pushing themselves is great but at some point you have to decide this isn’t working.
"But you’re capable of doing more, you’re just actually not allowing yourself, a little like Gary, to be as good as we all keep telling you, you are."
Karen told Mikey to keep his chin up saying: “I’m one of your biggest fans. It’s not that you can’t do it, it’s just not consistent yet. The spin was there, you have the required turns. It’s a blip. That’s all it is, don’t worry.”
