“I like to look people in the eyes, always. I don’t kind of look in empty space, I like to always find energy from people and give people energy,” he says. “When I came to the UK, I remember, I was walking on Oxford Street, and when I was looking at people, don’t ask me why, they were just all smiling. They didn’t know me, I had just arrived, I was not even announced as a Strictly pro, so there was no way they could have [known who I was].”
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