As for going the whole way to the final and winning the show, Nellis said he is just taking it week by week.<\/p>\n
“I remember saying to my wife before I started ‘I would love to get through week one, I just don’t want to be first out’ but even if I am first out, even being invited, I’ve already won. So, the goal right now? I just want to come out and say I’ve given it everything I have.”<\/p>\n
Nellis says he has no grand visions of winning but admits he’s starting to feel the pressure of making his family’s weekends.<\/p>\n
“It didn’t really land on me until a week or two in just how much it really meant at home. I have a huge family, I have like 30 cousins on my dad’s side alone, a typical Belfast Irish big family. <\/p>\n
“So, there are a couple of hundred people who sit down every Saturday night, and I now make or break their Saturday night,” he said.<\/p>\n
“Outside that, the town I’m from, they’re showing it on screens in all the bars, and I think across Northern Ireland there’s a lot of support. <\/p>\n
“I’ve been blown away by it, but I also feel that responsibility to have fun. <\/p>\n
“It’s almost way bigger than just me and how I feel. It’s how hundreds or thousands or tens of thousands of people feel.”<\/p>\n
You can watch John and Katya in action on BBC One at 18:15BST on Saturday night as they take on Icons Week, with routines inspired by some of the best-loved recording artists in history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As for going the whole way to the final and winning the show, Nellis said he is just…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":804412,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-804411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/804412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}