GORDON Ramsay has shocked Strictly Come Dancing viewers by berating daughter Tilly’s pro partner in their first meeting.
As he met Nikita Kuzmin (ballroom dancer), the celebrity chef didn’t hesitate to make a comment about her low-cut shirt.
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Tilly, 19, made her first appearance on the celebrity ballroom competition on Saturday night – as viewers got to watch who she was partnered with.
“I’m going to need them to be relatively patient,” She said this about her dance partner. “Someone that’s going to have fun and enjoy it with me.”
“Each morning he’s been waking me up with the Strictly theme tune,” Before the reveal, Tilly spoke to Tess Daly, show host. “It’s not very pleasant at 6am.”
Tilly was sat waiting for her partner to enter the room with her mum, while Strictly cameras recorded footage.
The star was delighted to see Nikita enter the room. But Gordon, 54 years old, was quick to criticize the dancer after they had met via FaceTime.
“Congratulations – and good luck to you both,” he told Tilly and Nikita, before adding: “Nikita, can you do your shirt up? It’s a bit low.”
The dancing partners burst into awkward laughter before the social media star and young chef swiftly hung up and told him it was “time to go”.
As Tilly and Nikita sat down with co-host Claudia Winkleman, she joked the pro dancer should wear a “scarf and balaclava” to appease Gordon.
Fans took to Twitter to joke about the awkward meeting, as one wrote: “Telling Nikita to do that shirt up is SO Gordon!”
“Gordon Ramsey watching Tilly with her dance partner on Strictly,” a second added, alongside a GIF of an unimpressed face.
He doesn’t have much to worry about because Nikita, a Ukrainian dancer, has already found a partner in Nicole Wirt.
It comes days after Tilly admitted she “wasn’t scared” of the Strictly judges thanks to dad Gordon’s fiery temper.
She said: “I think I’ll take criticism from the judges pretty well. I do live with one of the harshest critics in my house, Dad, so I’m pretty used to that kind of stuff.
“Dad will be like, ‘Oh well I thought . . . ’ He’ll give his own criticism. But it’s all about learning and the whole process. You need criticism to learn.”
At 19, Tilly is the youngest competitor in the new series. In fact, she is one of the youngest in the show’s 17-year history.
Central Recorder reported last year that she was considered for the 2020 series. However, a bad fall ended her chances of being included.
Gordon had pleaded with BBC bosses to give Tilly — who fronts their family reality show on CBBC called Matilda And The Ramsay Bunch — her primetime break.
It seems that the TV chef is living in vicariously through Tilly. His daughter has revealed that he has always wanted dance lessons.
She explains: “Dad is very excited for me to be taking part. He’s always wanted to learn how to dance but he’s just not very good at all. He has two left feet.
‘DON’T DATE THOSE DANCERS’
After Tilly’s place in the new series was confirmed last month, proud Gordon made one of his famously unfiltered outbursts.
Referencing the Strictly Curse that has seen the marriages of several celebrity contestants fall apart, Gordon warned his daughter off potential suitors, saying: “Don’t date those dancers.”
Tilly admits she is far from being a natural on the dancefloor, and faces stiff competition from the other contestants including swimmer Adam Peaty, Hollyoaks star Katie McGlynn, and Peep Show actor Robert Webb.
Despite showing off her moves on TikTok — and sometimes roping in her dad — she rates her dancing ability as a “two out of ten”.
Plus, when Tilly’s mum Tana, 47, enrolled her in ballet school as a nipper, she quit after one day to join her older brother Jack in football camp. She says she was also always “at the back” of school productions.
She says: “I am not very good at dancing. If I was to describe my dancing style in three words it would be awkward, uncoordinated and pretty clumsy, I am a very clumsy person.”
Tilly is the second youngest of Gordon’s children. Megan, twins Holly, 21, and Oscar, 2, will be cheering her from the family home.
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