Bobby Brazier’s upcoming Strictly Come Dancing performance appears to be a heartbreaking homage to his late mother, Jade Goody.
He will do a Couple’s Choice performance to Maxwell’s This Woman’s Work with professional partner Dianne Buswell. The couple has chosen a modern look with ballroom elements to pay homage to Goody.
Bobby, 20, acknowledged on the spin-off programme It Takes Two with Fleur East that the music choice touched him.
‘It is the perfect song, sung by the perfect man and it is the perfect tone. The lyrics are just profound and touched me at my core – it is gorgeous,’ he shared.
‘I am going to have to work very hard this week to do it justice.’
He added that Dianne, 34, will take on a special role in the routine.
‘I am a child, well there is me as a child and I come out as me now. I have got Dianne, who replicates a woman let’s say my mother probably,’ he explained.
‘We go on this journey throughout. I don’t know the whole dance yet to tell you completely but it is emotional. I think there could be a few tears.’
Bobby revealed his hopes that he would be able to pay tribute to Goody before the competition began. ‘Our Couple’s Choice, there is a song that is so perfect, I would love to do it,’ he told The Mirror.
‘If it happens, it happens, but I would love to do that.’
Dianne has already been struggling to contain her emotion: ‘The first ten seconds, even when we were in the rehearsal room, I could not look Bobby in the eye because it made me well up.’
Despite being on Strictly for six years, Dianne has ‘never done anything like it,’ and is ‘already loving it.’
After competing in the dance-off in last week’s Blackpool special, the duo will be looking for a victorious return. They are still on the BBC programme after being spared from Angela Rippon and Kai Widdrington by the judges Shirley Ballas, Motsi Mabuse, Craig Revel Horwood, and Anton Du Beke.
Bobby was five years old at the time of Goody’s death from cervical cancer in March 2009, and brother Freddie was four. Jeff Brazier, 44, reared them alone.
Bobby told Metro.co.uk that Goody ‘would be proud’ of him.
‘And not necessarily for Strictly, I think for everything. My life is a much bigger picture than this and everyone that knows and loves me is proud of me, and I think she’d be the same.’
He previously told The Times he had ‘memories of memories’ of his mum, who found fame on Big Brother.
‘I’m always being told about her and what she meant to people. I guess I know my mum through other people’s memories of my mum,’ he explained.
Strictly Come Dancing airs Saturday and Sunday on BBC One and iPlayer.
