of steps and you also have to ask the person whether they want to lead or follow. you can'tjust go up and assume someone will be able to dance with you — some people only do one or the other. so before i danced with vishesh i was dancing i with a female partner, | so we used to compete in the mainstream, and then we actually ended up - in a relationship and i wanted to dance with vishesh, - so we decided to dance together, to compete together, _ and we've been competing now for five years since. _ we recently became uk equality champions. - to give it that mainstream attention and making it normal is what i think has been the highlight. so i have a very special message from two dancers that you might have seen before. sadly, they couldn't make it today, but they had this message for you. it'sjohn. and johannes. and we just wanted to bob on and just say how grateful we are that there's been an increased interest in same—sex dance classes. i mean, for us to have represented same—sex dancing has been an absolute