Matt Baker suffering from waltz sickness

Matt Baker has revealed that he is suffering from motion sickness preparing for his Viennese waltz on Strictly Come Dancing.

The Countryfile host admitted that the training was taking its toll on him this week, because of the notoriously difficult spins involved in the routine.

"I'm feeling sick. Honesty, it's just terrible," he told It Takes Two. "It's so sickly. Even now, just thinking about it, I'm feeling sick. There's a lot of spinning involved and twirling, and the whole room is constantly moving, even when you stop."

Last week, Vincent Simone helped Felicity Kendal prepare for the Viennese waltz by giving her training on a roundabout with his baby son.

Meanwhile, Baker confessed that he felt slightly "deflated" last weekend when he slipped down the leaderboard to third place after making a few errors in his Argentine tango.

"You do feel a little bit deflated afterwards, because you know that you could have done so much better," he said. "You want to go out and match [the others] and we had a few issues."

Baker and his pro partner Aliona Vilani scored 34 for their routine last Saturday, but fell behind Scott Maslen and Natalie Lowe, and Kara Tointon and Artem Chigvintsev, who picked up the first 10s of the series.