I Like The Way U Move: 'My favourite part was seeing people actually fall in love'

Made In Chelsea star Jamie Laing and professional dancer Kaelynn "KK" Harris on their new dating show I Like The Way U Move.

"The foundation for relationships is loyalty and trust," says reality star Jamie Laing.

"And in dancing, you have to have loyalty and trust from the beginning, because you have to lift your partner, catch your partner or move with your partner. [You] fast forward straight into the trust and loyalty stage of a relationship."

Dance builds relationships and romantic feelings much quicker, he says, while discussing the new BBC Three dating show I Like The Way U Move, which he hosts.

On the new reality dating show, five single professional dancers move into a house together before pairing up with rookie non-dancers at a mixer. The couples then have 48 hours to learn a routine before performing in front of a panel of judges, who are looking for technical skill and real-life chemistry.

The couple with the most chemistry and connection on the dance floor win a date while the couple with the least are sent home. The remaining couples move onto the next mixer where they can either stick with their current partner - or switch. "Things could get awkward," Jamie says

Guest judges - including rapper Lady Leshurr, Radio 1 DJ Clara Amfo and Strictly dancers Oti Mabuse and Giovanni Pernice - join the show each week to help decide which couple has the best routine.

"I think my favourite part of this show was seeing people actually fall in love," says Kaelynn "KK" Harris, the show's resident dance expert. "Like, actually get a connection out of it, it wasn't just for the cameras. It was really the cutest thing."

KK, who has worked as a professional dancer with many performers including Usher and Missy Elliott, says she was surprised by how emotional she found the performances on the show.

"I definitely wasn't expecting to cry, I'll tell you that!" she says. "I was like a freaking cry baby. I said to myself, 'Why are you crying? This is not your man.'"

"Every time, she cried," Jamie adds, laughing.

KK believes the hardest part of the competition, for the professionals, was the rehearsal process.

"It is hard to not only be a great dancer but to be a great teacher," she says.

"Teaching them how to do it, trying to hype them up but make sure they're not putting too much pressure on their rookie.

"It gets a bit stressful but that's relationships, man.

"You gotta make sure you can go through those stressful and pivotal moments. That's the great thing about this show, you see people for what they really are."

Jamie, who reached the final of Strictly Come Dancing in 2020, says his favourite part of the show was "seeing these couples develop and seeing what they were like.

"We were able to really get to know the cast members and that's what was so great about it.

"Typically, with most dating shows, they're produced to within an inch of their life and this just wasn't. It's authentic and real."

KK, who has performed in music videos, at festivals and on stage at the MTV Music Video Awards, believes dancing is a great way of forming a romantic connection because, she says: "Dancing is a universal language. And it's filled with every single emotion that you can possibly feel. Dancing is emotion.

"So once you can connect to your own emotions and be vulnerable, you can dance. And that's the beauty of it."

"We honestly can't wait for people to watch our show," Jamie adds.

"We shot the pilot just before the pandemic and then we had to wait.

"So right now we are so psyched for it to finally come out and for people just to fall in love with it and much as we've fallen in love with it.

"It's not just your regular dating show - no, it's so much more than that: dance, dating, romance, living in a house, KK and I hosting it. It's got everything you need."

I Like The Way U Move will be available as a boxset on BBC iPlayer on Sunday 17 October.