It came after the judges pointed out that Tony had made a mistake in their routine.
Motsi Mabuse told him: "Tony, you tried so hard, maybe a little too hard but you tried and you know what? Stuff goes wrong in life."
"Tony, I actually thought you tried to give me a rotation when you stepped back," Shirley Ballas praised before pointing out his mistake.
"Tony don't despair. You had a lovely sense of line in the middle, and you had some nice rotation.
"You are fearless and you've got some good partnering skills otherwise you wouldn't have got her in that lift."
Strictly Come Dancing airs on Saturday at 6.55pm on BBC One.
