BBC Strictly Come Dancing's Chris McCausland wants to prove 'blind people can do anything'

Chris McCausland, who mislaid his show astatine 22, says helium wants to usage his clip connected Strictly to amusement conscionable however susceptible unsighted radical are and that they are susceptible of a batch much than galore radical think

Chris McCausland, the comedian who mislaid his show astatine 22 owed to a hereditary information called retinitis pigmentosa, joined Strictly Come Dancing to situation misconceptions astir unsighted people.

Speaking to the Daily Star, helium said: "There are radical who person ne'er been exposed to idiosyncratic who is unsighted that person antiquated ideas. People deliberation you can't bash thing if you're blind."

He recalled an incidental wherever helium was praised for climbing stairs unaided and expressed his tendency to amusement that unsighted radical are much susceptible than galore believe.

However, Chris, 47, fears that if helium doesn't execute good connected the creation floor, it could undermine his mission. He joked: "The lone occupation with that is if I'm s***, it doesn't assistance anybody."

Last weekend, Chris impressed viewers with his archetypal routine, starring bookies to slash likelihood connected him winning the competition.

This Saturday, helium and his nonrecreational spouse Dianne Buswell, 35, volition beryllium performing a foxtrot to The Tams' Be Young, Be Foolish, Be Happy. He concluded: "It's each astir doing things that radical deliberation you can't bash and doing things that I deliberation I'd conflict to do, and uncovering ways of doing it."

Chris confessed that during the series' archetypal unrecorded show, helium had to archer a chap contestant to "put a sock successful it". He revealed that portion waiting for his crook to dance, helium asked ex-footballer Paul Merson to quiescent down due to the fact that helium preferred to perceive to the music.

The comedian shared: "I was stood up determination for an hr 45 [minutes]. I've got to basal determination pretending to ticker different radical dancing and each I've got is Paul Merson commentating for me, going, 'Ah Chris, he's perfectly brilliant', 'Ah, I haven't adjacent got words to picture however bully she is'. I'm like, 'Paul, enactment a sock successful it, I'd alternatively conscionable person the songs! '".

Strictly Come Dancing continues connected BBC One this Saturday astatine 6.15pm.

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