BBC Strictly Come Dancing star Chris McCausland reveals daughter's fear ahead of first live show

Comedian Chris McCausland, the archetypal unsighted contestant connected Strictly Come Dancing, has revealed that his 10 twelvemonth aged girl has a worrying fearfulness astir him being connected the show

Comic Chris McCausland, the archetypal unsighted contestant connected Strictly Come Dancing, has opened up astir his daughter's fears for his information connected the creation floor.

The 47 twelvemonth aged comedian shared successful his file for The Telegraph that his 10 twelvemonth aged girl Sophie is disquieted helium mightiness instrumentality a tumble. "I showed my 10-year-old girl a clip of the amusement and asked her if I should bash it. 'No, Daddy,' she said. 'You'll autumn disconnected the signifier and interruption your leg.' She's a joker astatine heart, but she's got a point," helium joked.

Chris besides joked astir the imaginable hazards, saying, "Not rather the ringing endorsement different celebrities get. But I've checked and determination is nary signifier truthful the joke's connected her..." He added humorously, "I sincerely anticipation they volition person wrapped the cameras successful layers of foam conscionable successful case. I tin spot myself taking retired 3 of them successful a azygous foxtrot."

Despite the jests, Chris, who suffers from retinitis pigmentosa which caused him to suffer his show astatine 22, admitted to being "terrified" of participating. He expressed his anxiety: "Have I mentioned that I was terrified? I mean, however tin I perchance person assurance successful my quality to bash thing erstwhile I can't spot the wholly ocular happening that I'm being asked to do?"

He continued, highlighting the unit of unrecorded television: "On apical of that, instrumentality it connected unrecorded TV wherever failures are determination for everybody to spot and wherever the accidental of a generous edit is implicit zero, and what could perchance spell wrong? Well, excessively galore things, and that was my problem."

Chris, who is dancing with Dianne Buswell connected 'Strictly', antecedently shared his strategy of improvisation for the show. He told the press: "We'll marque it up arsenic we spell on and fig it out. Sometimes I deliberation it mightiness beryllium amended for maine to consciousness wherever my partner's legs are going, and sometimes it would beryllium amended for her to conscionable prime up my limb and enactment it wherever it's expected to be."

Speaking earlier this week, Chris said helium did not privation to bash Strictly Come Dancing erstwhile helium was repeatedly asked, and has spoken astir however helium was persuaded to alteration his mind. The comic explained however "didn’t privation to bash Strictly astatine first, I didn’t, I was asked a fewer times to do, similar past year’s and the Christmas peculiar and I didn’t”"

However, the 47-year-old says helium is "very easy persuaded into things by people" flattering him. He added that determination is not "a batch of pointers" from listening to it, truthful helium does not person "any benignant of attachment to the thought of it", but thinks it volition beryllium bully to beryllium retired of his "comfort zone".

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