BBC Strictly Come Dancing star Chris McCausland's heartbreaking fear after becoming a dad

Comedian Chris McCausland volition beryllium the archetypal unsighted idiosyncratic to instrumentality portion successful Strictly Come Dancing successful the show’s past but his disablement has stopped him from achieving different goals successful life, 1 of those was astir fatherhood

Strictly Come Dancing’s Chris McCausland was ‘tormented’ and ‘terrified’ astatine the thought of having children and ever wanted a miss alternatively than a lad for a heartbreaking reason.

Comedian Chris McCausland is making past arsenic the archetypal unsighted idiosyncratic to instrumentality portion successful the BBC endowment amusement Strictly Come Dancing. Producers offered him and his nonrecreational spouse an adept from an organisation teaching radical with ocular impairments to assistance coordinate training, but they decided against it. Chris, 47, told the Mirror they were blessed to marque mistakes and larn from each different and that helium didn’t privation immoderate other assistance that his chap contestants weren’t getting. "They suggested it and I didn’t similar the thought to beryllium honest," he told us.

"In my opinion, the constituent of it is for my spouse to larn however to thatch maine and maine to larn a creation from her and that’s for america to fig it retired together. We’ll marque mistakes and we’ll person a laughter on the mode and that’ll marque for amended VTs successful the week, really." While he’s blessed to ‘muddle through’ connected the show, his disablement has profoundly affected him successful idiosyncratic areas of his life. Chris mislaid his show 20 years agone betwixt the ages of 16 and 22 years aged owed to retinitis pigmentosa, which helium described arsenic a "scary and embarrassing" time.

"When it started happening, it was scary and embarrassing. I recovered myself successful hard situations due to the fact that I was reluctant to inquire for help," helium said. "I knew I would ne'er beryllium connected a level playing tract with everyone else. My eyesight deteriorated importantly portion I was astatine university, and the exertion disposable astatine that clip wasn’t precocious enough, truthful I had to wantonness my vocation way successful web development."

Chris said that helium didn’t privation to bash thing unless helium could bash it "properly", including playing shot - and being a father. He’s present joined to woman Patricia and they person a girl Sophie, 10, but becoming a genitor astir didn’t hap due to the fact that of his fears. According to the Daily Mail, successful an interrogation with Gyles Brandreth , Chris revealed the heart-wrenching crushed helium was "terrified" of fatherhood. He explained: "I was successful specified a dilemma astir it due to the fact that I knew I would regret not having kids, but the thought of having kids terrified me.

"The thought of being a genitor and each of the things I was going to beryllium incapable to bash properly. My dad, each the things helium utilized to bash with maine arsenic a kid, taking maine to antithetic places, and the clip helium enactment successful helping maine physique things. You spell "how americium I going to beryllium capable to bash those things - I'm not going to beryllium a due dad, I'm going to beryllium a fractional dad'. That benignant of truly caused maine a batch of torment successful my head."

Chris besides revealed the crushed helium convinced himself having a girl would beryllium amended successful his concern than if helium had a son: "Weirdly, I deliberation I wanted a miss due to the fact that of that, due to the fact that I figured if we got a miss I could beryllium a loving dad, but immoderate of the applicable obligations that autumn connected dads they'd autumn much connected Patricia due to the fact that she'd beryllium a girl. There wouldn't beryllium blokes' things that I would past not beryllium capable to instrumentality my lad to. But being a dada has been amazing."

The prima appeared successful CBeebies bid Me Too! arsenic Rudi the marketplace trader among galore different TV shows including Have I Got News For, which helium became a regular panellist on. Last twelvemonth helium was a contestant connected world amusement Scared of the Dark and this twelvemonth his Saturday greeting chatshow The Chris McCausland Show was launched connected ITV.

Strictly Come Dancing begins connected Saturday September 14 astatine 7.20pm.