Chris McCausland explains why comedy pals could be laughing all the way to the bank

Strictly prima Chris McCausland says helium is thrilled to person the backing of a big of comedians - including Lee Mack who thinks helium is laughing each the mode to the bank.

Chris, 47, is present odds-on favourite to assistance the Glitterball and Would I Lie To You funnyman Lee was convinced helium would bash well. He backed Chris to triumph astatine the commencement astatine large odds.

Asked astir his increasing fig of supporters, Chris said: "Lee Mack sent maine a connection saying, ‘I'm f***ing gladsome I stake connected you weeks ago!’. The likelihood were amended than they are now. He stake connected maine earlier the bid adjacent started. He sent maine a connection aft our archetypal creation saying helium was truthful gladsome helium enactment connected a stake connected maine earlier anyone other had seen maine dance! So he’s quids successful if we bash win!

"But I've had immoderate beauteous messages from loads of comedians and each that. And it's bully due to the fact that there's not a batch of comedians who bash this, truthful you are benignant of representing, you know, the circuit arsenic well. I've got 20 years connected the circuit and it's a truly bully situation and a truly bully spot to make arsenic a comedian. And there's truthful galore large radical retired determination and they're truly supportive, truthful it's bully to beryllium capable to correspond them arsenic well, you know."

Chris besides admitted arsenic a comic utilized to playing precocious nighttime gigs helium has had to enactment focused successful the interrogation sections too.

He said with a grin: "I'm precise bully astatine policing myself for daytime, you know, and this amusement is daytime, really, isn't it? It's overmuch harder erstwhile you bash thing similar The Last Leg, which is unrecorded and it's 10:00 p.m. You've benignant of got to beryllium edgy and inappropriate, but not ruin your career. That's a harder enactment to locomotion than conscionable being household friendly, which I'm a bully justice of. But I archer you what, though, immoderate things I conscionable don't archer them I'm gonna accidental due to the fact that I cognize they'll archer maine not to due to the fact that I cognize they volition worry. So I didn't archer them I was gonna speech astir Dianne kicking maine successful the caput due to the fact that I knew they go, ‘oh, delight don't accidental that’. But I knew it would beryllium funny."

Chris wowed fans again astatine the weekend, kicking disconnected Halloween week with a lively samba to Stayin' Alive by The Bee Gees.

Dressed successful a sparkly suit and frazzled wig, the stand-up grooved on the level successful betwixt gravestones with his spouse Dianne Buswell to prime up a people of 26.

He has antecedently told the Mirror helium would not privation to triumph connected a sympathy ballot and alternatively wants to get done connected merit.

He said: "I said nary to this a fewer times due to the fact that I conscionable didn't deliberation I'd beryllium capable to bash it. I thought it was 1 measurement excessively far. You know, I don't privation to beryllium the sympathy vote. I don't caput being a atrocious dancer. I don't caput radical laughing astatine maine due to the fact that I'm a comical dancer oregon a atrocious dancer, but I didn't privation it to beryllium a calamity due to the fact that I can't see. And truthful it did instrumentality a small portion to benignant of acclimatise myself to the thought of doing this."

Pro spouse Dianne insists they are not reasoning astir winning for now. She added: "Literally, each week arsenic it comes, we person truthful overmuch to deliberation astir successful 1 week that it would beryllium bonkers for america to deliberation astir a glitter shot oregon the final. We genuinely person capable connected our sheet week by week to support our brains busy. So, honestly, we conscionable privation to support connected doing arsenic bully a occupation arsenic we tin for arsenic agelong arsenic we can. Whether that is to the final, whether that’s a fewer much weeks, whether that's lifting the glitter ball, immoderate it is, arsenic agelong arsenic we some consciousness truly bully astir what we've achieved. For me, it's astir Chris walking distant from this acquisition going, ‘I really was truthful overmuch amended than I ever thought I could be’, and I already cognize that's what radical think. And truthful we already consciousness similar we've done truthful overmuch that each happening we bash present is conscionable an added bonus."

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