Chris McCausland makes Strictly viewers cringe with dicey joke amid show scandals

Strictly Come Dancing prima Chris McCausland pushed the boundaries successful much ways than 1 tonight.

The beloved comedian, 47, makes past arsenic the show’s first-ever unsighted contestant, partnered with Aussie pro Dianne Buswell, 35.

And portion his archetypal show had the federation connected their feet successful applause, his jokes were besides the speech of social media.

Chris has already proven helium won’t shy distant from risky gags, having mocked the information that the stars were ‘able to get successful the aforesaid country arsenic a GP’ on motorboat night, arsenic Dr Punam Krishan competes for the glitterball.

Taking things 1 measurement further successful the archetypal unrecorded amusement of the year, Chris had viewers connected borderline with a gag that was alternatively adjacent to the bone, fixed the scandals surrounding the show presently and however erstwhile professionals person been accused of misconduct.

When asked however grooming had been going, Dianne praised Chris for being ‘such a hard worker’, earlier helium lifted the lid connected the mishaps that occurred earlier nailing a instrumentality that saw Dianne basal connected her caput and beryllium grabbed by Chris.

‘That cartwheel thing, erstwhile she suggested it, I said, “Are you mad?”

‘We messed it up truthful galore times. She kicked maine successful the caput 1 day!

‘If determination was ever immoderate uncertainty that I person much show than I was letting on, I did not debar nor expect it… I stood determination and I took a ft close successful the face.’

Reacting to Chris’s humour, spectator katyajcnes wrote connected X: ‘i cognize the bbc hr employees felt their souls permission their bodies proceeding chris speech astir getting kicked’.

It’s harmless to accidental Chris has been taken to the hearts of the nation, though, particularly with his astonishing clapback astatine Craig Revel Horwood’s criticism.

‘I’m excessively knackered to care, mate!’, helium retorted, adding to the show’s nonmigratory Mr Nasty: ‘I’ll thrust you location tonight.’

User deirdreheenan declared him ‘comedy gold’, portion GeekGirlManners joked: ‘BREAKING NEWS: Chris McCausland becomes the archetypal ever contestant to WIN #StrictlyComeDancing successful WEEK ONE.’

Chris and Dianne performed a cha cha cha to Twist and Shout by The Beatles arsenic each 15 couples took to the level for the archetypal time.

Landing mediate of the leaderboard, Chris scored a respectable 23 points retired of a imaginable 40.

He was instantly awarded a lasting ovation successful the studio, with members of the sheet admitting they felt tearful watching him gleefully boogie crossed the floor.

Judge Anton Du Beke said: ‘It was 1 of the astir bonzer things I’ve ever seen successful my full life.’

Head justice Shirley Ballas said: ‘I’m rather shocked and precise affectional – fabulous.’

Speaking to Claudia Winkleman aft the dance, Chris quipped that the regular was really a load of ‘nonsense’, successful his emblematic quick-witted style.

‘It’s similar someone’s conscionable sucked each the amusive retired of dancing and replaced it with presumption and conditions!’, helium said.

‘You’ve gotta support your legs straight, your shoulders back, your toes out, your arms straight, you’ve gotta constituent your digit for immoderate reason… it took maine 2 weeks to bash it with my rima shut,’ helium added, pulling a shocked expression.

Strictly fanatics were keen to heap praise connected Chris for his bonzer performance, fixed that the comic mislaid his show astatine property 22 owed to a hereditary information called retinitis pigmentosa.

Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) is simply a radical of uncommon oculus diseases that impact the retina, making its cells interruption down dilatory implicit time, causing imaginativeness loss.

Speaking to the one newspaper about losing his sight, Chris antecedently said: ‘My grandma had it, and my mum. Basically, I’d been going unsighted precise dilatory since I was born, and truthful didn’t adjacent truly announcement it happening.’

He added: ‘They accidental that erstwhile you suffer your sight, your proceeding gets better. It doesn’t. But you bash wage much attraction to it. So erstwhile you’re sat astatine a formation resort, and you’re hot, and you can’t spot what’s astir you, past you conscionable extremity up concentrating connected however blistery you really are. I endure much for it.’

Ahead of his Strictly debut, Chris was precise unfastened astir having nary thought what helium was heading into, but viewers already person a peculiar spot for him successful their hearts, suggesting adjacent week won’t beryllium the past clip we spot him dance.

All stars instrumentality to the ballroom again adjacent Saturday earlier the judges’ scores are combined, leaving 2 couples successful the dreaded dance-off, warring for their spot successful the competition.

Strictly Come Dancing continues adjacent Saturday astatine 6:15pm connected BBC One and BBC iPlayer.

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