Chris McCausland says his family didn't give him 'ringing endorsement' fellow Strictly stars got

Strictly Come Dancing's archetypal unsighted contestant Chris McCausland has revealed his household were not truthful supportive erstwhile helium announced helium was signing up to the BBC show

Chris McCausland’s girl is acrophobic that helium volition injure himself doing Strictly Come Dancing.

The 47-year-old comedian is the archetypal unsighted contestant to look connected the deed BBC creation amusement and has revealed that his 10-year-old girl Sophie is disquieted that helium volition autumn connected the dancefloor.

He wrote successful his ‘Strictly’ diary for The Telegraph: "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.”

Chris continued: "Not rather the ringing endorsement different celebrities get. But I’ve checked and determination is nary signifier truthful the joke’s connected her...”

He quipped: “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."

The presenter - who began losing his show successful his teenage years owed to a information called retinitis pigmentosa - besides shared that helium is "terrified" to instrumentality part.

He said: "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?

"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 partnered with Dianne Buswell - antecedently said that helium plans to "make it up arsenic [he] goes along" connected 'Strictly'.

He told the newspaper: “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.”