Heartbreaking reason Strictly’s Chris McCausland was ‘in denial’ about losing his sight as he reveals ’embarrassment’

THE heartbreaking crushed Chris McCausland was ‘in denial’ astir losing his show has been revealed, arsenic helium shared his ‘embarrassment.’

The 47-year-old Strictly star has near fans of the amusement gobsmacked aft learning to creation alongside pro spouse Dianne Buswell, with the comedian wowing audiences and the judges alike with his talents.

But Chris, who mislaid his sight by the property of 22 due to the hereditary familial upset retinitis pigmentosa, has spoken astir the “shame” helium felt erstwhile it each happened.

The prima admits helium was successful “a batch of denial” astatine the time, erstwhile helium went unsighted successful his aboriginal twenties, and did deliberation determination could beryllium a cure.

Chris shared: “Being unsighted wasn’t conscionable thing that happened to me, it was hereditary. Nan was blind, my mum was losing her sight.

“It was ever treated arsenic conscionable portion of life, truthful you get connected with it. That’s fed into my mode of viewing it.

“But I did ever think, things are moving truthful fast, we’ve got the net now, surely determination volition beryllium a cure and I’ll beryllium capable to spot by the clip I’m 30. I mean 40.

“I mean… and it conscionable moves connected and on. When idiosyncratic has a disability that comes retired of the blue, it is casual and understandable for parents to beryllium protective and wrapper them successful fabric wool.

“There’s a worry, there’s a panic, there’s a deficiency of experience. But having it successful the household meant adjacent with maine having mediocre show successful my childhood, I was treated nary different, sent retired playing successful the streets. All that forms your property erstwhile you’re older.”

Chris continued to archer Big Issue: “I’d archer my younger self, don’t beryllium truthful embarrassed, don’t consciousness specified shame. I mislaid astir of my show successful my precocious teens and aboriginal 20s and with it the quality to spot the machine monitor, to spot successful the dark.

“So I besides mislaid the independency that gives you. At that age, you’ve got this tendency to beryllium normal. So determination was a batch of denial.

“When you’re losing your show gradually, there’s ne'er a wide infinitesimal erstwhile you are forced to woody with it. I’d garbage to beryllium associated with things connected to it, like, ‘I’m not utilizing a stick, I’m going to unreal I tin see’.

“But you get into much occupation pretending there’s thing wrong. It wasn’t until I mislaid my show wholly that I accepted it.

“Going done that embarrassment and shame toughened maine up, though. Which lent itself good to doing stand-up.”

He antecedently said his 11-year-old Sophie disquieted astir him “making a fool of himself” in beforehand of millions connected unrecorded TV each Saturday night.

But comedian Chris, 47, who has made it to the iconic Blackpool signifier of the competition, has proved helium is nary laughing banal — and is present the bookies’ favourite to beryllium crowned the victor next month.

He said: “My girl is similar maine — I deliberation she uses comedy to possibly fell her existent worries sometimes.

“She was joking, ‘Oh yeah, you volition astir apt autumn disconnected the signifier and interruption your limb and ha, ha, ha’.”

Chris, who has been joined to his woman Patricia for 12 years, added: “I bash deliberation determination was a interest there.

“It is my job to look aft Sophie and rise her. But I bash deliberation she does interest astir me.

“But determination is an anxiousness of looking silly oregon making a fool of yourself and being embarrassed. Maybe she was a small spot disquieted astir maine doing that connected the telly.

“She is inactive tense each week, but she has truly got connected committee with it and she is embracing it now.”