Strictly Come Dancing's Anton Du Beke says Chris McCausland dancing is best thing he's seen on show

The Strictly Come Dancing justice says Chris is making it look casual and putting connected a singular amusement arsenic helium and spouse Dianne Buswell are odds-on favourites

Anton Du Beke has described the show of unsighted Strictly Come Dancing prima Chris McCausland arsenic “the astir superb happening I person ever seen connected the show”.

Bookmakers person Chris, 47, and nonrecreational spouse Dianne Buswell arsenic the odds-on favourites to assistance the glitterball trophy. And amusement justice Anton thinks helium is putting connected a singular show.

Speaking astatine the Cheltenham Literature festival, Anton, 58, would not initially beryllium drawn connected who would triumph the amusement this year, but erstwhile Chris’s sanction was mentioned his look lit up.

He said: “I deliberation we made a notation of it successful week 1 however helium can’t spot but tin creation similar that.

“Now we don’t speech astir it due to the fact that helium wants to beryllium judged similar everyone else. But I person to archer you, helium can’t spot and helium is lasting connected sofas and jumping disconnected things, cleanable timing.

“He is making it look a spot casual if I americium honest. It is conscionable truthful bonzer I find it hard to enactment into words, really, however gripping it is.

“And what a occupation Dianne is doing, I would person kept him successful clasp and gone to the broadside and I would person gone forward.

“She has said ‘off you go’. Just brilliant. Really, the timing is exquisite. His consciousness of bushed is phenomenal. I person to archer you I deliberation it is the astir superb happening I person ever seen connected Strictly Come Dancing.”

Addressing the assemblage helium added: “It is up to you who wins, I person nary say.”

Chris and Dianne, 35, wowed the judges past play dancing a Wayne’s World-inspired jive during the show’s fashionable movie week.

The brace besides went connected This Morning past week to sermon however grooming had gone truthful far. Chris opened up, sharing: “It’s mentally draining. There’s a batch of statement and sometimes I person to get connected to my knees and consciousness what her feet are doing.”

With a interaction of humour, helium added: “She has got muscles successful the little portion of her legs that I didn’t adjacent cognize existed.

“Sometimes arsenic well, she gets connected her hands and knees and conscionable picks my limb up and puts it wherever she wants. It’s similar I’m 1 of those bendy Spider-Man figures.”

Chris was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa erstwhile helium was 22. It is simply a familial illness that progressively erodes vision.

Speaking to beforehand his caller caller A Dance For The King, Anton went connected to accidental helium was disappointed erstwhile helium joined the Strictly sheet and realised helium lone had astir 15 seconds to critique each dance.

He said: “We person 15 to 20 seconds to justice and I was mortified erstwhile I archetypal heard this. I thought I americium going to springiness each my knowledge, y’know clasp yourself, signifier and stride, the hair. But I conflict to get started successful 15 seconds. Once I commencement I can’t stop.”

He would not beryllium drawn connected the caller study into the behaviour of immoderate nonrecreational dancers connected the amusement but insisted helium ever tried to instrumentality beverage breaks with his personage partners erstwhile things got tough.

And helium admitted erstwhile helium was inactive a pro connected the BBC bid helium realised timings connected the amusement were choky betwixt each dance, truthful helium would discarded clip bowing and throwing his spouse to the level astatine the end. He knew that if they milked helium audience’s absorption it would permission little clip for acid-tongued justice Craig Revel Horwood to criticise.

Anton, who performed with the likes of Ann Widdecombe and Lesley Joseph, said: “There is an magnitude of clip for VT, dance, spell to the judges for comments, upstairs for the scores and off, past it’s who’s coming next. That’s the magnitude of time... it’s similar 7 minutes.

“I cognize we person had the VT and the creation which is that magnitude of clip and however overmuch is allocated, truthful depending connected however it’s gone I knew however overmuch clip I needed to waste.

”The much I bow the little they tin speak. My ambition was to spell from bow, consecutive upstairs to the score. We would bow and hug, oregon I would effort to decorativeness with them connected the level and I would locomotion distant from them.”

Despite retiring arsenic a pro from the show, Anton is keen to enactment successful shape.

He inactive tours performing connected signifier and says helium would hatred to beryllium “that guy” that nary 1 wants to creation with anymore. He added: “I cognize the line. It has ever been truly important for maine to beryllium magnificent [on stage]. What bash I mean by that? I person to beryllium the astir unthinkable 58-year-old. Otherwise what’s the point? I person to beryllium successful the champion shape, I person to devour arsenic I should and [be] arsenic beardown arsenic erstwhile I was 30.

“I don’t privation to beryllium surviving disconnected past memories I americium not trying to beryllium Benjamin Button but I emotion what I bash and I privation to support doing it. I privation radical who haven’t seen maine earlier to deliberation it is amazing.”

He is already penning an eighth caller which volition beryllium released adjacent year, has Christmas shows and is booked to execute connected a cruise vessel adjacent year. But helium inactive finds plentifulness of clip to walk with woman Hannah who helium joined successful 2017 and twins George and Henrietta, seven. “The astir important happening is clip with them. It is lone amusive due to the fact that of them,” helium said.