Richard Madeley has suggested he wouldn’t do Strictly Come Dancing as it would be the “stuff of nightmares”.
The TV presenter was quizzed about it on Good Morning Britain during a discussion about the latest series of the BBC ballroom contest, which was won by Ellie Leach and her pro partner Vito Coppola. He and entertainment journalist Richard Arnold were talking about the show and the fact that actor Brian Cox had turned down a stint on the dancefloor, when talk turned to whether Madeley would take a spin.
The star looked tickled, asking: “Can you see me doing the jive?” Arnold said he could and that it was “the stuff of dreams”.
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But Madeley wasn’t having any of it and replied: “It’s the stuff of nightmares.” Staff on the ITV show then produced a mocked up picture of what the presenter might look like on Strictly, showing him striking a dramatic dance pose in a ruffled shirt. “Exactly!” laughed Madeley. “I rest my case!”
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Madeley has previously said that Strictly bosses have been after him to sign up for the dance contest. But it seems he just can’t see himself in the sequinned, sparkly outfits that contestants slip on for their routines.
Speaking on GMB in 2019, he said that he had been asked to do the programme but could not picture himself in Spandex.
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“I was talking to a booker from Strictly Come Dancing the other day because, for their folly, sometimes they ask me to go on it and I always say ‘no’,” he said.
“She was saying that more women celebrities say yes than men, it’s much harder to get male celebrities to go and do it. I wouldn’t do it because of the jive.
“I cannot conceivably come on in Spandex and Lurex and do the flick kicks, I would look so stupid.”
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