Strictly Come Dancing star Les Dennis is desperate to be reincarnated.
The TV legend, 69, says he is convinced we aren’t gone for good when we die and after he goes, he wants to come back as a member of his family — a descendent of himself.
He said: “I believe that we come back in some way in our families. I don’t want to come back too soon, because I don’t want my daughter to be my mum. But I’d like to come back a few generations from now, in my own family… in the clan.”
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Les is desperate for it to happen so he can find out what happens to his loved ones and what they really think of him when he’s gone.
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He added: “I am obsessed with myself. I want to be able to look up and ask my kids, ‘What was I like? What was your grandad like?’ I want to hear about me.”
Asked if he’s bothered how he returns, he said: “I don’t know… binary or non-binary… girl, boy, I don’t mind. Just a member of the family.” When Les was born in 1953, his family – including his mum Winnie – thought it was his late brother reincarnated as a new person.
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He said: “My brother had died not long before I was born. He was eight months old. Died of pneumonia. When I was born, everyone said, ‘Winnie, you have got him back’. I had to be the good boy for my mum because I was living up to this image.”
Les is taking part in Strictly because he wants a new challenge at 69.
He said: “I was in the mix for Strictly, and then I heard from my agent I’d got it, and I called my wife and she cried – but in a good way. She didn’t cry going, ‘Don’t do it!’”
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“The last few years, I’ve had challenges just come out of nowhere, like I did my first opera two years ago at the RSC, with no training. So this is such a massive opportunity as I approach 70. I thought yeah, why not?”
The former Family Fortunes host will do his first routine with pro partner Nancy Xu when the live shows kick off Saturday night (September 23 on BBC One.
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