Joker on the sideline Strictlys Dan Walker admits he didnt even dance at his wedding
Strictly: Dan Walker reveals 'issues' in Tango training
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The startling admission comes in stark contrast to the dance performances he offers up to the nation each week, alongside former Playboy model and pro-dancer Nadiya Bychkova.
The BBC Breakfast host isn’t quite as impressed with his performance as audiences seem to be, however, joking that he has no idea “who is voting for us”.
My wife asked me, I think a week before the competition started, ‘Can you actually dance?’
Dan Walker
According to Strictly judge Craig Revel Horwood, however, the answer is simple – “all the housewives”.
After reaching the quarter-finals of Strictly Come Dancing, he dramatically confessed to the PA news agency: “I didn’t even dance at my own wedding.
“I do distraction tactics, I do messing around on the sides.”
However, he has vowed to impress when it comes to his next landmark anniversary with wife Sarah.
“We’ve been married 20-odd years now and it has always been our plan to have a party for our 25th anniversary,” he revealed.
“I would love to do a dance and for her to learn a dance, and for us to do it together and make up for my lack of wedding-day dancing.”
“I love music, I love singing and I love the idea of dancing, but it just always felt beyond me,” the lanky star admitted of his lack of confidence prior to his Strictly days.
“I’m six foot six, I was always tall and awkward, it was just easier to avoid it and be the joker on the sideline instead.”
“I would watch Strictly and think ‘That looks absolutely amazing, I wish I could do that, I wish I could move like that’.
“There’s always been that sort of desire to do it but I just felt I had no ability to do it.”
Every week the TV personality has confessed to feeling shock that he is still in the running to become the Strictly winner.
“You’ve probably seen mine and Nadiya’s faces of surprise every week,” he joked.
“That’s half the fun.”
Plus Sarah’s attitude might not have done much to boost his confidence.
He joked: “My wife asked me, I think a week before the competition started, ‘can you actually dance?'”
Meanwhile, his emotional daughter was in tears during the first dance, begging for him not to be the first voted out.
“All [my family] said was don’t go home the first week and I didn’t,” he recalled proudly. “Now they’re really enjoying it.”
Though Dan loves watching fellow contestants who have natural dancing abilities, he has confessed: “I also liked watching numptys like me, who have no idea whether they could do anything or learn an entirely new skill.
“When I watched people dance, I would look at somebody and think that’s amazing. I wish I could do that.
“It just felt very closed off to me, but I’ve always loved performing. If you asked me to dance 12 weeks ago I would have sat down and run away, but it’s very different now.”
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