Chris McCausland admits feeling “overwhelmed” (Image: ITV)
has revealed the one moment that without fail causes his “lip to wobble” and a “lump in his throat”.
The blind comedian, who has become a fast favourite on the show after just three weeks, admits that it’s the end of the show that’s the most “overwhelming” as he revels in the relief of another performance completed without any “major blunders”. He’s revealed that pro partner is making no move to “dumb things down” because of his sight loss and has consistently kept him on his toes.
He admitted in a new interview that he thought she was “mad” after being told of the dance moves she wanted to attempt, shuddering that there was “a lot that could go wrong”. “Take that guitar leg in our opening Cha Cha Cha, for instance. Dianne’s idea was that she would do a handstand towards me and that I would grab her leg down and use it as a makeshift guitar,” he revealed.
“I thought she was mad. How the hell were we going to be able to do this on live TV?” He added to the Telegraph: “We messed it up a lot at the beginning… We both ended up on the floor a few times, sometimes she would miss me entirely, or she wouldn’t handstand far enough and I would have to wrestle her leg out of the air.”
The horrified star added: “There was also that one time that she cartwheeled towards me and kicked me straight in the face… I just stood there and took Dianne’s foot right in the face like a man… a blind, blind man.”
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Chris McCausland and Dianne Buswell on screen (Image: BBC)
Likewise, there were times when he feared his timing would leave Dianne falling flat on her face – and despite what the public might believe, he confessed that he has no “useful” vision remaining.
However, he’s used other secret weapons, such as reading the shifts in her body weight during one routine so that he could predict the right second to step over her “flailing” legs.
Ahead of he pledged his total “trust” in Dianne and revealed that he’d even try to catch her from a great height while riding a unicycle, although he has his fingers crossed that she never asks.
He needn’t have worried, as he received a standing ovation last night for with judges praising his “unbelievable musicality” and “spot on timing”.
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Chris McCausland and Dianne Buswell’s Wayne’s World routine for Strictly’s Movie Week (Image: BBC)
The score he and Dianne achieved was the highest so far in the competition, at 30 – and Twitter fans branded his efforts “truly incredible”.
Chris lost his sight at the age of 22 after being diagnosed with a rare hereditary condition known as retinitis pigmentosa, which also affected his mother and grandmother.
However, he persevered, even applying for a role as a spy with MI5 and getting down to the last 30 in the highly competitive recruitment process before being refused over his sight.
Despite finding the show “overwhelming” and at times frightening, Chris has a huge fanbase who are rooting for him to go far.
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