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Privacy NoticeChris McCausland, the first blind contestant on Strictly Come Dancing, has revealed a nerve-wracking moment from the live show that didn’t make it to our screens. The 47 year old funnyman and his pro partner Dianne Buswell took to the dance floor with a Cha Cha routine on Saturday night, earning them a respectable 23 points from the judges and tying them in sixth place on the leaderboard with Sam Quek, Tom Dean and Jamie Borthwick. However, Chris confessed in a new Instagram video that he was feeling under the weather due to nerves before their performance. In the duo’s regular video updates, Dianne told him: “I’m so glad you’ve got a bit more colour in your face than when we started on Saturday,” to which he responded: “I was so ill, with fear. The fact that we got through it, it was very emotional wasn’t it.”
Chris McCausland shared the shocking moment before their Strictly Come Dancing live performance
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He went on to share how overwhelmed he felt after their performance, admitting he found it hard to speak when the judges gave their feedback. He said: “Yeah, I was so overwhelmed with kind of relief and emotion at the end of it, I found it difficult to speak and then all the judges said things. I don’t know what they said, I really don’t know what they said. I remember Craig going and then everyone booing and then the others.” He added: “And I then I hadn’t said anything…I should say something. And all I could think of was Craig got booed, so I’d just slag him off.” Chris also expressed his frustration about having to wait nearly two hours to perform, as he and Dianne were one of the last couples to dance, reports the Mirror. Just before their performance, they were guided to the stage. Speaking to Dianne, Chris confessed: “I tried to be positive. Let’s not put pressure on ourselves to smash it out of the park. Let’s go out and have fun and you were like, ‘Yeah’ and I thought ‘What the f*** am I doing here?'”
Chris is the first blind contestant to take part in Strictly Come Dancing
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Sign up to OK’s TV newsletter to get updates sent to your inbox for free He added that it was ‘horrific’ to be guided through the backstage area as it felt like he was being ‘fed to the lions’. However, Chris said he was looking forward to the next live show. Strictly fans were thrilled with the behind-the-scenes insights, flooding the comments with praise. One fan gushed: “Isn’t it funny? Chris, a blind man, is telling us so much more about it strictly than I’ve ever known. I’m in awe and in love with this partnership. So much joy and so much laughter and the cherry on the top is that Chris can dance,” while another said: “Chris is truly giving us an appreciation of all the parts of Strictly we don’t think about hahah.”
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