‘I really don’t want to be here’ Dan Walker admits ‘stomach folded’ due to nerves | Celebrity News | Showbiz & TV
Dan Walker admitted he was so nervous ahead of his Strictly Come Dancing stint, he felt his “stomach folding in”. The BBC Breakfast host recalled thinking “I really don’t want to be here”.
Speaking to Strictly FM’s Fred Morgan during an Instagram live today, Dan explained: ”The most challenging thing for me was, having been somebody who has always avoided a dancefloor, I did feel a little bit uncomfortable and weird.
“The very first week we met for the first time, and did our interviews.
“I remember filming in the tin foil tunnel, you know when they show your VTs with that shot of you dancing in the tunnel?
“I had that stomach-folding-in-on-itself-feeling of, ‘I really don’t want to be here, this is all the things I hate about dancing.’
“But over the weeks I became much more confident and I really enjoyed it – I think that came across.”
Dan said his “proudest moment” of the series was simply staying in as long as he did and making it through to the quarter-finals, because he thought he would last three weeks maximum.
He added that a highlight was spending time with talented Nadiya Bychkova and learning to appreciate her craft.
“I got to learn from one of the best dancers in the world,” he said.
“The dance session with @nadiyabychkova followed a similar pattern to all our other ones,” he wrote on Instagram.
“Early excitement, great fun, chocolate biscuits, totally broken at the end.
“See you in Leeds partner.”
Former rugby player Rob Burrow hosted a fundraiser for the Motor Neurone Disease Association, and Dan’s BBC Breakfast co-star Sally Nugent also performed.
