Yahoo News Jo Brand explains why she'll never do Strictly
The Great British Bake Off: An Extra Slice presenter Jo Brand has revealed why she'll never do Strictly Come Dancing.
In a wide-ranging interview with the BBC, in which she also touched on the #MeToo Movement, Brand explained why she finds the idea of competing on the dancing show so unappealing.
"I think it just eats your soul," she said. " I've been asked to do it quite a few times, I asked Colin Jackson what it's like. He said the problem is that one or two people take it really seriously and then everyone feels like they have to.
"So you're not doing your expected five hours a day, there's people getting there at 5am and working til 7 or 8 at night."
"And I would just worry that I'd be forced into having an affair with one of the male dancers," she joked in reference to the infamous Strictly curse, which has, of course, recently claimed Seann Walsh and Katya Jones as its latest victims. "They're not really my cup of tea!"
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"I do actually quite like dancing but the other thing I'd worry about would just be having to be the Anne Widdecombe figure fired out of a cannonball. 'Oh, here's the fat, hilarious one.' Well, I like to think I am fat and hilarious but possibly not in a dancing competition."
Strictly Come Dancing airs on BBC One.
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