Darren Gough is on a gruelling 39-show tour of the TV show Strictly Come Dancing and, according to John Westerby in The Times, loving every minute of it even though it’s hard work.
“I’m in bits … I’ve just had a massage to sort me out and that hasn’t nearly done the job. And I’ve got to do it all again tonight."
His success in the show – which he won in 2005 – has catapulted him into the realm of being a
TV celebrity, and when he retires, which is likely to be at the end of the summer, a new career is waiting for him. There were even suggestions he could go into musical theatre …
“I’ve not got a bad voice, believe it or not … with a few singing lessons, who knows? If you’d said to me a few years ago that I’d be spending my winter on a dancing tour, performing in front of 12,000 people, I’d have said you were sick.”
