He's making history as the first celebrity who is blind to take part in Strictly Come Dancing - but Chris McCausland is not willing to accept any extra help that his co-stars aren't getting too. Speaking to the Mirror ahead of the BBC show's launch this weekend, comedian Chris explained that producers had originally offered to have a representative from an organisation teaching people with visual impairments help co-ordinate training between himself and his partner. However, he admitted he "didn't like the idea" and said that he was up for "blundering his way through" training.
Chris, 47, went on to say that he was happy to make mistakes and for himself and his professional dance partner teach each other something new. "They suggested it and I didn’t like the idea to be honest," he told us. "In my opinion, the point of it is for my partner to learn how to teach me and me to learn a dance from her and that’s for us to figure it out together.
We’ll make mistakes and we’ll have a laugh along the way and that’ll make for better VTs in the week, really. "So they did offer it as a thing but we decided not to do it. We want to make mistakes along the way and not go into it with this kind of code that we’ve been taught, do you know what I mean? I’m all up for blundering my way through it and having some fun along the way.
" Chris lost his sight 20 years ago at 22 years old due to retinitis pigmentosa, which he described as a "scary and embarassing" time. "When it started.