The singer was unveiled on ITV’s This Morning, after blind comedian Chris McCausland was revealed as the first contestant on the BBC dancing show. Gill, who previously performed the jive with professional dancer Ola Jordan to Rockin’ Robin, on the Christmas special in 2012, said: “I did the Christmas special, it was great fun. “I feel like it was probably the most similar dance to things that I will have done in JLS, but I do feel like a lot of the styles, particularly the ballroom styles, are particularly alien to me.
“I’m not a trained dancer, I didn’t go to stage school growing up, so it’s going to be a learning curve for me.” Comparing the show with being part of JLS he added: “I don’t think anybody is going to be prepared for the amount of time that is going to go into this, the rehearsals, tours and things like that, that I’ve done before, you know you’re learning a lot of different songs. “But it’s going to be a different routine every single week, within three or four days, plus all the other stuff that’s going on.
“I know of people who’ve done the show before me and they just said prepare yourself, the body’s going to hurt and the mind is definitely going to boggle, because you’re going to be learning routines and trying to fit stuff around hours.” Asked if his bandmate Aston Merrygold had given him any tips after he appeared on the show in its 15th series in 2017, he replied: “We haven’t had a full debrief, I told him a .