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The spat that led TV bosses to give me a bodyguard: Craig Revel Horwood's waspish memoir spills ALL of Strictly's secrets


In real life I am not anything like I am on TV, wrote Craig Revel Horwood. The spats between me and James Jordan, right with wife Ola have been well-documented.

She had stuck it out for two years after her husband James left the show but quit after giving an interview accusing the judges of fixing the score. I was asked to take part in the screen tests for Len’s replacement, to sit with each candidate at a desk, judging as if it were a real show. Who would have believed that this boy from the Australian gold-rush town of Ballarat would one day stand among the most legendary names in showbusiness, sport and world politics?

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