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Why Chris McCausland the plain-speaking blind TV comic is the tonic Strictly needs after a year of scandal, writes KATIE HIND
KATIE HIND: It was only when Dianne Buswell kicked Chris McCausland in the face that the true scale of the challenges she faced with her new dance partner became real.
He and Dianne were awarded 23 out of 40 points but bookies immediately slashed the odds of them winning the glitterball from 14/1 to 7/2, putting him alongside the frontrunners, former JLS singer and TV presenter JB Gill and his dance partner Amy Dowden. Chris – who lives in South London, with his wife Patricia, a psychologist, and 11-year-old daughter Sophie – says he's now revised his initial target of lasting three weeks on the show, although he still insists he won't win. There is, though, Chris explains, a difference between training in a dance studio, where there is no background noise and he can hear where Dianne is all the time, and live on television when there is music playing loudly and the audience clapping and cheering.
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