Harry Aikines-Aryeetey, the lead actor for The Glendaines-Aryeetey, has revealed that he is considering a bold new job following his Strictly Come Dancing performance.
Strictly Come Dancing star Harry Aikines-Aryeetey is eyeing up a very different career when he leaves the BBC dance competition. The Gladiator star is one of the favourites on this year’s series thanks to his impressive moves on the dancefloor.
He is best known for competing as Nitro on Gladiators but has been setting the Strictly dancefloor alight with his routines with professional dance partner Karen Hauer. It seems Harry has been enjoying his Strictly journey so much that he is planning a new role when his time comes to an end.
The hunky TV star has revealed he’s eyeing up a stint on the West End when he leaves the competition. However, fans will be seeing more of Harry than they might have bargained for.
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Harry joked, “Oh no, Magic Mike is incoming, and I am getting bigger,” as a result of his constantly expanding muscles. I’m actually adding muscle, I suppose.
He revealed that while he was warned he would lose muscle by dancing, he is actually gaining. Harry told the Sun: “I’ve been on the physio table the last couple of weeks and he’s been like, ‘Your calves have got bigger’.”
The Gladiator credited wearing Cuban heels as the key to the success of his growing calves. Earlier this month, Harry revealed how he became emotional over his Strictly success following an injury he sustained on Gladiators.
He admitted: “Yeah, it hit me. It hit me.” He was talking on The One Show with his professional partner Karen. Because not many people are aware of the extent of my previous injury, which prevented me from being in Series 2 of Gladiators, made me feel overwhelmed with emotion.
However, you may well be aware that I am a big ball of energy because we frequently ask ourselves questions and go through some lows. Harry continued, “Harry admitted that while there were some issues with his personality when he injured himself, he has been able to use the dancefloor as a chance to reclaim his “true self” in front of the entire country.
He said, “When you don’t know if you’re going to be who you once were, just in terms of your personality, being on that dance floor and being that person again, it just meant a lot.”
Harry incurred a kneecap rupture during Gladiators training last summer, which required surgery and required him to spend six weeks in bed. The athlete was left to wonder if he had been permanently cast as a result of the setback, but it was then given the chance to take part in the Christmas edition of Strictly.
The married father-of-one at the time acknowledged, “I’d been through a really tough time mentally.” Our body is our tool, of course, so I wasn’t confident that I would ever return to being Nitro or back to sprinting. It strains our family and my well-being, respectively.
Harry found it to be a great distraction despite the fact that his recovery limited him from dancing on the Christmas show.
The fearsome Nitro is now fully recovered, and the upcoming Gladiators series has been captured on video.
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Source: Mirror
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