Craig Revel Horwood claims he is just misunderstood despite the fact that he is the judge on Strictly Come Dancing.
Craig Revel Horwood, Strictly’s most evil judge, claims his standing is unfair.
People realized I was Mr. Naaaarsty because I told the truth that some of the celebrities were terrible, he claims. “I still find that to be quite funny,” I thought.
On Saturday night, Craig will be in his element thanks to the live broadcast of the Blackpool Tower Ballroom.
A special performance by Steps and a group dance from four returning finalists will be performed alongside dances from the remaining couples.
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Although Dame Shirley Bassey will never surpass any other actress, according to Horwood.
“Oh I love her,” he says. “One night she came on to Strictly Come Dancing. I’ll never forget her, it was brilliant, she literally waltzed on, came up the stairs, belted out the tune, walked down the stairs, got in the taxi and went home.
I mean, Bette Midler required us to perform a sound check five times in four hours. My diva is Dame Shirley.
In his new book Revelations: Songs Boys Don’t Sing, which was released this month in honor of Horwood’s one-man tour earlier this year, Horwood frequently makes harsh disclosures.
He states, “If you’re holding this book, you’ve either seen the show, or you’ve discovered it while looking for a Mary Berry cookbook, or you’ve checked if you’ve been mentioned.”
Cheekily talking of intimacy with his fiance Jonathan Myring, he continues: I suppose I’m what you call, “verse? In the gay world, that means versatile.”
Also opening up in about his childhood with an alcoholic dad in Australia, Horwood, now 60, says: “Somehow – in a household filled with dirty bikes, goats, and didgeridoos – I found my way to a ballet.
“My little body was porky.” Darling, I was quite obedient. I was so enthusiastic that my PE teacher said, “Craig, you need to take your top off and run round the oval.”
He says, “I absolutely fell in love with jazz ballet,” taking the trumpet, then taking dance lessons on the advice of a friend, Amanda.
I began studying classical ballet, jazz, tap, modern, and all of that stuff.
The 17-year-old dancer’s first job, at the age of 17, in an Australian West Side Story production, opened up a world of opportunities for him, which included trips to Paris and the 1980s, only to be fired on his first night at the famed Moulin Rouge due to a duet row.
He attributes his demise to “this cow, Debbie,” a woman.
He continued to work on Cats and Miss Saigon in the UK, but it didn’t stop him.
He claims that I was watching Cats the matinee and then either going to Saigon the evening or the other way around. I had a lot of confusion. I had no idea whether | was a pussy or a Gl.
The phenomenal success of Strictly may have been his biggest career surprise.
He recalls how he first joined in 2004 and says, “I received the call and was informed that Strictly Come Dancing is what it is.” In three weeks, celebrities and professional dancers take part. No, that won’t work, I said.
It sounds terrible, I said. It resembles a car crash television. I’m not interested in it.
I had a show I was working on, so I was stressed out. It was my first experience working in the West End as a director/choreographer. I simply didn’t have the time, really.
“I went outside and took the call from the BBC. I slagged a few things off and I said, ‘the show will never work, you know.”
They “oh, fantastic,” they utterly bizarre. Do you mind coming up? A screen test is what we want to do. What have I done, I thought?
Although I didn’t think anyone would watch it, it has been broadcast in 63 countries around the world and is still a major success. It’s a little crazy, to be honest.
Craig will soon be performing the Cinderella Wicked Stepmother.
He claims, “I think the villains are so much fun, that I absolutely love playing them.” I’ve played numerous wicked queens.
A Way With Media has a new book Revelations: Songs Boys Don’t Sing that is currently available for purchase for £39.95.
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Source: Mirror
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