Brendan Cole claims Strictly Come Dancing stars are 'pushed into show' by agents
dailystar.co.ukStrictly Come Dancing star Brendan Cole claims the professional dancers face an annual nightmare over the types of celebrities booked for the show.During his time on the BBC series, he says there were stars who wanted to learn to dance, others who were forced into it by their pushy agents and some who signed up but didn’t actually want to do it all.Talented Brendan was one of the main professional dancers on Strictly for 15 years.He won the first glitterball with newsreader Natasha Kaplinksy.And he coached the likes of Sophie Ellis-Bextor, inset, Kelly Brook, Lulu, Jo Wood and Charlotte Hawkins.He left the show in 2018 but admits that during his time there, behind the scenes it became obvious which celebrities really wanted to learn to dance and which ones did not.Brendan said: "To be honest, there were those who entered because they were really up for the challenge and wanted to dance, so were very good.
Others were slightly more hard work, but great fun."Then there were those who had perhaps been pushed into the show by their agents and were initially a bit hesitant but were also great fun."And then there were other partners who were just not up for the whole thing.
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