FIONA Phillips has reignited her feud with Strictly's Brendan Cole as she reveals regret over doing the show. The former GMTV host, 60, slammed the professional dancer as a "rough old taskmaster" as she looks back on doing the show in 2005. “I should never have done it", Fiona admitted to the Mirror. "Even as a teenager I hated getting on the dance floor. “I felt so self-conscious, but I thought, ‘I will have a professional dancer and it’s a nice programme’. "But Brendan is a rough old taskmaster and really wanted to be number one or nothing.
I just wasn’t very good. “I became a comedy type figure. I’m not glad I did it, but it was an experience.” Brendan was axed from Strictly in 2018 when the BBC chose not to renew his contract.
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