KEVIN Clifton has landed his "dream job" on a musical directed by Craig Revel Horwood after quitting Strictly Come Dancing. The 37-year-old will play Scott Hastings - the lead role in Baz Luhrmann’s smash hit Strictly Ballroom The Musical.
The Sun revealed he stepped down as a professional dancer on Strictly claiming he is "too big" for the show. His girlfriend Stacey Dooley is said to have encouraged Kevin to go it alone — with one source saying she believes they can be “a TV power couple”.
Speaking on This Morning today, Kevin said: "I've done seven years and achieved everything that I wanted to achieve. "It was something I had been thinking about. "Then something came along that's been my inspiration since I was ten years old. "I watched.
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