Strictly come Gough
Darren Gough is on a gruelling 39-show tour of the TV show Strictly Come Dancing and, according to John Westerby in The Times , loving every minute of it even though it’s hard work
Martin Williamson
25-Feb-2013
BBC
Darren Gough is on a gruelling 39-show tour of the TV show Strictly Come Dancing and, according to John Westerby in The Times, loving every minute of it even though it’s hard work.
“I’m in bits … I’ve just had a massage to sort me out and that hasn’t nearly done the job. And I’ve got to do it all again tonight."
His success in the show – which he won in 2005 – has catapulted him into the realm of being a
TV celebrity, and when he retires, which is likely to be at the end of the summer, a new career is waiting for him. There were even suggestions he could go into musical theatre …
“I’ve not got a bad voice, believe it or not … with a few singing lessons, who knows? If you’d said to me a few years ago that I’d be spending my winter on a dancing tour, performing in front of 12,000 people, I’d have said you were sick.”
Martin Williamson is executive editor of ESPNcricinfo and managing editor of ESPN Digital Media in Europe, the Middle East and Africa