Anton Du Beke hosted This Morning alongside Rochelle Humes today and the professional dancer seemed to let slip a huge secret about this year’s Strictly Come Dancing line-up.
Teasing an appearance from Harry Redknapp at the top of the show, Anton appeared to stumble over the autocue and said: “He’s the king of the jungle and he’s set to join me…”
Quickly realising his error, Anton corrected himself.
He said: “Oops, or is he set to join me on the Strictly dancefloor? We talk to Harry Redknapp about his autobiography.”
The clanger came as Anton’s presenting skills received mixed reviews from This Morning viewers, with some calling the host “wooden”.
Harry, 72, became the nation’s sweetheart when he entered the I’m A Celebrity – Get Me Out Of Here! jungle last year.
He entertained campmates and the viewing public alike with tales of his famous friends and endeared himself to all by revealing his devotion to his wife of 51 years, Sandra.
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As Ent Daily reported, Harry himself had denied that he has signed up to take a spin around the Strictly ballroom when the show returns to the BBC in the autumn.
Speaking to Anton and Rochelle, he confirmed: “I’ve got two left feet when it comes to dancing.”
Revealing that Strictly pro Amy Dowden came to his house for a trial, Harry said: “They said: ‘Look, if we bring a dancer down, if you don’t think you can do it, don’t do it.'”
He added: “At first they said: ‘We’re going down to your the golf club, we’ve got a hall there.’ I said: ‘We can’t do that, all my mates are playing golf there, they’ll see me dancing with some young bird and think, what’s going on here?'”
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He continued: “So that was cancelled and we ended up doing it round the kitchen, cha-cha-cha. I trod on her toes a few times and I think she thought, no, he can’t dance.”
Ahead of signing up for the jungle, Harry revealed that he had been approached to do Strictly. However, he revealed that his footballer son talked him out of it.
He told the Daily Mirror newspaper: “I told Jamie I was thinking of doing Strictly and I don’t think he was pleased about it. I was offered the jungle at the same time and chose to do that.”
Jamie’s ex-wife Louise took part in the dance show i 2016.
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