'I've spent most of my dance career sitting on a stool'
The 33-year-old Dubliner
has been confirmed as one of the celebrities battling it out for the title on
the new BBC reality series.
And while he’s really
excited at learning a few new moves he admitted he’s totally petrified.
Dad Nicky, who has
five-year-old twins Rocco and Jay with wife Georgina ,
laughed: “It feels strange. I mean I’m excited, scared to death. Most of my
dance career was spent sitting on a stool with Westlife.
“I’d
be quite healthy and I train hard, but if you work hard I think you should play
hard so at the weekend it’s all fish and chips and over-indulgence with the
takeaways.
“I’ll just have to be
more disciplined.”
But he admitted the real
challenge will be wearing the garish outfits for the show which starts on
Saturday.
The stylish singer
quipped: “We were over last week and met all the contestants and wardrobe girls
who had plenty of fun putting some stuff on us.
“They made us put on
this sequined diamante vest, with no material only diamantes and I thought,
you’re never going to see me in that.”
The blonde hunk will put
his dance skills to the test against silver Olympic medallist gymnast Louis
Smith and gold-winning track cyclist Victoria Pendleton, TV presenters Denise
Van Outen and Johnny Ball, Mick Jagger’s ex-wife Jerry Hall, ex-England cricket
captain Michael Vaughan, former This Morning presenter Fern Britton, EastEnders
actor Sid Owen, James Bond actor Colin Salmon and Girls Aloud babe Kimberley
Walsh.
But Nicky said his
greatest ambition would’ve been to dance with his all-time favourite mover,
Michael Jackson.
He added: “The best
dancer of all time is probably Michael Jackson, I’d loved to have danced with
him.
“But I don’t know how
co-ordinated I am. My earliest memory is the day before I started school when I
was four I was knocked down by a guy on a bicycle.
“I wasn’t looking and
ran across the road, it wasn’t pretty.
“There
was a lot of blood, stitches and the whole shebang. Hopefully there’ll be
nothing like that.”
Chart-topping Westlife
called it a day earlier in June this year with a farewell tour marking a
14-year career that saw them sell more than 44 MILLION records.
Since then Nicky has
been laying low but yesterday the hottie returned to his school in Baldoyle,
north Dublin
Thousands of schools, creches,
offices and homes will host a breakfast to raise funds for Childline from
October 8-14.
