'I've spent most of my dance career sitting on a stool

'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, to launch this year’s Cheerios Childline Breakfast Together Week with some pupil from fifth class.

Thousands of schools, creches, offices and homes will host a breakfast to raise funds for Childline from October 8-14.