FIRST RULE OF ‘DAD DANCING’ WILLS – AVOID THE CAMERAS!
DANCE like no one’s watching, the saying goes. And so, poor fellow, he did. Trouble is, these days someone almost certainly is. Not only watching, but also filming. Millions of people have now seen
that video of Prince William busting some moves in Verbier.
There he is, dressed in the standard off-duty Sloane uniform of crisp white shirt and jeans, bathed in purple strobe lighting.
In his mind’s eye, he’s pop star Justin Timberlake, ‘bringing sexy back’, getting his groove on to a vintage Nineties R’n’B track.
To everyone else in the room, he’s a slightly balding bloke who, having enjoyed perhaps one too many Jagerbombs, now appears to be engaged in a vigorous wrestling match with a giant invisible beach ball. Poor William.
The only conceivable way this ‘Dad Dancing’ video could be more embarrassing is if he had a crease down the front of his jeans or a baseball cap on backwards.
That said, as these things go, I’ve seen worse. Much, much worse. At least William’s arms and legs are all dancing to the same song. At least his belly isn’t hanging out of his trousers.
He doesn’t look like he’s suffering from extreme constipation or having a stroke – which is how most men over the age of 30 seem compelled to arrange their facial features at the merest hint of a drum beat.
Most of all, he’s not importuning anyone, or trying to get random strangers to join him up there on the dancefloor. He’s just having a quiet little bop around his metaphorical handbag.
HE is, however, proving the first rule of celebrity: never dance in public unless of course, it’s your job. Then again, who cares what other people think?
For all his responsibilities, Prince William is still a young man. Why shouldn’t he have bit of fun now and then?
But, it has to be said; it is one thing to have bad timing on the dance floor, but quite another to be living it up on holiday in Verbier while other senior royals are doing their duty by attending a Commonwealth Day service at Westminster Abbey.