How Dancing Dan hopes to Hammer school disco trauma

WHEN BBC star Dan Walker performs a cha-cha-cha with Nadiya Bychkova on the Strictly dancefloor tonight, he hopes to make up for lost time.

For Walker, 44, who towers over his fellow contestants at 6ft 6in, says he didn’t dance at his first school disco because he felt too ‘tall and awkward and uncomfortable’.

Walker visited his alma mater, Three Bridges Primary School, in Crawley, West Sussex, this week and told the children: ‘Now is my chance to put it right.’

Amusingly, tonight’s dance will be performed to MC Hammer’s U Can’t Touch This, which was played at his school disco.

The broadcaster says his glamorous Ukrainian-Slovenian dance partner has boosted his confidence.

‘Nadiya said from day one, this is like your superpower, let’s use it, you can fill as much space as you like.’