Louie Spence would love to compete on ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ but he’s never been asked.
The 50-year-old star admits it would be a dream come true to test himself on the ballroom but so far BBC bosses have resisted picking up the phone to offer him a spot.
When asked why fans haven’t seen him show-off his cha-cha-cha, he said: "I’ve never been asked to do ‘Strictly’, that’s the reason I’ve not gone on it! If I was asked I’d go for it, as a contestant."
Louie believes it is his background as a choreographer and dancer is what’s stopping him from getting a chance, but he insists his skills from the stage and pop would be of no advantage to him when it comes to Latin and ballroom.
Speaking exclusively to BANG Showbiz, Louie – who shot to fame on Sky1 docu-soap ‘Pineapple Dance Studios’ – added: "I’ve become known as being an actual dancer and I think that people find it very unfair. Like Ashley from Pussycat Dolls saying she was a dancer, she may have danced but she’s never danced ballroom. There’s a disadvantage to having experience. It’s like being a hip hop dancer going to do ‘Swan Lake’."
Louie isn’t short of jobs though and he has just teamed up with East Midlands Trains to urge Brits to switch to paperless ticketing to allow them to get through the barriers faster as commuters on average queue at ticket gates for 10 minutes every working day on their commute which works out to be 43 hours a year standing in a queue.
The former ‘Celebrity Big Brother’ star couldn’t resist creating the ‘Queue Quickstep’, a dance you can do as you breeze through the gates.
Revealing how he came up with the ‘Queue Quickstep’, he said: "East Midlands Trains just wanted to get someone in to make it fun and memorable. They wanted people to know about using smart tickets on their phones or doing it on the card so they don’t have to do the queue at ticket barriers. You can scan through rather than search for your ticket. They just wanted a little dance routine, it was a few steps just to get through the barrier. It was just to get the message across and make it memorable to people. People use me and my personality and they watch me and say, ‘Oh I get it now.’
"It was fun to do and it was very much me."
Louie Spence waiting for Strictly Come Dancing call
