Hugh Grant would love to star on ‘Strictly Come Dancing’.
The 58-year-old actor is a huge fan of the BBC dance show and although he says it would be "beneath my dignity" to take part, he admitted he would jump at the chance to compete for the glitterball trophy.
He told Deadline: "Secretly, I’d kind of like to be on ‘Strictly Come Dancing’. It’d be beneath my dignity, obviously, but I would, really. I’ve developed rather a taste for dancing. I had to dance in ‘Paddington 2’, and in ‘Love Actually’ and other things, and it’s lovely. It’s a simple form of entertainment and there’s not enough of it. I’ve never done a proper musical, like those old Hollywood ones, and that’s what you need. I think the time has come. Remake ‘The Sound of Music’, maybe."
Hugh also revealed that one of his favourite TV shows to watch is ‘The Antiques Roadshow’.
When asked what his guilty pleasures are, he said: "The Antiques Roadshow. It’s just fascinating; the look of disappointment on people’s faces when it’s not worth what they thought it was. That show is an antique itself now."
While Hugh has received an Emmy nomination for his work in ‘A Very English Scandal’, he admitted that his career in television did not get off to a very good start.
He said: "I was cast in a television thing about Scott of the Antarctic [‘The Last Place on Earth’]. This was in the mid-’80s. I was a complete new boy. Suddenly I was flown out to the Northern Territories of Canada, onto the sea ice with all these rather good actors. I’d driven my Ski-Doo way out onto the ice, and in the scene, I had to peer into the distance with a snow machine blowing snow in my face, and then walk back to the tent where everyone was dying. I did this. I walked back to the tent, they called cut, and I told them, ‘Well, I’ve done my bit’. So, I called for the man with the Ski-Doo and went all the way back to the hotel. I didn’t even know that you were supposed to do more than one take, let alone more than one angle. I had to be hauled back from the hotel, and I’d kept everyone waiting for an hour. They were freezing their b*****ks off. I was just too frightened to ask what I was meant to do next."
Hugh Grant wants to star in Strictly Come Dancing
