Strictly Come Dancing winner Chris McCausland failed to turn up to a live radio interview due to heavy traffic a day after opening up about his exhaustion following the dance show coming to an end

Strictly Come Dancing winner Chris McCausland has missed his appearance on Capital Breakfast.

The 47-year-old comedian, who picked up the Glitterball Trophy with dance partner Dianne Buswell over the weekend, was due to join the show with fellow funnyman Lee Mack but missed the interview after getting stuck in traffic.

After waiting for some time, radio hosts Jordan North and Sian Welby revealed he wouldn’t be joining them for the interview. Lee quickly joked: “It is possible his strictly win has gone to his head and he feels he can do what he likes.” Later in the interview, Lee said he was delighted when Chris was announced as the winner of the 2024 dance competition.

He revealed: “I got very little time to talk to him on Saturday because everyone was hugging him and I haven’t spoke to him since! [It’s] Incredible. I was looking at the old texts this morning because he [Chris] was texting me at the time asking if he should do it. I’ve realised the preconceptions about his disability, especially him being blind, but the more time I have spent with him, there have genuinely been times where I have forgotten he is blind.”

Host Jordan North announce Chris would be missing the interview

Chris previously appeared on Lorraine to chat about the win with stand in presenter Ranvir Singh. Speaking about the mental and physical toll the months of training had on his body, he said: “It’s been a really emotional Saturday night and I’m still feeling quite worn down by it. It’s been three and a half months; it’s relentless. It’s consuming – physically and mentally it takes a toll.

“This is what the show does, it wears you down physically and mentally and then it pokes you with a stick until you cry in front of everybody.” Chris also discussed missing the live tour but joked no one thought he would be on the show for so long.

Chris lifted the Glitterball Trophy with dance partner Dianne Buswell ( 
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“I started my tour in January this year and I did the first leg until May and I was meant to be back out in September. We moved the dates to accommodate Strictly, so we just moved them to January,” he said.

“We had to move these dates to accommodate Strictly and it just wasn’t a consideration at the time… I don’t think anybody thought I would be any good at it. I don’t think they thought it, I don’t think I thought it. And in terms of going on tour in January, I didn’t think I’d be going on tour on the back of Strictly. I thought I’d have about two months off.”