Rylan Clark won't ever compete on 'Strictly Come Dancing'.

Rylan Clark refuses to appear on Strictly Come Dancing, despite being offered the chance to compete

Rylan Clark refuses to appear on Strictly Come Dancing, despite being offered the chance to compete

The 35-year-old TV star hosted the spin-off ‘Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two’ from 2019 to 2023, and although he has had offers to be a contestant on the BBC ballroom series he would never accept one because it “wouldn’t be fair for [him] to go back and compete”.

According to the Daily Star newspaper's Hot TV column, he said: “I get asked to do ‘Strictly’ all the time, but the answer is no. I wouldn’t do it.

“It wouldn’t be fair for me to go back and compete. It would be the same as if I went back into ‘Celebrity Big Brother’. It wouldn’t be fair.

“I was a host, so it would be weird if I became a contestant. I’d rather just have a little dance at home than do it on the show.”

After departing ‘It Takes Two’ - which Rylan presented with Zoe Ball and then Janette Manrara - the former ‘X Factor’ star revealed he left the programme because he wanted to “have a minute to himself” to figure out what he wanted to do next.

Speaking to The Sun newspaper, he previously said: “I’ve been doing the same type of job for 10 years. For me, I just got to the point, ‘What do I want? What would I like to be? Who do I want to be? What show do I want to do in the future?

“And it’s really hard to try to work that out while you’re doing different things. So I had to take that step back, have a minute to myself, let it breathe, and not turn on the TV and see yourself while you’re watching what everyone else is doing.”


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