Matt Willis has turned down 'Strictly Come Dancing' "a few times" because it "terrifies" him.
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The 38-year-old Busted star won't be following in his McBusted bandmates' - Tom Fletcher, 36, who is competing on the BBC One Latin and ballroom show this year, and Harry Judd, 35, who won the 2011 series - footsteps anytime soon.
He told OK! Magazine: "The idea of 'Strictly' terrifies me. I've been asked a few times and always said no. Can you imagine standing there and suddenly you hear: 'Tonight, dancing the cha-cha-cha, it's Matt Willis!'"
No amount of money would persuade the 'You Said No' hitmaker to hit the ballroom because he would buckle under the "pressure" of having to perform in front of millions of viewers.
He added: "You know something like 12 million people are watching - no thanks. There's not a chance that I'd be able to cope with that kind of pressure."
The former ' I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!' winner had, however, previously suggested he would end up on a dancing show in the future.
He said: "There’ll be some sort of dancing show in my future, I am sure. Not this year, but it’s a given, isn’t it? At some point."
Matt's wife, television host Emma Willis, 45, has previously admitted she would be jealous of her husband getting close to a dance partner on the show, but insisted she would never hold him back and is keen for him to take part - and would even like to give the ballroom a whirl herself.
She said in 2017: "One of my good friends is always saying to me, 'Let him do it'. And I'm like, 'No, he is not dancing with those fit girls.' But if Matt wants to do it, he can. In fact, I do say to him every now and again, 'Go on, get your sequins on'. And his reply is, 'No.'
"Of course, the paranoid woman in me, which I'll hold my hands and say I am, thinks, 'I was joking, but I'm not sure I want you grinding up against a really hot female.'
"But if he really wanted to do it, would I say no? Of course not. I'd just have my eye on him. I love him, but I would be jealous on the inside if it happened. Part of it is because I want to be able to dance like that myself. Maybe we should both go on it."
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