Dan Walker reveals how Strictly Come Dancing made an exception for him on Halloween
The BBC Breakfast host spoke about his lobster-themed dance from Saturday's show.
BBC Breakfast's Dan Walker has explained why he performed a lobster-themed dance during Strictly Come Dancing's Halloween week after the show made an exception for him.
While Saturday's episode saw most of this year's couples put a spooky spin on their dances for Halloween, Dan's Jive with professional Nadiya Bychkova to The B-52's Rock Lobster didn't quite fit with the rest of the spine-tingling theme.
On BBC Breakfast this morning, the broadcaster revealed this was because he doesn't celebrate the day, and thanked Strictly for allowing him to avoid anything Halloween-related.
"Lots of people did ask me actually about what have lobsters got to do with Halloween," he said.
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"I should tell you, so we don't celebrate Halloween in our house and I've got to say a huge thank you to Strictly because they enabled me to be a part of that programme without sort of doing Halloween.
"And our kids, they would normally go to a light party on Halloween weekend or whenever that might be and I couldn't go on that programme and be a disingenuous dad."
He continued: "Anybody who's got children and they talk to their children about what they can do and what they can't do and why they do things a certain way...
"And I can't say, 'Do as I say but not as I do', so that's where the lobsters came from."
Dan and Nadiya's jive earned them a score of 27 from the judges, landing them towards the bottom of the Strictly Come Dancing leaderboard after many of the contestants scored eights, nines and 10s.
Rose Ayling-Ellis and her pro partner Giovanni Pernice broke a Strictly record on Saturday by scoring the earliest 40 in the show's history with their ice queen-themed tango.
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