BBC Strictly Come Dancing: Matt Goss opens up about rare health condition after show exit as he thanks 'discreet' costume department

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Strictly team for their support during his time on the show. He shared how the disorder in which affected individuals are born with missing or underdeveloped muscles on one side of the body, the Mirror reports. READ MORE: Loose Women's Judi Love says 'everyone wants to date Hamza Yassin' after Strictly where he 'threw Jowita Przystal about'Matt revealed he has “one pectoral muscle on the right side instead of two.

The lower one is missing, but the upper one is fine and strong. ” He shared he used to “pose covering that side of his chest”.

Thanking the BBC costume department, he told the Daily Mail: “It has been one of my favourite things about the Strictly experience - the costume team were relative strangers at the beginning, but from the start, they’ve always been very kind and discreet – it has really touched me,"“If I get a jacket made it will pull on the right side more.

I have it tight on my right so it counterbalances my left side. Slim tailoring is good for me and my fashion is determined by my chest shape. ”He doesn't believe he was “disadvantaged” on account of his condition but is determined to show children with Poland syndrome that they are still just as capable as anyone else. “I’m not disadvantaged, and I want kids to know that,” he said. “I am going to look at creating some kind of charity to build confidence, to show kids with the syndrome they can achieve everything in life. ”Strictly Come Dancing continues next Saturday at 6:40pm for its BBC 100 Special on BBC One and BBC iPlayer, with the result at 6.