STRICTLY’S Kevin Clifton has revealed he left the BBC1 show because he didn’t want to be the oldest dancer in the cast. Fans were stunned earlier this month when the popular pro announced his exit after seven years.
The Grimbsy-born star won the 2018 series with partner-turned-girlfriend Stacey Dooley. At 37, he is a spring chicken compared with veteran dancer Anton Du Beke, who is 53.
Kev said: “At age 23 it would be different. I’d look at it and think, ‘I can stay on this for the next ten or 15 years’, but at 37 years old I was thinking, ‘I’m going to turn 38’. "If it’s going to be similar to what I have already done I don’t see myself doing it into my forties. “I have got so many other interests and I thought, ‘I’ll have to leave at some.
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