It wasn’t the most sugarcoated of uxorial endorsements, but it was an endorsement nevertheless. “He’s so s***,” said Poppy Adams of her husband and his dancing, “and I have never loved him more.”
Her husband, the former footballer Tony Adams, is a contestant on this year’s Strictly Come Dancing. He has been called “its breakout star: too tall, too wooden, too forgetful, brilliantly unselfconscious”. Claudia Winkleman had to apologise during Sunday night’s episode for Adams excitedly swearing as the judges delivered their verdict – “brave, bonkers, and totally game.”
