Larry Lamb has said competing in Strictly Come Dancing is “like entering as a stranger into a world you already know”. The 75-year-old actor who played Mick Shipman in the hit sitcom Gavin And Stacey, will be partnered with professional dancer Nadiya Bychkova as six celebrities battle it out in a festive special of the show.
When asked his feelings, he said: “Somebody told me that the Strictly Come Dancing Christmas Special always blows the TV figures out of the water and I said, ‘yes, but it didn’t blow Gavin And Stacey Christmas Special out did it?’ — and they said, ‘no, you’re right it didn’t blow it out at all’.”
Lamb also starred in EastEnders, dramatically departing Walford on Christmas Day 2009 when his character Archie Mitchell was murdered by a mystery assassin who bashed him over the head with a bust of Queen Victoria. Of the dance show he said: "It's like you when you first join EastEnders and you find yourself in The Queen Vic, you realise that you’re kind of somewhere you’ve had a taste of for many years and then all of a sudden it’s reality, and you have to take it all in and think ‘wow!’ it’s like entering as a stranger into a world you already know.”
