Kai Widdrington honoured his famous football playing dad on home turf on Wednesday night, as the Strictly Come Dancing tour rolled into Newcastle.
When Kai joined Strictly as a pro in 2021, his second name sparked some curiousity amongst fans of the beautiful game and they didn’t need to do much digging to find out he was the son of footballer Tommy Widdrington, who was born on Tyneside in the early 70s.
While he didn’t ultimately follow dad Tommy, who has been in the Strictly studio to watch him before, onto the pitch, instead winning an array of dance titles, Kai himself is a keen football fan and earned himself plenty of appreciation from the Geordie crowd at the Utilita Arena when he held up a bit of paper with the words Toon Army on it before his first performance alongside Helen Skelton on Wednesday evening.
