Vicky Pattison
Vicky Pattison thinks she isn't family-friendly enough to host Strictly Come Dancing unless it moved to a later slot.
Vicky Pattison thinks she isn't family-friendly enough to host Strictly Come Dancing.
The 37-year-old reality star - who is currently competing on the show with Kai Widdrington - and her podcast co-host Angela Scanlon have been suggested by fans as potential replacements for Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman after the pair announced this week they are stepping down, but Vicky doesn't think they are the best fit for the show.
She laughed to The Sun on Sunday newspaper: “If they wanted me and Angela Scanlon to do it, they’d have to move it post-watershed, that’s for sure.
“But of course we would love it.”
Vicky thinks the presenters' departure is "devastating news" for fans of the show but she believes Claudia and Tess "deserve" to reclaim their weekends.
She said: “My husband sent me through Tess’s statements.
“It’s devastating news.
“Tess and Claudia are such consummate professionals, beautiful women inside and out.
“But I bet they’re looking forward to weekends at home with their families. It’s well deserved.”
Despite her nerves before every performance, the former Geordie Shore star isn't too worried about harsh comments from the judges.
She said: “I’ve been on TV 15 years.
“I’ve been called far worse than what Craig Revel Horwood might say to me.”
Tess, 56, and Claudia, 53, shared a joint statement about their exit and stressed that they always planned "to leave together".
In a video message, they said: "We have loved working as a duo and hosting Strictly has been an absolute dream.
"We were always going to leave together and now feels like the right time.
"We will have the greatest rest of this amazing series and we just want to say an enormous thank you to the BBC and to every single person who works on the show. They’re the most brilliant team and we’ll miss them every day.
"We will cry when we say the last 'keep dancing' but we will continue to say it to each other. Just possibly in tracksuit bottoms at home while holding some pizza. Tess and Claud."
