Strictly star JJ Chalmers has dismissed the concept he’s competing within the new sequence of the BBC dancing competitors as a ‘disability spokesperson’.

The TV presenter, 33, was severely wounded by a bomb blast in 2011 whereas serving in Afghanistan.

However as a disabled man, the Invictus Video games medallist and former marine mentioned he sees himself extra as a presenter with a disability moderately than a disabled presenter – and insisted that every one of this 12 months’s Strictly Come Dancing stars are ‘inspiring’ folks.

What did Strictly Come Dancing star JJ Chalmers say?

He informed ED! and different information shops at a press occasion that inspiring folks himself would positively be a bonus.

JJ defined: “Every time I convey myself to any problem or function in life, whether or not that’s me as a TV presenter, I simply wish to do the perfect job I presumably can.

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“However am I a disabled TV presenter, or am I a TV presenter with a disability? I feel I’m the latter. I try to flip up, I try to do the perfect job that I presumably can as a presenter.”

Declaring that the BBC has allowed him to work on sports activities that don’t have anything to do with disability, JJ added: “I’m fully conscious, notably due to the letters I get from dad and mom and other people and belongings you get on social media, the place persons are conscious of the very fact they’re such as you. They’ve a disability, they arrive from Scotland.

Am I a disabled TV presenter or am I a TV presenter with a disability? I feel I’m the latter.

“That’s the factor. My success was constructed on a second in my life the place I went, ‘I’m not going to let myself create boundaries’. There are sufficient boundaries in life and I’ve bodily limitations, however I’m not going to place any extra in my very own approach.”

JJ Chalmers will give Strictly ‘the very best crack’

JJ went on to say he plans to offer Strictly the “the very best crack that I can”.

He continued: “I’m not right here to be a spokesperson for disability, I’m not right here to be the shining mild.

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“However I’ll come out right here. And if somebody can take a look at me and go, ‘Blimming heck, he’s carried out that and he’s acquired garbage palms’ then all the higher.

“However everybody right here will encourage any individual.”

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