It's Ed Ballroom! Ex-Chancellor confirmed in Strictly line-up
The ex-politician is the first name to be officially revealed for the hit ballroom dancing show.
He told Chris Evans on his Radio 2 breakfast show that he was “scared to death”.
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Hide AdMr Balls, 49, lost his Morley and Outwood seat in May last year in one of the greatest casualties of the 2015 election.
He said appearing on the BBC1 show was a “dream come true” but admitted he thought that life in politics was “much easier than this is going to be”.
Mr Balls said his wife, Yvette Cooper, the Labour MP for Pontefract and Castleford, supported his decision to join the show.
And he said he just hoped that he would get through the first two weeks.
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