Piers Morgan confirms he’s turned down huge BBC1 reality show saying ‘there wasn’t enough money’ to make him do it
PIERS MORGAN has revealed that Strictly Come Dancing bosses asked him to appear on the show – but the BBC couldn’t afford him.
The Sun writer was wanted for the 2022 series, eventually won by wildlife presenter Hamza Yassin.
Piers, 58, said: “Strictly asked me last year. There wasn’t enough money.
"If you want me to humiliate myself on a dance floor, I was offered $150,000 by Dancing With The Stars in America when I was doing America’s Got Talent.
“And I said, ‘Come back to me if it’s $1.2million’. They haven’t come back yet.”
Asked if he’d ever reconsider the BBC’s offer, the Talk TV host said with a grin: “I don’t want to put the other contestants under that kind of pressure.
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"Look at this natural dancing torso.”
The TV motormouth was a judge on America’s Got Talent for six series through the Noughties, hosting alongside stars including the late Jerry Springer and Sharon Osbourne.
Ant and Dec have always named Piers as a dream campmate for ITV’s I’m A Celebrity . . . Get Me Out Of Here!
But in a public snub, he wrote online last year: “On balance I’d rather eat my own testicles.”
