Transvestite potter Grayson Perry wants to dance on Strictly

Transvestite potter Grayson Perry could be foxtrotting on to Strictly Come Dancing after declaring that he would love to compete on the show.

The Turner Prize-winning artist - known for wearing women's clothes - said that he wanted to learn to dance on the hit BBC1 programme.

Perry told the Radio Times: "I keep getting asked to do all those reality shows, but I always say no.

"But I would love to do Strictly."

Asked whether he would appear in trousers or a frock on the show, won last year by Abbey Clancy, he replied: "Oh, I'd do it as a man, obviously."

Perry, who picked up his CBE at Buckingham Palace this year dressed as his female alter-ego Claire, was awarded the Turner Prize in 2003.

He rose to prominence with his classically-shaped vases, marked with images of death and sex abuse.

Perry, who delivered the BBC Reith Lectures last year, recently criticised Damien Hirst's work as 'hackneyed' and 'tatty' and said the 'phenomenally successful' artist was playing 'a good game'.

 

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 


An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.