Shaun Micallef: Surprisingly I've Never Done Anything Physical.

Shaun Micallef phoned Clairsy & Lisa to chat about his rigorous training for Dancing with the Stars Australia.

Shaun is the oldest competitor and is surprised by his fitness. Clairsy asked about Shaun’s WA born dance partner and Lisa wants to learn the salsa and asked what Shaun’s favourite dance has been so far.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Dancing with the Stars continues at seven o'clock on Sunday
on seven, nineteen twenty seven. Might be when about the
point we get to see Sean mccalluff dance for the first.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Quite possibly, you never know.

Speaker 1 (00:12):
On the old or the old scale clock, Sean mccrli
is joining us.

Speaker 3 (00:16):
Clazy, Lisa, Hello, how are you look? I'm just as
surprised as you are.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
How many times have they asked you to do it?
They must have pressured you before.

Speaker 3 (00:24):
Well, it's been going twenty years, and I think maybe
I think old the twenty years I've been asked maybe
for the last five, so I guess they're waiting. They
were waiting until clearly I was too old and people
to do it. I thought this would be funny, We'll
ask him now, And I finally said, yes, all.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
Right, just keep arresting your agent. That's funny. Oh how
are you feeling? How's the body? How are you feeling?

Speaker 3 (00:52):
I look? Surprisingly. I was worried, you know, because I
am the you know, I don't keep stressing the eighth aspect,
but I the oldest. I am the oldest person who's competing,
you know, So I did feel like I would fall
apart at some point and then have to deal with that.
But surprisingly, because I've never done anything physical and I
spent the last eleven years on matters Hell and the

(01:13):
ABC just sitting behind a desk, I was I was
probably the fittest person. Well that's not quite right. I
was the least incapacitated person in the whole of the twelve.

Speaker 1 (01:26):
Surprised yourself, that's amazing.

Speaker 3 (01:29):
I was very good. I mean not only not only
do I not fall apart, but I was actually pretty
I'm actually pretty good this Sunday, I did surprise myself.

Speaker 1 (01:38):
What what are you treating us to?

Speaker 2 (01:39):
What's the dance?

Speaker 3 (01:41):
It's a quick step. I don't want to give too
much away. It is superb. Yeah, it's probably the fastest.
I think. I can't think of anything that is actually
quicker than the quick step that day off for you.
I came in. I came in, I came in out
of the sun with all gun blazing, and I think
this is probably people will be amazed, and I'm not.

(02:03):
I'm not I'm not hyperbole. I think people will be
absolutely astonished at how great I am.

Speaker 2 (02:09):
It took me in there. Sure, what about your dance partner?
She's from Perth. Ashley Hunter has four She won with
Phil Burton a couple of years ago.

Speaker 3 (02:18):
She be supporting you, well, yeah, I mean she she
has scaled the height Phil Berton her one a couple
of years ago. And yes, Ashley Hunter was and is
a brilliant choreographer. And she managed to work around my
infirmities very well and avoid my deficiencies. So there was
no lifting. I didn't have to carry her in the

(02:39):
air or soonner around or anything like that. So it
was very nice of her to avoid all that.

Speaker 1 (02:44):
For I've always wanted to learn how to you know,
sell her dance any of those, any of the dances,
and I like the look of it. Did you have
a favorite going into this that you thought, oh, I
can't wait to do that one.

Speaker 3 (03:00):
I didn't. I didn't know enough about them to have
fear or you know antic you know certainly that they
didn't give me anything sexy to do, which is great,
but I didn't. I didn't do the sulta. I don't
think anybody does the sulsice. So if she did, go on,
see if he.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
Did go on, I'd be disappointed.

Speaker 3 (03:19):
I did do a tango. Is that's sexy?

Speaker 2 (03:21):
That can be said, you're doing it.

Speaker 3 (03:26):
I did do it. I did do that. I did
I did do the tank. I'm giving too much away
at a time. Yeah, but everybody, everybody's safe for the
first couple of weeks. Kick anybody out.

Speaker 1 (03:38):
Tell us this, then you can talk about this. The
multiple sclerosis Australia. That's that's what you're dancing for.

Speaker 3 (03:45):
That's right. My my a friend of my mother's for
years years, so you know, we call her auntie, but
she's not really an auntie, one of those she may
as well be. Yeah, yeah, yeah, she's she's been suffering
from well suffering is the wrong word, but she's been
coping with MS for for many decades now. And whenever
I do anything that's vaguely charity related in this money
to be you know, had for the charity, I always,

(04:08):
I always instinctively lean towards msnciety So you know, look,
I am brilliant. There is every possibility they will get
the money.

Speaker 2 (04:19):
And you've learned a lot about form and posture in
the last few weeks.

Speaker 3 (04:21):
Right, Well, absolutely, I'm a lot fitter. I lost it
to weight, you know, so I mean that was that's good.

Speaker 1 (04:29):
Sure, And I expected to talk to you today and
you'd be, you know, really self deprecating about you. But
here you are telling us you rock. And now I
can't wait to watch Sunday night we see dance for
the first time a quick step.

Speaker 3 (04:45):
You probably think I'm exaggerating, but honestly, if anything, understating
how good I am.

Speaker 1 (04:52):
Sunday on Chan seven, we shall see. Sure, thank you,
keep on dancing.

Speaker 2 (04:57):
And keep moving because you're getting I would yeah, yeah, thanks,
note all the best. I love it the way he
talked himself out there.

Speaker 3 (05:08):
He usually talks himself down.

Speaker 2 (05:10):
He's like, okay, I can't wait to watch. He's like
talking himself up like now Michael Flatley did in the days,
and he's using his arms