厳密に Cup Dancing!:?It's football not the glitterball for Kai Widdrington as he 元気づけるs on his dad's Aldershot in FA Cup 対決 with League Two high-flyers Stockport 郡

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Given the 身元 of the 経営者／支配人’s son, 非，不，無-league Aldershot Town should have the necessary kicks and flicks to 原因（となる） another major FA Cup upset today and jive their way into the third 一連の会議、交渉／完成する.

厳密に Come Dancing 星／主役にする Kai Widdrington will 追加する glitter to a packed Recreation Ground when he 元気づけるs on dad Tommy, 経営者／支配人 of the 発射s.

To 追加する to the family 関係, Kai’s younger brother, Theo, plays for Aldershot and starred in the remarkable 7-4 勝利，勝つ against Swindon in the first 一連の会議、交渉／完成する, though he is 負傷させるd and will 行方不明になる Sunday’s 衝突／不一致 with Stockport.

Kai knows all about ‘the 旅行’ from entertaining millions on TV with dance partner Angela Rippon, but 収容する／認めるs Aldershot’s 偉業／利用するs have distracted him on Saturdays.

‘I couldn’t watch the Swindon game. I was listening on the 無線で通信する in between the dress rehearsal for a waltz,’ 明らかにする／漏らすs the 28-year-old housewives’ favourite. ‘Then on WhatsApp, I’m getting notifications as I dance in the dress run. 1-0, 2-0, 3-0, 4-0, 10 minutes into the game!

厳密に Come Dancing professional ダンサー Kai Widdrington (middle) is the son of Aldershot FC 経営者／支配人 Tommy (left)

Widdrington's 味方する played out an FA Cup thriller against Swindon, 結局 winning 7-4

‘I was very excited and it was incredible to see the final 得点する／非難する／２０. I remember checking all the reaction on social マスコミ afterwards.

‘I’ll be there on Sunday. Work means I can’t see a lot of games but I do remember 押し進めるing the boat out last season. I’d been 除去するd from the show and Dad had an FA Cup game for King’s Lynn.

‘I got an Uber to Norfolk because the trains were cancelled. It took three hours and then I had to leave at half-time to make the live show for the group dances.’

The three Widdringtons met up for lunch in London last week to discuss Aldershot’s prospects, 株 some memories and tease each other in the way only の近くに-knit families can.

‘Everything was 競争の激しい as kids,’ 解任するs Kai. ‘Who can run up the stairs the fastest, who can kick the ball highest, who can get to the 前線 of the 列 the quickest?

‘My dad said one day you’ll get to the 前線 and someone will punch you on the nose. It is not always about 存在 the fastest, it is about 存在 clever.

‘This year we are all going bowling for Christmas. It’s out-and-out 競争; bragging 権利s. It is the way we have been brought up; why we have all been successful.’

Tommy has a ready 返答: ‘The talent is still at the 長，率いる of the family.’ he （人命などを）奪う，主張するs.

Aldershot will take on a Stockport 郡 味方する 飛行機で行くing high at the 最高の，を越す of League Two on Sunday

The 厳密に ダンサー 明らかにする／漏らすd that he had to choose between football and dancing at the age of 12

‘To me he’s just Kai, but then you get 思い出の品s he is on telly in 前線 of millions. Just after lockdown, we were walking 負かす／撃墜する Regent Street with his new dog and a policeman asked him for a picture and an autograph.

‘I’ve had him do a couple of ビデオ messages to my players and as I put the phone 負かす／撃墜する, I say to the them: “He’s a f***ing world 支持する／優勝者 so listen to him!”.’?

Tommy had his own level of 承認 as a player. Growing up in the north-east, he was spotted by the famed scout Jack Hixon, who took him and Alan Shearer to Southampton.

He 得点する／非難する／２０d against 物陰／風下d a few days after Kai was born in 1995, 許すing the 地元の paper to run the headline ‘Kai-boshed’. When he went to Port Vale, a 隣人 who ran a dance school 示唆するd she give Kai some lessons to 改善する his 集中 levels.

From then, his time was 分裂（する） between football and dance, with Tommy and mum Candice spending hours フェリー（で運ぶ）ing him and Theo around. Kai was part of the Southampton 学院 with Luke Shaw.

‘At 12, I had to choose,’ he explains. ‘They 申し込む／申し出d me a 契約 and I decided to be a professional ダンサー.

‘I could have been a footballer. Theo could have 追求するd dancing, but he loved football and I loved dancing a little bit more.

‘I started to get better and loved it. I always say I much prefer a warm dance studio rather than 存在 kicked around the pitch on a 氷点の 冷淡な morning.’

Kai has become a 国家の 星／主役にする, but this afternoon belongs to Tommy and Theo. ‘I love it ― it’s 広大な／多数の／重要な the スポットライト is on them,’ says Kai. ‘Theo is good enough to play in the league and dad should be a 首相 League 経営者／支配人 one day. It’s fantastic for them to show what they can do.’

Tommy, who has guided Aldershot into sixth place in the 国家の League having arrived late last season to save them from relegation, is trying to be pragmatic. But he is excited by the prospect of them reaching the third 一連の会議、交渉／完成する.

Widdrington 認める that his work usually 妨げるs him from …に出席するing many Aldershot games

Widdrington was in the Southampton 学院 with Manchester 部隊d defender Luke Shaw

‘Stockport have to be off their A-game and we have be on ours to have a chance,’ he says. ‘We are disappointed it’s not live on TV. We were the first 非，不，無-league team in 150 years to 得点する／非難する／２０ seven against a league team.’

Although a hamstring 緊張する means 24-year-old Theo will watch the game と一緒に Kai, he hopes the spirit of Swindon can be evoked. ‘At half-time we were 4-0 up and before the gaffer （機の）カム in we 現実に started laughing. We didn’t know what was going on.’

If Theo is gutted at 行方不明の arguably the biggest match of his career, big brother has an 楽観的な take on it.

'They’ll just have to 勝利，勝つ, get Manchester City in the third 一連の会議、交渉／完成する and Theo can play in that,’ says Kai. Now, that would be worthy of a perfect 10.