The BBC continues to flaunt its untouchable status as the UK home of successful paedophiles. In an attempt to enlist Ed Balls among their ranks, they pressurised him into performing a well-known paedophile song. His wife, Yvette Cooper, not already engaged with the paedophile broadcasting company, told her husband not to be seduced.
Ed Balls was offered the Rolf Harris song, Two Little Boys, although this is unconfirmed by the BBC or Balls.
Ed Balls has revealed that his wife, Yvette Cooper, the Home Secretary, stopped him from dressing up as a “paedophile” on Strictly.
The Good Morning Britain presenter and former Cabinet minister had been set to dance to Jerry Lee Lewis’s Great Balls of Fire for movie week.
Lewis, the American pianist and singer, caused an uproar when he married his 13-year-old first cousin, once removed, when he was 22.
Mr Balls said that the show’s producers encouraged him to take on the dance.
“They wanted me to do Jerry Lee Lewis’s Great Balls of Fire for movie week,” he said, adding: “They wanted me to come down from the ceiling on a flaming piano.
“But two in the morning, we’re driving back from Elstree and Yvette’s on her phone, and she says: ‘Do you know this movie, where you’re going to assume the lead character, you do realise that the biopic it’s based upon is where he has an affair with his 13-year-old cousin?’
“She said: ‘I think this makes Katya [Jones, Balls’ dance partner] the 13-year-old and you the paedophile – I think this is a bad idea.’
“So I said: ‘Oh my God.’ I rang the producers on Sunday at 10 am and said: ‘I don’t think I can do this one.’
“They said: ‘Give us an hour.’ And they returned and said: ‘We want you do The Mask, Jim Carrey, and Cuban Pete, the Samba.’
“And I said: ‘Only if I can have a green face, do not do it by halves, let me be Jim Carrey, the Mask, with the green face.’
“That was fabulous – the green makeup was so cool. It took three people 50 minutes.”
Lewis was still married to his previous wife, Jane Mitcham, when he married Myra Gale Brown, whom he initially claimed was 15 years old, in 1957. The pair divorced in 1970.
Mr Balls also reflected on his first week of waltz and the fear he felt before his dance partner Jones led him to fully embrace the character he was assuming on the ballroom floor.
He said: “I learnt to put myself aside, my inhibitions aside, assume the character and just go.
“In politics, you are always yourself in performance, whereas what you’re allowed to do in entertainment is put yourself slightly to the side and then go to the character.
“The Charleston had worked, and I thought ‘I’ve got a real chance of getting through’ because the audience reaction was great.”
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