Strictly Come Dancing’s Craig Revel-Horwood plans to QUIT judging panel – and it’s much sooner than everyone thinks

STRICTLY Come Dancing’s Craig Revel-Horwood has a plan to quit the judging panel – and it’s much sooner than everyone thinks.

The 58-year-old dance pro is set to “hang up [his] shoes and enjoy life.” And Craig he wants to do it in just two years, at the age of 60.

Asked about retiring from showbiz, Craig said: “I’m working hard while I can, especially as I love what I do. It keeps me on my toes, darlings!

“I’m now the same age as the late, great Len Goodman was when he first started – that’s scary, isn’t it?!” he told Best magazine.

He added: “The reason I look forward to it every year is because the cast changes. I think that’s what’s fun about it, it doesn’t age. And this year’s line-up is fab-u-lous!”

Craig is the only judge to have appeared in all series’ of the show – and this year will mark his 21st.

Earlier this year, Craig admitted he’d still be married to a woman and have children by now if she hadn’t left him.

The TV judge is currently engaged to trainee paramedic Jonathan Myring and the couple plan to tie the knot in two years’ time.

But in the 1990s Craig fell in love with his friend and flatmate Jane Horwood.

The couple married and were keen to start a family together.

“If that relationship had worked out, I could have seen a life where I would have been married to a woman and had kids, without a shadow of a doubt,” Craig told Kaye Adams on her How to Be 60 podcast.

“It’s who you meet along the way and what changes it, it’s quite
extraordinary.”

Criag was married to Welsh-born Jane from 1990-1992 and the couple lived together in London, but after she had an affair with a mutual friend, he moved out.

He said: “I wish I’d had kids.

“The reason I got married the first time was for that specific
reason, but that didn’t work out, because she fell in love with someone else and so that’s why that ended.

“But that would have been my opportunity and her opportunity and I think that’s why we made a love bond together in that way – that’s basically what we wanted, because we felt our time was running out. She was 30, I was 25 and we felt we’d better get on with it.”

After the marriage broke up, Craig went on to have relationships with men and met fiancé Jonathan, 36, on a dating app in 2018.