{"id":303698,"date":"2025-12-19T09:00:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T09:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/representation-is-only-beneficial-if-its-positive-chris-mccausland\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T09:00:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T09:00:06","slug":"representation-is-only-beneficial-if-its-positive-chris-mccausland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/representation-is-only-beneficial-if-its-positive-chris-mccausland\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Representation is only beneficial if it&#8217;s positive&#8217; &#8211; Chris McCausland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.ytimg.com\/vi\/nRcV2WUiovE\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"'Representation is only beneficial if it's positive' - Chris McCausland\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nRcV2WUiovE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Chris McCausland is an actor and comedian who won Strictly Come Dancing in 2024 as the competition&#8217;s first blind contestant.<\/p>\n<p>He first started losing sight as a young boy due to a genetic condition, and was fully blind in his early twenties. 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