 Dan Walker has weighed in on a truly bizarre trolling situation targeting newly announced Strictly Come Dancing star Les Dennis. This week the former host of Family Fortunes was announced as part of the line-up for the upcoming season of the BBC dancing series, which he'll compete on with fellow famous faces including Angela Rippon, Adam Thomas and Zara McDermott. But soon after, trolls decided to do a little takeover of the TV presenter's Wikipedia page, editing it to claim that he's been fooling us all and is actually a horse. Several screenshots of the entries have been captured and shared on social media, with one reading: 'Leslie Dennis Heseltine (born 12 October 1953) is a purebred horse pretending to be an English television presenter, actor, and comedian.' Another said he was a 'television presenter, actor, comedian, and Race Horse'. Despite some of the entries being taken down, the trolls were determined and kept trying their luck. Trolls took over the TV presenter's Wikipedia page and claimed he was a horse (Picture: Twitter) However, the page was later locked, a detail pointed out by someone keeping up to date on all the action. 'People keep changing Les Dennis' Wikipedia to claim he's actually a horse, so they've locked the page for vandalism,' someone shared on Twitter. The prank caught the attention of presenter Dan Walker, 46, who previously appeared on Strictly back in 2021. Sharing a post about the trolling, Dan wrote: 'You've got to admire the dedication.' Dan said he 'admired' the efforts of the pranksters (Picture: David Fisher/Shutterstock) At the end of his comment, he also made it clear how funny he thought it all was, adding an emoji of a horse. Many others took great delight in the light-hearted joke, with someone sharing on Twitter they were now concerned for how Les was going to handle taking to the dancefloor. 'Will be interesting to see how a horse handles the){kind=link}
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Dan Walker has weighed in on a truly bizarre trolling situation targeting newly announced Strictly Come Dancing star Les Dennis.
This week the former host of Family Fortunes was announced as part of the line-up for the upcoming season of the BBC dancing series, which he’ll compete on with fellow famous faces including Angela Rippon, Adam Thomas and Zara McDermott.
But soon after, trolls decided to do a little takeover of the TV presenter’s Wikipedia page, editing it to claim that he’s been fooling us all and is actually a horse.
Several screenshots of the entries have been captured and shared on social media, with one reading: ‘Leslie Dennis Heseltine (born 12 October 1953) is a purebred horse pretending to be an English television presenter, actor, and comedian.’