The Rev. Al Sharpton has turned down the chance to be a contestant on ABC’s “Dancing with the Stars” for a third time, TMZ reported Tuesday.
Sharpton told the entertainment website that despite having the moves to win the contest, he just doesn’t have the time to compete on the series.
“Yeah, I just turned them down again,” he told TMZ. “I mean I enjoyed doing ‘Saturday Night Live’ a few years ago, I did my little James Brown thing,” Sharpton added, referring to some silky moves he displayed on the show and then repeated at a 2006 tribute to the late singer at the Apollo Theater in Harlem.
“You have to have your priorities, I’m working very hard on National Action Network,” Sharpton told TMZ. “It’s different taking one night to do ‘Saturday Night Live’ and taking weeks doing ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ so I thought about it, but I took a pass.”
Had he decided to compete, Sharpton joked, he would have won without a problem.
“Oh, I got moves! I’d blow them out! There would be no chance for anybody to touch me. But I just don’t have the time.”
Sharpton, 56, who founded the National Action Network, a civil rights and social justice organization, in 1991, ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination in 2004.
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