Before Strictly, he insisted he “can’t dance”, saying: “If anybody out there is thinking ‘how the hell is he going to do that?’ then rest assured that I am thinking exactly the same thing.”
Earlier this week, students at the Royal National College for the Blind, in Hereford, where McCausland studied, told the BBC he was defying expectations.
One student said: “Some people think that people that have visual impairments can’t really do anything or can’t do much with their life beside piano tuning.”
“He’s doing so well now, it’s quite surreal but it’s really good, especially for those who don’t know anything about the eye,” they added.
Another student said it would be “really cool if someone who is visually impaired like us” won the competition.