TV presenter Angela Scanlon turns into sixth movie star contestant for Strictly 2023
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rish TV presenter Angela Scanlon has been introduced as the newest star to join Strictly Come Dancing 2023.
The 39-year-old, whose credit embody BBC Two’s Your Home Made Perfect and The One Show, was unveiled on BBC Radio 2’s The Zoe Ball Breakfast Show on Monday and is the sixth movie star confirmed for the twenty first sequence of the BBC flagship programme.
It comes after actress Amanda Abbington, Bad Education star Layton Williams, broadcaster Angela Rippon, journalist Krishnan Guru-Murthy and comic Eddie Kadi had been the primary contestants introduced to be participating within the present.
Scanlon informed Gaby Roslin, who sits in for Ball on the Breakfast Show, about her forthcoming debut on the dancefloor, saying: “It’s been in the ether for a number of years, we’ve been close.
“Truthfully, we wanted to have another baby, we were trying to have a baby, I was then pregnant, then I had a very small child and now, it just felt right this year.
“I believe in feelings and timing and all of those sorts of things. I’m not particularly fit. I have no idea how my pelvic floor is going to react to that level of jumping.
“I’ve never done any of these dances in my life bar a drunken jive at a family wedding, so it certainly feels like there’s room to learn and really push myself.”
Scanlon stated she had spoken to Ted Lasso actress Ellie Taylor, who took half within the present final 12 months, and BBC Radio 1 DJ Clara Amfo, who appeared within the 2020 sequence.
She stated: “Ellie has a little girl who’s the same age as my eldest child and so I thought it’d be good to know realistically when you’re in the trenches with children, what’s the reality of this because I think I’ve had a kind of dreamy idea.
“I travel a bit, I do a chat show in Ireland, I travel over and back to that so the idea of being in the same place for an extended period of time feels a bit luxurious.
“But I don’t know if I’m totally deluded about the level of work, but she has kind of said, it’s intense, hardest thing she has ever done, but was so thrilled that she did it.
“And then Clara did it in 2020 and a similar thing, she said it’s insane, she said ‘lean heavily in’ which I intend to, I find it hard to lean out.”
The TV presenter is the one girl within the UK and Ireland to have their very own Saturday night time chat present with Ask Me Anything on RTE One.
Scanlon, who married businessman Roy Horgan in 2014, with whom she shares two daughters, can also be a printed creator and host of positivity podcast Thanks A Million.
In 2022, she printed her half memoir, half self-help guide Joyrider, which charts her personal journey into the world of self-development – dipping into the nervousness and imposter syndrome she grappled with all through her teenagers and 20s, and the bulimia she lived with for 15 years.
Strictly Come Dancing returns to screens this autumn and will probably be judged by Shirley Ballas, Anton Du Beke, Craig Revel Horwood and Motsi Mabuse.
Last 12 months, the competitors was received by British wildlife presenter Hamza Yassin {and professional} dancer Jowita Przystal.