Krishnan Guru-Murthy turns into fourth superstar to hitch Strictly Come Dancing 2023
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rishnan Guru-Murthy has been introduced because the fourth superstar to hitch the 2023 Strictly Come Dancing line-up.
The journalist is a essential presenter on Channel 4 News and has fronted worldwide occasions together with the Omagh bombing of 1998, 9/11 and the 2008 Mumbai assaults.
News that Guru-Murthy, 53, will star within the twenty first collection of the BBC One present was introduced by Claudia Winkleman on BBC Radio 2.
Guru-Murthy mentioned he selected to do the present “for the fun. I love my job. It’s very, very privileged, I go to amazing places. I talk to amazing people, but it’s incredibly serious”.
He added: “It’s quite stressful. It can be quite difficult and sort of the idea of being able to have pure intravenous joy, because I’m going to be doing the news at the same time, is just irresistible.”
He mentioned: “I told my wife first obviously and I sort of said ‘what do you think? Do you think I should do it?’ and she was like ‘yes definitely do it’, which is funny because we’ve talked about it in the past and we were all like ‘no never’, but something changed this year.
“I think we all just kind of thought, now’s the time. Just do it.
“And I have an 18-year-old daughter who thought it was a brilliant idea and I have a 16-year-old son, who I’m really, really sorry I just have to apologise to him, but yeah he’s appalled.”
Guru-Murthy’s TV profession started on the age of 18 when he offered youth TV for the BBC.
The journalist fronts the Channel 4 News podcast Ways To Change The World and has interviewed celebrities that embrace musician Nick Cave and report producer Rick Rubin.
He has additionally reported for the international affairs collection Unreported World, concerning the lives of people that reside in a few of the fastest-changing areas of the planet.
The twenty first collection of Strictly Come Dancing will probably be judged by Shirley Ballas, Anton Du Beke, Craig Revel Horwood and Motsi Mabuse.
On Friday, broadcaster Angela Rippon, actress Amanda Abbington and Bad Education star Layton Williams had been the primary celebrities to be introduced for the brand new collection, on BBC One’s The One Show.
In 2022, the competitors was received by British wildlife presenter Hamza Yassin {and professional} Strictly dancer Jowita Przystal.