Krishnan Guru-Murthy newest superstar to hitch Strictly Come Dancing
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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 most important 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 sequence of the BBC One present was introduced by Claudia Winkleman on BBC Radio 2.
Guru-Murthy stated 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 stated: “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 embody musician Nick Cave and report producer Rick Rubin.
He has additionally reported for the international affairs sequence Unreported World, concerning the lives of people that reside in a number of the fastest-changing areas of the planet.
The twenty first sequence of Strictly Come Dancing might 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 have been the primary celebrities to be introduced for the brand new sequence, on BBC One’s The One Show.
In 2022, the competitors was gained by British wildlife presenter Hamza Yassin {and professional} Strictly dancer Jowita Przystal.