Who has been introduced for Strictly Come Dancing 2023?
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trictly Come Dancing 2023 is ready to welcome its oldest contestant, an actress from the hit present Sherlock and a distinguished news presenter – all hoping to elevate the glitterball trophy.
Here is a take a look at who can be hitting the dancefloor for the BBC One present:
– Angela Rippon
The broadcaster grew to become the primary common feminine news anchor on the BBC in 1975 and went on to host exhibits together with Top Gear, Antiques Roadshow, Children In Need and the unique Come Dancing.
Rippon can be 79 when the programme is filmed, making her the principle Strictly’s oldest contestant. The earlier oldest was Johnny Ball who took half in 2012 aged 74.
She mentioned being on the present can be a “scary” journey and he or she is “looking forward to the challenge”.
– Krishnan Guru-Murthy
The Channel 4 News presenter started his profession on the age of 18 when he introduced youth programmes for the BBC earlier than engaged on Newsround, Newsnight, BBC World and News 24.
The 53-year-old journalist has fronted worldwide occasions together with the Omagh bombing of 1998, 911 and the 2008 Mumbai assaults.
Guru-Murthy mentioned he worries about his “general decrepitude” and is “slightly confused to find myself taking part in Strictly on the basis of you only live once”.
He has additionally reported for the Channel 4 international affairs sequence, Unreported World, in regards to the lives of people that dwell in among the fastest-changing areas of the planet.
Zara McDermott
The TV star, 26, appeared on the hit relationship present Love Island in 2018 and later featured within the singing competitors The X Factor: Celebrity and actuality sequence Made In Chelsea.
She has since made documentaries about revenge porn, sexual assault and disordered consuming for the BBC the place she has drawn on her personal experiences.
Her newest documentary sequence for BBC Three goals to shed a lightweight on the circumstances surrounding the loss of life of 19-year-old Gaia Pope-Sutherland who ran away from dwelling whereas experiencing a psychological well being disaster in 2017, after reporting she had been drugged and sexually attacked by a person when she was 16.
In 2022, she introduced new relationship sequence Love In The Flesh on the channel which sees {couples} who’ve solely ever related on-line meet for the primary time.
McDermott mentioned Strictly is “such a far cry” from her day job and feels the dancing competitors would be the furthest she has ever pushed herself out of her consolation zone.
– Angela Scanlon
The TV presenter is understood for presenting the revamped machine fight competitors Robot Wars alongside comic Dara O Briain, who can also be from Ireland.
Starting off as a stylist, she labored on former Irish vogue and leisure programme Xpose and is the one lady within the UK and Ireland to have had their very own Saturday night time chat present with Ask Me Anything on RTE One.
The 39-year-old has introduced the BBC’s Your Home Made Perfect and The One Show and can also be a printed creator and host of positivity podcast Thanks A Million.
Scanlon mentioned she is “panicking a bit” and wonders whether or not she must tan and if the sequins are itchy.
– Amanda Abbington
The actress, 49, is finest generally known as taking part in Mary Morstan in Sherlock for which she was nominated for a finest supporting actress Critics’ Choice Television Award in 2014.
Morstan serves as love curiosity on the BBC present, impressed by the Sherlock Holmes novels, for Dr John Watson as performed by Martin Freeman, Abbington’s former long-term accomplice with whom she shares two youngsters.
She has additionally featured in Mr Selfridge, Wolfe and Desperate Measures, and the 2022 biographical movie, The Lost King.
Her stage credit embrace The Unfriend, a darkish comedy from Sherlock author Steven Moffat and director Mark Gatiss, musical A Little Princess and The Taming Of The Shrew.
– Layton Williams
Williams, who’s finest identified for taking part in Stephen Carmichael within the sitcom Bad Education, rose to fame as a baby taking part in the title position in Billy Elliot The Musical on London’s West End.
The 28-year-old has additionally carried out in stage exhibits together with Thriller Live, Rent, Hairspray and New Adventures, and from 2019 he performed the title character in Everybody’s Talking About Jamie.
He has additionally been in comedy The Cleaner, drama I Hate Suzie Too and BBC Two’s Beautiful People. He has additionally performed the voice over for the BBC’s homosexual relationship present, I Kissed A Boy.
– Eddie Kadi
Kadi is a stand-up comedian and was the primary British black comic to headline the O2 Arena in London.
The 40-year-old comic can also be a presenter and has fronted The Official Afrobeats Chart Show on BBC Radio 1Xtra and is a workforce captain on ITV’s panel present Sorry I Didn’t Know.
He has additionally hosted the Mobo awards and is in manufacturing for his personal documentary with Channel 4.
This 12 months, Kadi was nominated for finest breakthrough presenter on the Edinburgh TV Awards.