rishnan Guru-Murthy has a message for any news friends considering of taking him “less seriously” for competing on Strictly Come Dancing: “Good luck with that.”

The Channel 4 newsreader will face off in opposition to 14 different celeb contestants, together with former Family Fortunes presenter Les Dennis, broadcaster Angela Rippon and actress Amanda Abbington, on the brand new collection of the BBC One dance present.

Guru-Murthy has beforehand stated 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”.

Best identified for his present affairs programmes together with on the BBC by way of Newsround, Newsnight, BBC World and News 24, the 53-year-old journalist was requested by The Observer about if he's frightened about audiences taking him much less critically.

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Guru-Murthy advised the Sunday newspaper: “I’ve no idea how I’ll do, but I think the audience knows me well.

“They’ve grown up with me and know what I’m about. As for guests? Having something soft to break the adversarial ice might be helpful.

“I’ll carry on doing what I do. It would be very funny, I think, if anyone dared take me less seriously going into an interview because I’m doing Strictly. Good luck with that. See how you get on, is what I’d say to them.”

He has coated worldwide news occasions together with the Omagh bombing of 1998 and the 9/11 and 2008 Mumbai terror assaults, and has additionally featured on leisure programmes like The National Lottery Live.

Guru-Murthy stated when he was presenting the “big-budget entertainment show” he was requested whether or not he needed to be “Bruce Forsyth or Jeremy Paxman”.

“I thought I could be the best when it came to news and current affairs, but I knew I could never be the best at entertainment,” he added. “I could never get Bruce’s gig, but Jeremy’s felt feasible. So I left that all behind me.”

The newsreader, who started his profession on the age of 18 when he introduced youth programmes for the BBC, additionally stated doing Strictly is about going again to who he was “before TV happened”.

Guru-Murthy revealed all of the Strictly rivals met their skilled dance companions a number of weeks in the past.

Also within the Strictly line-up is ex-tennis participant Annabel Croft, actor Nigel Harman, EastEnder Bobby Brazier, Paralympian Jody Cundy and former Coronation Street star Ellie Leach.

Radio host Nikita Kanda, Waterloo Road actor Adam Thomas, Love Island star Zara McDermott, Irish TV presenter Angela Scanlon, Bad Education’s Layton Williams and comic Eddie Kadi can even take to the dance ground.