Strictly Come Dancing skilled Amy Dowden has welcomed the BBC present’s new hosts Emma Willis, Josh Widdicombe and Johannes Radebe.
Claudia Winkleman and Tess Daly introduced they have been stepping down from Strictly final 12 months (Picture: BBC)
Amy Dowden has welcomed the daybreak of a brand new chapter, following the announcement of Strictly Come Dancing’s contemporary presenting line-up.
The Welsh dancer is making her return to the cherished BBC competitors after her exceptional comeback final 12 months.
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Amy was compelled to sit down out Strictly whereas present process most cancers therapy, following her breast most cancers prognosis in Could 2023.
Final 12 months, she was paired with controversial actuality star Thomas Skinner, with the duo changing into the primary couple eradicated from Strictly.
Now Amy is getting ready to return alongside the likes of Dianne Buswell and Vito Coppola, following the departure of a number of skilled dancers together with Karen Hauer and Gorka Marquez from the sequence, studies the Mirror.
Past the rumoured ‘massacre’ impacting the skilled line-up, Strictly has skilled one other important overhaul, with Huge Brother presenter Emma Willis, comic Josh Widdicombe, and Strictly favorite Johannes Radebe now assuming internet hosting duties from Claudia Winkleman and Tess Daly.
Discussing the announcement and the departure of a number of skilled dancers, Amy revealed on Lorraine Kelly’s ITV programme immediately that it marked the “begin of a brand new period”.
She additionally hinted at Johannes persevering with to bop, after followers have been left heartbroken on the prospect he won’t return to the ballroom flooring in his new internet hosting capability.
She mentioned: “I can not think about he will not be dancing. Understanding Jo-Jo and his love for dance, I can not see him not dancing! I clearly do not know however it may be all very thrilling and the beginning of a brand new period.”
Josh Widdicombe, Emma Willis and Johannes Radebe have been introduced as the brand new hosts of Strictly Come Dancing (Picture: Ray Burmiston/BBC/PA Wire)
Talking about her shut relationship with former hosts Claudia and Tess, she mentioned: “They have been there for me since I joined the present and so they have been for me throughout all my therapy and the whole lot as effectively.
“I simply suppose these two have been huge followers of the present, they genuinely beloved and watched… they have been obsessive about it.”
Amy elsewhere hinted at who she’s searching for as a celeb accomplice within the upcoming sequence.
Lorraine quipped: “Final 12 months on Strictly, I used to be not amused and never joyful since you have been out first. Nothing to do with you and all to do with who you have been teamed up with.
“This 12 months can they simply offer you a extremely sizzling soapstar boyband athlete you could mould and actually let fly.”
Amy replied: “I might love that. Have a phrase with them, Lorraine!”
Amy was partnered with Thomas Skinner on Strictly final 12 months (Picture: BBC)
Speaking about her return, she went on: “Being again after the whole lot I have been via, that is a win to me.
“However I might like to at the very least get to Blackpool, that might be lush!”
Tess and Claudia introduced they have been quitting Strictly final 12 months, saying their time on the present had been “an absolute dream” however it “looks like the best time” to depart.
They wrote: “Now we have beloved working as a duo and internet hosting Strictly has been an absolute dream. We have been all the time going to depart collectively and now looks like the best time.
Amy was pressured to overlook out on Strictly after her devastating most cancers prognosis (Picture: amy_dowden/Instagram)
“We may have the best remainder of this wonderful sequence and we simply wish to say an infinite thanks to the BBC and to each single one that works on the present. They’re probably the most good staff and we’ll miss them day by day.
“We’ll cry after we say the final “hold dancing” however we are going to proceed to say it to one another. Simply presumably in tracksuit bottoms at residence whereas holding some pizza.”
Tess – who just lately gained a Guinness World Document for the longest-serving host of the identical dance competitors TV present – started presenting Strictly from its inception in 2004, first with Sir Bruce Forsyth, after which with Claudia when she joined as a co-host in 2014.
Strictly Come Dancing returns to BBC One and iPlayer later this 12 months.
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