3 d. ago Alex Kingston's 'unintentional innuendo' causes uproar during Strictly Come Dancing filming

Strictly Come Dancing star Alex Kingston was left 'mortified' after an innuendo she made during the launch show was cut from the programme, but had everyone in stitches

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6 d. ago Why has Dani Dyer pulled out of Strictly 2025, and is she being replaced?

DANI Dyer has quit Strictly Come Dancing days before the live shows after injuring her ankle in training. Dani’s exit dropped just as the cast was putting the final polish on their first live dances. She had taken part in the launch show — filmed ahead of transmission — where her partnership with Nikita was...

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9 d. ago Strictly Come Dancing 2025 Odds Latest: How the bookies rate all 14 celeb dancers' chances

The bookies already reckon they have a fair idea about who will dance away with the title.

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1 week ago The Munchkins' sordid legacy: As one of the last surviving Wizard of Oz cast dies aged 94... how the Hollywood film was marred with drunken orgies and 'little people' pimping

The child star (right) from Colorado had turned eight years old when she filmed the beloved 1939 film, making her one of eight children who danced and sang as part of the Munchkin ensemble.

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1 week ago Strictly Come Dancing star Vicky Pattison admits filming launch show was 'worst experience'

Vicky Pattison has opened up about her experience on the Strictly Come Dancing launch show, admitting that it was the "worst experience" of her life

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2 w. ago Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui: ‘Artists are liars who just make things up – but we reveal a lot’

The internationally feted choreographer has worked with pop megastars, a sculptor and the monks of the Shaolin Temple. Now he is tackling the cultural divisions and colonial legacy of his homelandSidi Larbi Cherkaoui is almost offended when I suggest he’s a busy man. “When people tell me, ‘You do so much,’ I cringe,” says the artistic director of the Grand Théâtre de Genève – the largest stage in Switzerland, with its ballet and opera companies – who runs his own company Eastman in his native city of Antwerp. He is also the creator of contemporary dance-theatre productions and a choreographer for film (Joe Wright’s Anna Karenina and Cyrano), musicals (Alanis Morissette’s Jagged Little Pill), pop (Beyoncé and Jay-Z, Madonna) and plenty more.This autumn alone, nine different works of Cherkaoui’s are being performed around the world, including An Accident/A Life, a collaboration with performer Marc Brew, about the car accident that left Brew paralysed from the neck down – “It’s maybe t...

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2 w. ago BBC Strictly Come Dancing star 'really emotional' filming days before launch show

A Strictly Come Dancing star has opened up about an emotional moment that took place behind-the-scenes of the BBC One series, ahead of the launch this weekend

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2 w. ago ‘The old white patriarchy isn’t knocking on my door!’ Sandra Oh on joy, despair – and going viral with a euphoric dance

In her apocalyptic new film, everything’s sorted – but you have to die at the age of 50. The actor talks about tech shocks, doomscrolling and the agent who told her to go back to CanadaThis summer, Sandra Oh stood behind a lectern at a graduation ceremony in New Hampshire, preparing to give university-leavers words of hope at a time of permacrisis. She rose to the challenge, opening up about her past battles with depression and anxiety, before making a heartfelt case for embracing discomfort and kindness “so we can meet cruelty again and again and not lose our humanity”. This was increasingly important, she explained, when many world leaders “claim power through fear and oppression”. And then came the moment that would go viral. Oh instructed everyone to stand up and do something Cristina Yang, her career-making character on Grey’s Anatomy, used to do when times got tough. “Dance it out!” she exhorted as David Guetta’s Titanium washed over the crowd. “Remember this feeling!”“I was v...

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3 w. ago EastEnders star's offensive quip before soap axe exposed as BBC release comment

EastEnders star Jamie Borthwick "will not be returning" to the show following his suspension, which began back in June, after a behind-the-scenes incident while filming Strictly Come Dancing

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