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Arts Reporter
Great news for the myriad fans across Zimbabwe of the dance show “Strictly Come Dancing”. TV’s biggest and best dance show returns for a new series in January, with a new home on DStv’s BBC Lifestyle channel.
Liz Dziva, publicity and public relations manager of MultiChoice Zimbabwe, said the Strictly 2015 series would première at 6pm on Sunday January 10, when the show that has just ended its UK run launches with 15 new celebrities battling for top honours.
“The series will then run each Sunday thereafter in the same time slot. Celebrity contestants for this series are TV chef Ainsley Harriott, TV presenter Anita Rani, Olympic medallist and professional boxer Anthony Ogogo, BBC Weather reporter Carol Kirkwood, singer Daniel O’Donnell, Coronation Street actress Georgia May Foote, Call the Midwife Star Helen George, sports presenter and Olympic medallist Iwan Thomas, singer and TV presenter Jamelia, pop star Jay McGuiness (The Wanted), broadcaster and journalist Jeremy Vine, BBC Proms presenter Katie Derham, EastEnders actress Kellie Bright, sports news anchor Kirsty Gallacher and singer and presenter Peter Andre,” she said.
Also returning are members of Strictly’s judging panel: head judge Len Goodman plus Darcey Bussell, Bruno Tonioli and Craig Revel Horwood, whom this year’s celebrities will be trying to impress.
The professional dancer line-up welcomes three sensational, brand new dancers, including one from South Africa: eight-times South African Latin American Champion Oti Mabuse, along with Russian-born Dancing With The Stars favourite Gleb Savchenko, 2012 Italian Champion Giovanni Pernice.
They will be joined by Strictly favourites, Aliona Vilani, Aljaž Skorjanec, Anton du Beke, Brendan Cole, Janette Manrara, Joanne Clifton, Karen Clifton, Kevin Clifton, Kristina Rihanoff, Natalie Lowe, Ola Jordan, Pasha Kovalev and Tristan MacManus.
In the first episode co-presenters Tess Daly and Claudia Winkelman will host an exclusive premiere and star-studded red carpet launch for the 13th series of Strictly Come Dancing and welcome the 15 brand new celebrity contestants to the dance floor.
Here the celebrities will discover which professional dancers they are to be paired up with for the competition and they will take to the dance floor for the very first time for a mesmerising group performance.
There will also be one final performance from last year’s reigning champions and 2014 winners, Caroline Flack and Pasha Kovalev.
Once the celebrities pair up with their professional dancers, they will return to the ballroom to perform every week night.
There will be no public vote in the first week and the results show with Tess and Claudia will begin from week two on Sunday nights. From then, each week the two couples with the lowest combined scores, from the judges and public vote, will face each other in the dance off, with one couple leaving the competition for good.
“At the halfway stage of the competition and now a Strictly Come Dancing tradition, the show will travel to the international home of ballroom dancing where the celebrities and their partners will perform at the world famous Blackpool Tower Ballroom. Themes and fun abounds . . . and all viewers need to do is tune in and enjoy,” said Ms Dziva.
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