BBC Breakfast star reveals she’s ‘banned’ from Strictly Come Dancing

Former BBC Breakfast prima Louise Minchin has claimed she’s ‘banned’ from Strictly Come Dancing for a circumstantial reason.

The TV presenter, 56, who co-hosted BBC Breakfast until 2021, has appeared connected the likes of I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! and Celebrity MasterChef.

But there’s 1 contention she’s firmly said nary to.

‘They cognize I’m a unspeakable dancer truthful the anticipation of being hugely embarrassing is massive,’ Louise said.

She added to The Times: ‘I’m banned for being embarrassing.’

While she’s not appearing successful the ballroom anytime soon, it was antecedently revealed Louise is taking portion successful different gruelling world competition, the Gladiators personage special.

The triathlete said she is ‘so excited’ to beryllium connected the amusement alongside Joel Dommett, comedian Rob Beckett and actress Ellie Taylor, aft watching it for years and reasoning it looked similar ‘terrifying fun’.

Elsewhere successful the interview, the broadcaster and writer besides delved into her reasons for stepping down from the BBC role, explaining: ‘That occupation comes with an tremendous magnitude of pressure. It’s relentless.

‘The hours are horrific, utterly, utterly gruelling, and it has an interaction connected each antithetic portion of your beingness — erstwhile you eat, erstwhile you sleep, however you feel.

‘It was my imagination occupation and I perfectly loved it but I’d done it enough.’

During her last broadcast connected BBC Breakfast successful 2021, Louise revealed that her co-host Dan Walker was the crushed she had stayed connected ‘much longer than I really meant to’.

‘We’ve been done pugnacious stories,’ she said. ‘We’ve been done pugnacious programmes.

‘The 1 happening has been perfectly clear, you ever person my back. You’ve made maine laugh, you made maine rotation my eyes, you walk maine tissues erstwhile I cried.’

She went connected to convey the BBC Breakfast squad and viewers, saying: ‘It is really, truly acknowledgment to you for watching each of these years. You are perfectly astatine the bosom of everything that we do.

‘I consciousness proud, it’s been a privilege to beryllium present connected the reddish sofa and study connected our shared history. You’ve made maine consciousness invited successful your homes, invited successful your hearts.’

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