BBC Strictly Come Dancing pros face the axe as bosses eye fresh start away from scandals

Strictly Come Dancing bosses are acceptable to beryllium acceptable to axe a fig of the show's much elder professionals successful a immense shake-up up of adjacent series

The mainstay of Strictly Come Dancing looks acceptable for a shingle up with a fig of nonrecreational dancers acceptable for the chop, according to reports.

Currently airing its 20th season, viewers proceed to ticker connected arsenic immoderate of the world's champion ballroom dancers thatch celebrated faces however to strut their stuff. However, with the amusement shrouded by contention and scandals this twelvemonth - including the inquest into Giovanni Pernice's actions - it's said bosses are acceptable to bring successful a caller question of nonrecreational endowment for adjacent season.

It's reported up to 5 of the show's main stars are facing being axed, with names said to perchance included Neil Jones, Gorka Marquez and Katya Jones. With galore of the much elder dancers being eliminated aboriginal successful this year's contest, it's thought their clip could soon beryllium up. Meanwhile, Katya's arguable moments with existent spouse Wynne Evans are said to person angered bosses and perchance near her astatine risk.

It comes with the existent harvest of newer dancers wowing audiences and winning implicit fans online. This has included Vito Coppola, who has danced with Sarah Hadland, and Jowita Przystal, who has impressed alongside Pete Wicks. An insider told The Sun: "The reappraisal of the line-up has ever been astir making a caller start, and that was ever going to beryllium affected by which dancers performed good this series."

They added determination are a fig of "fading" stars successful the existent line-up who tin easy beryllium replaced. Describing immoderate determination arsenic "harsh", the insider claimed that's conscionable portion of the accepted turnover. "Of the 5 names successful the premix astir each of them went retired successful the archetypal fractional of the series, which is precise overmuch seen arsenic a landmark constituent for Strictly," the root continued. "It couldn’t person travel astatine a worse clip for them, due to the fact that Strictly bosses consciousness they request to marque immoderate large changes, adjacent if that means large names leaving."

Of the names tipped to permission the show, fashionable Johannes Radebe is among them, though his exit is thought to beryllium of his ain accord. The 37-year-old South African creation sensation has been moving arsenic 1 of the professionals connected the long-running amusement since 2018 and is presently paired with Gladiators prima Montell Douglas, 38.

However, it's thought he's acceptable to discontinue and pursuit different dreams, including turning the communicative of his beingness into a film. It has been suggested helium has landed a starring relation successful a immense signifier philharmonic - and that helium would beryllium kept connected signifier for astatine slightest 7 months. This would marque it intolerable for him to enactment successful Strictly adjacent year.

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