BBC Strictly Come Dancing's Tom Dean broke strict rule weeks before show started

Three times Olympic golden medallist Tom Dean got a spot carried distant up of his debut connected Strictly Come Dancing, starring to a ticking disconnected from amusement bosses

Olympic swimmer Tom Dean is coupling up with Nadiya Bychkova connected this year's Strictly and the nonrecreational dancer says their clip connected the amusement is going to beryllium 'hard work' and 'fun'.

In a bid of Instagram posts Nadiya joked astir the jock needing to enactment connected his shoulders and posture and said she was 'working connected (his) Saturday nighttime face'.

But the dancer seems thrilled wide with her 'superstar' pairing, who is simply a 3 times Olympic golden medal winner.

Tom, 24, broke a cardinal regularisation erstwhile helium confirmed helium had signed up for the dance contest successful an interrogation aft helium reached the men's 200 metres idiosyncratic medley astatine the Games in Paris.

He was the precise archetypal contestant to denote they would beryllium appearing connected the 2024 show, which likes to support the line-up nether wraps up of its authoritative launch.

He admits helium got a 'little slap connected the wrist' from amusement bosses, telling the Radio Times: "I'd virtually got the telephone 1 infinitesimal earlier racing an Olympic final, truthful that was benignant of what was going done my mind. Then I got fired that Strictly question truthful I wasn't truly dialled successful connected what I should beryllium saying."

The 3 clip Olympic champion said of his determination to vie connected the world show: "Naturally you privation to instrumentality a interruption aft you've had a afloat Olympic rhythm and the accidental arose. I thought it would beryllium truly breathtaking to effort thing a spot different. I'll beryllium doing that and consecutive backmost into grooming aft it. It's thing to look guardant to."

Tom's Team GB teammate Adam Peaty finished ninth connected Strictly successful 2021 and helium says he'd beryllium keen to get a fewer tips erstwhile the brace adjacent bump into 1 another. For portion helium is 1 of the champion swimmers our federation has produced, Tom is little definite astir his caller sport.

"I don't bash excessively good retired of h2o successful gravity sports," helium said. "I'm throwing myself into it and I cognize what a hard day's grooming is similar truthful I'm looking guardant to it. I conjecture we'll find out."

Tom won the men's 200m freestyle astatine Tokyo 2020 and won golden successful 2 successive Olympics successful the men's 4x200m freestyle relay. He made past by defending the rubric with the aforesaid line-up - Tom, James Guy, Matt Richards and Duncan Scott.

Back successful 2021, helium told Hello magazine his mum, who raised 5 children singlehandedly for 10 years, deserved his Olympic medals conscionable arsenic overmuch arsenic himself. "I beryllium a monolithic indebtedness of gratitude to my mum," helium said. "I was a lazy teen and she got maine up aboriginal connected those acheronian wintertime mornings erstwhile it was the past happening I wanted to do."