Devastated Strictly fans ‘switching off’ as it’s revealed fan favourite pro ‘is set to quit’

FANS of Strictly Come Dancing are successful bits aft learning that a peculiar nonrecreational won't beryllium coming backmost adjacent year.

Viewers are up successful arms implicit news that the talented dancer is leaving the BBC One show.

South African prima Johannes Radebe, who joined successful 2018, volition execute successful Kinky Boots The Musical successful 2025.

From January to July helium volition beryllium 1 of the pb characters successful the circuit written by popular fable Cyndi Lauper.

The 37-year-old is besides having his beingness communicative turned into a movie.

The Sun exclusively revealed past twelvemonth that helium was making a movie based connected his autobiography, Jojo: Finally Home, based connected his rags to riches story.

Devastated fans commented connected societal media: "Oh, that would beryllium specified a nonaccomplishment for Strictly!"

A 2nd complained: "Can this time get immoderate worse?"

A 3rd penned: "Aw I'm gutted! It makes consciousness though due to the fact that Johannes is simply a SUPERSTAR!"

A 4th agreed: "Will miss Jojo a batch though! I would truly emotion to spot Jojo assistance the glitterball trophy with Montell earlier helium parts."

"I hatred contiguous forever," vented a viewer. "But he’s the champion happening astir the full show!" agreed another. "Absolutely heartbroken," sobbed a fan. "I conscionable fell to my knees," a bereft idiosyncratic added.

He volition execute implicit 200 shows successful 25 antithetic cities crossed the UK and Ireland. The prima volition dazzle crossed the signifier from Dublin to Plymouth and Brighton to Edinburgh.

That means Johannes is already missing the official Strictly Come Dancing Live Tour which besides kicks disconnected successful January with astir of the pros taking part.

A caller procreation of Strictly pros are acceptable to instrumentality implicit from veterans successful the next series.

The Beeb wants to suffer up to 5 of its astir established dancers, including Nadiya Bychkova, Neil Jones, Karen Hauer, Gorka Marquez and Katya Jones.

A Strictly insider told The Sun previously: “Johannes is hugely loved connected the amusement and determination isn’t an atom of atrocious feeling astir him leaving.

“Both helium and the show’s bosses realise helium is overwhelmed with enactment arsenic a effect of his soaring popularity and privation him each the best.

“But cipher tin ever get truthful large that they continually instrumentality up excessively overmuch limelight - the prima of the amusement indispensable ever beryllium the amusement itself."