‘Strictly Come Dancing shake-up is a good thing – for these 2 professionals’

Strictly Come Dancing prima Layton Williams has thrown his enactment down the nonrecreational dancers who are rumoured to beryllium leaving the beloved BBC programme.

The Bad Education actor, 30, made it to the last past twelvemonth with Nikita Kuzmin, ultimately losing retired to Ellie Leach and Vito Coppola.

Layton has kept his adjacent enslaved with Nikita, with the brace having precocious reunited for a peculiar tribute amusement to precocious dancer Robin Windsor.

And he’s present backed different pros, amid a rumoured Strictly shake-up.

It’s been alleged 5 established stars are acceptable to get ‘axed’, with reports successful The Sun claiming that Neil Jones, Karen Hauer, Nadiya Bychkova, Johannes Radebe and Gorka Marquez are each successful the enactment of fire.

Commenting connected the rumours, Layton told Metro: ‘I deliberation a amusement is ever evolving. We ne'er truly cognize what the producers decisions are.

‘And arsenic a performer, I deliberation we each cognize that erstwhile we measurement into a thing, unluckily you are aforesaid employed, and you ne'er cognize erstwhile your adjacent gig is.

‘But I would similar to really beryllium connected the broadside of the pros. Obviously, the ones that are fab and the ones that are benignant and beauteous people, they’re becoming their ain entities.’

The theatre prima pointed retired 2 pros whose occurrence he’s already predicting, continuing: ‘Look astatine Jojo. Jojo is simply a prima successful their ain right. Look astatine adjacent Gorka, helium is a justice connected a accumulation of the show successful different state [Spain’s Bailando con las Estrellas], similar everyone’s got their ain things going on.

‘So alert my loves, a amusement doesn’t specify you.’

He went on: ‘We tin each marque our ain way successful life, is what I’m trying to say. So axed oregon not, oregon walking away… I privation everybody that is simply a beauteous idiosyncratic wrong and retired well.’

After conquering Strictly, Layton is present taking connected a precise antithetic situation – an iceberg.

The prima is playing the iconic relation for philharmonic Titanique, and has vowed to ‘bring joy’.

He said: ‘We are successful a precise brainsick satellite astatine the moment, and I deliberation everyone conscionable needs a small spot of joy. And Titanic is going to springiness you that.’

‘My iceberg b***h is fundamentally a premix betwixt Tina Turner and RuPaul. That’s the energy, you amended articulator sync for your beingness boat, period,’ helium quipped.

In betwixt preparing for Titanique and having conscionable finished a tally successful Cabaret, Layton besides manages to find clip to enactment his Pros From The Shows programme, providing the next procreation an penetration into West End productions.

The bi-monthly workshops person launched successful London, Manchester, Durham and present Norwich and Edinburgh, for children and present for adults.

‘I really wanted to acceptable it up truthful it could beryllium thing that, particularly successful my area, radical could autumn into,’ Layton said.

‘And I conjecture the quality that erstwhile I was increasing up, you didn’t truly person radical from the shows travel into your municipality to springiness you these experiences.’

He went connected to explain: ‘Basically it’s conscionable an accidental for radical successful that area, like-minded young people, to conscionable beryllium surrounded by radical that are similar them, that emotion showtunes and emotion dancing and emotion singing, emotion acting, and it could beryllium successful a harmless space, and it’s benignant of nary judgement zone.’

Layton added: ‘It’s not conscionable changing these kids’ lives and mounting them up for the future. It’s besides giving grown radical the realization that beingness is inactive for living. So it’s truly beauteous happening that we tin offer. We’re conscionable trying to get the sound retired determination and fto radical cognize astir it, due to the fact that it’s special.’

More accusation astir Pros From The Shows tin beryllium recovered here. Tickets for Titanique are connected merchantability here, with the philharmonic premiering astatine the Criterion Theatre and moving from December 9 to March 2025.

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