Strictly legend makes major career announcement 4 years after leaving BBC series

Strictly Come Dancing fable Janette Manrara has unveiled a immense caller occupation 4 years aft quitting the BBC show.

The 41-year-old announced her departure from the main show successful 2021 but remained ‘part of the Strictly family’ arsenic she joined spin-off It Takes Two arsenic a presenter.

Now, though, Janette is trying a caller task distant from TV arsenic she has been formed arsenic Roxie Hart successful the UK and Ireland touring accumulation of deed philharmonic Chicago.

She joins the formed connected March 3 astatine the Cliffs Pavilion, Southend and volition execute connected the amusement until August 30 astatine the Lowry, Salford. She volition besides caput to cities including Glasgow, Norwich and Leicester.

On Instagram, Janette was flooded with messages of enactment from her celebrated friends, including Fleur East, who wrote: ‘Amazing news!!! Congratulations sista!!! Can’t hold to spot you bash this.’

Kym Marsh exclaimed: ‘Woooooowwwwww that’s awesome!!!’

Amy Dowden shared: ‘Go connected superstar! Xxxx.’

Echoing Amy’s sentiment, Dianne Buswell said: ‘Yessss miss truthful breathtaking 😍 truthful blessed for you.’

Ali Bastian besides added: ‘Oh my gosh, you are going to beryllium AMAZING!!!! It’s specified a imagination of a portion and a show, bask each moment!!’

Last year, Janette opened up astir the cruel trolls ‘mum-shaming’ her for resuming presenting connected shows including Morning Live and It Takes Two after welcoming babe miss Lyra Rose with husband Aljaž Skorjanec.

‘I went backmost to Morning Live erstwhile Lyra was six weeks aged and immoderate radical said, “You’re not mounting a bully example.” It baffles maine that we justice each different similar that,’ she told the Radio Times.

Her It Takes Two prima Fleur East added: ‘You’re damned if you do, damned if you don’t. Either you shouldn’t spell to enactment and permission the kids astatine home, oregon you shouldn’t “just” beryllium a mum.’

Janette besides antecedently said she ‘put [her] ft connected the brake’ successful presumption of her vocation erstwhile she became a mum.

Confessing to being a ‘workaholic’, she said: ‘I’m a dancer and my assemblage is my tool, truthful the determination to person a kid was a large one, arsenic it meant putting maine retired of enactment for astatine slightest a year, possibly two, who knows?

‘When I became a presenter connected It Takes Two, I felt similar a monolithic value had been lifted disconnected my shoulders. “Ok, present we tin commencement a household and not accent due to the fact that present I tin enactment without needing my assemblage physically arsenic overmuch arsenic I utilized to”.’

Janette and Aljaž joined successful 2017, with her proudly declaring him her ‘best friend.’

The mates welcomed their archetypal kid Lyra successful July 2023 successful an Instagram post.

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