Strictly star blasts ITV rival show for being ‘terribly dangerous’

One of the biggest stars connected Strictly Come Dancing has said that ITV’s rival amusement Dancing On Ice is ‘terribly dangerous’, referencing the galore injuries sustained connected the programme.

This Saturday night, the BBC creation contention is officially returning with the archetypal of its unrecorded shows for 2024, aft kicking disconnected with its motorboat past week.

Anton Du Beke volition beryllium returning yet again to the judging panel, alongside his colleagues Craig Revel Horwood, Motsi Mabuse and caput justice Shirley Ballas.

Before becoming a justice connected Strictly from 2021, Anton was 1 of the archetypal nonrecreational dancers connected the show, making his debut successful the archetypal play successful 2004.

In summation to the flagship BBC series, the 58-year-old has appeared connected assorted different TV programmes, including Anton & Giovanni’s Adventures successful Spain and Michael McIntyre’s Big Christmas Show.

However, he’s made it wide that helium has perfectly nary intentions of ever doing I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here!, portion besides putting Dancing On Ice connected blast.

‘Dancing On Ice I deliberation is terribly dangerous, radical support doing themselves in,’ helium told Woman Magazine, arsenic reported by The Sun.

‘I don’t privation to bash thing that hurts.’

In past years, respective celebrities person sustained injuries connected Dancing On Ice, including Olympian Greg Rutherford, who earlier this twelvemonth ‘gave himself a C-section’ successful a horrific, stomach-slicing ordeal.

In 2022, assorted competitors including Rachel Stevens and Kye Whyte hurt themselves portion taking portion successful the aforesaid season.

The erstwhile year, Dancing On Ice was paused by ITV for a week to support ‘the payment of the formed and crew’ aft a drawstring of achy incidents.

In his caller interview, Anton went connected to stock his reasoning for avoiding I’m A Celebrity, with erstwhile X Factor justice Tulisa Contostavlos rumoured to beryllium joining the 2024 line-up.

‘I couldn’t bash I’m a Celebrity due to the fact that I’m truthful arachnophobic – determination was a spider adjacent maine this greeting and I ran astir similar a seven-year-old girl,’ helium stated.

Anton joked that helium would beryllium ‘hysterical’ if faced with spiders connected the amusement – truthful it appears an I’m A Celebrity stint isn’t connected the cards for the clip being.

This year’s Strictly formed boasts celebrities including Love Island prima Tasha Ghouri, erstwhile Towie castmember Pete Wicks, DIY SOS presenter Nick Knowles and Gladiators icon Montell Douglas.

On Saturday night, the couples volition execute their archetypal routines of the caller season, and they’ll person the information nett of knowing that nary 1 is going to beryllium eliminated successful week one.

Instead, their scores volition transportation crossed to week two, erstwhile determination volition beryllium the archetypal dance-off and elimination of the season.

While plentifulness of fans are excited that Strictly has returned, the bid suffered debased ratings for its motorboat show, with 5.7 cardinal radical tuning successful to ticker – a alteration of a cardinal from the twelvemonth before.

‘The Beeb’s worst fearfulness was the ungraded proved a turn-off for viewers, and that seemed to travel existent connected Saturday night,’ a TV insider told The Sun.
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‘Even with the other radical watching to spot if Tess and Claudia said anything, it was a beauteous disappointing fig for the motorboat show.

‘Now they’ll beryllium hoping and praying there’ll beryllium an upturn erstwhile the unrecorded shows commencement adjacent week, and past the celebrities commencement getting voted disconnected the week after.’

Strictly Come Dancing returns connected Saturday nighttime astatine 7pm connected BBC One and BBC iPlayer.

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