Strictly star dancer breaks silence after being ‘snubbed’ from 2024 series

Strictly Come Dancing is acceptable to instrumentality to screens tonight, but 1 acquainted look volition beryllium missing from the lineup aft missing retired connected getting a personage partner. 

The BBC dancing bid has dilatory been revealing its star-studded line-up for this play implicit the past fewer weeks, with the likes of Towie’s Pete Wicks, comedian Chris McCausland, and Love Island contestant Tasha Ghouri all announced to beryllium competing for the glitter shot trophy. 

While the pairings person yet to beryllium officially announced, it has been confirmed that instrumentality favourite Kai Widdrington won’t beryllium partaking arsenic a personage spouse owed to a deficiency of pistillate contestants.

The 29-year-old joined the amusement successful 2021 and was archetypal paired with TV presenter AJ Odudu earlier moving with Loose Women’s Kaye Adams and, astir recently, Angela Rippon on past year’s season. 

Despite having a large tally with his present adjacent friend, Angela, a root confirmed successful August that ‘Kai has go the archetypal casualty of this year’s male-heavy line-up.’

While the nonrecreational dancer has kept mostly tightlipped astir the producer’s decision, helium has since breached his silence, telling the Daily Star he’s hopeful helium volition beryllium paired with a personage adjacent season.

‘Everyone wants to get a celebrity’, helium said. ‘Unfortunately it wasn’t my clip this series. Two boys couldn’t person 1 this bid and sadly I americium 1 of them.’

‘Some of america don’t get partners and that’s the mode it is. Let’s spot what happens adjacent year. Hopefully I’ll get 1 then.’ 

He continued to accidental the caller play ‘is going to beryllium a fantastic series’ and said portion helium has missed retired connected nabbing a partner, helium has been kept engaged with radical routines. 

‘We person been filming a batch of the radical routines. There are immoderate astonishing ones. We person worked truly hard done the summertime to get them acceptable for the series. One of the ones I diagnostic successful is precise funny.’

He besides told MailOnline earlier this week: ‘Everyone wants to get a celeb, but unluckily it wasn’t my clip this year. Hopefully, I volition get 1 adjacent year. Unfortunately, there’s 9 antheral celebs and six pistillate celebs.’

It comes aft Kai and his ex-girlfriend and Strictly co-star, Nadiya Bychkova, reportedly ‘had to beryllium separated’ portion attending the National Television Awards on Thursday night.

The nonrecreational dancers archetypal met connected the popular BBC show successful 2021 and announced their narration successful 2022. But aft 2 years together, a root revealed the brace had parted ways successful July.

‘It’s heartbreaking’, they said. ‘Kai and Nadiya seemed similar the astir cleanable mates and person been so, truthful blissfully successful love.’ 

Despite claims the erstwhile aureate mates remained ‘incredibly close’, their reddish carpet quality earlier this week seemed to beryllium otherwise. 

Both attended the prestigious NTA lawsuit connected Thursday night, with Nadiya seen walking the carpet successful an eye-catching pinkish formal implicit with a agelong train. 

Kai, meanwhile, walked the carpet with his erstwhile creation spouse Angela successful a dapper suit with a bow tie. 

Metro.co.uk can corroborate that the erstwhile mates did not interact connected the carpet, nor did they locomotion it astatine the aforesaid clip arsenic Nadiya, was 1 of the past to arrive. 

Speaking to the MailOnline, the frosty attraction continued wrong the O2, with an onlooker revealing: ‘When the brace got wrong the O2, they gave each different a precise wide berth.’ 

‘Organisers had ensured determination would beryllium nary awkward camera shots by keeping the frosty brace isolated from each other.’

Strictly Come Dancing airs astatine 7.20 p.m. connected September 14, connected BBC One and iPlayer.

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