We can’t wait for Strictly Come Dancing 2023 to begin… now it appears that a great TV star may be in the cast.
Angela Rippon, 78, initially presented Come Dancing in the 1980s, the show that inspired the BBC series that we know and love today.
If rumours are to be believed, she may be participating in the 2023 line-up 25 years later.
It’s been reported that the newsreader and journalist has been in negotiations with the show’s producers for some weeks, and that a deal has now been reached.
‘It is such a coup to get Angela. She was Mrs Come Dancing, so what a wonderful thing that she is going to be on Strictly all these years later,’ a source told The Mail on Sunday.
‘She is the dream signing. The audience at home will love her, and many of them will remember her from her days hosting the show in its previous incarnation.’
They continued: ‘It is incredible that someone of her age is doing it but she loves dancing and the bosses think that she will be a joy to watch.’
Angela has had a Strictly-type experience before, since she had a taste of what it was like to be one of the contenders more than a decade ago.
Angela, along with Susanna Reid, Sophie Raworth, and Emily Maitlis, appeared in a special one-off episode of Strictly Come Dancing for Children In Need in 2011.
Members of the public who have seen Angela on TV will know that she has dance skills under her sleeve, having captivated the nation with her high-kicking movements in the 1976 Morecambe and Wise Christmas special.
The oldest contestant ever to participate on Strictly was Johnny Ball, who was 74 at the time.
Second place goes to Paul Daniels, who was 72, and Lesley Joseph, who was 71.
Former Love Island star Zara McDermott, former EastEnders star Nigel Harman, and Jade Goody’s son, EastEnders actor Bobby Brazier, are all expected to be on Strictly this year.
Strictly Come Dancing returns to BBC One and BBC iPlayer later this year.
Source My Celebrity Life.