Strictly Come Dancing has first all-male partnership
Hit show Strictly Come Dancing has added its first all-male partnership in the show’s history, after TV chef John Whaite joined this year’s line-up.
Boxer Nicola Adams was part of the show’s first same-sex partnership last year.
The 2012 Bake Off winner described his partnership as “a great step forward in representation and inclusion”.
Tom Fletcher, AJ Odudu and Robert Webb were announced as the first 2021 contestants.
Whaite told Matt Lucas on BBC Radio 2 on Thursday it was “an honour” to take part.
“When they asked me if I’d be interested, I just bit their hand off because I thought, to do that and represent the LGBTQ+ community is one thing, but also just to see two men or two women dancing together, it’s not necessarily about sexuality, it’s just about intimacy and respect,” he said.
“And I think that’s going to be such a great thing in our culture, where men are sort of conditioned not to open up and not to be emotional. I think it might help to combat that. So I’m excited on so many levels to be doing the first all-male partnership.”
He added: “I don’t think it’s quite sunk in yet and I don’t think it will until I find out who I’m actually dancing with.”
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