Earlier this yr, Nadiya Bychkova confirmed she wouldn’t return as an expert dancer on BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing.
It got here at a time of behind-the-scenes carnage, shaking up the skilled line-up of the channel’s flagship Saturday evening present.
Nadiya, 36, wrote on Instagram in March: ‘After 9 great years, this a part of my journey with Strictly Come Dancing is evolving.’
Now she’s given us a style of what that would seem like.
Talking to Howdy, Nadiya stated she would ‘completely’ contemplate returning to the BBC present.
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She instructed the publication that “it completely is [on the cards]’, and added, ‘We’re speaking about, hopefully sooner or later, me coming and choreographing among the professional numbers.
‘The crew has recognized for years how passionate I’m about making issues and choreographing. Many producers got here to look at packages that I made myself.’
She referred to as it a “pure” factor to do as a result of it is the place her passions lie, and admitted it might be “lovely” to at some point see a few of her “creations and tales,” which she needs to inform via dance, on the present.
The 36-year-old final teamed up with Chris Robshaw, however the pair have been eradicated in week 4.
Throughout the 2021 season of the vastly fashionable dance competitors, Nadiya waltzed into the quarter-finals with broadcaster Dan Walker, ending in fifth place.
She loved a two-year romance with strictly skilled Kai Widdrington throughout their time on the programme, earlier than splitting in 2024.
The pair continued to look collectively within the 2025 sequence following their divorce, and Kai will return for 2026.
After nearly a decade on the present, Nadiya shaped robust bonds with former presenters Claudia Winkleman and Tess Daly, revealing to the journal that they’re consistently in contact.
However she has no doubts that new trio Strictly will ‘carry one thing contemporary and thrilling’.
Final month it was introduced that Josh Widdicombe, Emma Willis and Johannes Radebe have been new hosts of the glitzy present after Tess and Claudia introduced their shock departures.
BBC’s Chief Content material Officer Kate Phillips praised the brand new arrivals for his or her “plain” chemistry and stated that they had “picked three wonderful hosts to take up the mantle.”
Nadiya is joyful to see one in every of her fellow skilled dancers taking over a brand new position throughout the similar present, including that they’re all “creatively evolving.”
Strictly Come Dancing returns this autumn on BBC One.
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