Strictly Come Dancing followers vow 'by no means to observe once more' after controversial hearsay

Strictly Come Dancing followers are vowing to boycott the beloved BBC present amid rumours {that a} politician is about to affix the programme.

After the overall election and the Conservatives' crushing loss, it's no shock that politicians are turning to actuality TV, as former Strictly star and newsreader Krishnan Guru-Murthy warned.

And whereas she was within the jungle lengthy earlier than Matt Hancock and Nigel Farage, Nadine Dorries is now rumoured to be in line for the ballroom.

The 67-year-old former Tradition Secretary, who bumped into bother for failing to declare her I'm A Superstar contributions after her 2012 ITV stint, is being tipped to look on Strictly.

In line with Ladbrokes, there are 5/1 odds on the politician being introduced as a Strictly star. Spokeswoman Jessica O'Reilly mentioned: 'Nadine is definitely not afraid of actuality TV reveals and we predict she is going to quickly swap politics for the paso doble.'

Viewers have criticised the concept of ​​seeing Dorries on the dance ground, nonetheless. Fredi wrote on X: 'If Nadine Dorries seems on Strictly I’ll by no means watch it once more.'

'Nadine Dorres on #Strictly???? No, completely no. There ought to be a ban on former or present MPs on celeb reveals, particularly conservatives, they've ripped us off sufficient as it’s,' @dogsabode additionally raged.

Scarlette Douglas addressed the rumours on Good Morning Britain on Wednesday, saying: 'She's greatest recognized for her controversies within the Home, however can she do the identical on the dance ground? That’s the query.'

Scarlette defined that Nadine, who solely lasted 12 days within the jungle, had beforehand mentioned she would 'love' to do Strictly.

'And what?' added A Place within the Solar presenter Scarlette. 'I'll be sincere, I’d too!'

In the meantime, former Strictly star Ed warned: 'Be careful for Penny Mordaunt, be careful for Robert Buckland.'

“Michael Gove… you heard it right here first!” he muttered.

Dorries isn't the one politician whose title has been thrown into the combination for Strictly.

After a marketing campaign filled with stunts together with bungee leaping and paddle boarding, Richard Osman believes Lib Dem chief Sir Ed Davey might show to be a success with Strictly bosses.

The Home of Video games host mentioned on his podcast The Relaxation is Leisure with Marina Hyde: “The star who received the election, somebody who can seem on any TV present he desires and who can have any profession he desires to any extent further, is Ed Davey.”

Regardless of pondering there could be no politicians within the upcoming sequence of the BBC present, he continued: 'A big proportion of the British public concurrently thought, “Oh, I fairly like that Ed Davey”.

'No matter occurs in politics, folks usually overlook and don't care. But when they’ve come into contact with somebody, say by taking a swipe at them, then that particular person can basically write a test for the remainder of their life.'

He added: 'If Ed decides to hold up his political sneakers, the primary title on the Strictly listing, if he ever provides up, that's what you want: somebody the viewers can join with.'

And he's not the one one who thinks so. @jasemonkey wrote the next on X after the election: 'Now that the election is over, I feel Ed Davey is a positive factor for Strictly.'

'Ed Davey has been utterly Partridge by means of all of it and it's been good! It's solely been for a restricted interval however he's completely liked each second of it,' added @Dazizz.

@Thurston_FW mentioned: 'Ed Davey is campaigning HARD for his spot on Strictly.'

It comes after Krishnan Guru-Murthy, star of Strictly Come Dancing and head of election protection at Channel 4, warned that politicians would flip extra to tv after the overall election.

He informed Metro.co.uk: 'I believe there will likely be quite a lot of politicians watching actuality TV reveals this yr, or politicians leaving for no matter cause, from all sides.

“There will likely be politicians who lose their seats, and there will likely be politicians who go away politics and are in search of one thing to do, to make some cash and acquire some fame. I'm positive there will likely be all types of individuals watching all types of actuality reveals.”

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Nonetheless, he did add that he could be “shocked” if Strictly chooses a politician: “The sensation I received after I was there was that they in all probability wouldn't need to… I'm undecided politics is the fitting subject for Saturday evening leisure in the meanwhile, I'm undecided folks really feel that manner about politics.

“Who is aware of? Who is aware of who's going to be on that line-up? I'd be actually shocked if there was an enormous politician there.”

Referring to a really totally different actuality present, he added: 'I feel I'm A Superstar is extra of a political playground, to be sincere, as a result of it's about rivalries, feuds and all these sorts of constructed storylines, which they will do on I'm A Superstar. So I feel it's a more likely place to come across politicians.'

Strictly Come Dancing returns to BBC One and iPlayer later this yr.

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