Update: I was on the loo when I got the news!’ Strictly Come Dancing’s new hosts spill their scandalous secrets
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The Guardian — Culture has reported on “Update: I was on the loo when I got the news!’ Strictly Come Dancing’s new hosts spill their scandalous secrets,” presenting it as the central development in the source material available for this brief.
following a year of frenzied conjecture, the new hosts putting the razzle back into Strictly are Johannes Radebe, Emma Willis and Josh Widdicombe. The report also notes that They talk night sweats, sparkly pants – and the hilarious fake show cooked up to fool the press Johannes Radebe, one of the three new presenters of Strictly Come Dancing, can barely contain his glee. Asked where they were when they heard they’d got the job, Radebe is quick to wind up his co-hosts. “We’ll never forget that call,” he grins. “It was a weekday afternoon and I was at home, preparing for that night’s performance of [West End musical] Kinky Boots. But go on, tell the Guardian where you two were.” “We all got the same message, asking us to jump on a Zoom,” states Emma Willis. “We didn’t know if it was good news or bad news.” Josh Widdicombe picks up the story: “I thought, ‘Surely they wouldn’t tell me to my face if I hadn’t got it? They’d just text my agent or something.’”
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