When the couple appeared on BBC companion show It Takes Two today, Oti admitted that she froze during one practice before the live show, and forgot her own steps. “I forgot the choreography, me the person who made it,” she confessed to presenter Zoe Ball. “We started, we got in hold and I went, ‘Where […]
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Strictly Come Dancing 2017: Jonnie Peacock to change peoples views on disability
Sprint champion Jonnie Peacock MBE, who won paralympic gold, wants viewers to see that having a disability is not a bar to putting on a good show – and joked that it could be his turn to waltz off with the glitterball this series. Jonnie’s right leg was amputated below the knee after contracting meningitis […]
Paralympic medallist Jonnie Peacock on Strictly Come Dancing: I always relish a challenge
GETTY Jonnie Peacock has selected as the first disable contestant on Strictly Come Dancing Such a cruel blow when he was five years old could have ruined his life. Instead, it instilled a determination that took him all the way to the top of the podium at the London Paralympics. And now, just when you […]
Dance review: Tango Fire by Peacock Theatre
For a couple of hours or so they and their fellow dancers whisk us away from the frost, fog and drizzly streets outside to their intimate world of glamour, erotic passion and the sheer joy of moving to music. The show’s formula is still the same but, as they say, if it ain’t broke, don’t […]