The Blackpool Tower Ballroom is one step closer to reopening its doors and welcoming back Strictly Come Dancing after undergoing a £1.1million refurbishment. The iconic ballroom, located in the Grade 1 Listed Blackpool Tower, is hoping to re-open on June 21, providing the Government’s latest road-map out of lockdown goes to plan. The venue, which … Read more
Big Brother host Sonia Kruger reveals how she landed the iconic role as Tina Sparkle in Baz Luhrmann’s Strictly Ballroom By Abi Moustafa For Daily Mail Australia Published: 06:49 BST, 1 May 2021 | Updated: 06:49 BST, 1 May 2021 She’s the host of Big Brother in 2021, but in 1992 Sonia Kruger became a … Read more
She is the popular head judge on Strictly Come Dancing. And Shirley Ballas couldn’t resist showing off her ballroom moves as she left BBC Morning Live on Wednesday. The ballroom guru, 60, put on a quirky display in a ‘Queen’ emblazoned flat peak cap as she performed a pirouette for snappers. Dance dance: Shirley Ballas couldn’t … Read more
Ballroom star Anton du Beke tells BBC’s Strictly that he wants to be a permanent judge on the show next year Dancer asked to be permanent judge after filling in for Motsi Mabuse this week Mabuse urgently flew home to Germany and is now in quarantine for two weeks Du Beke is the show’s most … Read more
Former President Barack Obama recalled some of his early interactions with now President Donald Trump, before Trump started floating the so-called ‘birther’ conspiracy theory about Obama in the run-up to the 2012 election. In his new book, ‘A Promised Land,’ Obama writes that during the 2010 Deepwater Horizon crisis, Trump called up White House adviser … Read more
A dance couple practising their moves Stop! In the name of love. Before you break my heart.’ Dancing to the soundtrack of their youth, the carefree baby-boomers around the Britannia Lounge know all the lyrics to the Motown numbers being belted out by singers and their ten-piece band. But there’s no dancing around handbags here … Read more