Strictly Come Dancing star Angela Scanlon opens up about embracing the BBC One show's glitter madness, finding out about her professional partner and why the timing was perfect
When Angela Scanlon was making her New Year’s resolutions, she decided 2023 would be the year of “yes” and wrote “surprise me” in her diary. So when she was asked to sign up to the 21st series of Strictly Come Dancing she decided to go for it.
As we chat, she’s preparing for a week of rehearsals, having just learnt the identity of her pro partner, revealed last night during Strictly’s launch show. “I felt like I was in limbo waiting to hear and everyone kept saying, ‘Who do you want it to be?’ I didn’t want to say it out loud because if it didn’t happen, I’d have been quite devastated.”
Despite her intensive rehearsal schedule, Angela and Roy, who married in 2014 and live in London, should be able to spend more time together now she is tied to the UK for Strictly. The ex-Robot Wars host turned to friends and Strictly alumni Ellie Taylor and radio DJ Clara Amfo for advice. “After school we neglect to take up new things that make our brains work in different ways – and our glutes. I think I’ve had quite a complicated relationship with my body for many years so there’s a part of me that’s excited to do something where I’m getting strong and right in it.
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