The BBC has reportedly dropped three professional dancers from Strictly Come Dancing.
The embattled celebrity dance competition is presently present process important change following the departure of longtime hosts Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman, with rumours swirling as to who will substitute them.
The Sun now stories that longtime professional dancers Gorka Márquez, 35, and Luba Mushtuk, 36, is not going to be showing within the subsequent season.
Newcomer Michelle Tsiakkas, 30, can also be mentioned to have departed the present.
A supply informed the publication: “Bosses want a fresh start and to bring in new faces after all the drama in recent years and create a new era.”
When approached for remark by The Independent, a BBC spokesperson mentioned plans for Strictly Come Dancing 2026 could be confirmed “in due course”.
The Independent has contacted representatives for Márquez, Mushtuk and Tsiakkas for remark.
Márquez joined Strictly in 2016 and has featured in three finals. He met his accomplice, influencer and presenter Gemma Atkinson, on the present in 2017.
Mushtuk first appeared on Strictly eight years in the past however has not been partnered with a celeb on the competition lately.
Tsiakkas, in the meantime, joined in 2022 together with Vito Coppola, Carlos Gu and Lauren Oakley. She teamed up with actor Jamie Borthwick, her first superstar accomplice, in 2024; they had been eradicated in week 10.
As the seek for a brand new host, or hosts, continues, Amanda Holden recently denied rumours that she is perhaps within the working, whereas additionally calling different prospects “boring”.
Holden informed MailOnline: “You see, I am already part of a big show, and I’ll happily carry on watching Strictly from the comfort of my lounge.”
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Addressing the present’s weekend broadcasts, she added: “I’ve got to remember that I have children and a husband.” Holden has been married to Chris Hughes since 2008, and the couple have two daughters: Lexi, 19, and Hollie, 13.
While male presenters Bradley Walsh, Rylan and Roman Kemp are reportedly within the working, Holden is adamant that the BBC ought to rent two girls to switch Daly and Winkleman – and urged the company to “think outside the box”.
