Strictly Come Dancing will return to screens later this 12 months, and one of many BBC present’s alleged new dancers has introduced her cut up from her dance partner of seven years
Maddie Ingoldsby has reportedly joined Strictly as knowledgeable(Image: maddieingoldsby/Instagram)
Strictly’s reported new skilled dancer Maddie Ingoldsby has introduced her cut up from her dance partner, simply months earlier than her BBC debut.
The 21-year-old dancing champ has introduced that she and Mark Chilcote have determined to half methods after seven years collectively. The pair took to Instagram with an emotional joint submit soundtracked to Harry Styles’ 2017 tear-jerker, Sign of the Times.
In the prolonged caption, Maddie and Mark wrote: “The final bow to the end of our partnership. After the most extraordinary seven years of our lives, we have made the incredibly difficult decision to bring our partnership to an end. Some endings don’t arrive because our passion has faded; they arrive because life asks us to grow in new directions.”
Maddie and Mark danced collectively for seven years(Image: YouTube)
She continued: “Our partnership has been our greatest teacher and our greatest treasure. It has challenged us to find strength in one another, and opened up the world to us in ways we couldn’t have dreamed possible, performing on countless stages across twenty countries.
“Dance has been our language to specific what phrases by no means might… We by no means danced to easily win. We danced to inform our story, and we hope that someplace alongside the best way, our story grew to become a small a part of yours.”
The joint post celebrated their many achievements, including eight world championship titles and three major championships: Internationals, UK Open, and British Open.
Maddie would be the second youngest pro in Strictly’s historical past(Image: maddieingoldsby/Instagram)
The submit concluded: “Our story will stay on in hearts and in reminiscence, and with the tip of 1 chapter, a brand new one awaits every of us. Mark is seeking a brand new dance partnership, whereas Maddie is placing a pause on her aggressive dancing.”
This came just days after Maddie’s addition to the Strictly pro line-up was reported by The Sun, which would make her the second-youngest in the show’s history, after the 2004 premiere, which included Chloe Hewitt, then 20.
The new pro has been competing since she was 11 with her Latin and ballroom partner, Mark, 26. Maddie has graced the Strictly stage before when she was just 11, as part of a routine with the star-studded troupe on the BBC show.
This comes after a major shake-up in which beloved pros Karen Hauer, 44, Nadiya Bychkova and Luba Mushtuk, both 36, Gorka Marquez, 35, and Michelle Tsiakkas, 30, were brutally axed as part of a major overhaul of Strictly Come Dancing for the 2026 series.
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