Strictly 2025 : It’s Saturday Night! It’s Not Live! It’s Launch Night 18.40 PM

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I am sadly out tonight so I’m setting this up early. Please move across from The Rehearsal Rooms

If we need to change threads midstream Sequins has said she will cover it.

Enjoy Launch Night

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I really hope they get somebody else in, I absolutely love Nikita…he brings the joy and the energy!!

At this point they would have to get somebody with solid dance experience AKA a ringer because anybody else would have missed a chunk of pre-training and be at a massive disadvantage.

unless they have a reserve list who also do the early training and are ready and waiting…do they?

I hope they let her have another go next year, like they did with Jamie Laing.

Oh no. Even fewer women! Wall to wall blokey blokes.

They may well give Dani another chance next year.

I tried to spell her Surname earlier i couldn't remember him, even Google couldn't help me 😀

So hoping we get a female replacement

I'm wondering if they could bring in someone who did the Xmas special ? At least they could do the same routine but to a different non Christmas song ?

Oh what a shame, I love Nakkita he has really settled into Strictly.

Just looked it up and Vogue Williams and Tamzin Outhwaite did the last Xmas special - Harry would have their contact details after all abd Tamzin dances with Nikita

I wouldn't mind any of them, I know Vogue Williams is a .bit marmite but I don't mind her,

Oh, no, Nikita glows. I love him. Bring AJ back!

I hope they can get a replacement

Surely they have one female standby? Wasn't Angellica Bell rumoured to have been in reserve in previous years?

I think it’s too late, the rehearsal in costume etc is on Friday. So sad for Nikita.

I thought Angelica Bell has been on or im maybe thinking of D OI years ago not recently 🤔

She has done neither clearly misremembering.

Dani got injured on Friday, so it's possible that a replacement was already considered over the weekend. We'll see, but it would just seem really odd how few women there are at this early stage.

I think her husband might have done Dancing on Ice. Michael Underwood I think he's called.

Maybe and I've seen her in the audience.

Also I am sure he is a primary school teacher now ?

Yes, I think I'd heard that somewhere too.

Wikipedia says he's now a Key Stage 2 form teacher at Kings College School, Wimbledon.

With the first week not being a vote off, the could allow grace to someone who has only had a couple of days like Kelvin Fletcher did. Michael Underwood started out as a teacher and won a competition on TV to get a start in presenting, I think.

I think it's fine for someone so late to have a bye. Let's face it, most viewers want Nikita to have a partner!

I thought both Anjelica Bell and Michael Underwood were children's TV presenters.
I did not know he is now a teacher.
Wasn't AB on a reality TV show of some sort fairly recently? I forget what it was though.
I hope there will be a stand in for DD, and she is invited to return for a future series.

She was on Celebrity Big Brother this year.