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Dec 17, 2023 | 
bnnbreaking.com | Angela Rippon
Brian Cox Declines ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ Invite Amidst Youngest Champion Crowning Renowned actor Brian Cox, celebrated for his role in the television drama ‘Succession’, has declined an invitation to compete in the famed dance competition show ‘Strictly Come Dancing’. The 77-year-old star cited age and reservations about a perceived ‘joke element’ in the show as reasons for his decision.
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Dec 16, 2023 | 
telegraph.co.uk | Angela Rippon
Angela Rippon: 'It's going to be one heck of a final' Credit: Guy Lev/BBC As reunions go, this one was a bit like the first day of a new term at Hogwarts. We were, after all, preparing to make magic on the dance floor.
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Nov 18, 2023 | 
telegraph.co.uk | Angela Rippon
It's not Angela Rippon's first time in Blackpool: presenting Come Dancing in 1988 Credit: Shutterstock Blackpool, here we come! Against all my wildest expectations, we made it through to another week. But not just any old week – this is Blackpool week, the major milestone that everyone aims for. And why?
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Nov 11, 2023 | 
telegraph.co.uk | Jon Blair |Chris Harvey |Ed Power |Angela Rippon
Currently, if you help someone to end their own life, there will most likely be a police investigation. While the circumstances will be taken into account when determining whether it is in the public interest to prosecute, you will probably be interviewed under caution, your home may be declared a crime scene, and it can take months or even years of living with a jail sentence hanging over you for a decision to be taken. All of this at a time when you are probably in the midst of grief.
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Nov 11, 2023 | 
telegraph.co.uk | Kirsten Grant |Ed Power |Angela Rippon |Tom Fordy
"Home is just with people that make you feel like yourself," Jorja Smith recently told Rolling Stone. "So it can be in London, but I don't want to say that because I don't like London." While that may be the case, the soul-pop RnB star certainly looked at home on stage at Troxy in the East End last night, on the final date of her sold-out tour. The 26-year-old from Walsall has an uneasy relationship with fame.
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Nov 11, 2023 | 
telegraph.co.uk | Ed Power |Angela Rippon |Tom Fordy |Michael Hogan
In The Curse, his fraught performance is matched for erratic energy by Stone, as his spoiled, earnest wife. The daughter of a property developing family - early on, we hear them described as "slumlords"- she's on a mission to bring eco-friendly houses to up-and-coming Española, New Mexico. The problem is that these planet-saving dwellings are far too expensive for Española's Latin and Native American communities. Never mind, says Whitney.
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Nov 11, 2023 | 
telegraph.co.uk | Angela Rippon |Tom Fordy |Michael Hogan |Ed Power
I know... I know, it's only a television programme. And the very nature of the show means that every week someone has to be eliminated, but in those few heart-stopping seconds it really matters. I think I stopped breathing. The decision, however, was unanimous. Kai and I survived and have spent the past week training to dance a Paso Doble. The possibility of a trip to Blackpool looms next week.
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Nov 9, 2023 | 
telegraph.co.uk | Mark Monahan |Marianka Swain |Angela Rippon
British dance would be very much the poorer without the BalletBoyz. Since leaving the Royal Ballet (where they were both stars) around the turn of the millennium and forming their own two-man troupe, Michael Nunn and William Trevitt have pulled out every possible stop to push boundaries, bring in talented collaborators, keep things interesting.
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Nov 8, 2023 | 
telegraph.co.uk | Mark Monahan |Marianka Swain |Angela Rippon
The former Royal Ballet stars have been at the cutting edge of dance for 24 years and their new creation could be their most eye-popping yetAlmost a quarter of a century ago, Michael Nunn and William Trevitt were two of the Royal Ballet 's biggest stars - but, much like the saturnine princes they often found themselves playing, conformity was stifling them.
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Nov 5, 2023 | 
telegraph.co.uk | Marianka Swain |Anita Singh |Bethan Holt |Angela Rippon
Will we see another shock entrant into the Strictly dance-off? Last week, Adam Thomas tumbled from halfway on the leaderboard down into that horrible duel. This week, he'll be desperately hoping that someone else in the mid-table suffers a similar fate while viewers save him, after Saturday night's show left him languishing at the bottom of the standings. He's joint with Angela Scanlon, both on 27 points, with Angela Rippon just above on 28.
