Strictly Cat Dancing News Posted by Ian Symes on 13th August 2018, 21:02 What d’you mean you’re dancing the cha-cha-cha? Yes, appearing on The One Show today, it was confirmed that Danny John-Jules will be a contestant in the new series of Strictly Come Dancing. We’ve heard rumours that his dance partner is going to be a CGI Blue Midget. The Cat’s out of the bag ????Danny John-Jules is going to be having fun, fun, fun on #Strictly this year! https://t.co/4k1rKuZzjb pic.twitter.com/d2zqSgTiom — BBC Strictly✨ (@bbcstrictly) August 13, 2018 Yes, Danny on Strictly, the show that pairs professional dancers with celebrities that are not famed for their dancing. It’s usually sports stars, newsreaders, people who have performed in Starlight Express and Cats in the West End, people like that. They’ve had plenty of contestants with some dancing experience before, mostly from boy/girl bands and the like, but I don’t think they’ve ever had someone with quite this much dancing experience. The BBC article announcing his participation contains this line: So we know he can act, but can he dance? It won’t be long until we find out! Well, yes. Yes, he can. Mind you, the article also states that there are 52 episodes of Red Dwarf, and implies that he went from Dwarf to Death In Paradise, rather than appearing in both at the same time, so perhaps they haven’t quite done enough research into their new signing. Still, it will give him an advantage in the competition, which is good news for Strictly fans, but potentially bad for Red Dwarf fans. He’s most likely still going to be in the ballroom every Saturday night when Dimension Jump weekend rolls around in early October, plus this pretty much confirms what was already incredibly likely – they’re not going to be shooting any new Red Dwarf in this anniversary year, then. Still, we’ll be tuning in – this is a great fit for both Danny and the show. If nothing else, there’s bound to be Red Dwarf references aplenty going out in prime time on BBC One. Petition to get him to dance to Tongue Tied starts here.
Plus I’m sure we could get Bobby to dress as Kryten and film some anniversary video kinda like YouTube Geek Week, not the greatest thing in the world but it’s something innit.
There *have* been people who have had a considerable amount of dancing experience on the show previously – to the point that at least one of them had previously competed professionally in latin and ballroom – Jason Donovan, Denise van Outen, her from Corrie, etc. Perhaps not quite as much as Danny, but still.
Yeah, Kimberly Walsh would have done a lot of dancing in Girls Aloud – every night for every tour they did for their ten year career – so it’s all a bit odd really.
I wonder whether the delay in planning new Red Dwarf could be partly due to this. Or maybe that’s just nonsense speculation. Either way, let’s hope he does well, he deserves to.
Danny has so much dancing experience that for a second I thought he’d been announced as one of the professional dancing partners, not as a celebrity contestant.
Feel like there’s a bit of a difference from Girls Aloud to being in the original cast of Starlight Express or with most of the original cast of Cats.
It’s not inconceivable Danny could still film a new series of Red Dwarf this autumn – plenty of other contestants have fitted the show around other commitments (such as the various EastEnders/Corrie/Casualty stars who’ve been on it). I suspect if XIII was filming this year we would already have heard about it, though.
Not inconceivable, but also incredibly unlikely. Red Dwarf is a full-time job for the the main cast when it’s in studio, there wouldn’t be time to also rehearse Strictly. But yes, you’re right that this doesn’t really change much, just another of many reasons why it looks like it’s not happening.
I think Dave will be waiting for the hype from the Blu-rays if they’re successful before kicking on with any new Dwarf. Danny being on primetime BBC One can’t hurt either, you’d have to imagine he’ll be on it for a while, and Doug will be on the blower offering cash money for Red Dwarf name drops haha £10K if he can slip an advert for UKTVPlay in after he does the Paso Doble.
I would gladly settle for just an announcement about XIII this year at this point. Strictly is done by Christmas usually isn’t it?
Danny gets to the final. He’s in costume as The Cat for his last dance. His partner is Blue Midget. Make it happen, BBC. The public demands it.
Alternative titles for this post: American SMOOth Cha-Cha-Ssandra Charleston of Worms Jivestice Pasollel Universe The Inquickstepitor Rumbaworld Salsiconia Tangowave Parallel Univiennese Waltzing for God Wait, that last one’s actually quite good
I think Dave will be waiting for the hype from the Blu-rays if they’re successful before kicking on with any new Dwarf. I… I don’t understand this line of reasoning. Surely Dave already has an idea of whether or not people would want more Dwarf from, y’know, the viewing figures and DVD/Bluray sales of BTE-XII – series they already commissioned because people were watching 1-VIII in large numbers on the channel. Why would they wait on the sales figures for a set of episodes they didn’t produce, released on a format with declining sales over the last 5-ish years, to determine whether to make more?
I’ve said before, a XIII series is practically guaranteed at this point, from that onward is where I’m uncertain
We’ll get our first glimpse of Danny on the show at the red carpet launch on Monday evening, if anyone didn’t know.
The information as to who Danny’s professional partner is is now out there, should you wish to go looking for it.
The information as to who Danny’s professional partner is is now out there, should you wish to go looking for it. I think we all know who it is.
Danny’s profile says he’s been in “every single” episode of Red Dwarf, rather than “all 52”, so at least they’re aware of it. (I would be very amused if any clips from the Dave episodes got played on the BBC…) http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/profiles/2tk8QjpvxjW7G7SlcrN6tdY/danny-john-jules
Danny’s first dance is Cat-themed. http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/strictlycomedancing/entries/18db121f-5e6a-4bf1-925e-84adc6130e03
Did quite well marks wise I think. Having watched that video though, he’s going to blow people out of the water in the Latin/ balletic stuff. He’s not amazing at the close dancing but he’s shit hot at the flair stuff.
Currently sitting 4th on the leaderboard out of 15 with 55 points. Top couple has 61 points and bottom couple has 24.
Currently sitting 4th on the leaderboard out of 15 with 55 points. Top couple has 61 points and bottom couple has 24. Think he’ll really shine the more complex they get. Hardest part is remembering everything, he’ll have that down.
i hope bargain bin holly is right: cat dancing is like harpo playing harp recitals. it didn’t work in viii or with dog but it should! tongue tied had all of them in but he sang so I guess like chico playing piano. i mean i like the idea but they haven’t got it to work.
Craig would have to learn how to ride one as well if we’re finally going to get some Unicycle Polo action.
