Strictly Come Dancing have announced the fifth person set to dust off their dance shoes for the new series. The BBC show is in its 20th series this year, and one more name has been announced for the upcoming series. Toyah Willcox will follow in the footsteps of other previously announced contestants including Chris McCausland and JB Gill.
Speaking about joining the show, Toyah said: "Wow Strictly Come Dancing , can you believe it! This is going to be a wild and wonderful ride, and I'm here for every sparkly second. I’m used to performing for big crowds but this is completely fresh for me, how I will do, it’s a mystery..
. I just want to get cracking and learn some dance routines now!" Toyah is hoping she can make it all the way to Blackpool as she has a special family connection to the iconic Tower Ballroom. Explaining how her mother was a child actress, and a dancer, she said she was keen to perform there.
JLS star JB Gill was the third name to be announced yesterday, where he insisted his previous time on the show - and his time in the boyband - wouldn't give him any unfair advantage. He said: "I did the Christmas special, it was great fun. I did the jive and I feel like it was probably the most similar dance to things that I will have done in JLS, but I do feel like a lot of the styles, particularly the ballroom styles, are particularly alien to me.
I’m not a trained dancer, I didn’t go to stage school growing up so it’s going to be a learning curve." Speaking abo.