The Olympic gold medallist Nicola Adams will appear on this year’s Strictly Come Dancing in the show’s first same-sex competing couple, the Guardian understands. The 37-year-old won gold at the London 2012 Olympics and again at Rio 2016, before retiring from the sport last year. She was awarded an OBE for services to boxing in 2017, and has been hailed as an LGBT role-model. The show for the first time aired a same-sex dance routine in last year’s series, a move which was widely praised on social media but did draw almost 200 complaints. George will follow in the footsteps of his former bandmate Jay McGuiness, who won the show in 2015 with professional partner Aliona Vilani.

Source: The Guardian September 01, 2020 22:38 UTC