It has been a number of days because the surprising announcement that Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman will depart Strictly Come Dancing on the finish of the sequence. The pair will formally be leaving their roles as co-hosts, with rumours on who will probably be changing them now fever pitch. Bookies have named a number of main contenders, with Fleur East and Zoe Ball being among the sizzling favourites. Nevertheless, choose Motsi Mabuse shocked followers when she admitted that she does not need her sister, Oti, to be one of many replacements. The 44-year-old has been a choose on the BBC dance competitors since 2019.
Talking on the ITV present Free Ladies, Motsi defined: “Shall I be trustworthy? I would not let her [Oti] do it, as a result of I wish to defend her from that, as a result of I do know what sort of present it’s.”
She continued: “I do know what sort of strain it’s, I do know who’s sneakers she’s entering into, I really feel as an older sister, I would not wish to try this to my sister.
“I would like her to be in a secure house, the place she will be able to develop, the place she has time to develop, the place there’s a future, I do not need every little thing on her again, after which the subsequent day, it is taking place as a result of your sister is in. […] In order the older sister and the one which chooses security, greater than journey…”
Oti isn’t any stranger to the Strictly ballroom, having been an expert dancer on the long-running present between 2015 and 2021. She then went on to turn into a choose on Dancing on Ice and is at present serving as head choose on Dancing with the Stars Eire.
Tess has been presenting the BBC present for 21 years and beforehand hosted alongside the late Bruce Forsyth. She and Claudia then made historical past after they grew to become the primary feminine presenting duo in primetime tv.
Claudia additionally joined the Strictly household in 2004, when she started main its spin-off present It Takes Two. She later moved over to presenting the principle present 10 years in the past.
The pair introduced the information in a video assertion on Tess’s Instagram feed. They mentioned: “We’ve got beloved working as a duo and internet hosting Strictly has been an absolute dream. We had been all the time going to go away collectively and now appears like the best time.”
