strictly Come Dancing professional Lauren Okle The contestants in this year’s show have defended the contestants after facing backlash for previous dance experience.
Two celebrities of the 2025 edition of the BBC competition, Emmardel Lewis Cop And Love island Winner Amber davisBoth gave dance training before joining the show.
Rugby player’s wife Chris RobshawWhich ended near the bottom of the leaderboard Opening week In this year’s show, it was said “Wild“Some contestants already had more experience than others.
Okle, who is currently participating with the former footballer Jimmy Floid HasalbanekHas replied to Bailsh, saying: “Strictly about inclusion and does not stop at the inclusion capacity”.
The 34 -year -old said that strictly Viewers “want to see something different”, including the underdog, entertainer and “people who really dance amazingly well”.
“I think it’s a spectrum and I think everyone is on their way,” he said The Sun“We can’t go there and compare ourselves with each other, this is just that everyone is on their way.”
Okle said that just because a celebrity is trained in a dance discipline, it does not mean that they will excel on others and even professionals can struggle. He said, “This is a completely different experience, my friend is a ballet trained, but he has to make a lot of things unknown to latin,” he said.
“Everyone is for learning a new talent, everyone has a cute time, everyone has to make sure that people at home have a cute time and hope what we do.”
Both the Kop and Davis were strictly added late in 2025, which was already declared to be declared.
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Kop, who plays the role of Nikki Miligan Emmardel And appeared in West End Production Billy Elliot the MusicalReplaced game of Thrones Star Christian Nair, who strictly dropped due to medical reasons.
Meanwhile, there was a last minute replacement for Davis, partner Love island Star Dani Dyer, who strictly withdrawn last week due to an ankle injury.
In 2017, the 28 -year -old won the Love Island and has made a career in acting since then, including many West End Show 9 to 5: Music, Back to the Future: The Musical And the great Gatsby,
Both Davis and Copp scored 28 and 27 points in the first live show of the series and finished comfortably in the top four for the week.
Former footballer Karen Carney topped the leaderboard with his partner Carlos Gu, who was given 31 points for his high-energy Jiv.