Strictly Come Dancing 2010: Professional lineup revealed!
After last year’s introduction of three new female dancers, this year sees three new males taking to the dance floor on BBC One’s Strictly Come Dancing. There will also be a new group of professional dancers, who will not partner celebrities but instead concentrate on group routines for the live shows.
This year Strictly will welcome new dancers:
Artem Chigvintsev, a Latin champion who is a graduate of So You Think You Can Dance? in the US and has unique experience of very different dancing genres in addition to his ballroom champion-level skill.
Jared Murillo who, at 21, was a US open swing youth champion. Trained in America, Jared was a principal dancer in the movies High School Musical 1 & 2.
Robin Windsor has completed five world tours of the worldwide ballroom dancing phenomena Burn The Floor, in which he has starred and choreographed routines.
The new professional group will comprise Strictly regulars and some new professional faces. The group routines promise to deliver show-stopping dance spectacles.
BBC Controller of Entertainment Commissioning, Mark Linsey, says: “Strictly will be back this autumn with more world-class dancers and more spectacular dancing than ever before.
“I’m delighted to be welcoming three new fantastic dancers to Strictly and am really excited about the introduction of a professional dance group, giving us even more opportunities to feature different areas of expertise and more genres of dance than in any other series.”
The full lineup is detailed below:
Artem Chigvintsev (new dancer)
Jared Murillo (new dancer)
Robin Windsor (new dancer)
Anton du Beke
Brendan Cole
James Jordan
Vincent Simone
Ola Jordan
Flavia Cacace
Erin Boag
Kristina Rihanoff
Natalie Lowe
Aliona Vilani
Katya Virshilas
Positions in the professional dance group have been offered to:
Lilia Kopylova
Darren Bennett
Brian Fortuna
Ian Waite
Matthew Cutler
We are not 100% sure that the BBC has made the right decision here. It will be exciting to see a new format direction on the show but the fact that Matthew Cutler and Brian Fortuna won’t be partnering celebrity hopefuls is a little disappointing to say the least. What do you think of the changes? Leave your comments below.
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We can only assume that Simon Cowell has taken over as BBC 1 commisioner. Who else would make the decision to cull the very people who attract such a loyal fan base, if not for the saboteur!!! Why do the BBC insist on creating controversy every season. For Publicity?? Why don’t they do what they do best and stop trying to compete with a show which is designed for a completely different audience. Credit us with some sense and courtesy. WE PAY OUR LICENSE FEE.!!!!!!
OH BBC, You have got it wrong again. You have excluded our favourite dancers. I loved watching Matthew and Brian and what has happened to Andre. Are you bringing back Arlene. The Show needs her expertise and “Know How”. Please put things right before you spoil what was a very good programme to watch. We love our own dancers – havent we learnt enough from the Football League – lets keep our doing things our way.
Like others I only googled to find out when Series 8 starts. I’m devastated! Strictly without Ian???? Do the bbc ever stop to think why we watch? I look forward to the start of strictly every year. I’m nervous now and I really really don’t want to watch X Factor on a cold winter evening.
I also came on site to see who the celebrities were going to be this time around and to my shock read my favourite professional dancers were being demoted to dance troupe.
I`m very disappointed. I love Matthew and Darren, with their grace and charm… the others too !
I`ll watch the first show to see what it`s like but I don`t hold much hope of me watching any more.
I have seen `Dancing With The Stars` the American version and oh` boy I didn`t like it at all and here the BBC are giving our show an American twist.
SORRY BBC YOU`VE MADE A BIG BOOB…..
My sons have had many classes whith the pro’s on this show.. Matthew has taught my eldest son on qhite a few occasions he,is one of the best teachers my son has had and in his 20 yrs of dancing he has had a few. Matthew and the others that have been axed are the best
I can’t believe brian isn’t on this year! I agree i’m a little nervous about having new dancers, however brian was new a few years ago and now a lot of people are going to miss his lovely hips, so i think i’m going to at least give them a chance. I can’t believe the other dancers such as mathew and lilia won’t be competing, they are amazing dancers and lovely people which is one of the reasons we vote! I think making too many changes could lead to losing a lot of the target audiance.(which is probably y they’ve kept anton, my mum and nan love him!Lets hope he doesn’t make another mistake like last year.This new dancer the one who does swing, does he know all the dances that we usually see on strictly? there isn’t much call for swing except one dance last season, or are the dances being shaken up and thats why they’ve kept all the ‘modern’ dancers. they just seem to have axed all the ‘oldies’ which i say with the greatest of respect as i love them and would much rather see them, Karen has always been my favorite and i was gutted when she didn’t come back last year, maybe it was just the beginning.
O and as for the ‘dances with the stars’ . I agree with all the other people i don’t like it and its completely diff from the british so i hope they manage the transfer, although again wasn’t brian on the american one, so maybe they’ll suprise us!
P.s at least us girls still have james!
Like everyone else I cannot believe what the BBC have done. They started their meddling a couple of years ago and have not stopped since, doing their best to ruin one of their best programmes. If you must have a professional dance troupe use the newbies for that, not discard, Ian, Brian and Matthew. Cannot blame Brian for not signing up, the whole core of the show is the professional training their celeb…this is such a great shame, a real shame.
It’s absolutely ridiculous! I will still watch it, but only for Bruce and Bruno. Everything else I loved about it has gone!
i agree with every thing all the others have said i carnt believe that brian lillia darren mathew and iain are not going to on this year its not going to be the same without then bbc listen to us bring then back please or the show is going to go down hill and u will loose alot of viewers i like all the dancers u have got rid of u should be ashamed of getting rid of champions of the show and well loved and nice poeple
I’m 17 and have watched the show 4 a while. Camilla was my favourite and when she left I was gutted. I still watched it though but now that ian and matthew are gone (my favourite male pro’s) and Lilia, who I also liked aswell as Karen I can almost xertainly say they have lost a viewer. I may watch it if I like any of the celebs but I mostly loved it cos of the pro’s
put things as they were BEEB please :’(
Well what can I add to all these comments, nothing really!! I agree with everybody else, we all pay our license fee and what do we get for it? shafted! just like our favourite celebrities. I really hope somebody from the bbc reads these comments and sees what an enormous mistake they have made, if we wanted to watch dancing with the stars we would but most of us used to be loyal strictly fans, I wonder how many still will be? like many others I’ll watch the first show to see how it goes but if it fails to impress? well who knows. Come on beeb do what you know is right, sack the idiot that came up with these changes and give us the old strictly and our favourites back before its too late.
I agree with most of the posts above. It’s an absolute disgrace that Darren and Lilia will not be partnering the celebrities. Matthew Cutler should be there as well. Where are the producers coming from? They are making TOTALLY the wrong decisions for the show and it’s core audience. Most of us are being more alienated as each series passes. “I’m OUT”. Does the BBC care though?
I only wanted to leave a comment to say how ridiculous some people are being about Anton. He is not racist. Him and Laila had been joking about, she’d been calling him names referring to his race too, all just joking and messing around. Then he called her “Paki”, which he quite rightly apologised for and was quite careless of him, and that should be the end of it! It was SO clearly NOT meant in a vicious way towards her. But no, people are still saying he’s a complete racist, he shouldn’t be on the show because he’s too old and should be disgraced. Get over it people. It was not meant viciously, he apologised, that’s the end of it.
Sorry but it had to be said lol.
And I agree, I don’t really understand why some of the really good professionals have not been chosen. Especially Matthew Cutler – I think he’s fab!