Strictly Come Dancing: Heather Small Quashes Racism Claims

November 8th, 2008 by Lisa McGarry. Tags: ,

Strictly Come Dancing star, Heather Small, has spoken out about recent claims that racism is to blame for her repeatedly ending up in the botton two on the show.

“For me personally, if someone wants to have a proper conversation about bigotry and race then great, but not in a context that’s salacious. It’s too serious a topic for that,” Small told the Daily Mail. “If I’m going to discuss it I’m going to be proactive about it, not reactive. Have I ever experienced discrimination, well, of course I have.

“But there’s a time and a place to discuss these things, and it’s not something that should be just flung at a situation. In terms of Strictly, if I didn’t think people were going to be fair to me, then I wouldn’t have taken part.”

Strictly Come Dancing continues at 6.00pm tonight on BBC One.

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1 response to “Strictly Come Dancing: Heather Small Quashes Racism Claims”

  1. andrew langham says:
    December 20th, 2008 at 10:06 am

    Heather is the most talented female we have in the entire uk; she is always pleasure to see and even greater pleasure to see her refreshing, ‘up to date’ dance moves; as far as i’am conserned she is pleasure overload and i can’t get enough of her and all my friends and family say the same; we would like to see her have her own show, so we can hear her unique lovely voice, all us people from all over the world love you dearly Heather and we cannot wait untill we see and hear your talented good self on Television example number one spot on the BBC or any other channel: we want more now! girl; so move on up, you Royal Sweetness!