Strictly Come Dancing judge Alesha Dixon will have a relaxing New Year, as she will spend it with her feet up and encased in plaster cast.

It seems that the dancer and singer has been hiding a foot problem for months now and has finally agreed to have corrective surgery after Christmas.

A pal told The Sun: “She’s done loads of glamorous photo shoots over the past few months so obviously she couldn’t have done them with a massive plaster on her foot.

“So after Christmas she is going to hospital to get it fixed and has taken the whole of January off to put her feet up – literally.”

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Hollyoaks actor Ricky Whittle has admitted that he would love to see this year’s Strictly Come Dancing voting results.

The star, who came second on last weekend’s final of the show, called for BBC show to release the figures in a similar fashion to The X Factor.

“They never tell us and I don’t think they ever will, which is a bit of a shame,” The Guardian quotes him as saying.

“At the end of the day it’s a public channel. X Factor came out with all the stats and it would be nice to see how the voting was going to see what people were doing right and wrong.”

A BBC spokesman said: “We never reveal exact figures from our shows as we have a relationship of trust with our contestants and it would be unfair to disclose the exact nature of difference in their popularity.”

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Strictly Come Dancing returns to add a bit more sparkle this Christmas in a special festive edition of the show.

Strictly favourites from series past – Austin Healey, Gethin Jones and Rachel Stevens – are back performing versions of their iconic dances, and they battle it out against three of the celebrity dancers from the current series for the title of Strictly Christmas Champions.

Bruce Forsyth and Tess Daly present and Strictly judges Craig Revel Horwood, Alesha Dixon, Bruno Tonioli and head judge Len Goodman will be on hand to give their verdicts on the competing couples.

Friday 25 December
7.00-8.00pm BBC ONE

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Strictly Come Dancing winner Chris Hollins, has admitted that he is ready to quit BBC breakfast and move on to more lucrative TV roles.

BBC bosses are said to be so impressed with Chris’ popularity that they are thinking of offering him a job on The One Show, but Chris also has his sights set on Bruce Forsyth’s job..

A source told The Sun: “Winning the show has shown BBC executives just how popular Chris is.

“They know he is after a prime time gig and they are looking at what they can offer him. The One Show would be perfect.”

Chris added:

“I would love to do prime time telly. I have grown up in sport, but I have presented other things and I want to spread my wings and do other stuff.”

Chris said: “Brucie is one of my all-time heroes and you know, Generation Game, Play Your Cards Right, all those things I grew up with.

“And if Bruce said he wanted to hang up his dancing shoes then I’d love him to pass them on to me and I’d love to host the show.”

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Strictly Come Dancing winner Chris Hollins has revealed that he plans to spend Christmas spoiling his girlfriend Sarah and making up for all the time he spent rehearsing for the show.

Speaking to The Mirror Chris said: “I owe all my success to Ola but now it’s over I owe a bit of quality time to Sarah.

“It has been tough on Sarah. We were on holiday when I heard I was going to be on the show and I went home, leaving her alone.

“For four months I’ve been working then training for five or six hours a day.

“We’ve moved house in the middle of all this. And I’ve not helped out with Christmas either. I’ve got a lot of making up to do.”

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Hollyoaks actor Ricky Whittle is reportedly devastated, after finding out that BBC bosses did not want him on the Strictly Come Dancing tour.

Ricky made it to the show’s final last weekend, losing out at the final hurdle to TV presenter Chris Hollins.

Inferior dancers like Natalie Cassidy, Ricky Groves and Chris Hollins have already been signed for the tour but poor old Ricky has been left out in the cold.

He told The Sun:

“I wasn’t asked. I would have snapped someone’s arm off to go on tour.”

“I asked someone about it but they never got back to me. It is a shame because I think we came up with routines to really entertain the audiences.”

He added: “They talked about Chris being an entertainer but surely if you’re spinning a girl above your head, would you not find that entertaining?

“Why are we not entertaining? Because we’re not pulling faces?”

“I’ve got no idea why I wasn’t asked. I’d like to know who the boss is because I’d have thought you’d want people who are entertaining.

“They asked Chris early doors – maybe they knew he was winning?”

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Strictly Come Dancing runner up, Ricky Whittle, has revealed that he has been suffering from a secret hernia since he started on the dance show, but didn’t tell BBC bosses in case they made him withdraw.

Ricky told The News Of The World:

“I had to keep it a secret. If they had known the BBC could have pulled me out on medical grounds. And I didn’t want the viewers to find out because I’d hate to think I was getting sympathy votes.”

He added: “I had to lie to Natalie too which I’m not proud of but I really wanted to be on Strictly and I know she would have made me stop.

“The only people who knew the truth were my GP and my ex-girlfriend Carley Stenson.

“She kept trying to get me to stop dancing but I was determined to do my best and not fail.

“Every week I was terrified I would collapse on stage and be rushed to hospital. The pain was horrendous but it was my dream to go on the show and I wasn’t going to let an injury stop me.”

Ricky admitted that he will need surgery on the tennis ball sized lump now that the show is over.

He said:

“I’ve watched every series and it was my dream to do the show.

“My doctor told me I needed an operation and I would be laid up for a month. That wasn’t an option.

“He told me to take it easy, not to lift anything heavy and not to do any new exercise I wasn’t used to.

“It was the lifting that he said would make the show very difficult. He warned that I could be rushed off for emergency treatment at any time. When I saw the BBC doctor to get on Strictly I just didn’t mention it.

“There is a lump that protrudes that I push back into my body and I did that before the examination.

“I got passed medically on to the show but it has been pretty difficult right through the competition.

“The pain has got worse and worse and the lump has got bigger. It really hurt every time I lifted Natalie, did a lunge or jumped down from the steps onto the stage. Sometimes Natalie would ask if I was in pain because I kept touching my groin. I would lie and just say I had pulled something.

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Strictly Come Dancing judges Len Goodman and Bruno Tonioli have admitted that some mistakes were made on the show this year and that BBC would need to ‘tweak’ the format for the 2010 series.

“Bruno and I both agree that having 16 couples was too much,” Goodman said. “At the beginning, people had to sit through two and a half hours. Most shows and series that run for several years have ups and downs. I think the BBC is right in trying to tweak it. It’s like a plant – it needs to be pruned occasionally.”

Both Goodman and Tonioli took a pay cut when they returned to the show this year and admitted that they would do again if necessary.

“We understood that we had to take a pay cut,” Tonioli explained. “Everyone did. Everyone is suffering. It was never a question. We just said, ‘Of course we will do it’. We could have said no, but we wanted to keep doing the show.

“We are definitely not doing it for the money, not even close. We just love it and feel very loyal to the show. If we hadn’t done Strictly we wouldn’t have been doing the American version, Dancing With The Stars. I would have just continued to choreograph films, and Len would have been doing his dance school.

“Strictly has changed our lives. And we are very grateful for it. At the end of the day, if it wasn’t for this, we wouldn’t be here.”

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Proving that the British public really do love an underdog, Chris Hollins has won this years series of Strictly Come Dancing.

Chris performed in tonight’s final show against Hollyoaks actor Ricky Whittle.

Ricky scored highest with the judges, he and Natalie Lowe ended with 190 points whilst Hollins and Jordan achieved 186. However Hollins won the public vote and in the end walked away with the glitterball trophy.

Were you voting for Chris tonight or were you charmed by the rippling torso of Mr Whittle? Leave your comments below.

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Arlene Phillips has revealed that she thinks tonight’s Strictly Come Dancing final will be the best we’ve ever seen.

The former judge on the BBC’s dance show said it was ‘anybody’s guess’ whether Chris Hollins or Ricky Whittle would walk away with the glitter ball trophy.

“It couldn’t be a greater final,” she told The Mirror. “You have got two really, really strong dancers – one is technically brilliant, but emotionally, does he deliver? And the other one is delivering every ounce of his little heart.

“What better final could we have? It’s anybody’s guess and that’s what we want in a final.”

Who are you backing to win tonight’s show? Leave your comments below.

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