DANCE-loving former newsreader Angela Rippon is in talks to waltz in to Strictly at the age of 78 – making her the show’s oldest contestant yet.
Angela has plenty of dance form having hosted the previous incarnation of the BBC show between 1988 and 1991, then returning in 1998 before it ended.
And in 1976 she stunned 27million viewers of Morecambe and Wise’s Christmas special when she emerged from her newsreader’s desk to perform a high-kicking dance routine.
That came in an era when serious journalists never ventured into light entertainment.
But it will not be her first time on the new incarnation of the show.