![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/strictly-come-dancing-contestants-2023-angela-scanlon-joins-line-up/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/43a5b8438a8500ebceecf19b1ba80010.jpeg&description=Angela Scanlon presents Your Home Made Perfect on BBC Two TV presenter Angela Scanlon has become the latest contestant to join this year's Strictly Come Dancing. She joins Eddie Kadi, Amanda Abbington, Krishnan Guru-Murthy, Angela Rippon and Layton Williams on the 2023 line-up for BBC One's dance competition. Irish TV star Scanlon hosts the BBC Two series Your Home Made Perfect as well as a Saturday night chat show on RTÉ. Scanlon said: "I'm panicking a bit... but also secretly thrilled about the prospect of all that glitter." She added: "I'm terrified, I'm excited and I have so many questions. Will they make me tan? How itchy are sequins?! Do they do flesh coloured sports bras? Well - there's only one way to find out, right?!" Scanlon was announced as the latest celebrity to join this year's show on BBC Radio 2's breakfast show on Monday. Last year's Strictly was won by Hamza Yassin , the presenter on shows like Animal Park and Let's Go For A Walk. This year's series will arrive on screens in the autumn and will be judged by Shirley Ballas, Anton Du Beke, Craig Revel Horwood and Motsi Mabuse. Here are the other contestants who have been announced for this year's Strictly Come Dancing so far: Angela Rippon Rip-Off Britain presenter Rippon, 78, is set to be the show's oldest contestant, after Johnny Ball took part in 2012 aged 74. Rippon said: "Why didn't they ask me 10 years ago?" She was the first female journalist to permanently present the BBC national television news, and was also one of the presenters of the BBC's original Come Dancing series. She hosted the Eurovision Song Contest in 1977, presented ITV breakfast show TV-am, and famously appeared in a sketch with comedy duo Morecambe and Wise. Rippon said: "Having been a fan of Strictly since day one, and as a former presenter of Come Dancing, this will be quite an adventure for me. "A scary one, considering I'm about to be 79. But I'm really looking forward to the challenge, and perhaps being able to learn to){kind=link}
TV presenter Angela Scanlon has become the latest contestant to join this year’s Strictly Come Dancing.
She joins Eddie Kadi, Amanda Abbington, Krishnan Guru-Murthy, Angela Rippon and Layton Williams on the 2023 line-up for BBC One’s dance competition.
Irish TV star Scanlon hosts the BBC Two series Your Home Made Perfect as well as a Saturday night chat show on RTÉ.
Scanlon said: “I’m panicking a bit… but also secretly thrilled about the prospect of all that glitter.”
She added: “I’m terrified, I’m excited and I have so many questions. Will they make me tan? How itchy are sequins?! Do they do flesh coloured sports bras? Well – there’s only one way to find out, right?!”