OHMYGOSSIP — Dame Darcey Bussell still watches ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ even though she left the show as a judge.
The retired ballerina stepped away from the judging panel in 2019, but she sill loves the BBC One ballroom competition and was captivated by the 2021 final which was ultimately won by deaf actress Rose Ayling-Ellis and her professional partner Giovanni Pernice.
In an interview with the Metro newspaper, she said: “I don’t watch it every Saturday but I do watch it and I will always love it. You don’t always get finals like the last one when everybody deserved to be the winner.
“It was an interesting one with Rose Ayling-Ellis winning. I was very, very, very, very happy with the result!”
Darcey says ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ is great at encouraging people with two left feet and a “don’t dance” mentality to get up and give it a go.
She added: “They have loads of people that go on there going, ‘I don’t dance’ only to prove they can, and can have a lot of fun and learn so many skills.
“I think it’s the competition side of life that we have to overcome. As any child grows up they create inhibitions and issues around what were intimidated by. “We always think stuff like, ‘Oh I’m just not good at that,’ or, ‘People will laugh at me or think I’m not cool.’
“But if you break down those barriers from a very young age and you make it the norm, that you’re allowed to enjoy the music and interpret it the way you want to interpret it, then those inhibitions disappear.”
Darcey – runs her own charity DDMIX – Diverse Dance Mix – is hoping to make dance lessons in state schools compulsory.
She said: “It’s a big passion I’ve had for a long time, which is to make that dance is part of PE lessons. I went to a state school before dance school so I know they suffer from a lack of dance.”
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