Strictly announces new professional dancers Alexis Warr and Julian Caillon

Two new skilled dancers are becoming a member of the Strictly Come Dancing line-up when it returns to screens within the autumn, the BBC has introduced.American-born Alexis Warr and Australian-born Julian Caillon will function within the BBC One present alongside 18 returning skilled dancers.Warr gained US dance sequence So You Suppose You Can Dance in 2022 and has carried out as a visitor skilled dancer and within the dance troupe of Dancing With The Stars, the US model of Strictly.Caillon has appeared as an expert dancer on three seasons of Australia’s Dancing With The Stars. A former private coach, he has additionally accomplished two triathlons this yr.”I’ve admired Strictly for years, so becoming a member of this unbelievable household is such an honour,” Warr mentioned in an announcement.”I’ve watched it for years, particularly cheering on all of the superb dancers I do know and work with who’ve been a part of it,” Caillon added.Warr and Caillon are being interviewed about their new roles on BBC Radio 2’s Breakfast Present on Monday morning.Craig Revel Horwood, Motsi Mabuse, Anton Du Beke and Shirley Ballas will likely be returning as judges, with Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman as hosts. The movie star line-up for the sequence will likely be revealed later within the yr, the BBC added.The present, which has been airing since 2004, has confronted a number of controversies over the previous yr referring to the behaviour of a few of its skilled dancers and movie star company.Skilled dancers Giovanni Pernice and Graziano Di Prima left the present final yr following allegations about their behaviour in the direction of their dance companions.The BBC introduced new welfare measures for Strictly final July. These embody having chaperones in all rehearsal rooms, including two new welfare producers and offering extra coaching for the skilled dancers, manufacturing workforce and crew.In January, Welsh opera singer Wynne Evans, who had been a celeb dancer in final yr’s sequence, made what he described as an “inappropriate and unacceptable” remark in the course of the Strictly stay tour launch. He took day off from his BBC Radio Wales daytime present after the incident, and the BBC mentioned in Might that he won’t be returning to it.EastEnders star Jamie Borthwick was suspended by the BBC final month after The Solar reported that he used a slur towards individuals with disabilities whereas backstage throughout Strictly rehearsals in November. Borthwick apologised and the BBC mentioned his language was “completely unacceptable”.