Strictly Come Dancing star Tom Fletcher will finally get to play Marius in Les Misérables this weekend - 10 years after he was forced to turn down the role.
Tom and Amy Dowden will be dancing to On My Own this weekend with a Couple’s Choice routine, with Tom playing the role of Marius and Amy as Eponine.
Tom says: "I always wanted to play Marius in Les Miserables, I actually got offered the role but I had to commit to do it for six months, and as that meant I wouldn’t have been able to tour with McFly I turned it down.
But then that was the year Harry did Strictly and Dougie did I’m A Celebrity, so I could have done it after all!"
Tom’s sister Carrie is currently starring in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cinderella in the West End.
Dan Walker will be hoping to impress the judges when he takes on a challenging Charleston during musicals week.
The BBC Breakfast presenter, 44, and his professional partner Nadiya Bychkova will dance to Good Morning from Singin’ In The Rain.
Despite landing near the bottom of the leader board during last Saturday’s show, Walker avoided the dance off and Dragons’ Den star Sara Davies was sent home.
He later remarked he did not know "who is voting for us".
Tilly Ramsay and her partner Nikita Kuzmin will take on a couple’s choice dance to Revolting Children from Matilda, while Great British Bake Off winner John Whaite and Johannes Radebe, who are the dance competition’s first all-male couple, will perform a Viennese waltz to Chim Chim Cher-ee from Mary Poppins.
BBC presenter Rhys Stephenson and Nancy Xu will jive to the theme from Footloose.
EastEnders actress Rose Ayling-Ellis and her pro partner Giovanni Pernice will take on a quickstep to Love Is An Open Door from Disney’s Frozen, and TV presenter AJ Odudu will waltz to Edelweiss from The Sound Of Music alongside her partner Kai Widdrington.
It was announced yesterday that judge Craig Revel Horwood, 56, has tested positive for Covid-19 and will miss this weekend’s episodes.
He is expected to return to the programme the following week after his period of self-isolation ends.
Revel Horwood is the latest member of the BBC programme to test positive following a string of absences from contestants in this year’s series.
