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Part One - http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=rLeOUq5VuJY

 

Part Two - http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=WDbTtEawjn4

 

Part Three - http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=bLjpJt15Cjw

 

Part Four - http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Os4G3qYx1ZA

 

Part Five - http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=qc7yWn6LN8I

 

 

 

 

Strictly Come Dancing couple Matt Di Angelo and Flavia Cacace looked every inch the happy couple as they were seen doing a spot of shopping together in London yesterday. The pair did little to hide their feelings, making eyes at each other and holding hands as they stolled through the city. Dressed in matching jeans and leather jackets, Matt and Flavia could barely contain their joy at their new-found romance as they spent the afternoon together indulging in some retail therapy.

The dancing duo met on the Strictly Come Dancing last year and strggled to keep their attraction a secret as the nation - and Flavia's then boyfriend Vincent Simone - watched them fall in love. Simone, a world tango champion, split from the 27-year-old performer after she fell for 20-year-old 'EastEnders' star Matt, her celebrity dance partner on the show. The sultry brunette confessed her pain at her split with long-term lover Simone, who she said she fell "out of love with" after meeting the sexy actor.

(Taken From http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/showbiz/article-23434609-details/Strictly+Come+Dancing+couple+Matt+and+Flavia+show+the+world+they're+in+love/article.do)

 

 

Strictly Come Dancing star Matt Di Angelo quickly cut in to stop his love Flavia Cacace being chatted up by her ex. Matt, 20, tapped Vincent Simone on the shoulder - just like a dance floor excuse me. Then he plonked himself between the pair and gave Vince, 29, a talking to. Nervous Flavia, 28, watched as dance partner Matt and Vince chatted away. EastEnder Matt's nifty footwork came in the bar of a Newcastle hotel during the Strictly UK tour.

An onlooker said: "Vincent started chatting to her. He was engrossed. But after 40 minutes Matt had had enough and walked over. His body language was very clear - 'Hands off my girl'."

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Katherine Jenkins has admitted her romance with Strictly Come Dancing star Gethin Jones is 'pretty serious' already. The classical singer has only been dating the Blue Peter presenter for a couple of months, but says their relationship is going great - although she’s keen not to get too carried away just yet.

 

“Yes, it's pretty serious, but honestly I don't want to go into it very much,” she tells. “We've been seeing each other for only a short while and neither of us wants to jinx it. In any event, we don't need that kind of pressure right now. We just want time to get to know each other. We are both busy and hardworking people but we find the time to meet up whenever we can. It's wonderful and we are enjoying being together.”

 

(Taken From http://www.entertainmentwise.com/news/40203/katherine-jenkins-me-and-gethin-are-pretty-serious)

 

Jealous Vincent Simone is putting the Strictly Come Dancing Tour in jeopardy - because he's sick of his ex Flavia Cacace getting passionate with lover Matt Di'Angelo.

 

Vincent has threatened to walk because they rush off for, er, quality time after each show. He and Flavia were together for ten years until she fell for her Strictly partner, hunky EastEnder Matt, 20.

Vincent, 29, and Flavia, 28, still dance the tango on stage. A source said: “It has been awkward. Vincent feels Matt and Flavia broke a promise not to flaunt their affair. He’s Italian and does not want to look the fool. Flavia and Matt are in love and just want to be together.”

(Taken From http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/tv/article728666.ece)

 

Backstage at the Strictly Come Dancing Live Tour - tall, immaculately tanned pro dancer Ian Waite is about to slip into something more comfortable (a slashed-to-the-waist sequined shirt and skin-tight trews, to be precise). But he kindly breaks off from his hour-long pre-show dressing room preparations to talk me through the show's six-week regional tour.

It's the first time Strictly has hit the road. But following the success of lesser rivals on the touring trail (a certain mustn't-be-named Notts skating-duo-compered rival on ITV scored an arena hit last year), BBC head honchos spied a missed marketing opportunity and duly corralled five series'-worth of nimble-toed talent - plus famously flat-footed Christopher Parker - into a travelling circus of all things Strictly. Accordingly, the fuchsia strobe lights, glittery eyeshadow and buttock-grazing skirts are set to flounce into Nottingham next week.

Tonight, though, we're in Newcastle for a sneak preview. The deeply delightful Mr Waite (much more approachable than many of his highly-strung, flaring-nostrilled male pro counterparts) is thrilled to be taking the show 'to the people' -despite the fact they bafflingly voted him and statuesque partner Penny Lancaster (Mrs Rod Stewart) out halfway through series five.

"That's the nature of the game," he shrugs. On tour, he's reunited with his series three partner, the gangly-turned-graceful Zoe Ball, and is hoping for better. Audiences at each show get to phone vote for their favourite 'coup-pul' (as Tess Daly terms them) - although there is no Tess. Or Bruce Forsyth, for that matter. Hosting responsibilities are overseen by the not-as-annoying-as-you'd-think Kate Thornton. Even before the tour commenced, it was beset by gossip and rumours of conflict. Ian, for example, found himself torn between two women - Zoe and his series two partner Denise Lewis.

Originally, the idea was that Ian would keep both ladies happy. "They told me that on Dancing On Ice one of the pros had managed to dance with two celebrities and I had visions of being very, very busy," he smiles. "But then Alisha [last season's champ Alisha Dixon who, controversially, decided to jet off to Japan to promote her freshly-revived career] couldn't make it so her partner Matthew Cutler was free to dance with Denise."

Ian remains close to all his 'exes' though and has even been offering Denise some training tips. "I feel like a proud father watching his daughter," he sighs. The Press once speculated that Ian and Denise were an 'item' but he denies it. "No, we were never together onscreen," he says. "You do become very attached to your partners, though. You spend six to eight hours together every day and you go through a very emotional journey together. You have no idea how the judges or the public are going to react to your performance. All you have is each other."

Which brings us to cheeky ladykiller Matt di Angelo, whose hip-jiggling presence on series five reportedly scuppered the relationship between his pro partner Flavia Cacace and her boyfriend Vincent Simone. Awkwardly, all three are on the tour. Ian, diplomatically, retreats into sentences that contain "as far as I knows".

"Vincent and Flavia are still dancing together as professionals, as far as I know," he says. He gallantly refuses to be drawn into further speculation on their relationship.
"Sometimes, it's difficult to cope with all the tabloid speculation," he sighs. "And, this series, there's been more than ever. You just want to get on with the job. But, of course, it's great publicity for the show."

Reading-born Ian became a dancer at the age of ten, following his parents' divorce. His father, keen to start socialising again, started attending ballroom classes and ended up marrying the dance teacher. Ian, too, began to compete and spent most of his career among the top ten in the world when he eventually turned pro. He ran into his current professional partner, leggy Dane Camilla Dallerup, when she'd just split with her partner Brendan Cole at the close of series one of Strictly. Under her influence, he too became part of the show.

Now 36, he has stopped competing professionally. "Strictly is my life now" when I stop competing, I'd like to be one of the judges," he reveals. "The whole team are wonderful - we're like a family." It's almost time for Ian's curtain call. With two dances (a tango and a samba) to perform, plus a pro dance and a Dirty Dancing special, he has plenty of rapid costume changes in store this evening.

"Velcro is the secret," he assures me, before he descends the famous Strictly staircase. "Give me a wave," I yell. "I'm in Row N!?" The couture in the audience presents an informative contrast with the onstage spangles. The crowds are - well, of a certain age. The dress code is mostly C&A, although there are flashes of trendier high street labels. "We've tried to keep it as close as possible to the show you see on TV," Ian told me, earlier.

There's a glitter ball, suspended from the ceiling, a big band, complete with bongos, and a crescent-shaped table, home of the three viperous-tongued judges. Yes, only three. Hysterical arm-waving Italian Bruno Tonioli is in LA. The competing celebs are: Ian's lasses Zoe Ball and Denise Lewis, series three champion Darren Gough, class clown Christopher Parker, platinum-haired lovely Letitia Dean, stompy chef James Martin and ex-EastEnders Matt di Angelo and Louisa Lytton.

During the show, you become deeply fond of all of them and it's great to bestow panto-villain boos on the judges. In fact, if you always considered Strictly to be merely a rabble of ex-soapstars trying to dance, think again. Most of the performances adequately fill the enormous, specially-installed sprung-floor - especially Ian, who comes skipping on to the floor in spangled aqua for a samba skip with Zoe.

Their suave swaggers duly collect them the prized glitterball and rapturous applause at the end of the evening. And, as Ian does his lap of honour, I swear he looks straight up at Row N and gives me a triumphant wave.

The BBC's smash TV hit Strictly Come Dancing is on tour and heading for Nottingham Arena next week.

 

Matt Di'Angelo says they're serious about each other. The Strictly Come Dancing star has confirmed he's in a relationship with Flavia Cacace but says he's not doing it for fame. The pair met on Strictly Come Dancing last year and struggled to hide their feelings as the nation - and Flavia's boyfriend Vincent Simone - watched them fall in love.

But since the end of the show they've both done interviews talking about their feelings for each other, sparking rumours their romance is a sham to earn money. 'I would never pretend I was in a relationship for the publicity,' Matt says. 'If anything, we have tried to stay out of the Press as much as possible. Flavia is an absolutely beautiful and amazing person.'

Matt, 20, Flavia, 27, and Vincent, 29, are all performing in the Strictly tour which kicked off in Glasgow last week.

 

(Taken From http://www.nowmagazine.co.uk/celeb_news/Matt_Di_Angelo_Flavia_and_I_are_real_its_not_a_publicity_stunt_article_175545.html)

 

 

Dance Fever took over Newcastle this week, with the arrival of the Strictly Come Dancing Live Tour at the Metro Radio Arena. Never before has the arena been transformed into the glittering ballroom that welcomed the audience on Tuesday night, with a collection of professional dancers, sports stars and actors taking to the floor to perform the classic routines made famous once again by the BBC1 hit show.

Hosted by Kate Thornton, the night was pure entertainment. Darren Gough, James Martin, Letitia Dean and Matt Di Angelo were just some of the celebrities who teamed up with their dance partners once again. The set sparkled just like the TV show, as the mixed audience were treated to Matt's famous shoulder shaking salsa, as well as an outstanding Argentine Tango by World Champions Flavia and Vincent.

The judges didn't let the side down either as Craig Revel Horwood, Arlene Phillips and Len Goodman nit picked the routines to generate the pantomime boo's from the excited audience. Former EastEnder star Chris Parker took the brunt of the judges criticisms by being told quite simply, he can't dance. But the Newcastle crowd supported him all the way as he practically ran his way through a Paso Doble, waving his cape in the air.

The first half was a collection of ballroom classics including the tango and the quick step, and things heated up in the second half with every couple dancing a Latin routine. From the interval the audience were allowed to vote for the favourite, with the most popular couple between the audience and the judges picking up the Strictly trophy.

 

The celebrities showed just how far they have come from their pre dance days, with actors Louisa Lytton and Matt Di Angelo looking every inch the professional dancer. As the votes were cast to see who the Newcastle Champion was, the dancers performed a collection of routines to the music from Dirty Dancing, which was a great crowd pleaser, as well as a professional routine.

Louisa Lytton picked up the trophy on the night, leaving the majority of girls in the audience, including me, wishing they could dance like her. The show was filled with excitement and entertainment, and the fact that every dancer, judge and musician on the floor seemed to enjoy being there just as much as the audience did make it all the better.

 

(Take From http://www.newsguardian.co.uk/entertainment-news/Dance-fever-sweeps-the-region.3701129.jp)

 

Matt Di Angelo is best known as lovely EastEnder Deano Wicks, but it seems the dashing thesp is seeking to make a name for himself in Hollywood. The Strictly Come Dancing runner-up has admitted he'd love to have a crack at Tinseltown. Speaking to Soaplife, he said: "Of course I dream of cracking Hollywood. Any actor dreams of doing that."

Di Angelo revealed he'd love to follow in the footsteps of his idols Robert De Niro and Al Pacino. He said: "I'd love to be in something like a remake of Brian De Palma's Scarface, playing Pacino's role as Cuban gangster Tony Montana." The star is shortly set to bow out of EastEnders, but his army of fans needn't worry about him disappearing any time soon. He's part of the SCD tour, which kicked off in Glasgow last week.

However, rumours of tensions between him and dancer Vincent Simone mean the stage show could have an added edge to it. Once he's hung up his dancing shoes, will Di Angelo be heading for America?

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Darren Gough wanders into the lobby of his Newcastle hotel looking bleary-eyed. “I’m in bits,” he says. “I’ve just had a massage to sort me out and that hasn’t nearly done the job. And I’ve got to do it all again tonight. This show is very hard work.” The show in question is Strictly Come Dancing Live, the touring version of the television programme that Gough won in 2005. Not only does the tour have an exhausting schedule of 39 performances in a month, but Gough has the show’s most gruelling role: he has to perform the Dirty Dancing lift, which involves holding Lilia Kopylova, his dancing partner, above his head with fully extended arms for ten seconds. It sounds like clean-and-jerk weightlifting, but using an 8½-stone dancer instead of a barbell.

“I’m the strongest, so I have to do it,” Gough said. “I’ve had a bet with Len Goodman, one of the show’s judges; he reckons that out of 39 shows, I’ll only manage the lift 26 times. Well, I’ve done it six times out of six so far. It was a close-run thing last night, I wobbled a bit, but I pulled it off.” Perhaps Goodman has not heard the cricket anecdote about Gough’s renowned strength. Asked by a young teammate why he was nicknamed “Rhino”, Gough allegedly replied: “Because I’m as strong as an ox.”

Strutting your stuff in front of 12,000 people is not your average county cricketer’s idea of pre-season training, but that is how the Yorkshire captain treats the tour. “I’m fitter than I’ve been for ages,” he says. After another two performances in Newcastle today, the show moves to Wembley Arena on Friday, then goes around the country for a further three weeks. The tour is the next step in Gough’s path towards a life beyond cricket. At 37, he is “95 per cent certain” that the coming season, the second in a two-year contract with Yorkshire, will be the last of a remarkable 20-year career. And after that? Gough wants to keep performing and possibly move into television presenting, but is not sure what the future holds.

Step forward Arlene Phillips, one of the show’s judges, who has firm ideas about the direction that Gough could take. “Darren is a natural in front of an audience, he has them eating out of his hand,” she says. “He’ll kill me for saying this, but he could take the lead in a musical. He has a fantastic presence on stage and he’s a big man, but when he’s dancing he glides.” Is Gough appalled by the idea of moving into musical theatre? “I’ve not got a bad voice, believe it or not,” he says. “With a few singing lessons, who knows? If you’d said to me a few years ago that I’d be spending my winter on a dancing tour, performing in front of 12,000 people, I’d have said you were sick.”

His preferred next step would be a move on to the small screen, possibly as Ally McCoist’s replacement as a captain on A Question of Sport. “When I was younger I wanted to present a Saturday-night quiz show, something like The Price is Right,” Gough says. “But Question of Sport would be great. I’m quite similar to Ally and my personality would come across the same in front of a camera.”

He will not, however, be looking to enhance his profile by appearing in any jungle-based reality shows. “That just isn’t me,” he says. “I’m always up for a challenge, but eating a kangaroo’s bits is no way to prove yourself.” Rather than the celebrity, it is the adrenalin of performance that Gough relishes. The nervous feeling before he goes on stage is, he says, more intense than anything he felt during his cricket career. The only comparable feeling he has had recently was before his best man’s speech at Kevin Pietersen’s wedding last month.

Despite the nerves, on Monday night Gough and Kopylova were awarded a maximum of 60 points by the show’s three judges: a perfect ten from each judge for both of their dances that evening, the foxtrot and the paso doble. “Nobody’s got 60 before,” he says, proudly. “It might be hard work, but it’s the biggest buzz I’ve had in my life.”

(Taken From http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/cricket/article3234592.ece)

 

 

Fans of television's Strictly Come Dancing will be able to flock back to see another live version in Glasgow of the hit show. Following its blockbuster debut weekend in the city - which saw more than 20,000 fans at the SECC to watch five sold out performances over three days - the first date confirmed for next year's tour is Glasgow.

The 2009 show will be on February 12 and the promoters are expecting another rush for tickets. The lavish production at the weekend, hosted by former X Factor compere Kate Thornton, saw eight celebrities, including EastEnders' stars Letitia Dean, Louisa Lytton and Matt Di Angelo, television presenter Zoe Ball, and athlete Denise Lewis compete in Latin and ballroom styles.

Judges Len Goodman, Arlene Phillips and Craig Revel Horwood gave their verdict while the audience voted for their favourite couple via mobile phone lines. Each celebrity partners a professional dancer, including Matthew Cutler, Vincent Simone, Flavia Cacace, Lilia Kopylova and Camilla Dallerup. The television format, first aired in 2004, has been sold to more than 30 countries, while more than 12million UK viewers tuned in last month to see Alesha Dixon and Matthew Cutler crowned champions.

Tickets for next year's Strictly Come Dancing Live visit at the SECC are £45 and £40. Calling 0870 040 4000 or see the website: www.strictlycomedancinglive.co.uk Only a handful of tickets remain for the 2008 tour, which is in Newcastle and will play London's Wembley and O2 arenas, plus Nottingham, Manchester, Sheffield and Birmingham.

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Part One - http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=7UYH33KqIJk

 

Part Two - http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=o_dPCos1QpM

 

Part Three - http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=-RMWp2f6lhE

 

Part Four - http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=wVCa5QstEqY

 

Part Five - http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ty5SkOXvRBA

 

Part Six - http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=q98VABOk0jY

 

Part Seven - http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=oOYf-FlxTSo

 

Part Eight - http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=HvFDHgNai-k

 

 

Chelsea footballer Frank Lampard wants to take to the dancefloor once he hangs up his boots. He is the latest sportsman tipped to appear on Strictly Come Dancing.

The soccer star, 29, is said to be interested in taking part in the BBC series - so long as it doesn't interfere with his footie schedule. 'Apparently he loves the show and wouldn't mind a go at the Quickstep or Lambada,' a source tells The People. Cricketers Darren Gough and Mark Ramprakash both won Strictly and no doubt inspired Frank to wiggle those hips.

(Taken From http://www.nowmagazine.co.uk/celeb_news/Frank_Lampard_to_appear_on_Strictly_Come_Dancing_article_174900.html)

 

 

 

 

Tension between Matt Di Angelo and Vincent Simone has reached boiling point on the Strictly Come Dancing tour, according to a report. Vincent was left devastated when his long-term girlfriend Flavia Cacace fell for Matt when they were paired up for the most recent series of Strictly. He accused Di Angelo of stealing the love of his life, but both Matt and Flavia have insisted that they only got together after Vincent had already split from Cacace.

 

The situation worsened when the Strictly tour started in Glasgow on Friday night. Matt and Flavia found themselves facing off against Vincent and his partner Louisa Lytton in the final, and the two lovebirds managed to beat off their competition.

"You could cut the tension with a knife. When Matt and Vincent made it down to the last two, it was like a battle of egos and male pride," a source told the Daily Star Sunday. "Matt has already won Flavia's heart and now he has won on the dance floor as well. It is certainly fair to say that Vincent was not very happy. It is incredibly difficult for all three people concerned. Flavia is now seeing Matt but Vincent is still her professional dancing partner. They have all assured the organisers that it won't be a problem for the tour. But judging by Friday night, it could get very messy indeed."

 

 

Strictly Come Dancing star Brendan Cole is set to swap his dancing shoes for the crime-writer's pen in a new BBC reality show. The fox-trotting lothario is one of six celebrities who will star in Murder Most Famous, a BBC2 show. Cole, 31, and the other contestants, also expected to include ex-Sun editor Kelvin MacKenzie, will learn from police and pathologists how to solve murders.

They will be assigned challenges in the art of murder detection and the winning celebrity will get the chance to write a crime novel. Best-selling British author Minette Walters, who has sold 20 million copies of her thrillers, will act as the celebrities' mentor. Their training will include dog tracking, learning the signs of resisting violent attack, and gleaning evidence from autopsies.

The celebrities - the full line-up is yet to be announced - will have to use what they have learnt from real criminals and victims, as well as firearms experts, pathologists and the police to complete daily writing challenges. Walters, whose books have been adapted into five prime-time BBC dramas starring Daniel Craig, Clive Owen, and Pauline Quirke, will set the challenges.

She will also oversee the celebrities' writing efforts and "bump off" the least impressive wannabe author at the end of each day. The winning celebrity will then write a novel which will be published by PanMacmillan on World Book Day in 2009. Murder Most Famous will be broadcast over five days in the daytime in March.

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Into the windy night Middle Scotland swept, adrift on a sea of glitter. To make a stage show that is essentially a blatant rip-off of the hit BBC show Strictly Come Dancing takes a special kind of cheek. To ask the audience to text their choice of winner, even with a percentage of call charges going to Children In Need, is even cheekier. But did Glasgow care? Hell, no.

They wanted to see Louisa Lytton, in tiny sherbet-green shimmering dress, shake her hips as if she was about to take off. They wanted to see the hopeless Christopher Parker run, not dance, around the floor — the British find this lack of skill and prowess endearing. The scoring system is a mystery and why the audience is given scorecards baffling.

But who cares? All they want to see is the judges get really mean. There is no Bruno Tonioli. He is apparently in Los Angeles. But we’ve got Craig Revel Horwood and the ever-hormonal Arlene Phillips. Len Goodman is the crowd favourite, but distinguishes himself on this first night with a battalion of “bloodys” and unpleasant insults: Arlene is a “cow” and he also wanted to defecate on Craig’s head.

Of course, this is pantomime on television and it is pantomime on an even grander scale on stage. Brucie and Tess are absent. Presenting duties are carried out by Kate Thornton who, despite the bile she habitually attracts, is warm, amiable and funny. The competitors come from all series of SCD. The dance floor is huge, and a vast glitter ball sends up bubbles of light. The lady behind me said: “It was just like being on television.”

The crowd clapped rapturously throughout, although the competitors didn’t really deserve it. They range from the proficient and boring (Denise Lewis, the runner; Martin Offiah, the ex-rugby player), who get polite hand claps, to the terrible class clown (Christopher Parker), whom Craig dismissed as “awful” and “dreadful”. Why humiliate yourself, either by being dull or inept for a month-long national tour? Readies, one supposes.

The crowd loved Letitia Dean, who attacked each flick and kick with lip-smacking enthusiasm, and Zoe Ball, whose foot snagged in her frock.

This first evening really belonged to Matt Di Angelo and Flavia Cacace, the eventual winners. Are they together? The audience audibly gossiped as they took to the floor. What was the deal with Vincent Simone, Flavia’s professional dance partner and supposedly ex-partner, who is also in the show? All this bubbled away in the audience’s mind and added to the confected intrigue on stage. At the end, Di Angelo lifted the glitter ball trophy and tried to raise Flavia at the same time but wasn’t strong enough. Somehow that hint of “not-quite-good-enough”, which made him lose to Alesha Dixon in this year’s final, also encapsulates the vainglorious, shimmering amateurism which makes Strictly succeed on stage, as well as in prime time. Fun? Rubbish? Pantomime? A blatant attempt to extend the franchise? Yes, and we love it that way.

For tickets and tour details, www.strictlycomedancinglive.com

(Taken From http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/stage/dance/article3213072.ece)