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Professional ballroom dancer Oti Mabuse says she is "really excited" to be performing in Strictly Come Dancing 2020 while preparing for her own 2021 tour 'I Am Here' with her partner Marius Lepure.

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00:00I'm actually really excited. I'm really excited that the show can go ahead and that they've found a way to
00:05make it possible for everybody to dance and prove it like Strictly Magic. I think Strictly is that show that
00:11gets people through the winter nights and Saturday night. Everybody gets excited and you get the whole family together. So
00:19to know that we can still dance, that's amazing.
00:21I think on Strictly it's that show there's something for everyone. It's a family show and honestly it's about dance
00:30and you constantly see people being happy and they're learning a skill. And I think that's really important to teach
00:35young kids to always learn something and push themselves beyond their limits. But also to be happy, to always give
00:43out that joy. And I think Strictly is just a million percent joy all the time.
00:47For sure. It's really exciting. Very exciting. Yeah. And it's coming to life when you see that now we're in
00:54the theatre and actually how many seats are here. And being here at the Coliseum, this is where we're going
01:00to have our gala night and this is where we finish next year on the 14th of June.
01:05So to actually see that and be like, that will be our first tour and this will be like the
01:10finale dance show. It gets exciting. There's something to look forward to.
01:15Yeah. We had a lot of time actually to prepare for dance routines and dance choreographies. I mean, we did
01:21a lot a lot in the lockdown.
01:23Yeah. It's also been kind of fresh because you have to really think of ways to prepare yourself. Obviously by
01:31now we're all just waiting for the government to tell us what we can do and how far we can
01:35go and whether the doors will be open or not.
01:37But we've been able to do everything over Zoom, send in auditions, get auditions back and really hone in on
01:45the dance that we want and be sure that this is the show that we're ready to send out to
01:49people.
01:50Yeah. And I think people need something to look forward to. And if this show can do that, then that's
01:56it.
01:56Yeah. I mean, also today just being in the theater here is a brilliant feeling. We want to come back
02:01as soon as possible.
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