Tess Daly praises Strictly’s on-screen representation: ‘The show has evolved’

Strictly Come Dancing's Tess Daly — Strictly Come Dancing host Tess Daly is happy with the present for pushing boundaries (Image: BBC)

Tess Daly has heaped reward on Strictly Come Dancing for its evolution whereas expressing how vital on-screen illustration is.

The BBC One flagship present returned to tv screens on Saturday for the primary reside present of the 20^th collection a lot to the delight of audiences.

It was a jam-packed episode, what with comic Jayde Adams receiving a standing ovation and Will Mellor topping the leaderboard along with his electrical jive to Ricky Martin’s Livin’ La Vida Loca.

Following the sequin-filled opening episode, Daly, who has introduced Strictly since its first collection in 2004, mirrored on how she feels it has grown through the years.

‘I believe the present has advanced and adjusted for the higher,’ she stated. ‘We by no means cease rising and pushing ourselves.

‘We now have probably the most unimaginable manufacturing group, our govt producer, Sarah James, is an precise genius.’

Strictly Come Dancing presenters Claudia Winkleman and Tess Daly — Tess reprised her position as presenter on the present alongside co-host Claudia Winkleman (Image: BBC)

Johannes Radebe and John Whaite during the final of Strictly Come Dancing 2021 — Johannes Radebe and John Whaite throughout final 12 months’s remaining (Image: BBC)

Referring to Strictly 2021 stars Johannes Radebe and John Whaite, Daly continued: ‘Final 12 months, we had our all-male partnership dancing within the remaining and it was completely fantastic.

‘I believe it actually confirmed how vital it’s to see illustration on our screens.’

Daly additionally mirrored on why she feels the programme has been adored by the nation for therefore lengthy.

‘I believe it’s the heat of the present and the enjoyment that it brings,’ she stated. ‘There’s all the time an air of celebration within the Strictly studio, and I actually genuinely suppose that interprets to the viewers at dwelling, they really feel they’re part of it, which they’re as a result of we couldn’t do it with out them.

Strictly Come Dancing 2022 line-up in full — The category of Strictly Come Dancing 2022 in all their glory (Image: BBC)

‘Our viewers has grown up with us, I meet individuals on a regular basis who say “I’ve watched the present since I used to be a toddler, I watch with my household on a Saturday night time, it’s the one present we’ve sat collectively as a household to look at, we plan our weekends round it”.

‘It seems like an enormous privilege to be a part of individuals’s lives. It’s feel-good TV at its finest, and, let’s be trustworthy, all of us want extra of the feelgood think about our lives proper now.’

Daly began out internet hosting the dance competitors alongside the late Sir Bruce Forsyth whereas Winkleman hosted the spin-off present It Takes Two.

In 2010, Winkleman began co-presenting the outcomes present on Sunday nights with Daly and later turned a major co-host through the Saturday reside reveals following Sir Bruce’s departure in 2014.

Strictly Come Dancing continues on Saturday at 6:30pm on BBC One and BBC iPlayer.

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