Ola Jordan will be returning to ‘Strictly Come Dancing’, it has been confirmed, just months after suffering a knee injury that threatened to end her career as a professional ballroom star.
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While training for Channel 4 show ‘The Jump’, Ola suffered a serious incident that forced her to pull out of the competition, and miss the last few weeks of ‘Strictly’ group dances.
Ola has now been announced among the professional dancers on the upcoming series of the BBC show, alongside her fellow ‘Strictly’ pros Anton du Beke, Brendan Cole and Kristina Rihanoff.
Ola Jordan
There will also be three new additions to the dancing line-up, with ‘Dancing With The Stars’ professional Gleb Savchenko joining the UK version of the series, as are Giovanni Pernice and Otlile Mabuse.
Executive producer Louise Rainbow said: “We are thrilled with our pro-dancer line-up this year. Not only are some of the viewers’ favourites returning but we also have some exciting new dancers joining the ‘Strictly’ family.”
Glev Savchenko
Earlier this year, Ola admitted she “would love to go back on ‘Strictly’”, despite not exactly being full of praise for the show in the past.
Last year, she hit out at the current judging panel in an interview, claiming: “The professional dancers are being swapped every year, we have new presenters, so why not swap judges? Len [Goodman] is the only one who knows about ballroom.
“They all make a fortune. We get OK money. But compared to the judges? They sit one day a week and get a lot more than the dancers. Is that fair?”
Bruno Tonioli later responded, saying that if any of the professionals on ‘Strictly’ had a problem with their pay packet they should “stop moaning and f*** off”.
Let’s hope they’ve kissed and made up by the time the new series kicks off later this year.
The full line-up for ‘Strictly Come Dancing' 2015's professionals is as follows…
Joanne Clifton
Kevin Clifton
Brendan Cole
Anton Du Beke
Karen Hauer
Ola Jordan
Pasha Kovalev
Natalie Lowe
Otlile Mabuse
Tristan MacManus
Janette Manrara
Giovanni Pernice
Kristina Rihanoff
Gleb Savchenko
Aljaž Škorjanec
Aliona Vilani