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# Nicola Adams to make Strictly Come Dancing history!
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/nicola-adams-to-make-strictly-come-dancing-history/
- Published: 2020-09-02T11:41:50.000Z
- Updated: 2020-09-02T11:41:50.000Z
- Description: Olympic boxer Nicola Adams to make Strictly Come Dancing history by becoming the first contestant to be part of a same-sex pairing.
- Author: Graham Robson
- Tags: Arts, News, Television, BBC One, LGBT, LGBTQ, Strictly, Strictly Come Dancing

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Olympic boxer **Nicola Adams**, who won a gold medal for Great Britain at the **London 2012 Olympics**, and again in **Rio** in 2016, will make *Strictly Come Dancing* history by becoming the first contestant to be part of a same-sex pairing.

Speaking to *BBC Breakfast*, Adams, who is now retired from the sport, was asked whether the idea to have a female partner came from her or the show’s producers, she explained: *‘I asked the show about it. They wanted to know if I wanted to be on the show and I said, ‘Yeah, I’ll do it, but I want to dance with another female dance partner.”*

Strictly has previously featured two male professionals dancing together in a one-off routine, when **Johannes** **Radebe** and **Graziano di Prima** performed to Emeli Sande’s *Shine* last year.

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Some applauded the routine, but the BBC received 189 complaints from viewers who found it offensive.

Adams added: *‘It’s definitely time to move on and be more diverse, and this is a brilliant step in the right direction.*

*‘It will be nice for the LGBTQ+ community to be able to see there are same-sex couples on the show as well.’*

The new series will kick off on *BBC One* in **October**.