Vincent Simone expects Strictly Come Dancing to air for not less than one other decade.
The 46-year-old dancer featured on the BBC’s Saturday night time staple – which celebrated its twentieth anniversary final 12 months – between 2006 and 2012 and believes that the programme’s immense reputation will see it stay on screens for a very long time to return.
Vincent solely informed BANG Showbiz: “I believe it’ll stick with it for not less than one other 10 years. I imply, I don’t see why not.
“We meet all of the Strictly followers who come and see our personal reveals they usually simply find it irresistible an excessive amount of. It’s the most effective excuse to get collectively, households or associates, a bunch of women, they usually simply gossip concerning the present, they simply get entertained from superb dancing or, you already know, match celebrities.
“There’s every thing in that present and yearly you might have the range since you get 16 new celebrities becoming a member of the present so it may be contemporary. You may’t say, ‘Oh it’s at all times the identical factor’, sure, they may do the identical dances however each individual is so particular person, particularly after they have character and character.
“It’s an incredible present. I can’t see it ever ending however I’ll say not less than one other 10 years simply by assembly the followers on the stage door afterwards, they’re simply obsessive about the present. They are going to at all times watch it, it doesn’t matter what.”
Vincent felt the time was proper to depart Strictly when he introduced his departure in 2013 however revealed that he can be open to a return to the programme, significantly after watching his buddy Ian Waite thrive on Dancing with the Stars – the Australian model of the present.
The Italian star stated: “Once I left, I believed that was the appropriate time. I used to be tremendous busy and it go the purpose the place it was seven years in a row, it received to the purpose the place I simply wanted a change. I did get my change with West Finish reveals and so many different issues.
“I believe now with age, like Ian is collaborating within the Australian model. He loves it, he’s doing very well. If you watch him dancing with these celebrities on the Australian model you suppose, ‘Oh my gosh’. For me, as a result of he’s my buddy, however for me he nonetheless has it. He might simply be on Strictly the UK model and I prefer to suppose that I might do the identical as a result of I might carry my character and my dancing.
“So I wouldn’t thoughts that as a problem sooner or later.”
Vincent will seem with ex-Strictly execs Ian Waite, James Jordan, Brendan Cole and Pasha Kovalev in The Return of the Legends tour this autumn and revealed that the reveals shall be greater and higher than final 12 months’s sell-out tour.
He stated: “We’ve received a semi-new present developing and we’re all trying ahead to it as a result of clearly it’s been almost a 12 months. Will probably be good to be again all collectively and are available out greater than final 12 months.
“We’re additionally gonna have our solos which for me personally are probably the most particular numbers within the present, when every particular person couple will get the stage on their very own and for me that’s simply magic. All people has the prospect to showcase their expertise and their very own fashion of dance. I’ll be doing my Argentine Tangos, Ian shall be doing his stunning ballroom dances and Pasha, the Latin king, shall be doing his Samba numbers and so forth.”
The Return of the Legends excursions nationwide from fifth September till seventeenth October: https://www.legendsofthedancefloor.com/
