Dances and Dreams on Diamond Street

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On arriving in Europe Craig joined the famous company at the LIDO Du PARIS as a dancer in PANACHE and then as principle singer in FORMIDABLE at the MOULIN ROUGE, finding himself a year later in the UK tour of CATS in Edinburgh and Dublin. Louis Smith Wins Full Marks For Topless Showdance in Strictly Come Dancing Final," Metro, 22 December 2012. The ability to comment on our stories is a privilege, not a right, however, and that privilege may be withdrawn if it is abused or misused. The choreographer and musical theatre performer is the only remaining original judge on the Strictly panel, having first joined the show in 2004.

He has a reputation for being the harshest of the judges and is often the recipient of jeering and booing from the studio audience; [50] he also received criticism for his apparent bias towards Emma Bunton in the fourth series of the competition. Horwood is best known as a judge on the popular BBC dancing series Strictly Come Dancing, and until 13 November 2021, as he tested positive for COVID-19 and missed the following week's show, had been the only judge to have appeared in every edition since its inception.He started his career as a dancer in Melbourne, then moved to London to take advantage of the greater opportunities available there and to dance competitively. He explained: "I might hang up my dancing shoes just on the stage and go towards direction but that’s about it.

Horwood and Myring plan to marry, in August 2025, at St Matthew's Church, Normanton, at Rutland Water. Horwood has become known and imitated for his locutions, which often include exaggeratedly lengthened vowels, including: 'It was a complete dahnce di-sah-ster, dahling' and "Chah-Chah-Chah". The way Craig got all emotional talking about thinking back to season one of Strictly Come Dancing is making me wonder is this his last season?

Horwood is known for stringently applying rules, as for example when marking down for an 'illegal lift' in some dances if the lady's foot leaves the floor. In October 2020, Horwood released his first novel with Michael O'Mara Books, entitled Dances and Dreams on Diamond Street; the paperback edition was published in June 2021.

The Strictly final saw Leach and Coppola beat Layton Williams and Nikita Kuzmin, and Bobby Brazier and Dianne Buswell, to the title of series champion. Michael Rosewell coaches Craig Revel Horwood to victory in BBC Two's Maestro at the Opera – English Touring Opera".In this, he has found common ground with Queen Camilla, the Society's Royal patron (whose mother, like his, had bone disease). Previously, he clapped back at 'trolls' who were angered by his decision to give Layton Williams and Nikita Kumzin a 10 while only giving 2023 winners Ellie Leach and Vito Coppola a 9.