Loose Women star Kaye Adams is serly hopg for a 'gay' dance partner durg her Strictly Come Dancg stt.
Contents:
- LOOSE WOMEN’S KAYE ADAMS HOP FOR ‘GAY’ PARTNER ON STRICTLY COME DANCG: ‘I DON’T WANT A HETEROSEXUAL’
- STRICTLY COME DANCG 2021: JOHN WHAE REQUTED ‘STRAIGHT PARTNER’ OVER FEARS GAY PARTNERSHIP ‘WOULDN’T BE ACCEPTED’
- STRICTLY HAS GONE ‘GAY’? WHAT DO PEOPLE THK THEY’VE BEEN WATCHG ALL THE YEARS?
- STRICTLY'S JOHN WHAE SAYS LOVED ON TOLD HIM 'DON'T BE TOO GAY' ON THE DANCE FLOOR
LOOSE WOMEN’S KAYE ADAMS HOP FOR ‘GAY’ PARTNER ON STRICTLY COME DANCG: ‘I DON’T WANT A HETEROSEXUAL’
Strictly has featured a female same-sex uple before, boxer Nila Adams and Katya Jon, who peted durg the 18th season 2020, but Whae and Rabe (who both intify as gay) will be the show's first gay male pair. "Bee I'm dog the first all-male partnership, I genuely did thk that I was gog to receive a fair b of hate bee you do as a gay man, you get a lot of hate.
Adams said at the time that was "a brilliant step the right directn" marked a shift by the BBC after had ially led out same-sex upl, wh boss then sayg 2019 that the broadster would be "pletely open" to droppg the requirement for mixed pairs gog move sparked a backlash after two male profsnal dancers were partnered together for a stand-alone number 2019, wh more than 300 viewers lodgg plats about their BBC reported that some viewers found "offensive to feature two men dancg as a pair" after Johann Rabe, who is gay, danced wh lleague Graziano di said he hoped his dance partner would be "up for a challenge, as I want our rout to clu lots of spectacular lifts" lifts are ctomarily performed a mixed pair, wh the male partner leadg and liftg the ordarily lighter female performer, but danc such as the Argente Tango and the Ldy Hop have a tradn of men dancg wh Argente Tango is believed to have evolved as a dance for male pairs – a fact judge Craig Revel Horwood has prevly poted out fence of cludg same-sex upl on will jo prevly announced nttants, cludg Robert Webb, of the edy duo Mchell and Webb, mician and thor Tom Fletcher and TV prenter AJ Odudu, on the show.
"Bee I’m dog the first all-male partnership, I genuely did thk that I was gog to receive a fair b of hate bee you do as a gay man, you get a lot of hate.
STRICTLY COME DANCG 2021: JOHN WHAE REQUTED ‘STRAIGHT PARTNER’ OVER FEARS GAY PARTNERSHIP ‘WOULDN’T BE ACCEPTED’
Kaye Adams will be takg to the dance floor for the 20th anniversary special (Picture:REX/PA)Loose Women star Kaye Adams is serly hopg for a ‘gay’ dance partner durg her Strictly Come Dancg stt.
Wh the lnch show loomg, Kaye has exprsed that she wants her potential dance partner will be a ‘nice gay guy’.
STRICTLY HAS GONE ‘GAY’? WHAT DO PEOPLE THK THEY’VE BEEN WATCHG ALL THE YEARS?
‘But if I got a nice gay guy, he’ll be fe wh dancg wh his mum.
However, spe beg a master on the dancefloor, John has said he was so petrified of beg trolled by homophobic crics he ially wanted to be paired wh a straight male. ‘I thk as gay people, we have to choose the plac we go to, we have to choose the people we speak to, who we even look at, bee we have been ndned to kd of expect hate and flack. There is no reason why a gay celebry should tomatilly be paired wh a gay dancer.
STRICTLY'S JOHN WHAE SAYS LOVED ON TOLD HIM 'DON'T BE TOO GAY' ON THE DANCE FLOOR
Homophobia is a ser and ntug problem, but was difficult this week not to enjoy aspects of the hoo-ha over Strictly Come Dancg.
In what felt like a historil re-enactment of classic 1970s’ curta-twchg, 189 viewers plaed to the BBC about two men partnerg each other on primetime telly, and was hard to know what to lgh at first: the Mary Whehoe tone of the plats, the statement on Instagram by one of the dancers – realisg the full dramatic potential of the moment – that “love knows no boundari”, or the ia that the spectacle of two men dancg uld ever be the gayt thg about Strictly. Nohels, there was somethg vaguely fortg about the fact that, particularly the ntext of the recent LGBT teachg row, mastream culture at least, plats of this kd about gay reprentatn seem outdated to the pot of schools, of urse, the battle rag on.